In the last few years, Saint Louis University has generated some great tools and projects for research. At the least, I am willing to share T-PEN our tool for transcription of digital images and discuss/demo the Tradamus tool that is forthcoming (April 2014) that seeks to be a modular, but end-to-end solution for creating a …
Category Archive: Session Proposals
Nov 08
Attribution and Collaboration
I am pretty sure there are no technological hurdles left to crowdsourcing everything. As digital editions and big data projects begin to allow deeper access to their processes, citing the contributions made by those from whom you have lifted already assembled datasets or important cataloguing conventions becomes very difficult, but can be glossed over without …
Nov 08
Interface Design is a Waste of Time
When I first began work in Digital Humanities, I was too ignorant to anticipate how often I would be told this as a developer. So often, it turns out, that I’d like to start an argument. It seems that a digital humanist who is capable of programming prefers the command line, where she can break …
Nov 08
XML, OAC, RDF, JSON-LD and the king stood: the universe is metadata
The Open Annotation Collaboration published a data model in February that should be recognized as disruptive. JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data whose 1.0 specifications landed November 5th (Tuesday) is another in a cluster of W3C standards that show digital objects are beginning to exist as real things that try to completely represent tangible artifacts and …
Nov 07
Build a Semi-Automated Geocoding Program for Text Documents
It would be really cool to have a program that would semi-automate the process of geocoding textual data within a document in preparation for GIS analysis. Given the complexities of place names, such a program would require some user validation for each data item. As far as I know, there is no free software that …
Nov 07
Blurring the Boundaries Between Scholarship, Teaching, and Community Outreach Through Digitial Media
The concept of collaborative scholarship has generated tremendous excitement among digital humanists. Much of the discussion has been restricted to the transformative impact of social media on the process and output of academic research. This session will extend the dialogue by exploring possibilities for collaboration among academic scholars, students, and communities. What models exist for …
Nov 07
The Contribution of Spatial Humanities to Scholarship
The application of GIS mapping to humanities research has been recognized as a primary catalyst for what has been termed the “spatial turn” in humanities scholarship. Despite tremendous excitement about the power of visualization to expose heretofore hidden relationships and patterns, it remains unclear just what these methodological techniques have contributed in terms of either …
Nov 07
Introduction to QGIS
I would love a beginner’s introduction to using QGIS if anyone knows how to use it and wants to teach it. QGIS is a free Geographical Information System software.
