Several members of the GSLIS community will participate in Digital Humanities 2014, and will present on topics related to research conducted at the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS) and HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC). The conference, held July 7-11 in Lausanne, Switzerland, is organized annually by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. The theme of the 2014 meeting is "Digital Cultural Empowerment." Presentations include:
Digital Humanities Data Curation Institutes: Challenges and Preliminary Findings. Presenters include CIRSS Senior Project Coordinator Megan Senseney (MS '08) and CIRSS affiliated researcher Trevor Muñoz (MS '11), director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) and assistant dean for digital humanities research at the University of Maryland Libraries.
Rethinking HathiTrust Metadata to Support Workset Creation for Scholarly Analysis. Presenters include GSLIS doctoral student and CIRSS research assistant Katrina Fenlon and GSLIS affiliated faculty member Timothy Cole, mathematics librarian and professor of library administration at the University of Illinois Mathematics Library.
Linked Open Data Technologies and Emblematica Online II. Presenters include GSLIS affiliated faculty member Timothy Cole.
Large-scale Text Analysis through the HathiTrust Research Center. Presenters include GSLIS doctoral student and CIRSS research assistant Peter Organisciak; GSLIS postdoctoral research associate Sayan Bhattacharyya; and Professor and Associate Dean for Research J. Stephen Downie, codirector of HTRC.
