Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 36, No. 465.
Department of Digital Humanities, University of Cologne
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Date: 2023-03-21 07:09:09+00:00
From: James A Hodges <james.hodges@rutgers.edu>
Subject: EVENT: Preserving and Analyzing Digital Texts [Online]
Greetings all, and please excuse the cross-promotion:
I'm running a free online event April 21, sponsored by Andrew W. Mellon
Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School
Preserving and Analyzing Digital Texts
Date: 21 April 2023
Time: 3:00-4:30 p.m. ET
Location: Zoom
Join us for a virtual symposium exploring the materiality and historical
value of digital texts, with special attention paid to methods for
preservation and analysis.
Everyone is welcome to attend this free event. Advance registration is
required: https://bit.ly/digitaltextsSJSU <https://bit.ly/digitaltextsSJSU>
Emily Maemura is Assistant Professor in the School of Information
Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research
focuses on data practices and the activities of curation, description,
characterization, and re-use of archived web data. She is interested in
approaches and methods for working with archived web data in the form of
large-scale research collections, considering diverse perspectives of
the internet as an object and site of study. She previously worked as an
academic librarian at Ryerson University in Toronto. Her work has been
published in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and
Technology and the International Journal of Digital Humanities. She
completed her Ph.D. at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of
Information, with a dissertation exploring the practices of collecting
and curating web pages and websites for future use by researchers in the
social sciences and humanities.
Ryan Cordell’s scholarship seeks to illuminate how technologies of
production, reception, circulation, and remediation shape the meanings
of texts within historical communities, as well as how the complexities
of historical texts pressure modern scholarly infrastructure. He is
currently Associate Professor in the School of Information Sciences at
the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Before joining the UIUC
iSchool, Ryan Cordell was Associate Professor of English at Northeastern
University and a core founding faculty member in the NULab for Texts,
Maps, and Networks. Cordell primarily studies circulation and reprinting
in nineteenth-century American newspapers, but his interests extend to
the influence of digitization and computation on contemporary reading,
writing, and research. He collaborates with colleagues in English,
History, and Computer Science on the Viral Texts project, which uses
robust data mining tools to discover borrowed texts across large-scale
archives of nineteenth-century periodicals. He is also a practicing
letterpress printer who explores intersections between historical and
contemporary information technologies through the lens of maker culture.
Cordell is a Senior Fellow in the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in
Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School and serves as the Delegate
Assembly Representative for the MLA’s Forum on Digital Humanities.
Benjamin Charles Germain Lee is a Ph.D. candidate in the Paul G. Allen
School for Computer Science & Engineering at the University of
Washington, where he works with Professor Daniel Weld and is a member of
the Lab for Human-AI Interaction. Previously, he was a 2020 Innovator in
Residence at the Library of Congress. He is currently pursuing research
toward a dissertation at the intersection of machine learning and
human-computer interaction, with application to cultural heritage and
the digital humanities. His Ph.D. research is supported by an NSF
Graduate Research Fellowship in machine learning. Before beginning his
Ph.D., he was the inaugural Digital Humanities Associate Fellow at the
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, as well as a Visiting Fellow in
Harvard’s History Department. Benjamin also writes essays, which have
appeared in Current Affairs, Gawker, Real Life, and GoldFlakePaint.
James A. Hodges is Assistant Professor in the San José State University
School of Information, where he studies digital archives and
preservation with a particular focus on the history of computing. His
current book project uses digital forensics to uncover the technical
legacy of 1960s counterculture in early multimedia software. Prior to
joining SJSU, James was Bullard Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the
University of Texas at Austin School of Information. He is also a Junior
Fellow in the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical
Bibliography at Rare Book School as well as Senior Book Reviews Editor
for Information & Culture. He earned his Ph.D. from Rutgers University
in 2020, and his work has appeared in journals such as Journal of
Documentation, Journal of the Association for Information Science and
Technology (JASIST), Internet Histories, New Media & Society, and
Information Research.
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JAMES A. HODGES, PH.D. (he/him/his)
Assistant Professor
San José State University
School of Information
http://www.jameshodges.net <http://www.jameshodges.net/>
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