Comments for THATCamp St. Louis 2013

Comment on Session notes from THATCampSTL by Douglas Knox

Douglas Knox — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 02:00:47 +0000

As a footnote for the record, Aaron Addison got us off to a great start as the session leader for the Time Series group. He had to leave early and I agreed to submit notes, any limitations of which are my own.

Comment on Session proposal: Digital Humanities Boot Camp for Subject Librarians by Chris Freeland

Chris Freeland — Sat, 09 Nov 2013 22:37:09 +0000

To recap, this session got combined with a "Beginner's Guide to Digital humanities" session. Not sure we fully explored all of the possibilities with participants, but did come away with a framework of what topics would be necessary to cover: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/695158/Digital%20Humanities%20Intro.docx

Comment on Databases Before Digital by Patrick Cuba

Patrick Cuba — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 23:19:57 +0000

I think the most important question is this:

“why people organized “data” before digital methods”

Reasoning is the most sought and least annotated thing.

Comment on STL LAMs by Patrick Cuba

Patrick Cuba — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 23:17:47 +0000

I haven’t been able to get this out of my mind since the last TECHO meeting I attended. I think this should happen and I would love to be in the middle of it.

Comment on Unstructured Data – storage, analysis and visualization of big data by Patrick Cuba

Patrick Cuba — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 23:16:04 +0000

– just curious, not enthused yet –

I have little to contribute here directly, but I would like to witness the conversation.

Comment on Blurring the Boundaries Between Scholarship, Teaching, and Community Outreach Through Digitial Media by Patrick Cuba

Patrick Cuba — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 23:09:04 +0000

I would be interested in knowing what sort of incentives can be offered for this type of interaction and collaboration? For those who must collaborate, there is survival, but for the rest of academia it rarely is credited as more than a hobby, which means it is only new minds still full of enthusiasm and the ornery tenured balancing the stray intellect on a quest to put cat videos on every webpage.

I see this arising in any conversation about online courses, crowdsourced research, blogging, and other areas. You’ve got my interest.

Comment on STL LAMs by Rena Schergen

Rena Schergen — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 17:25:56 +0000

I’d be very interested in discussing this. Missouri’s institutions must have rich resources that we can tap into and collaborate to create a digital portal. Think Digital Library of California, CARLI (Illinois), UAA Consortium (Alaska), Chicago Collections Consortium, etc.

Comment on Build a Semi-Automated Geocoding Program for Text Documents by Andrew Hurley

Andrew Hurley — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 00:04:10 +0000

Thanks. The Clavin software looks promising, based on the demo. It also looks like it takes more computer knowledge than I have to actually get it running.

Comment on Build a Semi-Automated Geocoding Program for Text Documents by Aaron Addison

Aaron Addison — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 22:56:26 +0000

One of the more successful efforts I have seen was presented at the FOSS4GNA conference this year. clavin.bericotechnologies.com/

CLAVIN is also an entity resolution engine, meaning that it can often discern which state you are talking about when it processes “Springfield”.

Comment on The Contribution of Spatial Humanities to Scholarship by Kristine Hildebrandt

Kristine Hildebrandt — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 22:20:29 +0000

In linguistics (particularly dialectology and typology) GIS visualizations are increasingly employed to study & map dialect differences (word choices, pronunciations) and differences regarding major typological parameters (e.g. word order, sound systems). I am interested in modifying and re-employing these algorithms in a micro-area of four languages that I am documenting in Nepal. I’d like to consider not just the typical language features (e.g. word choices & pronunciations), but also social variables like language attitudes, language practices, etc. My colleague Shunfu Hu (SIUE Geography) and I will be at THATCamp this weekend. We are running a 5-year project on this documentation.