{"id":7446,"date":"2015-04-03T12:46:49","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T16:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=7446"},"modified":"2015-04-03T12:46:49","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T16:46:49","slug":"downie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/downie\/","title":{"rendered":"Event and Workshop | “The HathiTrust Research Center: Bringing you 4.7 billion pages of analytic opportunities!” with Steven Downie"},"content":{"rendered":"

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PLEASE NOTE:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stephen Downie’s keynote address has been RESCHEDULED for Friday, April 17 at 10 a.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Virtual Humanities Lab<\/strong> in the Department of Italian Studies<\/strong> at Brown University, in collaboration with the Center for Digital Scholarship<\/strong> in the Brown University Library, will host an international colloquium entitled, “Scholarly Networks and the Emerging Platforms for Humanities Research & Publication” in the Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab at the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library from Thursday, April 16 through Saturday, April 18, 2015.<\/p>\n

The three-day colloquium will explore the new types of scholarly output produced when scholars use digital methods to collaborate on, annotate, and visualize traditional materials.<\/p>\n

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Stephen Downie, Professor and Associate Dean for Research, Library, and Information Science at the University of Illinois and Co-Director of the HathiTrust Research Center, will deliver the opening keynote address. His talk, \u201cThe HathiTrust Research Center: Bringing you 4.7 billion pages of analytic opportunities!\u201d will take place on April 17\u00a0at 10 a.m.<\/strong>\u00a0and is open to the public.<\/p>\n

The colloquium proper is open to interested members of the public; please register by emailing italian_studies@brown.edu<\/a><\/strong>
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Program Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the age of data mining, distant reading<\/strong>, topic modeling<\/strong> and cultural analytics, scholars and researchers increasingly rely upon automated, algorithm-based procedures in order to parse their exponentially growing databases of digitized textual and visual resources. Yet, within this deeply networked and massively interactive environment, it is crucial to preserve the expert logic of primary and secondary sources, textual stability, citations, and other apparatus, which form the heritage and legacy of humanities scholarship. A pure conservation of the documents of the past in their integrity is not sufficient to preserve an active memory of our humanistic heritage. Digital humanists have to re-think the very notion of humanism from the point of view of the new technology and the questions we are facing in our time. This process must begin with the primary sources of the humanist tradition.<\/p>\n

Digital editions<\/strong>, for example, must now live in the networked environment built within digital library repositories: emerging curatorial and editorial practices<\/strong> and the semantic act of interpretation<\/strong> are increasingly embedded together into the primary sources and such practices are also the conduit for training the next generation of digital humanists. In short, scholarly collaboration<\/strong> must problematize methodology, tools and interpretation at the same time. Humanities researchers increasingly collaborate, in a laboratory mode, on shared platforms<\/strong> and in shared virtual environments, experimenting with open source tools often developed elsewhere, in the annotation<\/strong> and visualization<\/strong> of select corpora of primary sources. In the process, they produce new and yet unidentified <\/strong>typologies of scholarly objects<\/strong> (thoroughly embedded in library repositories) that incorporate curatorial and interpretive practices along with a new, and fully documented, technical instrumentation. This hybrid form of collaborative curation\/publication is at the foundation of humanities scholarship in the digital age.<\/p>\n

Scholars from the U.S., Mexico, the U.K., and Italy are invited to share their ideas, experience, and work-in-progress in an informal setting as we explore these interconnected themes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Presenters will include:<\/p>\n