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Three from GSLIS speak at DH2015

Stephen Downie
J. Stephen Downie, Professor, Executive Associate Dean, Associate Dean for Research, and Co-Director of the HathiTrust Research Center

Three members of the GSLIS community will participate in Digital Humanities 2015 (DH2015), the annual conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. The event will be held June 29 - July 3 at the University of Western Sydney.

Professor and Associate Dean for Research J. Stephen Downie will participate in a panel discussion titled, "Digital Dunhuang: Enhancing Virtual Explorations of the Real Dunhuang." Downie and GSLIS doctoral candidate Peter Organisciak will present the short paper, "Remembering Books: A Within-book Topic Mapping Technique.” Postdoctoral research associate Sayan Bhattacharyya will present with Downie the short paper, "Approaching Textuality with the Metaphor of the Digitized Workset.”

Organisciak also spoke at the joint conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities on June 1-3. He delivered a talk titled, “The HTRC Extracted Features Dataset,” which was coauthored with Downie and Bhattacharyya.

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