Digital Librarian Initiative

Roger is pulling together a series of workshops before he leaves and has invited DLI to attend.  The first one happens tomorrow (Tuesday, May 15) 1-2 in the Research Commons.  From the Voyant website:

This article starts off with a review of a 3D visualization of the Giza Plateau as it appeared 4500 years ago, projected on to a 23 foot wide screen normally used for eaerthquake simulations.  It goes on to mention the relationship between DH and "information management," specifically the role of the university library in preserving data.  Then it moves into tweet archiving the Arab Spring; archiving, tagging, organizing and crowdsourcing data in all formats on the Japanese tsunami; and applying geoparsing tools together with other computational methods on large scale co

Possible fodder for our futurist infoforum.  In case you haven't seen it, here's the Google demo video.  And here's some reflections by NYT columnist Ross Douthat:

"The Man in the Google Glasses can find his way effortlessly through the mazes of Manhattan; he can photograph anything he sees; he can make an impulse purchase from any corner of the world. But the video also captures the sense of isolation that coexists with our technological mastery."

Prof. Roberto Franzosi talks about Lynchings in Georgia, Tuesday, April 17, 5:00 p.m., Modern Languages Building 201, 532 Kilgo Circle.  Franzosi is the faculty lead for the corresponding DiSC project.

Metadata is extensive but it's not clear whether it's in a format that could be easily linked.  Here's an example:

http://www.digitalgallery.emory.edu/luna/servlet/detail/EMORYUL~3~3~970~...

Tim

From: "Hayes, Kathy" <kathy.hayes@emory.edu>

Just want to announce a small milestone for the Carlos Museum and the use of LUNA.
The public access area of the MCCM collection is finally available!
http://www.digitalgallery.emory.edu/luna/servlet/s/qvv657

Kathy

They cite text mining as an example and imply that humanists should know how to write computer programs.  From Emory News:

"Although quantitative research hasn't traditionally been considered a major facet of a liberal arts education, both educators believe it's time to rethink that. In fact, Forman says there is a growing interest in the role of computational, quantitative techniques within the humanities, "to explore ideas and understand the dynamics that are shaping the culture."

One of the pilot projects I had in mind centers on Finding Aids.  Maybe I could try retrieving data from Archives Hub (http://data.archiveshub.ac.uk/).

There is a dataset in Kasabi, but it has no useful information as of 20120413.

You'd have to attend the lecture to see whether there was "caudate activation" (tail wagging) for the food signal or the non-food signal...

Tim

Specially for Jennifer...

On the "Hanging Together" blog from OCLC Research and the OCLC Research Partnership (formerly RLG), there's a post about OCLC hosting a "Wikipedian in Residence".  Excerpt:

Input formats (admin/settings/filters) are collections of filters applied to content which is input directly or emailed to the site before it is displayed in a browser .

• Original format is saved in the database and filters are applied before display.
• These filters can also be applied to outgoing messages sent by the site, e.g., as part of the Messaging and Notifications modules.

Good resources:

• http://www.lullabot.com/articles/drupal_input_formats_and_filters

Issues:

If front page suddenly not loading correctly, look for a node with bad html (esp. div tags at top).  Go to admin/content/node-settings and reset number of posts on front page until you find the culprit, e.g., reset to 1 then review then reset to 5 and review.

Might be because in digest view the closing div tag is cut off.

Makes sense if we want, for example, to see credit given to alt-ac workers like students, programmers, and librarians for their work on digital humanities projects.  From the Humanist list: Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012, From: Adam Crymble <adam.crymble@gmail.com>. Subject: Towards Fair DH citation practices (Faircite)

Dear Colleagues,

Thought you would be interested.  If you attend, then let's discuss.  Don't tell Lloyd.  Tim

Relevant possibly to our infoforum brainstorum?  Tim

Elijah Meeks at Stanford must be the Da Vinci of visualizations.  Look at his slideshow from a recent conference presentation.  It includes amazing stills and videos of visualizations of spatial, text, and statistical data.  It also hints at a wicked sense of humor.  The first slide reads "What is/are (the) Digital Humanities?

Ian Milligan, a Canadian history Ph.D., argues that, although databases of digitized materials like newspapers, are valuable, they require some critical understanding of their limitations, e.g., of OCR, and their role in published scholarship made more transparent.  Tim

h/t Digital Humanities Now (via Google Reader):

Starting in 1714 with a British government prize offered for anyone who could come up with a method to calculate a ship's longitude. Infographic from the book Getting Results from Crowds via crowdsourcing.org via Digital Humanities Now.  Click to enlarge.

Twitter Feed for the March 28 forum being held in the Jones Room.  The event includes presentations from:

• Melissa “Moose” Alperin, from Rollins School of Public Health, speaking on e-portfolios
• Steve Kraftchick, from Candler School of Theology, addressing online learning
• Sissel McCarthy, from Journalism, presenting on iPads
• Gary Motley, from Music, talking about WordPress