Browsing TXDHC 2015 Presenter Abstracts by Title
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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 ... -
Prepare for a more human digital university
(2015-04-11)Like much of society, higher education is digitizing. While this brings new opportunities for increasing access to quality learning, it also raises concerns about what a digital university will look like. In a climate of ... -
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 ... -
Role of the Digital Humanities in Socio-Environmental Synthesis Research: A View from Environmental History
(2015-04-10)This paper explores how digital humanities can positively impact large-scale, data-intensive, socio-environemntal synthesis research. Synthesis research focuses on integrating large data sets, ideas, theories, and methods ... -
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 ... -
Social Studies and Digital Humanities
(2015-04-10)In 2009, Christine Borgman asked “Where are the social studies of digital humanities?” More specifically, she inquired, “Why is no one following digital humanities scholars around to understand their practices, in the way ... -
TypeWright in the Classroom: Service Learning, Digital Edition Building, and Fostering Student Collaboration
(2015-04-10)Since the creation of 18thConnect in 2010, our team has striven to answer what we see as a prevailing research question in the study of 18th-Century materials online. Scholarship based on 18th-Century digital collections ... -
Virtual Art Galleries
(2015-04-10)It is the goal of the arts to engage a viewing public with intriguing works that communicate the vastness and uniqueness of cultures and thoughts, ideas and experiences of humanity.[1] I encountered the challenges of ... -
A Visual Argument: Embedded Omeka Support for Art History
(2015-04-10)Making the seminar paper relevant to students' professional development is a challenge in humanities classrooms. Professors are increasingly encouraging alternative research projects that convey the same amount of information ... -
Working with In-Copyright Materials for Digital Humanities Research: Legal, Ethical, and Practical Issues
(2015-04-10)To date, a significant chunk of digital humanities research projects have focused on analysis of works in the public domain, virtually all of them published prior to 1923. Greater access to recent publications would be a ...