UX/DH Hosted by NYCDH Student Group, Pratt UX/IA, & Pratt ASIS&T SILS Pratt Institute Manhattan Campus Room 609 Saturday, April 12, 2014UX/DH The Pratt UX/DH event hosted by NYCDH Student Group, Pratt UX/IA and Pratt ASIS&T on Saturday April 12, 2014 covered a number of User Experience (UX) and Digital Humanities (DH) projects. Three separate projects were covered. Three members…
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“UX/DH” (Pratt, April 12, 2014)
Last weekend I had the good fortunate to attend a combined user experience and digital humanities conference at Pratt. It was short conference, with just three speaker portions: a couple of Pratt SILS students who are working on different aspects of UX at New York University, Pratt alumnus Sean Fitzell who presented on usability evaluation in digital humanities, and Will…
“HiPSTAS, What?: Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, and Visualizations with Sound” with Tanya Clement (CUNY Graduate Center, March 5, 2014)
High Performance Sound Technologies for Access and Scholarship, is a DH project headed by Prof. Tanya Clement. The projects is based out of the Univ. of Austin Texas’ School of Information and works with the Illinois Informatics Institute located at the University of Illinois, which focuses on the STEM related bioinformatic research. A simple reading of the project’s title, entails…
“Research without Borders: The Changing World of Scholarly Communication: Negotiating Constraints and Open Scholarship” (Columbia University, February 27, 2014)
The recent panel discussion “Research without Borders: Negotiating Constraints and Open Scholarship” is part of an ongoing series presented by the Scholarly Communication Program at Columbia University. Using examples from their own scholarly activities, the panelists introduced models for open scholarship that subvert traditional methods of knowledge production, valuation, and dissemination. Leith Mullings, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center…
“How Did They Make That? Reverse-Engineering Digital Projects” with Miriam Posner (CUNY Graduate Center, March 27, 2014)
Starting with an image of a decidedly non-digital monkey wrench, Miriam Posner recently gave the presentation, “How Did They Make That: Reverse-Engineering Digital Projects.” Her talk was part of a series sponsored by CUNY’s Digital Humanities Initiative and built upon her August 29, 2013 blog post, “How did they make that?” Posner introduced her CUNY presentation as a way to…
“HiPSTAS, What?: Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, and Visualizations with Sound” with Tanya Clement (CUNY Graduate Center, March 5, 2014)
There is a tendency when discussing, analyzing, and archiving audio recordings to consider their significance in terms of textual output and transcription availability. However, there is much non-text based information that can be collected from audio recordings that falls outside traditional research methodologies. Considering audio within the context of visualization and pattern recognition offers the potential for the discovery of…
“Research without Borders: Negotiating Contracts and Open Scholarship” (Columbia University, February 27, 2014)
The panel entitled “Research without Borders: Negotiating Contracts and Open Scholarship” took place on February 27th, 2014 that featured different panelists, ranging from professors to data scientists. Although Digital Humanities wasn’t the main topic of this event, despite having a Professor of the subject at the panel, but it none the less had incorporated this field into their own profession.…
Preservation, Distribution, Production in the Digital Humanities Age
What is the most effective way to preserve an object? The answer to this question will certainly vary, depending both on whom you ask and the object itself. Among other things, the answer will most likely take into account the historical context of the object, as well as the history—the life—of the respondent, and how that history informs their hopes…
“Postcard from the Volcano: The Research Library After Large-Scale Digitization” with Andrew Stauffer (CUNY Graduate Center, February 19, 2014)
In an age of mass digitization, the future of the print record may be at risk as digital copies become preferred to physical holdings in libraries. Andrew Stauffer, a professor in the English department at the University of Virginia and a member of the Executive Council of the Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship (NINES) project, visited the CUNY Digital…