{"id":8000,"date":"2015-11-11T10:50:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T15:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=8000"},"modified":"2015-11-11T10:50:25","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T15:50:25","slug":"amanda-visconti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/amanda-visconti\/","title":{"rendered":"Event | &#8220;What If We Design a Digital Edition and Invite Everyone?: Infinite Ulysses, Participatory Literature, and the Public Digital Humanities&#8221; with Amanda Visconti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/files\/2015\/10\/AmandaV.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8001\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/files\/2015\/10\/AmandaV.jpg\" alt=\"AmandaV\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/10\/AmandaV.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/10\/AmandaV-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/10\/AmandaV-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/10\/AmandaV-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Library and the Cogut Center for the Humanities are pleased to welcome <b>Amanda Visconti<\/b>, Digital Humanities Specialist and Assistant Professor in the Libraries at Purdue University, who will present a talk entitled, \u201cWhat If We Design a Digital Edition and Invite Everyone?: Infinite <em>Ulysses<\/em>, Participatory Literature, and the Public Digital Humanities,\u201d at\u00a0<strong>10\u00a0a.m.\u00a0on Thursday, November 12, 2015 in the Digital Scholarship Lab<\/strong> on the first floor of the Rockefeller Library. The talk will be followed by a question and answer period along with a reception\u00a0in the DSL.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What If We Design a Digital Edition and Invite Everyone?\" width=\"1778\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kui9TiCslSk?list=PL2PwShbFBf4Bk6AaDM2mGixpS_7TYasyT\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>An early promise of digital humanities\u2014radically increased public access to human culture past and present\u2014has largely been kept, but making projects publicly accessible doesn&#8217;t in itself realize a public <em>humanities.<\/em> DH projects increasingly push beyond public access, designing for public participation by prioritizing inclusion, recognition of participants, and intuitive interface use. This talk will use the design and usertesting of the <i>Infinite Ulysses<\/i> participatory digital edition (<a href=\"http:\/\/infiniteulysses.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">InfiniteUlysses.com<\/a>) to explore what designing for participation can mean for a digital humanities project.<\/p>\n<p><i>Infinite Ulysses <\/i>is a digital edition inviting participatory social annotation of Joyce&#8217;s challenging but rewarding novel <i>Ulysses<\/i>. Drawing on mechanics tested and refined by non-academic online communities like Reddit and StackExchange, the interface experimented with social curation and moderation, attempting to personalize which annotations a given reader sees to their background and interests. From early use data for this proof of concept, we&#8217;ll think about ways to increase meaningful public participation in the digital humanities through participatory design, usertesting, and diverse research applications for social annotation data.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Amanda Visconti designs, codes, and analyzes user and site data toward helping the humanities grow more open: not just publicly accessible, but inviting and supporting public participation. She is the Digital Humanities Specialist and an assistant professor in the Libraries at Purdue University. An active maker and member of the digital humanities community, Visconti&#8217;s recently completed University of Maryland Literature Ph.D. consisted of the design, code, and user-testing of an experimental social reading interface (<a href=\"http:\/\/infiniteulysses.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">InfiniteUlysses.com<\/a>) instead of a proto-monograph. Visconti holds an Information M.S. with a specialization in digital humanities HCI from the University of Michigan, where she worked with public humanities enthusiasts to identify small design changes that could open scholarly websites to public use.<\/p>\n<p>A professional scholarly web developer for over eight years, Visconti has worked since 2009 in various roles at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH, <a href=\"http:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mith.umd.edu<\/a>), one of the world&#8217;s top digital humanities R&amp;D centers. She tweets <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/literature_geek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Literature_Geek<\/a>, blogs her design research at <a href=\"http:\/\/literaturegeek.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LiteratureGeek.com<\/a>, runs the Digital Humanities Slack team (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1jI8VUx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1jI8VUx<\/a>), and maintains a project portfolio at <a href=\"http:\/\/amandavisconti.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AmandaVisconti.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Visconti&#8217;s\u00a0talk is co-sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brown.edu\/academics\/humanities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cogut Center for the Humanities<\/a> and the Brown University Library\u2019s lecture series, <em>New Directions in Scholarly Publishing and the Challenges of Evaluation<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: Thursday, November 12, 2015<br \/>\n<strong>Time<\/strong>: 10 a.m.<br \/>\n<strong>Location<\/strong>: Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab, Rockefeller Library, 10 Prospect Street, Providence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Library and the Cogut Center for the Humanities are pleased to welcome Amanda Visconti, Digital Humanities Specialist and Assistant Professor in the Libraries at Purdue University, who will present a talk entitled, \u201cWhat If We Design a Digital Edition and Invite Everyone?: Infinite Ulysses, Participatory Literature, and the Public Digital Humanities,\u201d at\u00a010\u00a0a.m.\u00a0on Thursday, November <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/amanda-visconti\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Event | &#8220;What If We Design a Digital Edition and Invite Everyone?: Infinite Ulysses, Participatory Literature, and the Public Digital Humanities&#8221; with Amanda Visconti<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}