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- Date:
- 2018-01-23
- Main contributors:
- Giroux, Stacey, Partlow, Mia
- Summary:
- There are many tools and platforms for creating data visualizations, but in order to ensure they communicate in an effective way, your visualizations must be grounded in the appropriate quantitative methods. In this workshop, we will present some problematic humanities datasets and case studies, and use them to walk through the structure and assumptions your data will need to meet in order to create effective data visualizations. Introductory quantitative methods and vocabularies will be presented.
- Date:
- 2024-04-05
- Main contributors:
- Justin Bailey
- Summary:
- As a Senior Faculty Fellow with IDAH, Prof. Justin Bailey of the Eskenazi School is continuing his investigation of materials, cutting, and assembly methods in producing hosohedra-based forms used to create functional design objects. Fundamental to Bailey’s study of form is the ability to digitally sculpt and manipulate forms to incorporate subtle shifts and irregularities, releasing the form of functional objects from rigid geometries often used. To accomplish this for ranges of series and small batch productions, Bailey employs drafting algorithms based on geometries used to create 3D form, flatten into 2d machinable linework, and build on connection methods explored for a range of materials. This particular series of iterations looks at integrations of perforation, transparency, and pliability in wood veneer, steel, and aluminum with PLA 3d printed fasteners.
- Date:
- 2024-04-05
- Main contributors:
- Dhakir Abdullah
- Summary:
- This project serves as a springboard effort in seeking to foreground, through a digital library, the history that chronicles Herman C. Hudson’s role as Vice Chancellor of Afro-American Affairs, specifically, from the years 1970-1975, where he helped to create a unique and academically sound Black Studies department through administrative savvy and institution building. In this way it moves in much the same direction as this author’s dissertation and seeks to build upon it; yet the two research undertakings dovetail in that where the dissertation tells the story through discursive means, the digital library hopes to come to fruition in the form of a visual representation of that same history. On this background, and at present, this project seeks to provide a visual narrative of the ways in which Hudson became the first Vice Chancellor for Afro-American Affairs in 1970 while simultaneously becoming the founding chair of the then Afro-American Studies department. It is the author’s hope to preserve this important history through the digital sphere as an open educational resource which will make this history more accessible to those within and beyond the university walls. In providing this visual journey, the author places primary sources from different repositories in conversation with each other. For example, materials utilized were discovered at the Indiana University Archives, the Lilly Library, the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center Archives and more in an effort to provide a more robust story of the aforestated happenings.
- Date:
- 2024-04-05
- Main contributors:
- Tatiana Saburova
- Summary:
- Working on this project I follow the expeditions to the Altai mountains, the Land of Seven Rivers (Zhetysu, Jeti-Suu), and the Central Tian-Shan which were led by Russian geographers, botanists, geologists, and glaciologists in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, shifting from a macro- to a micro-optic perspective, looking up at the towering snow-capped mountains and searching for tiny flowers in the steppe. This project reconstructs the landscape of the Russian empire’s borderlands and analyzes human-nature relations, conceptualizing them as ‘environmental subjectivity’, examining how mountains, rivers, lakes, glaciers, steppe, and forest were seen and understood, affecting colonization strategies and the future transformation of the region. It provides a complex interdisciplinary analysis of the expeditions’ findings and representations of Siberia and Central Asia in maps, photographs, herbariums, and travelogues. I deploy the tools of Digital Humanities, identifying subjects and objects of exploration, knowledge production and dissemination, ‘blank’ spaces, missing narratives, and the environmental transformation of the region in the process of Russian colonization. The project’s digital component includes a collection of ArcGIS StoryMaps with integrated web maps and data to visualize research and give readers an opportunity to travel virtually, following the steps of the Russian explorers.
- Date:
- 2024-04-05
- Main contributors:
- Claire Woodward
- Summary:
- My dissertation traces patterns of empathy in German storytelling from the last 200 hundred years. While doing close readings of dramas, novels, film, and museums, I also used textual analysis to examine different narratives across varying historical contexts. As part of my dissertation, I conducted a sentiment analysis of varying war and antiwar narratives including Bertha von Suttner’s Lay Down Your Arms (1889), Erich Maria Remarque’s All is Quiet on the Western Front (1928), and Wolfgang Borcher’s The Man Outside (1947). Although the pre-WWII narratives have greater overall negative sentiment, there is greater variation in a segmented sentiment analysis for Borchert’s text. Representing larger post-WWII patterns, The Man Outside directs our attention to those in pain and shows higher positive sentiment, which I interpret as higher degrees of compassion directed toward the traumatized war veteran protagonist. On a more general level, the higher frequency of positive sentiment in The Man Outside suggests victim-narratives might rely on more positive words to convey the need for help. Alternatively, such hero narratives as seen in Lay Down Your Arms (social activism against war) and even bleak antiwar narratives as in All is Quiet on the Western Front (realism of war during conflict) incorporate negative sentiment to highlight the horrors of war.
- Date:
- 2024-04-05
- Main contributors:
- Olivia Wikle
- Summary:
- Olivia Wikle will describe her work towards creating a more sustainable landscape for DH and digital collection projects, starting with her experience as a former HASTAC scholar and MLS student at Indiana University and encompassing her roles as a co-creator of the CollectionBuilder project and librarian at University of Idaho and Iowa State University. She'll touch on the ways in which the thoughtful creation of technological infrastructure can constitute a form of scholarship and foster community. Wikle is the Head of Digital Scholarship and Initiatives at Iowa State University, where she supports a team focused on digital collections, the institutional repository, and digital scholarship. She is a co-creator of the CollectionBuilder static web framework, and her research interests include sustainability in digital libraries and digital literacy instruction.
88. Archiving, Documenting, and Disseminating the History of the Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College (03:43)
- Date:
- 2024-04-05
- Main contributors:
- Willa Tavernier
- Summary:
- The Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College is a pivotal institution in the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis. It is the only indigenous tertiary level institution in the Federation and was a primary post-independence establishment intended to provide the manpower for the developing country (which is the smallest independent nation in the Western Hemisphere) for economic development. The Federation gained independence from Britain in 1983 and the College was established in 1988. Policy makers envisaged an institution that would provide training for middle managers, build human resource expertise in different sectors of the economy, and offer first year university courses in collaboration with the University of the West Indies. There is no systematic documentation of the history of the establishment or impact of the Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College, and the risk that this history could be lost is high, as the policymakers and others involved are of advanced age or deceased. Libraries are committed to preservation, including preservation of institutional knowledge and community histories, because we recognize the importance of these histories to communities and the cultural and scholarly record. Large institutions like Indiana University have the staff and resources for collecting, organizing, preserving and making accessible, records “documenting the institution’s origins and development and the activities and achievements of its officers, faculty, students, alumni and benefactors.” However, many smaller institutions do not have the resources to collect and preserve these histories for posterity. A collaborative research grant will facilitate a partnership between IU Bloomington Libraries and the Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College (the College or CFBC) in St. Kitts and Nevis to research, document and build a digital history of the College, and use this collaboration as a case study to propose a model for collaboration between institutions of different sizes and resource levels.
- Date:
- 2024-04-05
- Main contributors:
- Damien Thomas
- Summary:
- Stylometrics is a discipline that aims to mathematically determine the style of an author by examining the placement or co-occurrence of particular words and phrases in that author's body of written work. It is typically used to try to attribute authorship to an anonymous piece of text by matching the stylistic "fingerprint" of an author or set of authors to the stylistic fingerprint of that text. This project, however, examines known-author works to draw connections between two sets of volumes: the published works of Victorian author Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton, and the many books he received as gifts from his lifelong friend, celebrated author Algernon Charles Swinburne. One might expect that the volumes in the latter set would have some stylistic influence on the former, and the project ultimately finds a pair of volumes with significant stylistic overlap: Swinburne's Atalanta in Calydon, and Watts-Dunton's The Coming of Love, and Other Poems.
- Date:
- 2023-04-14
- Main contributors:
- Mallika Khanna
- Summary:
- In 2012, before beginning an overhaul of its public communications service that produced LinkNYC, the City of New York relied on 13 telecom companies to provide service to its network of public payphones. Built on the remains of Bell Telephone infrastructure, the telecoms were differentiated only by their branding. From 2000-2014, telecom companies in New York maintained a geographic monopoly, with specific areas of the city designated as certain corporate territories. Using an unique archived GIS dataset from 2012, this project examines how telecom companies approached New York City as a market space, defining the territories between each phones as the domain of a particular telecom company. Analyzing these market territories within the space of the city will show the ways that urban space is understood, segmented, and produced by assemblages of capital. Through multiple maps of New York City telecom territories, this project reveals the complex structure of public utilities that undergirds everyday objects like a payphone.