The Futures Initiative at CUNY Graduate Center, HASTAC@CUNY, CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative, along with distance partners that included the PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge at Duke University, HASTAC Scholars, Hybrid Pedagogy, held a forum titled What Is a Dissertation? New Models, New Methods, New Media last Friday, October 10, 2014. The forum was held at CUNY Graduate Center and showcased…
“What is a Dissertation, New Models, New Methods, New Media.” (CUNY, October 10, 2014)
On Friday, October 10th I attended, “What is a Dissertation, New Models, New Methods, New Media.” This event was a panel discussion, which was part of a series of talks put forth by CUNY as part of their digital humanities initiative. The panel consisted of five PhD candidates, who were chosen to speak because of the brilliant and innovative ways…
“Book Traces Comes to Butler Stacks” with Prof. Andrew Stauffer (Butler Library, Columbia University, October 9, 2014)
Presented by Professor Andrew Stauffer of the University of Virginia English Department, Book Traces is ostensibly an ongoing “crowd-sourced web project aimed at identifying unique copies of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century books on library shelves.” (http://www.booktraces.org/about/) But identifying these books is really just the beginning of a multifaceted process that bears fruit in both pedagogy and digital scholarship, and has important…
Profs. Sula and Miller (’13) co-author article on citation studies in Literary & Linguistic Computing
Profs. Chris Alen Sula and Matt Miller (’13) published a new article in Literary & Linguistic Computing 29(3) on “Citations, Contexts, and Humanistic Discourse: Toward Automatic Extraction and Classification.” The abstract of the paper is below, and the paper is free to download through LCC for the next three months: http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/29/3/452. This paper examines prospects and limitations of citation studies…
“Urban Humanities: A Symposium on Research Development, Digital Archives, and Documentary Practices” (NYU, May 13, 2014)
The Humanities Initiative at NYU held the URBAN HUMANITIES: A Symposium on Research Development, Digital Archives, and Documentary Practices to promote awareness of existing initiatives in New York City, and to foster the development of new work in urban humanities. Two of the main questions addressed during this symposium were, “What new opportunities for multidisciplinary collaboration do digital tools afford…
Dutch Baroque Paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Quantitative Assessment of a Collection
This project functions as a visually based quantitative assessment of one of New York’s most venerated works of art: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection of Dutch Baroque paintings. The goal in generating these graphics is to visualize the metadata that surrounds these precious works in order to gain a more nuanced understanding of their collective history in the context…
DH Jobs Now: Analysis and Visualization of Jobs in 2013
Where are DH jobs located? What types of jobs are being posted? What types of skills are emphasized in these jobs and how do these skills vary according to position type? This visualization attempts to answer these questions by analyzing job postings from DigitalHumanitiesNow. View more at http://infogr.am/dh-jobs-now-83538?src=web.
Curating dh+lib
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) has shown an interest over the past several years in encouraging discussion and resource sharing in the field of digital humanities. dh+lib was inspired by this desire to create a community for people to discuss the present and future of digital humanities and libraries. dh+lib has a unique method of choosing which…
Hidden Worlds: Masking Gender in Science Fiction
This project conducted network analysis research on an online database of female-identified science fiction writers who wrote under pseudonyms, focusing particularly on those that used pseudonyms that were gender-neutral or masculine. Database includes authors, pseudonyms, biographical info, works, and visualizations of the editorial and publishing networks the authors were part of. All info was scraped from other websites and connected…
“UX/DH” (Pratt Institute, April 12, 2014)
On April 12, 2014, the New York City Digital Humanities Student Group, UX/IA Pratt, and ASIS&T @ Pratt hosted the UX/DH event at Pratt SILS, featuring presentations on current and possible intersections between user experience and digital humanities. The first panel, “User Experience at New York University Libraries,” featured three Pratt SILS UX Practicum students discussing their work at NYU…