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Small TEI Projects on a Large Scale: TAPAS

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Julia Flanders
Brown University Library
MITH Conference Room
Friday, September 21, 2012
3:30 pm
co-sponsored by the Department of English

The TEI Archiving, Publishing, and Access Service (TAPAS) is tackling one of the trickiest problems of scholarly text encoding. How can we provide robust, large-scale [...]

By |2016-07-13T10:26:04-04:00Sep 12, 2012|

Big Heritage, Big Quilts, and Big Canvases

Photo of Donald Brinkman
Donald Brinkman
Microsoft Research
MITH Conference Room
Monday, September 10, 2012
12:30 pm

Being able to visualize large collections of data is absolutely vital in the domain of cultural heritage—both for scholarly work and public consumption. Recent work [...]

By |2016-07-13T10:23:57-04:00Sep 5, 2012|

From Print to Digital: The Black Gotham Digital Archive

Black Gotham book cover
Carla L. Peterson
University of Maryland
Seth Denbo
University of Maryland
MITH Seminar Room
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
2:00 pm
co-sponsored by the Departments of African-American Studies, American Studies, and English

I’ve spent my MITH fellowship year working on “The Black Gotham Digital Archive.” My goal is to link an interactive web site, smart phones, and [...]

By |2017-02-06T10:56:48-05:00May 1, 2012|

Building the Digital Public Library of America

Jeffrey Schnapp
Jeffrey Schnapp
Harvard University
6137 McKeldin Library, Special Events Room
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
12:30 pm
co-sponsored by the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

I will be speaking about extraMUROS/Zeega, metaLAB’s effort to allow anyone to easily explore, visualize and curate collections from public APIs and then use this media [...]

By |2016-07-14T14:30:34-04:00Apr 17, 2012|

Making Topics More Human(e)

Jordan Boyd-Graber
Jordan Boyd-Graber
University of Maryland iSchool and University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
MITH Seminar Room
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
12:30 pm
co-sponsored by the Department of Computer Science

Imagine you need to get the gist of what’s going on in a large text dataset such as all tweets that mention Obama, all e-mails [...]

By |2016-07-14T14:28:53-04:00Apr 10, 2012|

Historical Interactive Visualization: Coaxing Data to Tell Stories

Bill Ferster
Bill Ferster
University of Virginia
2117 Hornbake, South Wing (HCIL)
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
12:30 pm
co-sponsored by the Human Computer Interaction Lab

This talk will take an informal look at interactive visualization projects done at the University of Virginia’sVirginia Center for Digital History (VCDH) and the Sciences, Arts, & [...]

By |2017-02-05T21:25:08-05:00Apr 3, 2012|

Read/i/n/g/ as a Publishing Practice

Craig Saper
Craig Saper
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
MITH Conference Room
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
12:30 pm

Digital Humanities research has found increased funding and job opportunities, and it has become a center piece of efforts to raise the rankings and profile of [...]

By |2017-02-05T21:25:09-05:00Mar 27, 2012|
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