Topics of interest

[livlab]

Add specific things that we might want to explore.

[r4isstatic]

• Cliometrics (i.e. big data for historians)
• Narratives and interpretations in historical practice
• Tim Sherratt & Linked Data digital history
• Open Notebook History http://wcm1.web.rice.edu/open-notebook-history.html

[livlab]

quantitative approaches to anthro/archeo are neat
from Ted https://twitter.com/knowtheory/status/615889197631586305

[livlab]

getting structured news data w/o introducing a lot of work.
from Jacqui https://twitter.com/jacqui/status/615889163607502849

[knowtheory]

So the interesting thing to me about digital humanities is often the existence of, or creation of corpora from which insight can be extracted.

[livlab]

what we call the people doing this kind of work
from https://twitter.com/jacqui/status/615887989797990400

[livlab]

structured storylines for news
from Jacqui https://twitter.com/jacqui/status/615888775202373632

[daliawithnoh]

I have been mulling over some examples of data used for humanities research and would like to bring it here. I'm not sure how to connect it all. Following up on Paul's mention of data and historians, here are some work in this field which I know about
*1 Jana Diesner, http://context.lis.illinois.edu/
Network analysis to try to measure the impact of documentaries.
*2 Susie Pak wrote a business history book about the network created by JP Morgan http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674073036
I've heard Prof. Pak talk about the fact that networks exist in finance, especially hedge funds, but they are increasingly private and elitist.
*3 HistPhil http://histphil.org/ It's blog about the history of philanthropy but they often write for the Chronicle of Philanthropy. So that made me think about dedicated journalism for a specific audience and sector.
*4 I heard a presentation by Tanya Clement, from the University of Texas at Austin, where she described High Performance Sound Technologies for Access and Scholarship (http://blogs.ischool.utexas.edu/hipstas/), the software she developed for making sound collections searchable and accessible. She is also looking into Digital Humanities academic programs.

[snyi]

No discussion of digital humanities is complete without Franco Moretti: https://litlab.stanford.edu/

The thing that interests me about digital humanities vis-a-vis journalism: new and emerging ideas of "the public" (or publics, plural) and its relationship to media. I'm certain there's scholarship on this but I don't have it at hand

[acrymble]

I'd like to explore visualising whole archives. How can we visually explore an archive with 170km of shelving and find what we want? Keywords are so limiting

[daliawithnoh]

Adding American Archive of Public Broadcasting http://americanarchive.org/. New to me. I heard about it today from the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) newsletter. It's a collection of American public radio and TV content dating back to the 1950s. This is perfect example of Digital Humanities scholars wanting to research stuff like this. Now this site is making previously unprocessed (archive speak for unavailable and unsearchable) material available.