Greta Franzini

Archivematica 0.10-beta Screencast

by ArtefactualSystems 852 views

This screencast illustrates how to process a group of digital objects, called a Transfer, through Archivematica 0.10-beta from ingest to storage and access. For more information about Archivematica 0.10, including the user's manual, please go to www.archivematica.org.

The Virtual Chopin

by Cambridge University 6,933 views

Fryderyk Chopin is one of the most enduring composers of all time, universally celebrated for the originality and expressive power of his music. But Chopin is as frustrating as he is fascinating, because he rarely left behind just one version of his works. More often, there are three, four or more versions -- any number of which might be an authoritative representation of how he wanted the piece to sound. Listeners, performers and researchers alike may find this liberating as well as bewildering because there are so many options from which to choose.

John Rink, Professor of Musical Performance Studies at the University of Cambridge, is director of a project that is transforming the way in which we understand Chopin's work by bringing this compositional cornucopia together in one place. Launched in 2005 with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Online Chopin Variorum Edition will eventually provide digital images of all the available primary sources of Chopin's music -- including sketches, complete manuscripts, first editions and later impressions. Thousands of pages from these documents are already available, and the entire site is free of charge. Users anywhere in the world can explore, compare and combine elements from the composer's music, comment on it as they go, and ultimately construct their own version of the Chopin work to an extent that has never before been possible.

In this film John Rink explains why Chopin's music retains such a hold on us. Referring to the composer's boundless genius, he describes the sources and provides examples of interesting and revelatory changes of mind on Chopin's part. His demonstrations on a Pleyel "pianino" from 1846 are accompanied by images of manuscripts and editions alike, along with action shots of the OCVE website.

"Music does not exist in a single, correct version," John Rink notes. "It constantly changes over time. Chopin reminds us of that because he himself kept changing his music. Whenever we perform or listen to it, our experience is different from the last. By putting his compositions into a digital space, we can model and capture that evolutionary process. In doing so, we breathe new life into Chopin's music and witness for ourselves his compositional genius at work."


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Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin (2012/2013) - Seminar 3 Discussion

by Deutsches Archäologisches Institut 19 views

Dr Christian Berndt (Independent Researcher) "The Design of the Pantheon's Portico Columns and the Justification of Research Results based on Digital Tools and Methods"

Abstract:
Although it is obvious that digital research methods have broadened our options for observing and understanding historical objects and processes, there is still few discussion on how to prepare, publish, and communicate scientific results based on digital tools and data. In my contribution I'm going to argue that the adoption of digital research methods has far reaching consequences for the justification of scientific claims. As an example, I will present the findings of the Digital Pantheon Project concerning the design and construction of the Pantheon's portico columns and will discuss how the project attempts to justify its findings. The experiences made with the Pantheon Project can be summarized in a requirements catalogue for digital investigation methods, which also might be relevant for other research projects.

Further Information: http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1780-0000-000C-4EBA-9

Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin (2012/2013) - Seminar 4 Discussion

by Deutsches Archäologisches Institut 50 views

Prof. Jenny Strauss Clay (University of Virginia, USA/Humboldt Univ., Berlin) Benjamin Jasnow and Courtney Evans (University of Virginia, USA) "Mapping the Catalogue of Ships"

Abstract:
Book Two of the Iliad notoriously contains a list of nearly 190 place names and includes the 29 contingents and that make up the Greek expedition to Troy. Before launching into an over 250-line catalogue of the leaders of the Greek forces and the number of their ships, Homer appeals to the Muses to aid him in this tour-de-force of memory. Without their help, he says:

I could not recount their numbers nor name them,
Not if I had ten tongues and ten mouths,
And an unbreakable voice and a brazen chest within,
Unless the Olympian Muses, daughters of aegis-bearing
Zeus, would remind me how many came under Ilium.

The Catalogue of Ships that follows this invocation can be mapped as an itinerary, or more precisely, three itineraries that traverse most of Greece. By creating a mental journey that used the mnemonic techniques involving loci or places, well known from ancient rhetorical writers, Homer could mentally walk -- or sail -- through Greece and produce a detailed catalogue. In cooperation with the Scholars Lab of the University of Virginia, and using their "Neatline" program, "Least-cost path" GIS analysis, and links with the Pleiades Project, we will explore that itinerary. Our presentation will be work in progress and present some
early findings concerning the organization of space in the Catalogue.

Further Information: http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1780-0000-000C-110A-D

Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin (2012/2013) - Seminar 5 Discussion

by Deutsches Archäologisches Institut 29 views

Dr. des. Patrick Sahle and Ulrike Henny (Cologne Center for eHumanities) "Egyptology meets Digital Humanities: The Book of the Dead"

Abstract:
The Egyptian "Book of the Dead" has been the object of study in a long term research project of the North Rhine-Westfalian Academy of Science and the Arts, operated at the University of Bonn (early 1990s - 2012). The "Book" is a corpus of c. 200 spells in the form of texts and/or illustrations (vignettes) and witnessed in varying order and completeness by c. 3000 objects. Within the digitization efforts of the academy, in 2011, the Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH) was commissioned to transform the internal research database and the image archive into a digital research platform. It is built on a project specific data model for object descriptions and a contextual knowledge base. Regarding data standards and techniques, the digital environment resides completely in the X-world: underlying XML data, an eXist database as backbone and XQuery, XSLT and XForms as processing methods to create the user interface. The archive provides several browse & search facilities allowing to explore the textual and visual witnesses. New information can be added by input interfaces, and various indices and visualizations have been prepared to support scholars in finding answers to their research questions. In addition to a general overview on the project and its achievements, three particular issues will be addressed: practical and theoretical implications of data visualization, the integration of the archive into the research community by technical interfaces, and the question of a sustainable information resource beyond the funding period.

Further Information: http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1780-0000-000D-EC9A-0

Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin (2012/2013) - Seminar 6

by Deutsches Archäologisches Institut 44 views

Dr. Lieve Van Hoof (Lichtenberg Kolleg -- Georg-August Universität, Göttingen) "Digital social network analysis and ancient literature: Libanius' Epistolary Ego-Network"

Abstract:
Recent years have seen a boom in the application of digital social network analysis to ancient history and archaeology (e.g. Schor, Ruffini). Greek and Latin literature, however, have seldom been studied from this point of view. This paper explores the opportunities and challenges involved in applying digital social network analysis to the letters of Libanius (314-393 A.D.).

Against traditional close readings of a selection of letters, social network analysis presents, for the first time in research on Libanius, a quantitative as well as qualitative analysis of the whole of the letter collection. The result will be a thoroughly different image of the collection and its author, with more attention for cultural and religious interaction and for diachronic evolutions. Whilst highlighting these advantages, this paper focuses on the difficulties involved in the process of carrying out social network analysis. Based on work in progress, it thus presents a well-defined example of, but also invites critical reflection on, the application of digital analysis to ancient literature.

Further Information: http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1780-0000-000D-F0D3-2

Digitalizzazione dei manoscritti della Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

by DEDAGROUP 310 views

La Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana è una delle istituzioni culturali più importanti del mondo con un immenso patrimonio documentale che spazia dalle scienze all'arte fino alle lettere ed ovviamente alla cultura religiosa. Tra le opere che contiene, vi sono alcuni dei testi più rari esistenti al mondo, testimonianze uniche della storia della cultura umana.
Dedanext - società del Network Dedagroup - ed EMC hanno siglato un accordo per la digitalizzazione dell'intero patrimonio di opere della Biblioteca, stimato in circa 40 milioni di pagine scritte, che potrà così essere reso più facilmente disponibile alla consultazione di studenti, esperti ed appassionati.

Digital Conversations, 7 December 2012

by britishlibrary 46 views

Digital Conversations @ British Library is hosted by the Digital Research and Curator Team. This conversation on the subject of Digital Narratives is introduced by Aly Conteh, Digitisation Programme Manager, and chaired by Rossitza Atanassova, Digital Curator. Presentations by Dr. Alex Whitfield, Learning and Digital Programme Manager, British Library (0:06-); Chris Meade, Writer and Director of If:books (0:19-); Max Whitby, Co-founder and CEO, Touchpress (0:33-); Dr. Sandy Louchart, RIDERS project, Heriot Watt University (0:53-) and Dr. Kenji Takeda, Rich Interactive Narratives, Microsoft Research (1:11-).

A Letter Home: The Relevance of the Postal Service in the Info Age: Ryan Ellis at TEDxSanDiego 2012

by TEDxTalks 174 views

In "A Letter Home: The Relevance of the Postal Service in the Information Age," Dr. Ryan Ellis draws on his research and personal experience to offer a reminder of why old technologies often remain vitally important. Though it is easy to become enamored with the latest advances of new media, Dr. Ellis describes the continuing relevance of the postal system in an era of rapid technological change.

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology

by TEDtalksDirector 1,542,003 views

http://www.ted.com At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data -- including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop." In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he'll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery.

TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate. Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin (2012/2013) - Keynote

by Deutsches Archäologisches Institut 322 views

Lecture by Dr. Gabriel Bodard (King's College London) - "A View on Digital Classics Collaboration: from a cacophony of epigraphic databases to a citizens' web of inscriptions"

This paper will discuss the history of public epigraphic databases, including the Packard Greek Inscriptions database, the Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg and Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss-Slaby, discussing the strengths and weaknesses of the approaches to online collections, especially with reference to scale, usability, technical standards, openness and transparency, collaboration and discoverability through metadata. Some consideration of user reactions to these databases will lead to the conclusion that the Digital Humanities perspectives discussed above do not reflect well the desires and apparent needs of normal epigraphic scholars. Does this disjunction of priorities suggest that we should reconsider the aims of electronic publication, or attempt to educate academics as to the importance of standards and metadata? The paper will close with a suggestion for an approach drawing from the papyrological community that might combine these two facets, building scale without sacrificing quality, and harnessing the epigraphic scholarly community to build a more powerful and interoperable epigraphic corpus.

Further information: http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1780-0000-000B-02A1-C

Oxford Scholarly Editions Online -- Explore old texts in new ways

by Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) 2,429 views

Oxford Scholarly Editions Online (OSEO) reanimates authoritative Oxford scholarly editions of major works from the humanities, de-constructing their constituent print parts and re-presenting them in an intuitive online platform. http://www.oxfordscholarlyeditions.com

By placing philosophical texts next to literary texts, political texts next to theological texts, OSEO opens up new possibilities for search and comparison, making texts more accessible, cross-searchable and interconnected, than ever before. In this video librarians, academics, and the OUP project team describe the project and explain how OSEO impacts scholarly research in the 21st Century.

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Take a sneak peek at Oxford Scholarly Editions Online

by Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) 2,145 views

Oxford University Press are delighted to announce the launch of Oxford Scholarly Editions Online (OSEO). A major new publishing initiative from Oxford University Press, OSEO provides an interlinked collection of authoritative Oxford editions of major works from the humanities.

Launching with more than 170 scholarly editions of material written between 1485 and 1660, and containing nearly 12,000 different works from plays to poetry to letters, the equivalent of 82,000 print pages, OSEO makes highly sought after editions more accessible, searchable, and interconnected than ever before.

http://www.oxfordscholarlyeditions.com/

Recovering the Recovered Text: Diversity, Canon Building, and Digital Studies - Amy Earhart

by University of Kansas IDRH 196 views

Amy Earhart, English, Texas A&M University

Digital Humanities Seminar, University of Kansas--Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities & Hall Center for the Humanities, October 2, 2012

http://idrh.ku.edu
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This paper examines the state of the current digital humanities canon, provides a historical overview of the decline of early digitally recovered texts, literature designed to expand the literary canon, and offers suggestions for ways that the field might work toward expansion of the digital canon. My research shows that a subfield of early literary digitization work, mostly projects unassociated with humanities computing/digital humanities, sought to negate early canon bias found within print and envisaged digital literary scholarship as a tool to reinsert women, queers, and people of color into the canon. The DIY sites built during this period were labors of love and allowed scholars to self publish materials found buried in difficult to access library archives or dusty journal editions. The early wave of small recovery projects has slowed and, even more troubling, the extant digital projects have begun to disappear. If we lose a large volume of texts from the expanded canon we will be returning to a new critical canon that is incompatible with current understandings of literature. In addition, the turn to increased standardization (TEI) and big data troubles our efforts at small-scale recovery project, as DIY scholars, outside the DH community, have difficulty gaining access to required technical skills for small projects, leading to a decline in small-scale digital recovery projects. The poor literary data sets impact digital humanities efforts to experiment with visualization and data mining techniques. If Matt Kirschenbaum is correct and preservation is not a technical problem but a social problem, then it follows that the digital humanities community should be able to address the lack of diversity in the digital canon by attention to acquisition and preservation of particular types of texts. We need a renewed effort in digitizing texts that occurs in tandem with experimental approaches in data mining, visualization and geospatial representations. This paper offers several possible ways of addressing this troubling problem.

Mobile text analysis with Textal

by NCRMUK 321 views

Researchers from the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) and the University College London have developed a text analysis iPhone app called Textal.

The term text analytics describes a set of linguistic, statistical, and machine learning techniques that model and structure the information content of textual sources for business intelligence, exploratory data analysis, research, or investigation. Textal app allows you to create wordclouds from your favourite text, website, tweet stream, or document. Textal then allows you to interact with the wordcloud, to drill down further and explore the statistics and the relationships between words in the text.

Textal project is part of the NCRM and UCL Digital Humanities programmes, and you can find more info in http://www.textal.org/

Filming and editing by João Retorta. Music by Sérgio Faria.

Find out more about the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) in http://www.ncrm.ac.uk

Patterns in the transmission of cultural texts: the case of medieval miscellany manuscripts

by University of Kansas IDRH 105 views

David J Birnbaum, Chair, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh

Digital Humanities Seminar, University of Kansas--Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities & Hall Center for the Humanities, March 6, 2012

http://idrh.ku.edu
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Medieval Slavic miscellanies are a type of free-form encyclopedia, compilations of texts of various genres from various sources. Compilation in medieval literary culture was as much a creative act as the authoring of entirely new texts, and the producers of new manuscripts were free to draw on all available sources, creating compilations whose originality was not constrained by any attempt to reproduce earlier compilations literally or faithfully. The variation that occurs in miscellany manuscripts is nonetheless surprisingly constrained; it is almost unheard of for two miscellanies to correspond perfectly in their contents, but there are nonetheless frequent partial correspondences that cannot be explained by genre, subject matter, or any other organizing principle, and that are inconsistent with a hypothesis that scribes compiled manuscripts without explicit constraint--even if that is what they thought they were doing. This presentation describes some of the patterns of agreement that emerge from comparing the structure of miscellany manuscripts, leading to a conclusion that despite the scribe's complete freedom to choose his texts, the contents of miscellany manuscripts were nonetheless severely constrained by the tradition, and in specific ways.

Bringing the Enlightenment to the Internet Age

by Rni WheatonCollege 358 views

Hear about how Kirk Anderson's students are transcribing the 1751 Encyclopedia from French into English and posting the results to a project website.

Infinite Possibilities: Archimedes on the Web

by GoogleTechTalks 5,370 views

Google Tech Talks
September 8, 2008

ABSTRACT

Following up on the March 7, 2006, Google TechTalk on the Archimedes Palimpsest, this presentation will discuss the challenges faced in hosting the digital multispectral images, metadata and encoded transcriptions on the Web. After a decade of scientific study of this historic and valuable manuscript, on October 29, 2008, all the Archimedes Palimpsest images and transcription data will be released to the public. The release candidate will be available at http://www.archimedespalimpsest.net in time for this TechTalk. The Program Manager and the Data Manager of the Archimedes Palimpsest Team will discuss advances in the imaging program since 2006, the collection and management of the data, the Greek transcriptions, and the encoding of the transcriptions in a standardized format. They will also discuss the free availability of the data under a Creative Commons license for the development of GUI's and applications linking the spatially aligned images and transcriptions.

Speaker: Michael B. Toth, R.B. Toth Associates
Mike has been the Program Manager and Systems Integrator for the Archimedes Palimpsest Program since 1999. He provides management, systems integration and strategic planning for the study, preservation and display of cultural objects for museums and libraries.

Speaker: Doug Emery, Emery IT
Doug manages image metadata collection, data storage and distribution for the Archimedes Palimpsest Project. His educational background is in ancient cultures and languages, but for the past several years he has worked as a programmer and database administrator in academics and private industry. Doug brings professional expertise in data management, as well as an understanding of the issues involved in working with ancient manuscripts as a freelance computer consultant.

Virtual Visitors (14 June 2012)

by UCLLHL 536 views

Dr Melissa Terras (UCL Centre for Digital Humanities)

Launched in October 2007, the British Museum provides virtual access to objects and collections via an online database, and by the end of 2009 nearly 2 million records had been made available. However, why would anyone want to view a collection online rather than in person, and what would they use it for?

This Lunch Hour Lecture, by Dr Terras, Deputy Director of UCL's Centre for Digital Humanities, will discuss what is known about the use of this virtual online resource, and if indeed it is even used. This talk will also present analysis undertaken by UCL's Centre for Digital Humanities in conjunction with Claire Ross and Vera Motyckova and colleagues at the British Museum.

CISA 3 Data Supports Theory on Location of Lost Leonardo da Vinci Painting

by Calit2ube 396 views

Evidence uncovered during research conducted in Florence's Palazzo Vecchio late last year appears to support the theory that a lost Leonardo da Vinci painting existed on the east wall of the Hall of the 500, behind Giorgio Vasari's mural "The Battle of Marciano." The data supporting the theoretical location of the da Vinci painting "The Battle of Anghiari" was obtained through the use of an endoscopic probe that was inserted through the wall on which the Vasari fresco was painted. The probe was fitted with a camera and allowed a team of researchers, led by scientist Maurizio Seracini, to see what was behind the Vasari and gather samples for further testing.

This comprehensive research effort was led by the National Geographic Society and University of California, San Diego's (UCSD) Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology (CISA3), in partnership with the City of Florence. CISA3 is based at the UCSD division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2). Work conducted in Palazzo Vecchio's Hall of the 500 was completed in collaboration with the Florentine Superintendency for Cultural Heritage and the Opificio delle Pietre Dure, the Italian state art restoration center based in Florence.

Rethinking Copyright (Lessons from Latin Authors)

by ClassicsConfidentia1 328 views

An interview with Dr Paolo Monella for www.classicsconfidential.co.uk

Preserving Personal Web Content

by LibraryOfCongress 446 views

On May 10, 2010, the Library of Congress held Personal Archiving Day in conjunction with the American Library Association's annual Preservation Week. The Library invited members of the public to visit and learn about how to preserve their personal information in both digital and non-digital form.

During the event, Library staff gave talks about how to preserve specific kinds of information. In this video, Abigail Grotke, web archiving team lead and Gina Jones, digital media project coordinator, both from the Office of Strategic Initiatives' Web Archiving team at the Library of Congress, offer practical advice on preserving web content.

Digital World

by britishlibrary 58 views

Nietzsche Source, 5/5: The Digital Genetic Edition, 2

by nietzschesource 301 views

Nietzsche Source ( http://www.nietzschesource.org ) is a website dedicated to the publication of scholarly content on Friedrich Nietzsche. In this video, recorded at the 17th International Conference of the F. Nietzsche Society (Oxford, Sept. 2009), Paolo DIorio presents the three digital editions that are currently under publication:
1) The digital critical edition of the complete works, posthumous fragments and correspondence, based on the Colli/Montinari critical edition. The philological corrections that are scattered in the critical apparatuses of the different commentary volumes of the print edition have been integrated directly into the electronic text.
2) The digital facsimile edition, providing for the first time a digital reproduction of the complete Nietzsche estate, including first editions of works, manuscripts, letters and biographical documents.
3) The digital genetic edition of Nietzsches works, including a new transcription of the manuscripts and a genetic disposition of the materials.

Nietzsche Source, 3/5: The Digital Facsimile Edition

by nietzschesource 246 views

Nietzsche Source ( http://www.nietzschesource.org ) is a website dedicated to the publication of scholarly content on Friedrich Nietzsche. In this video, recorded at the 17th International Conference of the F. Nietzsche Society (Oxford, Sept. 2009), Paolo DIorio presents the three digital editions that are currently under publication:
1) The digital critical edition of the complete works, posthumous fragments and correspondence, based on the Colli/Montinari critical edition. The philological corrections that are scattered in the critical apparatuses of the different commentary volumes of the print edition have been integrated directly into the electronic text.
2) The digital facsimile edition, providing for the first time a digital reproduction of the complete Nietzsche estate, including first editions of works, manuscripts, letters and biographical documents.
3) The digital genetic edition of Nietzsches works, including a new transcription of the manuscripts and a genetic disposition of the materials.

Nietzsche Source, 2/5: The Digital Critical Edition (and the Discovery project)

by nietzschesource 248 views

Nietzsche Source ( http://www.nietzschesource.org ) is a website dedicated to the publication of scholarly content on Friedrich Nietzsche. In this video, recorded at the 17th International Conference of the F. Nietzsche Society (Oxford, Sept. 2009), Paolo DIorio presents the three digital editions that are currently under publication:
1) The digital critical edition of the complete works, posthumous fragments and correspondence, based on the Colli/Montinari critical edition. The philological corrections that are scattered in the critical apparatuses of the different commentary volumes of the print edition have been integrated directly into the electronic text.
2) The digital facsimile edition, providing for the first time a digital reproduction of the complete Nietzsche estate, including first editions of works, manuscripts, letters and biographical documents.
3) The digital genetic edition of Nietzsches works, including a new transcription of the manuscripts and a genetic disposition of the materials.

To what degree can you use digital surrogates as a preservation strategy now?

by britishlibrary 121 views

Andrew Green, Librarian, National Library of Wales

Media Archaeology - Jussi Parikka

by MedeaTV 1,010 views

JUSSI PARIKKA is the director of the Cultures of the Digital Economy (CoDE) institute. His lecture Practicing Media Archaeology: Creative Methodologies for Remediation and Creation focuses on some ideas and examples from media archaeological art practice. Read more: http://medea.mah.se/2011/05/jussi-parikka-on-media-archeolog­y/

Digital Archaeology, part 2

by teamOKAPI 540 views

Digital Archaeology talk for the Society for California Archaeology. Part 2 of 2. Created by Michael Ashley.

Digital Conversations, 30 March 2012: Part 1

by britishlibrary 90 views

Digital Conversations #2: Sharing and annotation
Adam Farquhar, Head of Digital Scholarship, British Library
Jan Reichelt (Mendeley) 08:00-
Richard Ranft, Head of Sound and Vision, British Library 27:30-
Andrew Kehoe & Matt Gee (eMargin) 48:40-

Digital Conversations, 20 January 2012: Part 2

by britishlibrary 72 views

Digital Conversations #1: Search and Discovery Part 2
Spencer Hyman (Artfinder)
Steve Green (British Library) 21:00-
Gregory Grefenstette (Exalead) 35:25-

Treasures Smartphone App from the British Library

by britishlibrary 10,087 views

http://www.bl.uk/app
Over 100 highlights, including literary, historical, music-related and scientific documents - alongside illuminated manuscripts and sacred texts. Each is presented through high-resolution images, allowing the viewer to zoom in and explore in detail. 'Treasures' offers smartphone users a true multimedia experience.
Available across multiple mobile platforms: iPhone, Android and, in an HD version, the iPad.

Digital Library of Congress

by VOAvideo 6,407 views

The Library of Congress has been preparing for the digital age since the 1960s, when it used early technology to create and share its bibliographic information in electronic form.
In the 1990s the library started distributing digitized versions of its treasures to schools and libraries across the U.S. Now, there are millions of digitized contents available on the Library's web site for users across the world. VOA's Mohamed Elshinnawi has more

Abbot Text Interoperability Tool (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

by sgsinclair 186 views

UO Vasi Map Demo

by Elijah Meeks 60 views

This is a demonstration of the features of the University of Oregon's "Imago Urbis: Giuseppe Vasi's Grand Tour of Rome", created by Jim Tice and Erik Steiner.

You can see this map and the scholarship around it at:
http://vasi.uoregon.edu

LORE: Literature Object Re-use and Exchange (University of Queensland)

by sgsinclair 103 views

Neal Stimler: Reforming The Museum Through Social Media

by Neal Stimler 555 views

Disclaimer: The remarks herein are the personal views of Neal Stimler and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Keynote Address: aufbruch. museen and web 2.0 (http://aufbruch2null.blogspot.com/)
April 20, 2012

After reading Tom Standage's article, "How Luther went viral" (http://www.economist.com/node/21541719) from the December 17, 2011 edition of The Economist, Neal Stimler was inspired to consider how social media can be used to reform museums. In the keynote address, Neal examines how museum workers can share responsibility with the public for the core operations of museums. Digital humanities centers are at the heart of this paradigm change, acting as the instruments that integrate a social media experience into technological and cultural fabric of museums. In an ever interconnected world, it is critical that museums sincerely engage the public to share information, inspire expression, create knowledge collaboratively and encourage dialogue. By participating with the public through social media, museums recognize that their essential social function is to foster compassion.

Neal Stimler takes an interdisciplinary approach to humanistic scholarship that is informed by art history, cultural studies, digital technology and sociology

Credits:

Author; Speaker: Neal Stimler
Camera; Lighting: Jessica Glass
Editor: Jessica Glass
Sound; Gaffer: Corinne Colgan
Post-Production Supervisor: Paul Caro

Duquesne University Professor Contributes to the Lincoln Project

by Duquesne University 263 views

Duquesne Professor of Computer Science, Patrick Juola, explains the Lincoln Project and his team's role in developing the Java Graphical Authorship Attribution Program, a computer program created to analyze writing samples in order to more accurately identify the author of a work.

MCN 2011: Philosophical Leadership Needed for the Future: Digital Humanities Scholars in Museums

by museumcn 226 views

Museum technologists have successfully supported the creation and delivery of content produced by curators, educators and librarians. However, many museum administrators and boards have yet to recognize the importance of scholarly study of their own institutions in the context of an evolving digital society. The support of digital humanities research in the academic and library communities over the last several years has not yet been adopted to the same degree in museums.

This video is a recording of the live presentation of Neal Stimler's Museum Computer Network 2011 crowdsourced YouTube video panel, "Philosophical Leadership Needed for the Future: Digital Humanities Scholars in Museums." Panelists submitted responses from an open call to the community of professionals in archives, libraries, museums and universities as they reflected on the barriers and benefits of implementing digital humanities methodologies in museums.

Panel Questions:

Question 1:
How can museums advance beyond the continuation of traditional practices utilizing digital tools to a new mode of interpretation that seeks to understand the meanings of collections and scholarship in a new media culture?

Question 2:
What is required of museums to establish digital humanities research centers within the framework of existing institutions?

Question 3:
Why might interdisciplinary and non-traditional scholars from outside the established professional ranks make the best leaders needed for inspired change in the philosophical directions of museums?

Please watch the panel playlist to see all the individual videos (http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3506656C723EAFEA).

Please view the conference webpage for more information (http://goo.gl/0PsGD).

Voyeur Tools (McGill University)

by sgsinclair 1,319 views

Omeka (CHNM at George Mason University)

by sgsinclair 686 views

Daniel J. Cohen - New Directions in Digital History

by case 1,403 views

Daniel J. Cohen
New Directions in Digital History

Recorded on November 21, 2008 in Clark Hall room 206 on the campus of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

Sponsored by the Kelvin Smith Library and Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities.

British Library Timeline Trailer

by britishlibrary 2,756 views

British Library History Timeline Trailer

T-PEN (0.11) - Introduction

by tpentool 1,163 views

T-PEN (Transcription for Paleographical and Editorial Notation) is a digital tool for scholars who use digital images of unpublished manuscripts that are housed in digital repositories throughout the world. T-PEN will provide a fully-equipped digital workspace in which the scholar — while constantly viewing the manuscript images — transcribes line by line, makes notes about problematic paleographic features, documents glosses and corrections or revisions to the manuscript, and may — either during transcription or after further research — add interpretative or bibliographic information pertaining to particular lines or larger sections of the text. With this tool, the transcribed text can also be immediately encoded with XML markup to indicate any given feature of the text (e.g., a rubric, colophon, gloss, lemma, correction, quire signature, citation, etc.). See http://digital-editor.blogspot.com/

Digital Humanities Sampler, Part 2

by NEHgov 3,758 views

Part 2 of four videos showing pilot projects at the cutting edge of research in digital humanities. Recorded at the National Endowment for the Humanities in September 2010, at a meeting of project managers who received start-up grants from NEH's Office of Digital Humanities.

These are the individual projects, in order of appearance:

St. Louis University -- The T-PEN Tool: Sustainability and Quality Control in Encoding Handwritten Texts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFSyMgVbHpg#t=0m6s

University of Arizona -- Poetry Audio/Video Library Phase 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFSyMgVbHpg#t=2m37s

University of California, Los Angeles -- Software Interface for Real-time Exploration of Three-Dimensional Computer Models of Historic Urban Environments
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFSyMgVbHpg#t=4m55s

University of California, San Diego -- Drama in the Delta
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFSyMgVbHpg#t=6m41s

University of Chicago -- Dictionnaire Vivant de la Langue Francaise (DVLF): Expanding the French Dictionary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFSyMgVbHpg#t=9m1s

University of Georgia -- AI for Architectural Discourse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFSyMgVbHpg#t=11m14s

University of Maryland, College Park -- MITH API Workshop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFSyMgVbHpg#t=13m46s

University of Nebraska -- Sustaining Digital History
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFSyMgVbHpg#t=16m11s

University of North Texas -- Mapping Historical Texts: Combining Text-mining & Geo-visualization to Unlock the Research Potential of Historical Newspapers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFSyMgVbHpg#t=18m23s

University of Richmond -- Landscapes of the American Past: Visualizing Emancipation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFSyMgVbHpg#t=20m15s

University of Virginia -- Supercomputing for Digitized 3D Models of Cultural Heritage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFSyMgVbHpg#t=22m37s

University of Virginia -- ARTeFACT Movement Thesaurus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFSyMgVbHpg#t=24m54s

Great 2 meet u IRL :-) Twitter and digital identity (17 March 2011)

by UCLLHL 1,009 views

Lunch Hour Lecture: Great 2 meet u IRL :-) Twitter and digital identity

Dr Claire Warwick, @clhw1 (UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, #UCLDH)

Is Twitter an ephemeral technology, consisting of mundane chat about people's personal lives? Or can a study of its use help us to understand how we express our identities on and offline? Can Twitter be used for professional or academic activity, and should we try to separate our public and private digital personae? This lecture will address such questions, with the aid of slides of 140 characters and live tweets from the audience at UCL and on the internet.

This lecture marks 5th anniversary of Twitter on 21 March

Co authors: Melissa Terras, @melissaterras, #melissaterras (UCLDH); Claire Ross, @clairey_ross (UCLDH); Anne Welsh, @AnneWelsh (UCLDH)

Defining the Digital Humanities

by columbiauniversity 2,632 views

Digital humanities scholars are a diverse group whose work is the result of cross-pollination among humanities scholarship, computer science, and digital media. Many well-known digital humanities projects apply tools borrowed from computer science—such as data-mining or geographic information systems—to works of literature, historical documents, and other materials traditionally in the domain of the humanities. What do digital humanities scholars see as the potential of this interdisciplinary field? And what are the important theoretical and methodological contributions digital humanities can offer to both the humanities and the sciences Panelists: Daniel J. Cohen, Assoc. Professor of History and Director of the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University. Federica Frabetti, Senior Lecturer in the Communication, Media, and Culture Program at Oxford Brookes University. Dino Buzzetti recently retired from the Dept. of Philosophy at the University of Bologna.

The British Library and Google to make 250,000 books available to all

by britishlibrary 622 views

Major project to digitise up to 40 million pages from 1700-1870, from the French Revolution to the end of slavery

London, Monday 20 June - The British Library and Google today announced a partnership to digitise 250,000 out-of-copyright books from the Library's collections. Opening up access to one of the greatest collections of books in the world, this demonstrates the Library's commitment, as stated in its 2020 Vision, to increase access to anyone who wants to do research.

Imagining Digital Humanities for Museums & Archives (Thoughts from Iowa)

by funkmelodious 336 views

On Wednesday, October 19, we talked with three professionals who provided us with critical insights into museums and archives. And we captured it on video to share. This 10-minute video features Greg Prickman, head of the University of Iowa Special Collections, Kathrine Moermond, education and outreach coordinator at the UI's Old Capitol Museum, and Nicki Saylor, head of Digital Library Services. They discuss what they've learned from their recent efforts in utilizing digital media to enhance their exhibitions and collections.

Digital Humanities 2011 (DH 11) Opening Keynote - David Rumsey

by Kimberly Hayworth 445 views

Digital Humanities Conference 2011 - David Rumsey - Reading Historical Maps Digitally: How Spatial Technologies Can Enable Close, Distant and Dynamic Interpretations. Stanford University - June 19, 2011
http://youtu.be/vS6JafzvK_0?t=37m50s
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DH 11 Conference Kickoff
Ray Siemens, University of Victoria, Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO)
Glen Worthey, Stanford, and DH2011 Local Co-Organizer
Matthew Jockers, Stanford, and DH2011 Local Co-Organizer
http://youtu.be/vS6JafzvK_0

DH 11 Welcome & David Rumsey Introduction
Michael A. Keller, Stanford University Librarian
http://youtu.be/vS6JafzvK_0?t=13m42s

David Rumsey Keynote:
http://youtu.be/vS6JafzvK_0?t=37m50s

What we learned from 5 million books

by internsUKmaster 166 views

This video is part of the iNTERNSiDEA Open Source Academy selection.
We select and share funny and instructive videos, to allow everyone to access useful information and stimulate an ongoing personal development.
This is for an educational purpose only.

http://internsidea.com/index.php

3. Dr Melissa Terras: Q&A

by EdinburghUniversity 87 views

Dr Melissa Terras, Reader in Electronic Communication and Co-Director of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, University College London.

The Vision After the Sermon: establishing an institutional digital humanities presence - Question and Answer session.

TEDxYouth@Jumeirah - Faisal Jasim

by TEDxYouth 2,260 views

Two youths of our generation who are in love with their culture but still embrace all that the world has to offer. They see a harmony between technology and tradition and passionately believe that each complements the other. Thani Al Shafar and Faisal Jassim are founders of Appthik, a tech start up aimed towards cultural preservation. The first product of Appthik is the Thikrayat iPhone application. It is an Emarati word application which translates Emarati words into both formal Arabic and English for everyone to understand and use. The goal of the application is to promote "Emarati" identity in this new globalized age of social media and technology.




@FaisalJassim
@2NDThani




In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx - local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience.

At a TEDxevent, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group.

These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x=independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDxprogram, but individual TEDxevents are self-organized.

TEDx is part of a revolution in global education made possible by local organizers wanting to engage their communities.

Every week, in multiple cities, people are coming together to pursue ideas worth spreading.

@TEDxYouthJum


http://www.tedxyouthjum.com

TEDxVancouver - Jer Thorp - The Weight of Data

by TEDxTalks 34,221 views

Jer Thorp is an artist and educator from Vancouver, Canada, currently living in New York. Coming from a background in genetics, his digital art practice explores the many-folded boundaries between science and art. Recently, his work has been featured by The New York Times, The Guardian, Scientific American, The New Yorker, and the CBC. Thorp's award-winning software-based work has been exhibited in Europe, Asia, North America, South America, and Australia and all over the web. Most recently, he has presented at Carnegie Mellon's School of Art, at Eyebeam in New York City, and at IBM's Center for Social Software in Cambridge. He is currently Data Artist in Residence at the New York Times, and is an adjunct Professor in New York University's ITP program.

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

Digital Humanities Seminar - Professor Ray Siemens

by hca uws 57 views

"Education and training in the digital humanities: Converging local initiatives and their international context"
Professor Ray Siemens speaks at the Digital Humanities Seminar. UWS Bankstown Campus, Friday, 26 April 2013.

Accompanying presentation available from http://www.hca.uws.edu.au/staff/DHSeminar/RaySiemens.pdf

Gregory Ralph Crane - Alexander von Humboldt Professorship 2013 (EN)

by AvHStiftung 659 views

Gregory Ralph Crane combines classical philology and computer science in an innovative approach, applying computer science methods to systematise human cultural development. He owes his reputation as a pioneer of digital humanities to his development of the Perseus Digital Library, a comprehensive and freely accessible online library for antique source material. By appointing him to the University of Leipzig, the university aims to expand its Institute of Computer Science into an internationally visible digital humanities centre.

Prof. Dr. Gregory Ralph Crane,
born in 1957, currently holds a chair in the Department of Computer Science at TUFTS University, Medford, USA. He completed his doctorate in classical philology at Harvard University in 1985 and subsequently worked there as an assistant professor. From 1985, he was involved in planning the Perseus Project as a co-director; in 1992, he became an assistant professor and later an associate professor at TUFTS University where he has held the Winnick Family Chair of Technology and Entrepreneurship since 1998. He has received, among others, the Google Digital Humanities Award 2010 for his work.

Iversity.Org: Deciphering Ancient Texts in the Digital Age

by Thomas Köntges 581 views

MOOC Production Fellowship (Competition Entry)
Please vote here: https://moocfellowship.org/submissions/deciphering-ancient-t­exts-in-the-digital-age

Thomas Köntges
Wai-Te-Ata Press
Victoria University of Wellington

The Great Parchment Book

by Laurence Ward 525 views

Imaging the Iliad: A Digital Renaissance

by VisCenter 3,162 views

The Iliad, Homer's epic poem about Achilles and The Trojan War, is the center of this story about an international team of Classicists and Scientists who work together using state-of-the-art technologies to reveal the mysteries of the Venetus A, the oldest existing complete text of the Homeric Iliad.
Meticulously crafted in Byzantium the Venetus A has been stored for 500 years in the Marciana Library in Venice, Italy. Its thousand-year-old pages contain handwritten notes recording a tradition of scholarship going back to the Ptolemaic scholars of the second century BCE. Two thousand years after the start of that tradition, technology brings scholars and lovers of Homer a new opportunity to rediscover the intricacies of this precious manuscript. The interdisciplinary research team struggles to reconcile old and new and overcome technical challenges as they press toward the goal of preserving for all time one of the most valuable artifacts of the Byzantine Empire.

See the pages on your iPad, alongside the translation! Download the Imaging the Iliad app from the iTunes App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/imaging-the-iliad/id42298434­1?mt=8

See the pages online at the Homer Multitext Site: http://www.homermultitext.org/