Search Results

Libraries, Museums, and Digital Humanities
Video recording of a presentation session at the 2014 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, presenters discuss libraries, museums, and digital humanities.
New Frontiers in Digital Humanities and the Sciences
Video recording of a presentation session at the 2014 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, presenters discuss new frontiers in digital humanities and the sciences.
Perspectives on Work and Workflow in Digital Humanities
Video recording of a presentation session at the 2014 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, presenters discuss perspectives on work and workflow in digital humanities.
Beyond the Map: Visualizing the Nineteenth-Century American Children’s Book Trade Directory
Recording of a presentation session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, presenters discuss the mapping of bibliographic data, focusing on the American Antiquarian Society's records of the 19th century children's book trade.
Closing Keynote: “Dark Matter”
Recording of a presentation session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, the presenter discusses the role of unplanned, simple content that fills the web is a less "visible" way, and how the public finds meaning in content that large organizations may not traditionally conceptualize.
Creating The Living Wage Project: A Digital Archive
Recording of a presentation session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, presenters discuss the process of archiving a modern social movement by using real-time documentation, focusing on the American movement for a living wage.
Creative Commons and Digital Humanities
Recording of a presentation session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, the presenter discusses how digital humanities researchers can navigate copyright protection and creative commons licencing.
“Day at UNT” Program: Integrating Research Using Digital Primary Sources into K-12 Outreach
Recording of a presentation session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, the presenter discusses how the middle school participants in the Day At UNT program learn about the use of primary materials from the librarians in Special Collections.
Digital Visualization in Cultural Memory
Recording of a presentation session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, presenters discuss how the visualization of information affects cultural memory.
Documenting Cultural Memory in the Digital Age
Recording of a presentation session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, the presenter discusses the representation of Mexican migrant workers in documentary photography, and how common representations may foster anti-immigrant sentiments.
Documenting Cultural Memory in the Digital Age
Recording of a presentation session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, the presenter discusses her digital photo essay on devotion to Guadalupe in the southwestern United States and in Mexico.
Documenting Cultural Memory in the Digital Age
Recording of a presentation session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, the presenter discusses his project on the experience of black Creole Americans in Louisiana, with a focus on music and social welfare, photographer's privilege, along with image, sound, and memory.
Documenting Cultural Memory in the Digital Age Question and Answer Segment
Recording of a question and answer session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, presenters from the Documenting Cultural Memory in the Digital Age session answer questions from the audience.
eMOP’s Printers and Publishers: Toward Crafting an Early Modern Print Database
Recording of a presentation session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, the presenter discusses the eMOP project's efforts to improve optical character recognition for early modern documents.
Evaluating Peer Review Criteria: The Geo-Twist
Recording of a presentation session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, the presenter discusses the standards for and challenges of peer review in the digital humanities, particularly for geo-humanities.
GIS and Civic Imagination
Recording of a presentation session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, presenters discuss the creation of a geographic information system dedicated to the history of Houston, and how such a system can function as a way to make archival documents accessible.
HIPAA and Disability Histories
Recording of a presentation session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, the presenter discusses the challenges of performing research with digital medical archives, including obstacles created by HIPPA.
Improving Digital Access to Zines
Recording of a presentation session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, the presenter discusses the history role of zines and the benefits of making zine archives accessible to a wider audience.
#infertility: Representations of Assisted Reproduction Therapy on Twitter
Recording of a presentation session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, the presenter discusses the community of infertility bloggers on social media, assisted reproduction therapy, and how this community has manifested and developed.
Let’s Plays: Curating a New Type of Discourse for Digital Play Experiences
Recording of a presentation session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, the presenter discusses the potential of Let's Plays for academic critique and archival for video game studies.
Session 1: Mapping the Future of Digital Scholarship Question & Answer Segment
Recording of a question and answer session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, presenters from the Mapping the Future of Digital Scholarship session answer questions from the audience.
Session 2: Imagining Digital Communities Question and Answer Segment
Recording of a question and answer session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, presenters from the Imagining Digital Communities session answer questions from the audience.
Session 4: Access & Analysis Question and Answer Segment
Recording of a question and answer session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, presenters from the Imagining Digital Communities session answer questions from the audience.
Session 5: Curation & Collaboration Question and Answer Segment
Recording of a question and answer session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, presenters from the Curation & Collaboration session answer questions from the audience.
Session 6: Collaborative Encounters with Special Collections Question and Answer Segment
Recording of a question and answer session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, presenters from the Collaborative Encounters with Special Collections session answer questions from the audience.
Session 7: Memory and Forgetting on the Digital Frontier Question and Answer Segment
Recording of a question and answer session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, presenters from the Imagining Digital Communities session answer questions from the audience.
Silicon in August: In search of a usable past for alternative digital futures
Recording of a presentation session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, presenters discuss questions about how the history of the web has been shaped and what potential futures exist.
Textual Analysis of Three Orchestration Treatises
Recording of a presentation session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, the presenter discusses her project on the textual analysis of orchestration treatises.
Using Omeka as a Gateway to Digital Projects
Recording of a presentation session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, presenters discuss the implementation of Omeka in the UT Arlington libraries and how the library has used Omeka to reach out to the wider university community.
Whose Memory is it Anyway? An Exploration of Forgotten Voices in the Holocaust
Recording of a presentation session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, the presenter discusses their research into non-Jewish minority groups who were targeted during the Holocaust, cultural memory, and forgetting, and how these concepts manifest in digital preservation.
The Women of El Toro
Recording of a presentation session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, the presenter discusses her project about the history of female Marines and military wives in the El Toro base through an app featuring oral histories.
Binder's Collection of Music as Indicators of Local Activity, a Case Study
This poster provides a case study of how binder's collections reveal the musical, economic, and political culture of an area through a case study using a four-volume set from Florence G. Boyer Paulson, of Chicago, which contains music collected during the 1860s and 1870s.
Deans’ Welcome
Welcome address for the 2014 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference by the Dean of the University of Texas - Dallas School of Arts and Humanities Dennis M. Kratz, and introduced by the University of Texas - Dallas School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication Interim Dean, Todd Fechter.
Director’s Welcome
Welcome address for the 2014 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference by the Conference Director, Spencer Keralis, and the University of Texas - Dallas School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication Interim Dean, Todd Fechter.
Opening Keynote: Levelling Up: Cultural Memory, Gender, and the Future of Gaming
Recording of a keynote presentation session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, Carolyn Guertin discusses women in game development, #gamergate, and the effect of the "gamer" persona on the diversity of playstyles in the future of gaming.
Proceedings of Digital Frontiers 2015
Proceedings from the 2015 Digital Frontiers conference held at the University of Texas at Dallas in Richardson, Texas. It includes information about the conference organization and abstracts of the sessions held during the event..
Art + Recovery in the Digital Humanities
Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, xtine burrough and Sabrina Starnaman discuss their participatory installation, a creative recovery effort focusing on the 1861 short story Life in the Iron Mills.
Classified Information for All: Etree, The Internet, and the Folksonomies of Live Music Recordings
Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, Jeremy Berg discusses the classification of live music recordings, and positions it in the scope of digital humanities, explaining how it came to be and what the academy can learn from it.
Digital Inputs, Cultural Outputs: Collaborative, Online Tools for Education, Research and Publication in the History of Art and Cultural Heritage Preservation
Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, John North Hopkins presents the Collections Analysis Collaborative, an initiative of the Menil Collection and Rice University.
Digital Medical Humanities: An Applied Media Studies Community of Practice
Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, Kirsten Ostherr draws on examples from the Medical Media Arts Lab to show how digital medical humanities cultivates 21st century communication skills for future health professionals.
Gephi Visualization and Text-Mining with R in the Study of Chen Duxiu, a Chinese Political and Cultural Iconoclast
Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, Anne Chao uses network visualization software and text-mining to render a more comprehensive understanding of Chen Duxiu.
Grateful Data: Digital Humanities, Data Cleaning, and the Grateful Dead
Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, Scott Carlson discusses his efforts to teach data cleaning techniques using publicly available data related to the Grateful Dead, including data from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, the Internet Archive, and the Internet Movie Database.
imagineRio: A Diachronic Atlas of the Social and Architectural Evolution of Rio de Janeiro
Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, Farès el-Dahdah and Alida C. Metcalf discuss imagineRio, a searchable atlas platform that illustrates the social and urban evolution of Rio de Janeiro over the entire history of the city, as it existed and as it was often imagined.
Keynote Address: Burning Down the Tent: New Futures for Social Justice and Digital Humanities
Video recording of a keynote presentation at the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this keynote address, Roopika Risam uses digital initiatives at Salem State University as a case study to illustrate the key practices necessary for building digital humanities communities and institutional centers that place social justice at the core of their missions.
Of Institutions, Initiatives, and the Importance of Regional Academic Communities: Building NYCDH
Video recording of a presentation at the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, Kimon Keramidas and Alex Gil discuss how the New York City Digital Humanities group enables a wide variety of communities of practice, and the importance of regional communities in facilitating the growth of new academic fields, such as digital humanities.
Quantifying Artist Canvas with Digital Signal Processing Tools
Video recording of a presentation at the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, Don Johnson describes and illustrates signal processing techniques used in technical examinations for art authentication, and demonstrates how these results are used in technical art history.
(Re)conceptualizing Research with Native Peruvian Artists in the Age of Digital Humanities
Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, Amanda Alexander discusses an ongoing research project with a Native Peruvian artist who works to preserve and keep alive a traditional type of pottery called a huaco.
Recital Preservation: Before They Fade Away
Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, Dara Flinn discusses issues in planning and executing a preservation project with Fondren Library and the Shepherd School of Music for digitizing audio materials.
Welcome Address
Welcome address for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference by the Conference Director, Spencer Keralis, and Host Welcome Addresses from Rice University by Vice Provost Sara Lowman and the Humanities Research Center Director, Farès el-Dahdah.
Workshop: Digital Literacy in the College
Video recording of a workshop presentation at the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this workshop, Ron Thomas demonstrates an active-learning exercise wherein students create a presentation using an allusion-plus-image format in order to gloss allusions form the writer's text with images from the web.
Back to Top of Screen