Walter J. Ong, S.J Center for Digital Humanities

09/05/2017

With thanks for the demonstrations and work done by Jeffrey Witt (Loyola University Maryland), Rafael Schwemmer (text & bytes), Régis Robineau (Biblissima), and Chip Goines (Harvard University), the Walter J. Ong, S.J. Center for Digital Humanities would like to announce an exciting new LDN Inbox.

In support of better discovery, an open feedback loop, and the constant enhancement of scholarly resources, the Rerum Inbox is committed to providing a free and public location for important announcements about scholarly resources. This offers a service to individuals and institutions without the financial or technical means to host their own inbox and creates a path for interaction with the vast holdings on the Internet that are otherwise inaccessible. By generating new inboxes dynamically, Rerum Inbox immediately and universally opens the resources used by the scholarly community to the contributions of the scholars it comprises.

LDN Inboxes are a developing W3C standard; this implementation includes further constraints designed to best serve the IIIF community. The Rerum Inbox is public right now with documentation. At the moment, there are less than 20 messages in the Inbox, so your resource isn't listed, but you can still check, if you like. If you publish resources and would like to include the Rerum Inbox as your "official" notification channel, add the service block with our blessing. If you are developing software and would like to interact with the Inbox, check the specs or see it in action in the Mirador LDN Plugin. You can get your own copy (Java/Firebase) on Github if you don't want to use ours. There you can also submit issues for suggestions, questions, or contributions!

Special thanks to Saint Louis University for supporting this project. We were able to get it turned around quickly because we did not apply for funding, believing it was an important enough advancement to release to the wild as soon as possible. Without this support, we could not host the endpoints or data with confidence and sustainability.

We hope to have some more instructional and marketing materials out over the next quarter to make it easier to incorporate an LDN inbox into your projects and repositories, but if you have any questions in the meantime, please ask.
https://centerfordigitalhumanities.github.io/inbox-docs/ #!/

ONG CDH

09/05/2017

With thanks for the demonstrations and work done by Jeffrey Witt (Loyola University Maryland), Rafael Schwemmer (text & bytes), Régis Robineau (Biblissima), and Chip Goines (Harvard University), the Walter J. Ong, S.J. Center for Digital Humanities would like to announce an exciting new LDN Inbox.

In support of better discovery, an open feedback loop, and the constant enhancement of scholarly resources, the Rerum Inbox is committed to providing a free and public location for important announcements about scholarly resources. This offers a service to individuals and institutions without the financial or technical means to host their own inbox and creates a path for interaction with the vast holdings on the Internet that are otherwise inaccessible. By generating new inboxes dynamically, Rerum Inbox immediately and universally opens the resources used by the scholarly community to the contributions of the scholars it comprises.

LDN Inboxes are a developing W3C standard; this implementation includes further constraints designed to best serve the IIIF community. The Rerum Inbox is public right now with documentation. At the moment, there are less than 20 messages in the Inbox, so your resource isn't listed, but you can still check, if you like. If you publish resources and would like to include the Rerum Inbox as your "official" notification channel, add the service block with our blessing. If you are developing software and would like to interact with the Inbox, check the specs or see it in action in the Mirador LDN Plugin. You can get your own copy (Java/Firebase) on Github if you don't want to use ours. There you can also submit issues for suggestions, questions, or contributions!

Special thanks to Saint Louis University for supporting this project. We were able to get it turned around quickly because we did not apply for funding, believing it was an important enough advancement to release to the wild as soon as possible. Without this support, we could not host the endpoints or data with confidence and sustainability.

We hope to have some more instructional and marketing materials out over the next quarter to make it easier to incorporate an LDN inbox into your projects and repositories, but if you have any questions in the meantime, please ask.

https://centerfordigitalhumanities.github.io/inbox-docs/ #!/

Ong CDH

03/29/2017

T-Pen Updating the transcription interface. Part 1.
The Center had the good fortune last year to work on an custom imbedded version of T-Pen for the New French Paleography website from Newberry Library. University of Toronto did a great job of building out the site while we turn the backend of T-Pen into web services to allow for more flexible versions of the front end transcription interface to accommodate Newberry’s needs and to better suit early modern French Paleography. This year we are able to bring those changes into T-Pen.org.

read more - http://slulink.slu.edu/dhblog/t-pen-updating-the-transcription-interface-part-1/

from Newberry Library. University of Toronto did a great job of building out the site while we turn the backend of T-Pen into web services to allow for more flexible versions of the front end transcription interface to accommodate Newberry’s needs and to better suit early modern French Paleography....

03/07/2017

The SLU text-mining group (Geoff Brewer, Lauren Kersey, Jonathan Sawday) are releasing a time period "quiz" as part of an ongoing experiment which is primarily devised to test the efficacy of a computer-based approach to the question of literary periodization. In order to pursue this question, we need to learn more about the categorization skills of human readers.

We should very much like you to participate in this experiment.

The study is based on responses to English texts and documents printed in the period 1473-1700 ("the early-modern period"). Even if you are not an "early-modernist," your participation will, we believe, produce valuable data for the project.

The link to the quiz is here:

https://slu.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_5nxXXQvKsXOjooJ

The quiz is being e-mailed to many other potential participants in the US and further afield. But, please feel free to copy this link to any other friend / colleague with whom you might be in touch and who you feel might be willing to participate. We are keen to gather as broad a sample of responses as possible.

In any published study / discussion of this experiment, no individual will be identified as a participant, nor will any individual "result" be released in a way that might identify a participant personally.

Below is the "small print" which we are obliged to send you as a potential participant since this is a study which involves "human subjects."

We very much hope that you will be able to help us. Please feel free to e-mail us ( [email protected] ) if you have any queries.

With best wishes,

The SLU Text Mining Group

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09/02/2016

Amber Hinsley, Ph.D. (Communication), Ness Sandoval, Ph.D. (Sociology), and Ricardo Wray, Ph.D. (Public Health) will discuss their findings from an interdisciplinary research project entitled "Twitter as a Crisis Communication Tool: Using Social Media for Building Community Resilience and Credibility in Ferguson."

"The research examines how local activists, journalists and government/law enforcement officials used Twitter in the months following Michael Brown's death in Ferguson. They identify different strategies used by each group as they sought to share information, establish credibility and help the community recover."

Mark your calendars for Friday, September 9, 2016 at 12:00 p.m. in Xavier Hall, room 332 to attend this presentation.

http://www.slu.edu/calendar/index.php?eID=670

09/02/2016

We are very excited to have Tom take up the Directorship of the Center. Lots and lots of work to do!!!! We are delighted at the level of the College of Arts and Sciences at Saint louis University is giving us moving forward, and Tom is the one to help us make the most of it.

Thomas Finan Named Director of Center for Digital Humanities

Finan received his Ph.D. in History from the Catholic University of America in 2001. Since 2008, Finan has been an invited delegate of the Chateau Gaillard International Castle Studies Conference. Finan attended the 2008 conference in Stirling, Scotland, the 2010 conference in Rindern, Germany, and the 2012 conference in Denmark. All presentations at the conferences are published in the conference proceedings.

Finan has published a dozen articles and published three book chapters. In addition, Finan has also received numerous honors and fellowships including being named a fellow from the Society of Antiquaries of London and was elected in 2012, a Post-Excavation Archaeological Research Grant (Co-PI) by the Kilteasheen Archaeological Project and Royal Irish Academy from 2009 to 2010, and was the President of the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies from 2005 to 2009.

Digital Humanities at Saint Louis University supports scholarship in the humanities through the use of computing tools that develop research and pedagogical projects for presentation in a
digital environment. By assisting with digital contribution, annotation, collaboration, and publication, Digital Humanities encourages the development of new scholarship, expands the parameters of new research, and extends the lifespan, influence, and audience of academic conversation.

05/17/2016

Thanks to TECHO-STL for a successful and inspiring GLAM Showcase. One thing is certain, IIIF has landed and taken root in the collections housed in and around St. Louis, MO, USA. We received an enthusiastic reception for the Rerum Consortium and are looking forward to organizing more formally over the summer.

The website at rerum.io[1] is gaining content and structure rapidly. Those interested in reviewing the presentation from the showcase can find it below[2]. If anyone would like more information on the Consortium or upcoming meetings, please watch the list at [email protected] or contact us directly at [email protected].

[1] http://rerum.io
[2] https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wlllZsRQ4tn97Wy0SmS6Wb79AlRop3yLlwcnsCtUyes/edit?usp=sharing

01/25/2016

The CDH has had the pleasure of working with University of Toronto's DH group on the Newberry French Renaissance Paleography Site.
Need to learn French Paleography but can't make one the Newberry's great summer courses? Try this - https://www.newberry.org/french-renaissance-paleography-site-transcends-limits-one-classroom-one-collection

The Newberry is pleased to announce the launch of French Renaissance Paleography, a website where scholars and students can practice transcribing a carefully curated selection of over 100 manuscripts dating from 1300 - 1700. Paleography, the study of handwriting, prompts scholarly investigations int…

11/11/2015

http://slulink.slu.edu/dhblog/t-pen-development-advance-post/

T-PEN Development Advance Post The Center for Digital Humanities is excited to announce the resumption of work of the T-PEN project (Transcription for Paleographical and Editorial Notation; t-pen.org). Since T-PEN launched in 2012 with generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the NE…

11/10/2015