The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) will host its 2015 UnCamp March 30-31 at the University of Michigan. The HTRC UnCamp brings together digital humanities researchers and tool developers as well as librarians and graduate students. It is part hands-on coding and demonstration, part inspirational use-case study, part community building, part informational, all structured in the dynamic setting of an un-conference programming format. Also included are lightning talks, demonstrations of HTRC services and projects that incorporate them, as well as participant-driven breakout sessions where attendees will be able to steer conversations and address personal research questions.
This year’s keynote speakers are Professor Michelle Alexopoulos of the University of Toronto Department of Economics and Professor Erez Lieberman Aiden of the Department of Genetics at the Baylor College of Medicine. All talks and breakout sessions will be held at the University of Michigan’s Palmer Commons. Registration is open through March 16.
Codirected by GSLIS Professor and Associate Dean for Research J. Stephen Downie, the HTRC is a collaboration between the University of Illinois, Indiana University, and the University of Michigan-based HathiTrust Digital Library. Created to help meet the technical challenges of dealing with massive amounts of digital texts that Digital Library users face, HTRC enables computational access to the library for nonprofit and educational users, and explores opportunities for scholars to fully utilize Digital Library content through text mining and nonconsumptive research.