STG Events
August 7, 2008 -- 7 new faculty grant projects accepted for 2008-2009:
For preliminary descriptions, see the projects page.
July 25, 2008 -- Job Opening at STG:
STG is looking for a person who with a background in the humanities and experience in using and applying technology to research in the humanities to fill a position as Research Programmer. A full description of the position can be found as job number B01052 at careers.brown.edu
July 25, 2008 -- STG presents two posters at DH2008, wins best poster award:
Two STG projects were presented at posters at this year's DH2008 conference in Oulu, Finland (June 24-29, 2008). "Fortune Hunting: Art, Archive, Appropriation" by Lisa Young, Elli Mylonas and James Stout ('09), described Lisa Young's art project that collects and manipulates fortune cookie texts. "A Bibliographic Utility for Digital Humanities Projects" by James Stout ('09), Elli Mylonas and Cliff Wulfman, describes a way to store bibliographic information so that it can efficiently be deployed in STG projects. Both posters were designed by Erik Resly ('08). The Biblio project won the best poster award for its content, design and on-site presentation.
May 20, 2008 -- CHUG talk: Bodard on Interoperability of Epigraphical Databases:
12:30, Thursday, May 22
169 Angell St., Main Conference Room
Crosswalking--the automated mapping of metadata from one schema to another--has emerged as a crucial tool in the digital landscape, and is particularly useful for integrating data from multiple sources or projects. This talk will focus on the use of crosswalks in epigraphical and papyrological research development. Within these domains, a number of corpora have been developed using different technologies and data structures, and driven by different user needs. There are collections that use the Epidoc XML schema, which is based on TEI, collections like the Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy that are served from SQL databases, and older projects which use specialized information structures. Dr. Gabriel Bodard will present some of the strategies that he and his colleagues, Tom Elliot and Hugh Cayless, have devised to perform such transforms. He will then describe in more detail the Integrating Digital Papyrology project, whose purpose is to dynamically transform and integrate the Duke Databank and Heidelberg Gesamtverzeichnis collections into a single EpiDoc collection, and some of the technical and theoretical lessons learned from this process.
Gabriel Bodard has been working in Digital Humanities for a number of years. His doctorate is in Classics, he was a research associate at the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae in California, and he is currently at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London, working most recently the Inscriptions of Aphrodisias ( http://insaph.kcl.ac.uk/ ). He is also founder and co-editor of the Digital Classicist, serves on the steering committee of the Epigraphy Society, is a technical observer on the Pleiades Project, and a co-organiser of the Open Source Critical Editions seminar. He is one of the architects of the EpiDoc Project (http://epidoc.sf.net/ ) and co-author of the EpiDoc Guidelines.
169 Angell St., Main Conference Room
Crosswalking--the automated mapping of metadata from one schema to another--has emerged as a crucial tool in the digital landscape, and is particularly useful for integrating data from multiple sources or projects. This talk will focus on the use of crosswalks in epigraphical and papyrological research development. Within these domains, a number of corpora have been developed using different technologies and data structures, and driven by different user needs. There are collections that use the Epidoc XML schema, which is based on TEI, collections like the Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy that are served from SQL databases, and older projects which use specialized information structures. Dr. Gabriel Bodard will present some of the strategies that he and his colleagues, Tom Elliot and Hugh Cayless, have devised to perform such transforms. He will then describe in more detail the Integrating Digital Papyrology project, whose purpose is to dynamically transform and integrate the Duke Databank and Heidelberg Gesamtverzeichnis collections into a single EpiDoc collection, and some of the technical and theoretical lessons learned from this process.
Gabriel Bodard has been working in Digital Humanities for a number of years. His doctorate is in Classics, he was a research associate at the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae in California, and he is currently at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London, working most recently the Inscriptions of Aphrodisias ( http://insaph.kcl.ac.uk/ ). He is also founder and co-editor of the Digital Classicist, serves on the steering committee of the Epigraphy Society, is a technical observer on the Pleiades Project, and a co-organiser of the Open Source Critical Editions seminar. He is one of the architects of the EpiDoc Project (http://epidoc.sf.net/ ) and co-author of the EpiDoc Guidelines.
May 20, 2008 -- Faculty Grants Information Session:
Drop in at STG to learn more about our Faculty Grants program, discuss your proposal, and get advice on how STG can help with your humanities research projects. The information session runs 1-4 pm at STG's offices, 169 Angell Street.
April 17, 2008 -- CHUG Talk: Johanna Drucker "Modelling Interpretation":
4pm, Conference Room 200-201, 169 Angell St.
Graphic conventions support interpretation in the finite real estate of page, book, and text space. Modelling a digital environment, with its theoretically (and virtually) infinite space offers a challenge to design. Is it possible to organize axes of inquiry, scrims, screens, and search mechanisms into graphical or visual conventions that will be legible in complex information spaces. What is the role of aesthetic and subjective knowledge in the structure and operation of interpretative activity and its presentation in a digital environment? This talk outlines some of the challenges for designing a complex information space that supports interpretation in a digital environment. The basic questions of how we model functionality as well as structures and forms, and how these suit our current sense of interpretation in the humanities, are at the core of this inquiry. This is a sketch of work in progress that builds on Temporal Modeling, Ivanhoe, and Subjective Meteorology as well as studies in the history of the book and information design.
Johanna Drucker is Robertson Professor of Media Studies and Professor in the Department of English at the University of Virginia and has published and lectured extensively on topics related to the history of typography, artists' books, and visual art. She has been a contributor to the Workshop of Applied Research in Patacriticism (http://www.patacriticism.org/), and a member of the Speculative Computing Laboratory, which was organized to promote experimental and exploratory research in Digital Humanities (http://www.speculativecomputing.org/). In addition to her scholarly work, Drucker is internationally known as a book artist and experimental, visual poet. For more information, see http://people.virginia.edu/~jrd8e.
Graphic conventions support interpretation in the finite real estate of page, book, and text space. Modelling a digital environment, with its theoretically (and virtually) infinite space offers a challenge to design. Is it possible to organize axes of inquiry, scrims, screens, and search mechanisms into graphical or visual conventions that will be legible in complex information spaces. What is the role of aesthetic and subjective knowledge in the structure and operation of interpretative activity and its presentation in a digital environment? This talk outlines some of the challenges for designing a complex information space that supports interpretation in a digital environment. The basic questions of how we model functionality as well as structures and forms, and how these suit our current sense of interpretation in the humanities, are at the core of this inquiry. This is a sketch of work in progress that builds on Temporal Modeling, Ivanhoe, and Subjective Meteorology as well as studies in the history of the book and information design.
Johanna Drucker is Robertson Professor of Media Studies and Professor in the Department of English at the University of Virginia and has published and lectured extensively on topics related to the history of typography, artists' books, and visual art. She has been a contributor to the Workshop of Applied Research in Patacriticism (http://www.patacriticism.org/), and a member of the Speculative Computing Laboratory, which was organized to promote experimental and exploratory research in Digital Humanities (http://www.speculativecomputing.org/). In addition to her scholarly work, Drucker is internationally known as a book artist and experimental, visual poet. For more information, see http://people.virginia.edu/~jrd8e.