[Sigah-l] Fwd: SIG ED Webinar: Visualizing Cultural Data: Experimental Interfaces for Digitized Collections

[Jeremy McLaughlin]

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

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From: ASIS&T Webinar <education at asis.org>
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




<https://www.asist.org/events/webinars/visualizing-cultural-data-experimental-interfaces-for-digitized-collections/>

*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!
<https://www.asist.org/events/webinars/visualizing-cultural-data-experimental-interfaces-for-digitized-collections/>*

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. Dörk 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.


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