IDRH Events: Recent submissions
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The Public Digital Humanities Institute - A National Endowment for the Humanities Institute to Support Academic & Community Collaborations in the Digital Humanities
(2024-01)The Public Digital Humanities Institute (PDHI) brought together teams of academics and community partners from 12 community-based digital humanities projects for an intensive week of digital humanities training and discussion ... -
Reasserting Thing-Power: Roughness as a Response to Antimaterialism
(2013-09-14)Overwhelmingly, contemporary interface design principles aim for an experience of immateriality. As Bill Buxton, pioneering interface designer at Microsoft Research, recently told Ars Technica in an interview, “if you’re ... -
3DGIS for Analysis of Ancient Maya Architecture & Landscapes
(2015-10-19)3DGIS for Discourse, Analysis, and Interpretations of Ancient Maya Architecture and Landscapes. Archaeological projects increasingly acquire and create 3D data of objects, buildings, and even landscapes; however, it is ... -
Editing Walt Whitman’s Marginalia Today: Digital Humanities Methods at the Edge
(2014-05-01)This talk is about methodology in the humanities. It begins with a discussion of the most basic practice of humanities research: note-taking. Annotations, marginalia, all of the methods of sifting, highlighting, and ... -
Multi-Disciplinary Teaching Across Computing and the Humanities
(2014-04-03)Can the connections between the humanities and computer science include arts and humanities informing computer science? We are familiar with the idea that computer science results in technologies, and that these are then ... -
XML as a Tool for Domain-Specific Languages
(2011-09-23)Abstract: Computers are general-purpose machines for manipulation of symbols, which means they can be applied in almost any field whose problems can be expressed in terms of symbols. But the creators of computer systems ... -
Digital Humanities Forum 2015. Afternoon session
(2015)1:15 - 2:00 Panel Session: Up in Arms: The Collision of Intellectual Property and Collaborative Practices, Rachel Mann (University of South Carolina); The More the Merrier: Tapping into the Power of Librarians to Collaborate ... -
DH Forum 2015 Morning Session
(2015)9:00-10:00 Keynote Talk: “Push Pause: Slowing down digital humanities practices” Kim Christen Withey (Director of the Digital Technology and Culture Program and Co-Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation.); ... -
Revising Ekphrasis: Using Topic Modeling to Tell the Sister Arts’ Story
(2013-11-07)For the past 20 years, the story of ekphrasis—poetry to, for, and about the visual arts—has been told as a long-standing, gendered contest between rival media, fraught with political, cultural, and religious anxieties. ... -
Playing without Power in videogames
(2012-11-06)Players and scholars alike have characterized videogames as fantasies about unlimited power. In this talk I explore how some videogames have rejected the core mechanic of “leveling up”—in which the player’s character grows ... -
Museum Collecting in the Age of ‘Big Data’: Opportunities for Collaboration
(2012-09-22)Museums, particularly museums of cultural history, face a constant challenge of deciding which objects to add to the collection, knowing that acquiring any object brings obligations to provide long term stable environments, ... -
Putting Moses in The Matrix: Academic Biblical Studies in a “Post-Development” Digital World
(2013-09-14)Despite its place as one of the oldest disciplines in the academy, the field of biblical studies has led the way in the adoption of digital avenues for scholarly analysis and the lay consumption of biblical texts. Beginning ... -
Making the Most of Free, Unrestricted Texts—the Text Creation Partnership
(2011-09-24)Abstract: In April 2011, the Text Creation Partnership announced that 2,231 transcribed and SGML/XML encoded texts from the Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) corpus were freely available to the public, with no ... -
Neoliberalism & Literary Geography of the 20th Century: Statistical Models
(2015-04-22)Computational methods allow literary scholars to test their claims against a much larger and more diverse body of texts than would otherwise be possible. Recent examples include work on the evolution of poetic diction in ... -
Emerging Opportunities for Visual Analytics in the Digital Humanities
(2012-02-07)Research is a complex process of exploration and analysis that encompasses observation, collection, interpretation, discourse, and collaboration. That the digital humanities community aims to marry human and computational ... -
The Moral Role of DH in a Data-Driven World
(2014-09-13)Networks are increasingly invoked in the humanities and computational social sciences both metaphorically and formally to interrogate ourselves. Simultaneously, individuals, corporations, and governments employ networks ... -
Making Research “Come Alive” Through Digital Storytelling
(2017-09-29)