Greetings, Scholars’ Lab fans. We have three new podcasts to share since we last updated. Please enjoy! Introducing our 2010/2011 Scholars’ Lab Fellows – Tom Finger, Jared Benton, Chris Clapp, and Alex Gil. Ray Siemens (University of Victoria) and Julie Meloni (INKE Fellow at the University of Victoria) discuss opportunities and approaches for training humanities…. More.
Frontiers in Spatial Humanities (video)
A video stream of the final event of our NEH-funded Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship (or #geoinst as it’s known on Twitter) is now available! Thanks to all our wonderful participants for making these lightning talks, collectively entitled “Frontiers in Spatial Humanities,” so thought-provoking. The Scholars’ Lab/NEH Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship was held at…. More.
Julie Meloni: N-dimensional Archives
Julie Meloni, Jerome McGann, and Bethany Nowviskie discuss ways of reconsidering the multivalent cultural record in a digital age
Digital Therapy: Cesaire and Hawthorne
Graduate students Alex Gil and Ryan Cordell present their recent work on digital editions of works by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Aimé Césaire.
Lisa Rosner: the Anatomy Murders
Up the close And down the stair Visualizing the worlds Of Burke and Hare
Neogeography: from Tower to Town Hall
Andew Turner joined us in the SLab to discuss the neogeography movement, which has emerged from the rise of easy-to-use web-based maps and emphasizes community-led and colloquial uses of geospatial tools and techniques such as online maps, GPS, and location-aware phones, and its potential applicability to higher education.
Creation of Game Worlds
Shane Liesegang talks about the “Disruptive Construction of Game Worlds”
Olmsted: Editing to Mapping
Ethan Carr and Mandy Gagel of the Frederick Law Olmsted Papers discuss “The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted: From Editing to Mapping?”
Digital Therapy Luncheon September 2009
Introducing our 2009/10 Digital Humanities Fellows and Scholarship Award Winners
Toward the Historical Data Forge: What Happens After the Data-Mining?
Bruce Robertson of the Mount Allison University Department of Classics and the Historical Event Markup and Linking Project talks about HEML: Historical Event Markup Language