17 Dec
2007
17 Dec
'07
10:03 a.m.
Digital Humanities Talk Series, 2007-2008
The 5th and 6th speakers in the Digital Humanities talk series will
be presenting on Monday December 17th. Details are below and all are
welcome.
Speaker:
Bill Turkel; Assistant Professor of History, the University of
Western Ontario
When:
Monday, December 17, 2007; 4:00pm
Where:
Barker Center for the Humanities, Room 133
Talk Title:
Methodology for the Infinite Archive
Abstract:
Professor Turkel is interested in the ways that digitization and
digital information are changing historical practice by changing the
landscape of information and transaction costs that researchers
face. Because we now have networked access to a digital archive that
is growing exponentially, we are experiencing a shift from what Roy
Rosenzweig called a "culture of scarcity" to one of abundance.
Practically every search turns up more sources than we could read in
a lifetime. Search engines, which serve tens of millions of requests
a day, introduce a systematic and, as yet, mostly-overlooked bias
into the research process.
Computational techniques like spidering, data mining and statistical
natural language processing will have to be mastered by future
generations of historians. At the same time, pervasive connection to
the network and a spreading ethos of open source and open access
makes new kinds of collaboration among researchers possible.
---------------------
Speaker:
Shekhar Krishnan is an historian-anthropologist pursuing his
doctorate in the Program in Science Technology & Society (STS) at MIT
When:
Monday, December 17, 2007; 4:00pm
Where:
Barker Center for the Humanities, Room 133
Talk Title:
Zotero, online sharing, and research collaboration with open source
tools
Abstract:
In his talk, Shekhar Krishnan will introduce Zotero, which in its
first year of beta release is already in use by tens of thousands of
academics, journalists, independent researchers and librarians around
the world. He will demonstrate some possibilities for new forms of
online sharing and research collaboration using Zotero as your
research client with the MIT SIMILE open source publishing tools to
create historical timelines, geographical maps, and other ways of
visualizing your own research web.
_______________________________________________
iic-seminars mailing list
iic-seminars(a)calists.harvard.edu
http://calists.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iic-seminars