May 17th, 2010 § Bethany Nowviskie
[UPDATE: video for the "Frontiers" event is now available!]
We’re crowd-sourcing the keynote to the final round of the Scholars’ Lab/NEH 2009-2010 Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship. With all of these fantastic attendees on hand — not to mention the Institute faculty — how could we let the opportunity slip by?
Frontiers in Spatial Humanities:
Lightning Presentations
We are pleased to host 40 rapid-fire, 2-minute demos of boundary-pushing projects in spatial humanities. The scholars presenting their work come from 27 different institutions, and were competitively selected to attend this prestigious program, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Some of our Institute faculty will also offer brief glimpses of their work as part of a whirlwind tour of emerging work in humanities GIS.
While admission to the Institute itself is now closed, “Frontiers in Spatial Humanities” and the reception that follows are open to the public!
I’d like to thank the NEH for its generous funding of our training program, and the University of Virginia Library for supporting the Scholars’ Lab — as well as the “Frontiers” reception, to which you’re all invited!
Thursday, May 27th, 3:30-5:00pm
Harrison-Small Auditorium
For more information about the SLab and our NEH-funded Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, please visit:
http://lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/geospatial/
May 11th, 2010 § Wayne Graham
Stemming from a Twitter conversation last month, I thought it would be a good idea to describe — in more than the 140 character bursts that Twitter allows — why we at the Scholars’ Lab often promote Ruby, opposed to one of the other 4 or 5 languages we develop with. This isn’t an attempt to declare one language “the best,” but is meant to lay out some of the fundamental reasons why we use Ruby in the context of our digital humanities work and why we think it’s a nice language to suggest to folks just starting to program. » Read the rest of this entry «
May 7th, 2010 § Ronda Grizzle
Julie Meloni, Jerome McGann, and Bethany Nowviskie discuss ways of reconsidering the multivalent cultural record in a digital age
May 7th, 2010 § Jean Bauer
Jean Bauer, former Scholars’ Lab Graduate Fellow in Digital Humanities announces: “I have just released my first open source project. HUZZAH!”
DAVILA is a database schema visualization/annotation tool that creates “humanist readable” technical diagrams. It is written in Processing with the toxiclibs physics library and released under GPLv3. DAVILA takes in the database’s schema and a pipe separated customization file and uses them to produce an interactive, color-coded, annotated diagram similar in format to UML. There are many applications that will create technical diagrams based on database schema, but as a digital humanist I require more than they can provide. » Read the rest of this entry «
May 7th, 2010 § Dave Richardson
Have you ever wondered what would happen to your map of points if while converting your coordinates from latitude/longitude in degrees, minutes, seconds (DMS) to decimal degrees (DD) you messed up the math? Ever seen a weird tartan-like plaid pattern emerge on your map from points that were suppose to be uniformly spread out over the known extent? Or wonder why coordinates are much more commonly stored as decimal degrees by computer GIS applications instead of the degrees-minutes-seconds most of us learn growing up? If so, this blog entry from the Scholars’ Lab at the University of Virginia Library is for you! » Read the rest of this entry «
