From jeremy.mclaughlin at sjsu.edu Mon Jul 4 14:33:48 2016 From: jeremy.mclaughlin at sjsu.edu (Jeremy McLaughlin) Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2016 12:33:48 -0600 Subject: [Sigah-l] Save the Date: Free SIG AH Webinar (Sept 21) Message-ID: Technology and Publishing: The Work of Scholarship in the Age of its Digital Reproducibility. A SIG AH webinar featuring Dr. Martin Paul Eve, Open Library of Humanities and Birkbeck, University of London. September 21, 2016 at 11am-12:15pm EDT/8-9:15am Pacific. Chroniclers of the open-access movement such as Peter Suber have noted that the open, online dissemination of scholarly and research material is reliant upon digital reproduction. Indeed, prior to our present age, notes Suber, all forms of non-rivalrous objects, such as knowledge, were tied to rivalrous modes of communication, such as paper. Yet, is the digital age so different from the "Age of Mechanical Reproduction" noted by Walter Benjamin early in the twentieth century? Why should new technological mutations drive the ways in which humanities scholars disseminate their work? And is there a danger, we might ask, in letting technological fetishism act as determiners of humanities scholarship? In this talk, Professor Martin Paul Eve will address these matters, which are formative elements of the terrain on which scholarship in the twenty-first century will emerge. Access details will be available on the ASIST Webinars site: https://www.asist.org/events/webinars/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jeremy.mclaughlin at sjsu.edu Wed Jul 6 14:46:26 2016 From: jeremy.mclaughlin at sjsu.edu (Jeremy McLaughlin) Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 12:46:26 -0600 Subject: [Sigah-l] Fwd: SIG ED Webinar: Visualizing Cultural Data: Experimental Interfaces for Digitized Collections In-Reply-To: <9bab64f919bc0257b1dd71fb0026fc44@asis.org> References: <9bab64f919bc0257b1dd71fb0026fc44@asis.org> Message-ID: A reminder to register for tomorrow's free webinar from SIG ED: Visualizing Cultural Data: Experimental Interfaces for Digitized Collections https://www.asist.org/events/webinars/visualizing-cultural-data-experimental-interfaces-for-digitized-collections/ Thanks, Jeremy ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ASIS&T Webinar Date: Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 3:43 PM Subject: SIG ED Webinar: Visualizing Cultural Data: Experimental Interfaces for Digitized Collections To: jeremy.mclaughlin at sjsu.edu *Visualizing Cultural Data: Experimental Interfaces for Digitized Collections * Join us for a webinar on Jul 07, 2016 at 1:00 PM EDT. *FREE* for all registrants! *Register now! * Interactive visualization offers humanities and art scholars novel perspectives on our cultural heritage. In this webinar I will introduce a few basic concepts and prototypes, offering macro views on large inventories, exploratory navigation along connected artifacts, and dynamic filtering of visual collections. In recent years, numerous projects have been initiated and funded that seek to digitize cultural collections. Archives, museums, libraries and other collecting institutions are now facing the challenge to improve the accessibility of their digitized inventories while also providing new modes of engagement with the cultural artifacts. Digital representation is increasingly seen as a unique perspective on culture that implies a value of its own. While the digital is not set out to replace the physical, it is distinct and has its own advantages. As visualization technology is increasingly applied to cultural collections, we see a multitude of opportunities arise for the mediation of culture. As part of the VIKUS project an interdisciplinary team of cultural scholars, interface designers, and software engineers led by Prof. D?rk is investigating novel interfaces to cultural collections. The aim is to reveal the richness and complexity of such 'data' and do justice to their historical significance. This project approaches digital cultural heritage by combining technological possibilities with cultural considerations to develop visualizations and interfaces that open up interesting and useful perspectives on collections. Thereby, novel representation and interaction techniques are designed and evaluated for their suitability for different scenarios. We proceed on the comprehension that visualizations themselves are to be regarded as cultural artifacts that need to be interpreted, designed, and criticized. Webinar sponsored by SIG ED: https://www.asist.org/groups/education-for-information-science-ed/ After registering, you will receive a confirmation e-mail containing information about joining the webinar. View System Requirements If you do not wish to receive any further electronic marketing communications from ASIS&T you can opt-out completely, please note you will no longer receive Association updates or any conference information you may have subscribed to. To unsubscribe, please send an e-mail to webinars at asis.org. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: asist logo.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 4513 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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