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"Endangered Archives, Digitization, and the Possible Futures of Historical Research in Latin America”
(2015-04-11)
This presentation introduces the audience to a multi-year collaboration among digital humanists, historians, translators, and local team members in Cuba, Colombia, Brazil, and Florida. Funded by the British Library ...
Digital Oral History Collections: Implications for Innovation in the Humanities
(2015-04-11)
This presentation will theorize the implications of digital audiovisual archives for humanities scholarship and pedagogy. The proliferation of digital oral history projects available online means that they comprise an ...
Digitized Diaries and the New Manuscript Archive
(2015-04-11)
As Digital Humanities has taken root across the disciplines, one field has particularly benefited: Diary Studies. In the past, the study of a manuscript diary was determined by access to the archive where the diary was ...
Automatic Transcription in Colonial Contexts: OCR for the Primeros Libros
(2015-04-10)
The PDF images in the Primeros Libros digital collection, an effort to produce digital facsimiles of all books printed before 1601 in the Americas, pose several challenges for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems. ...
Social Media and Revolutions: Imagined Communities and Social Justice Movements
(2015-04-09)
This talk focuses on the concept of political communities created by social media tools and platforms. Drawing on Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities, it argues that social media and the networked public sphere have ...
The Promise and Peril of RDF for Formalizing the Humanities
(2015-04-10)
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) defines structures for describing entities identifiable by Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). RDF exists at the top of the stack of technology standards proposed by the World Wide ...
Local History, Civic Visibility: GIS, the Humanities, and Public-Private Collaboration
(2015-04-10)
The history of Houston, Texas chronicles the growth of a city from settlement by native peoples and diverse colonists to its present status as the fourth largest and most diverse city in the United States. The collections ...
Against the Cultural Singularity: Toward a Critical Digital Humanities
(2015-04-11)
Following up on the question he asked in the title of his 2012 essay "Where is Cultural Criticism in the Digital Humanities?", Alan Liu will present early drafts from a book he is writing that imagines a mode of cultural ...
Keynote Speakers
(2015)
Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models, and Experiments
(2015-04-10)
Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models, and Experiments is an open, collaborative digital humanities project focused on the intersections of digital technologies with teaching and learning. The project ...