A somewhat less amorphous proposal… I’ve been thinking a lot about how we can define who someone really is on the Web. With bibliographic material, we have the Library of Congress Name Authority File, which, though Orwellian sounding, does a fairly good job helping us differentiate the John Smith who romanced Pocahontas from the John …
Monthly Archive: November 2010
Nov 11
What researchers want
This is a rather amorphous session proposal but it gets at a discussion that I would love to have at THATCamp this weekend. At the University of Massachusetts, we’ve started large-scale digitization projects that in the next two years will put more than a hundred thousand digital objects online, with thousands more in the near …
Nov 11
Dork Shorts: Get Ready Now
One of the plenary sessions this weekend will be dedicated to what we call “dork shorts.” The idea is simple: anyone who wants gets two minutes to introduce a project that he or she is working on. That’s two (2) minutes as in 120 seconds, not two minutes as in ten minutes. You’ll have the …
Nov 11
From Punch Cards to BootCamp
This isn’t a session proposal; that can be found here. Rather, this is a reflection that I recently posted to my much neglected blog and was invited to post here as well. My experience at THATCAMP New England promises to be quite different than my first un-conference encounter back in May at the Center for History and New …
Nov 11
Making DH Multilingual
Brief version I’d like to have a practical session for (1) identifying DH tools (or sites, though that’s a little trickier) that need multilingual user interfaces and (2) taking the first steps toward making a MUI for one or more of them. Long version Most technology for learning languages, in my brief experience, is not …
Nov 11
Database Design for the Humanities
I’d like to discuss best practices in designing databases for humanities research. I don’t mean software that creates or depends on databases, like Omeka or WordPress for public presentation. I mean more designing databases for research in the history. I’d like to compile a group of databases used for historical analysis, and dissect them to …
Nov 11
The Paperless Professor
Thus far this semester, I have exchanged precisely 0 pieces of paper with my students. Additionally, I have exchanged exactly 0 MSWord documents. (Oddly, the latter has been far more difficult than the former to maintain!) This session will discuss a variety of tools for classroom planning, class prep, “handouts,” readings, discussions, and all of …
Nov 10
Network analysis… and distant reading (topic-modeling)?
How about a session on network analysis and visualizations of networks? We can talk software – for databases, the analysis, or visualization. I’d also like to talk about semantic analysis / text-mining of digital texts, especially topic-modeling, for a later stage of the same project.
Nov 10
Collaborative DIY digitization and virtual research environments
First of all, I think Clarissa, Carrie, Lincoln, and to some extent Cathleen have raised issues that I’m very interested in– all related to how researchers might build and use collections of digital sources, either individually or collaboratively. As a history researcher who’s worked in lots of different archives, I can do a brief show-and-tell …
Nov 10
How Much Data Modeling Is Enough?
I’ve been beginning to invest some time in data modeling for the Semantic Web using RDF Schema and OWL (the Web Ontology Language), especially in terms of providing representations of archival resources online. I buy into the promise of Linked Data, but many of the things I am hoping to represent are complex. Arguably, data …
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