Blogs

I will be giving a brown back talk on visualization as a tool in the humanities tomorrow, September 5th at noon. All are invited!

Doctoral, masters, and undergraduate students are collaborating in the Visual Media Workshop, transcribing the ever-inconsistent Bertillon Cards as a key component of the Decomposing Bodies project.  We are utilizing the Agile Project Management model to coordinate our work on the project and track our progress through a "sprint," or a focused, highly-structured project period. Our team is utilizing Om

Are you a Facebook user? If so, visit the Facebook page for the Debating Visual Knowledge symposium. Expect updates!

...with cups. For the beginning of term.

Mark your calendars for the University of Pittsburgh's Debating Visual Knowledge Graduate Student Symposium on October 3-5. Please visit the constantly-evolving website at debatingvisualknowledge.com. 

The symposium is interdisciplinary, incorporating organizers, presenters, and participants from various departments including information science, art history, philosophy, theatre, communication, English, biology, and more...

I will be teaching a PhD seminar this fall in the digital humanities at the iSchool here at Pitt. The draft syllabus is done for those who might be interested in seeing what is going on...check out the PDF attached at the bottom of the post.

Cornell University Library has started a project. funded by the NEH, to investigate how best to preserve born-digital art objects. Their preliminary findings (survey-based) have just been published as "Interactive Digital Media Art Survey: Key Findings and Observations." The eventual goal is to publish generalizable best practices in this area.

For any of you interested in time-and-space-based visualizations of photography in America, Yale has put out their Photogrammar project for the whole run of WPA photos. As they themselves put it, "Photogrammar is a web-based platform for organizing, searching, and visualizing the 170,000 photographs from 1935 to 1945 created by the United State’s Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information (FSA-OWI)."

This summer has seen any number of "digital art history" institutes going on, from Middlebury to UCLA. Miriam Posner, from UCLA, has just posted a very nice summary of current tools that might be of interest to any or all of you http://www.humanities.ucla.edu/getty/index.php/resources/the-digital-art-historians-toolkit/!