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Editors’ Choice: Round-up of AHA and MLA conferences
Editors’ Note: The following talks, panel websites, blog posts, and public documents all came from the 2012 meetings of the Modern Language Association and American Historical Association and associated THATCamp the past weekend. *updated 1/26/12*
Report: Workshop on Tools for Digital Scholarly Editions
Institute fuer Dokumentologie and Editorik (I-D-E) workshop for Tools for Digital Scholarly Editions was held at the University of Cologne, Germany.
CFP: SEM/AMS/SMT Call for Abstract: Digital (Ethno)Musicology
I plan to form a panel on the theme of digital/computational explorations within and around the disciplines of ethnomusicology. The panel would be titled “Digital (Ethno)Musicology.” In this session, the panelists would address the ways in which they have transformed and challenged the conventional modes of field work and ethnographic representation via an engagement with digital media and technology. Since this is a combined meeting with AMS and SMT, I welcome panelists with predominantly musicological inquiries as well.
Report: New Output
An updated the sample output from Collatex shows output from user-specified witnesses in the form of (1) an alignment table based on user-specified order, (2) an extracted text of a base text (taking the first specified witness is the base text), (3) generating an apparatus.
CFParticipation: Critical Code Studies Working Group 2012
This three-week working group aims to develop readings and methodologies of Critical Code Studies, which examines the extra-functional significance of computer source code.
Resource: Zone 1: First stage preservation storage for digital content (YouTube)
Zone 1 provides an easy-to-use first line of preservation service for use by anyone at Harvard for any digital content.
Editors’ Choice: Practices, the Periphery, and Pittsburg(h)
Show how text mining can contribute to historical questions and what sort of issues we can answer, now, using simple tools and big data, this might be the story I’d start with to show how much data we have, and how little things can have different meanings at big scales…
Spelling variations are not a bread-and-butter historical question, and with good reason. There is nothing at stake in whether someone writes “Pittsburgh” or “Pittsburg.” But precisely because spelling is so arbitrary, we only change it for good reason. And so it can give insights into power, center and periphery, and transmission. One of the insights of cultural history is that the history of practices, however mundane, can be deeply rooted in the history of power and its use.
Report: Representing the Digital Repository
There were many insights to be had at HASTAC 2011, but I most enjoyed participating in a panel of lightning talks that all explored issues involved in the creation of a digital repository. At Session D3, the presentations raised many promising possibilities and challenging questions about the nature of the digital archive.