Eric E. Monson is a Research Scientist at Duke University’s Visualization & Interactive Systems Group. Elizabeth Honig is an Associate Professor in UC Berkeley’s History of Art Department. Her project, janbrueghel.net, serves a test corpus for NSF-funded research in computer vision and machine learning.
The Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria constitutes the largest annual gathering of North American digital humanists. 21 members of the UC Berkeley community, including students, faculty, and staff, will be attending DHSI this year. They come from departments around campus, such as New Media, History, Spanish & Portuguese, Research IT, and the Library. Attendees will be participating in classes that range from methodology to critical engagements, including:
The Department of History of Art and Visual Resources Center is seeking a Digital Humanities Intern in 3D modeling for summer 2015 ($13.50- $20 per hour, depending on skills and experience). The Internship is open to current undergraduate or graduate students at UC Berkeley.
Last month over 7,000 geographers and geographically-minded scholars came to Chicago for the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG). Among the scores of panels, posters, and demonstrations of digital tools coming from companies like Google and ESRI were several sessions centered on the GeoHumanities. As an historian who is using geospatial techniques in a dissertation on US-Indian relations, I went to present ongoing work. I’m glad I did.
The New Deal, that constellation of economic stimulus policies and social programs enacted to lift Americans out of the Great Depression, was about more than building post offices and bringing electricity to rural folk. Asking for the participation of millions of Americans effected a conceptual shift in how the nation thought of itself. Indeed, the New Deal promoted a sense that our past, present, and future were best understood by drawing together multiple voices and experiences.
Last week, we discussed project sustainability through the lens of who builds DH projects and who maintains them. Project sustainability can also be viewed as the way a project connects to adjacent tools and communities, both actively and passively. Who uses your project and how easy it is for someone to create a derivative use? How interoperable is your project —how easy it is for your project to connect to other tools and data sources?