DH @ Berkeley and the Digital Humanities Working Group are pleased to welcome Stuart Dunn (King's College London) for a discussion entitled: "Points, lines, cells, polygons: What does "data" mean to a humanist?" Monday, October 27th, 1:00 - 2:00 PM, D-Lab Convening Room (356 Barrows)
'Data' means something quite specific in computer science and social science, but for humanists it often means something much more complex. In archaeology for example, it corresponds relatively well to objects, finds, findspots, locations, grid maps etc; but to a literature scholar it might mean marked up text, concordances, and word counts. How do these different definitions of data inflect our workflows and our research? How might we respond to increasingly monolithic definitions of 'data'?
Stuart Dunn is a Lecturer in Digital Humanities at King's College London an visiting scholar at Stanford University's Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis. He is archaeologist with wide ranging interests in digital methods and spatial humanities. His current projects include spatial narrative theory, Cypriot cultural heritage and the archaeology of movement. Stuart gained a highly interdisciplinary PhD on Aegean Bronze Age chronology from the University of Durham in 2002, conducting fieldwork and research visits in Melos, Crete and Santorini. Having developed research interests in GIS, he subsequently became a Research Assistant on the AHRC’s ICT in Arts and Humanities Research Programme, and in 2006, moved to King's to become a Research Associate at the Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre, after which he became a Lecturer. Stuart leads numerous projects in the area of visualisation, GIS and digital humanities. You can find his blog at http://www.stuartdunn.wordpress.com.