Monographs

W. J. Turkel. Spark from the Deep: How Shocking Experiments with Strongly Electric Fish Powered Scientific Discovery. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.

W. J. Turkel. The Archive of Place: Unearthing the Pasts of the Chilcotin Plateau. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008.

Editions

Alan MacEachern and W. J. Turkel, eds. Method and Meaning in Canadian Environmental History. Toronto: Nelson Education, 2008.

Selected Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Jeffrey A. T. Lupker and W. J. Turkel. “Music Theory, the Missing Link Between Music-Related Big Data and Artificial Intelligence.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 15, no. 1, special issue on Audiovisual DH (2021).

Niels Brügger, Ian Milligan, Anat Ben-David, Sophie Gebeil, Federico Nanni, Richard Rogers, William J. Turkel, Matthew Weber and Peter Webster. “Internet Histories and Computational Methods: A ‘Round-Doc’ Discussion.” Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society (2019).

Tim Hitchcock and W. J. Turkel. “The Old Bailey Proceedings, 1674-1913: Text Mining for Evidence of Court Behaviour,” Law and History Review 34, no. 4 (November 2016). Annotated Article, Models of Argument-Driven Digital History, 2021.

Anne Helmreich, Tim Hitchcock and W. J. Turkel. “Rethinking Inventories in the Digital Age: the Case of the Old Bailey,” Journal of Art Historiography 11 (December 2014).

W. J. Turkel, Mary Beth Start and Shezan Muhammedi. “Grounding Digital History in the History of Computing.” IEEE Annals for the History of Computing 36, no. 2 (2014): 72-75.

Devon Elliott, Robert MacDougall and W. J. Turkel. “New Old Things: Fabrication, Physical Computing, and Experiment in Historical Practice.” Canadian Journal of Communication 37, no. 1 (April 2012): 121-128.

W. J. Turkel. “Hacking History, from Analog to Digital and Back Again.” Rethinking History 15, no. 2 (March 2011): 287-296.

Daniel J. Cohen, Michael Frisch, Patrick Gallagher, Steven Mintz, Kirsten Sword, Amy Murrell Taylor, William G. Thomas III and W. J. Turkel. “Interchange: The Promise of Digital History.” Journal of American History 95, no. 2 (September 2008): 452-91.

W. J. Turkel. “Every Place Is an Archive: Environmental History and the Interpretation of Physical Evidence.” Rethinking History 10, no. 2 (June 2006): 259-276.

Selected Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

W. J. Turkel and Edward Jones-Imhotep. “Sensors and Sources: How a Universal Model of Instrumentation Affects Our Experiences of the Past.” Varieties of Historical Experience, edited by Charles Stewart and Stephan Palmie. Routledge, 2019.

Edward Jones-Imhotep and W. J. Turkel. “The Analog Archive: Image-Mining the History of Electronics.” Seeing the Past with Computers: Experiments with Augmented Reality and Computer Vision for History, edited by Kevin Kee and Timothy Compeau. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2019.

Devon Elliott and W. J. Turkel. “Faster than the Eye: Using Computer Vision to Explore Sources in the History of Stage Magic.” Seeing the Past with Computers: Experiments with Augmented Reality and Computer Vision for History, edited by Kevin Kee and Timothy Compeau. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2019.

Yana Boeva, Devon Elliott, Edward Jones-Imhotep, Shezan Muhammedi and W. J. Turkel. “Doing History by Reverse Engineering Electronic Devices.” In Making Things and Drawing Boundaries, edited by Jentery Sayers. University of Minnesota Press, 2017.

W. J. Turkel and Ian Milligan. “The Challenge of ‘High-Throughput’ Computational Methods.” From Big Bang to Global Civilization: A Big History Anthology, Volume 2: Education and Understanding: Big History Around the World, edited by Barry Rodrigue, Leonid Grinin and Andrey Korotayev. Delhi, India: Primus Books, 2016.

Jentery Sayers, Devon Elliott, Kari Krauss, Beth Nowviskie and W. J. Turkel. “Between Bits and Atoms: Physical Computing and Fabrication in the Humanities.” The New Companion to the Digital Humanities, edited by Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens and John Unsworth. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016.

W. J. Turkel and Devon Elliott. “Making and Playing with Models: Using Rapid Prototyping to Explore the History and Technology of Stage Magic.” Pastplay: Teaching and Learning History with Technology, edited by Kevin Kee. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014.

W. J. Turkel, Spencer Roberts and Kevin Kee. “A Method for Navigating the Infinite Archive.” History in the Digital Age, edited by Toni Weller. London: Routledge, 2012.

Selected Conference Presentations

Tim Hitchcock and W. J. Turkel. “Studying the Historical Emergence of Manslaughter in English Law using Stable Random Projections and Tag Parameter Spaces.” Association for Computers and the Humanities. (Online). July 2021.

F. Michael Bartlett and W. J. Turkel. “Automatically Harvesting High-Quality Images of Historic Bridges.” Canadian Society for Digital Humanities. Edmonton, AB (Online). June 2021.

Tim Hitchcock and W. J. Turkel. “Using Dimensionality Reduction and Tag Parameter Spaces to Study Historical Change in a Large Document Archive.” Canadian Society for Digital Humanities. Edmonton, AB (Online). June 2021.

F. Michael Bartlett and W. J. Turkel. “Digital Analysis of Historic Bridge Images.” Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies (CHNT 25). Vienna, Austria (Online). November 2020.

W. J. Turkel. “Text and Image Mining for Historical Research.” Wolfram Technology Conference. Champaign, IL (Online). October 2020.

W. J. Turkel and Zain Sirohey. “A Comparison of Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches to Recognizing Component Assemblies in Image Mining Electronic Circuits.” Canadian Society for Digital Humanities. London, ON (Online). June 2020.

Jeffrey A. T. Lupker and W. J. Turkel. “Observing Mood Based Patterns and Commonalities in Music.” Innovation in Music (2019 edition), edited by Russ Hepworth-Sawyer, Justin Paterson, and Rob Toulson. (In Press, Taylor and Francis, 2020).