<p style="text-align:left">As the semester draws to a close, my topic modeling for digital collections appraisal project is almost complete. I have been exploring how well topic modeling can improve the process of appraising personal digital collections with respect to time and efficiency. I think my results are interesting enough that they merit a rethinking of how we appraise large collections of heterogenous files. The data Im working with is drawn from the personal laptop of a preeminent scholar. Very interesting results so far. I still need a bit more time to interpret the data, and a couple of permissions need to be worked out relative to sharing the data.</p>
<p style="text-align:left">Until then I want to highlight some tools and resources that made this project significantly easier. Notice that many of my resources are drawn from the most recent issue of the <strong><a href="http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/2-1/pacing-scholarly-conversations/">Journal of Digital Humanities</a></strong>.  Shout out to <a href="http://www.scottbot.net/HIAL/?page_id=22226"><strong>Scott Weingart</strong> </a>and <a href="https://dhs.stanford.edu/author/emeeks/"><strong>Elijah Meeks</strong> </a>for a job well done.</p>
<p><strong>Tools</strong>
<strong>Firefly: <a href="http://www.cites.illinois.edu/ssnprogram/firefly/index.html">http://www.cites.illinois.edu/ssnprogram/firefly/index.html</a></strong>
<strong> Forensic Toolkit Imager: <a href="http://www.accessdata.com/support/product-downloads">http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/FTK_Imager</a></strong>
<strong> JDiskReport: <a href="http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/">http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/</a></strong>
<strong> MyMorph: <a href="http://docmorph.nlm.nih.gov/docmorph/mymorph.htm">http://docmorph.nlm.nih.gov/docmorph/mymorph.htm</a></strong>
<strong> NameChanger: <a href="http://www.mrrsoftware.com/MRRSoftware/NameChanger.html">http://www.mrrsoftware.com/MRRSoftware/NameChanger.html</a></strong>
<strong> Topic Modeling Tool:<a href="https://code.google.com/p/topic-modeling-tool/">https://code.google.com/p/topic-modeling-tool/</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>Resources</strong>
<strong> David Blei, <a href="http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/2-1/topic-modeling-and-digital-humanities-by-david-m-blei/">Topic Modeling and Digital Humanities</a></strong>
<strong> David Blei, <a href="http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~blei/papers/Blei2012.pdf">Probalistic Topic Models</a>[PDF]</strong>
<strong> Miles Efron, Peter Organisciak, Katrina Fenlon, <a href="http://www.asis.org/asist2011/proceedings/submissions/48_FINAL_SUBMISSION.pdf">Building Topic Models in a Federated Digital Library Through Selective Document Exclusion</a>[PDF]</strong>
<strong> Andrew Goldstone and Ted Underwood, <a href="http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/2-1/what-can-topic-models-of-pmla-teach-us-by-ted-underwood-and-andrew-goldstone/">What Can Topic Models of PMLA Teach Us About the History of Literary Scholarship?</a></strong>
<strong> David Mimno, <a href="http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/2-1/the-details-by-david-mimno/">The Details: Training and Validating Big Models on Big Data</a></strong>
<strong> Miriam Posner and Andy Wallace, <a href="http://miriamposner.com/blog/?p=1335">Very basic strategies for interpreting results from the Topic Modeling Tool</a></strong>
<strong> Lisa Rhody, <a href="http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/2-1/topic-modeling-and-figurative-language-by-lisa-m-rhody/">Topic Modeling and Figurative Language</a></strong>
<strong> Ben Schmidt, <a href="http://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2012/11/when-you-have-mallet-everything-looks.html">When you have a MALLET, everything looks like a nail</a></strong>
<strong> Ted Underwood, <a href="http://tedunderwood.com/2012/04/01/what-kinds-of-topics-does-topic-modeling-actually-produce/">What kinds of “topics” does topic modeling actually produce?</a></strong>
<strong> Ted Underwood, <a href="http://tedunderwood.com/2012/04/07/topic-modeling-made-just-simple-enough/">Topic modeling made just simple enough.</a></strong></p>
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