{"id":412,"date":"2015-05-12T12:46:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T00:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=412"},"modified":"2015-05-12T12:46:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T00:46:28","slug":"digital-humanities-use-of-cultural-data-theta2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/digital-humanities-use-of-cultural-data-theta2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital humanities&#8217; use of cultural data #theta2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How will digital humanities in the future use cultural data?<\/strong><br \/>\nIngrid Mason  @1n9r1d<\/p>\n<p>[Presentation basically takes the approach of giving an overview of digital humanities and cultural data by throwing lots of examples at us &#8211; fascinating but not conducive to notes.]<\/p>\n<p>Cultural data is generated through all research &#8211; seems to be more through humanities, but many others too.<br \/>\nRDS building national collection pulling together statistical adata, manuscripts, documents, artefacts, av recordings from an array of unconnected repositories.<\/p>\n<p>New challenge: people wanting access to collections in bulk, not just borrowing a couple of items. Need to look at developing a wholesale interface on top of our existing retail interface.<\/p>\n<p>Close reading vs distant reading. Computation + arrangement + distance. Researchers interested in immersion; in moving images (eg change over time); pattern analysis; opening up the archive (eg @TroveNewsBot). Text mining\/linguistic computing methods to look at World Trade Centre first-responder inteviews. Digital paleography &#8211; recognising writing of medieval scripts. <a href=\"https:\/\/linkedjazz.org\/\">Linked Jazz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A dream: when an undergrad would have loved to have been in the Matrix. Have a novel surrounding you and then turn it immediately into a concordance. <\/p>\n<p>Things digital humanities researchers need: Visualisation hours. Digitisation and OCR. Project managers. Multimedia from various institutions. High-performance computing experts.<\/p>\n<p>~&#8221;Undigitised data is like dark matter&#8221; (Maltby)<\/p>\n<p>What we can do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Talk to researchers about materials they need<\/li>\n<li>Learn about APIs<\/li>\n<li>Provide training<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Q: Indigenous cultural data<br \/>\nA: Some material is very sensitive and challenges to get it to appropriate researchers\/communities so could be opportunities to work together.<\/p>\n<p>Q: Any work on standardisation of cultural data?<br \/>\nA: At a high level (collection description) we can but between fields harder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How will digital humanities in the future use cultural data? Ingrid Mason @1n9r1d [Presentation basically takes the approach of giving an overview of digital humanities and cultural data by throwing lots of examples at us &#8211; fascinating but not conducive to notes.] Cultural data is generated through all research &#8211; seems to be more through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[255,254,234,12,246],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}