Post on 12-Jul-2015
Research Commons: as “Macroscope” in the LibraryZoe Borovsky, Ph.D.
Librarian for Digital Research and ScholarshipUCLAzoe@library.ucla.edu@zoepster
DR 284, Hunnestad Monument Ystad, SwedenCirca 1000Photo by Hedning (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0or GFDL ], via Wikimedia Commons
Humanities Computing, Digital Humanities
What is Digital Humanities?Subjecting computing
technologies to interpretation and
critique by humanistic methods and strategies of questioning
Asking traditional and sometimes new
humanistic questions using digital
resources and methods
Kathleen Fitzpatrick, “Reporting from the Digital Humanities 2010 Conference,” RESEARCH LIBRARY ISSUES: A REPORT FROM ARL, CNI, AND SPARC 2013
“Macroscope”
Macroscopes provide a "vision of the whole," helping us "synthesize" the related elements and detect patterns, trends, and outliers while granting access to myriad details. Rather than make things larger or smaller, macroscopes let us observe what is at once too great, slow, or complex for the human eye and mind to notice and comprehend.
(Börner 2011)
What is Digital Humanities?Subjecting computing
technologies to interpretation and
critique by humanistic methods and strategies of questioning
Asking traditional and sometimes new
humanistic questions using digital
resources and methods
Kathleen Fitzpatrick, “Reporting from the Digital Humanities 2010 Conference,” RESEARCH LIBRARY ISSUES: A REPORT FROM ARL, CNI, AND SPARC 2013
Bibliography
http://bit.ly/KnowZoe
1997UCLA
Digital Roman Forum
2000
Hypermedia Berlin
Spatial
Temporal
Encyclopedia of Egyptology
2010
Visualizing Statues
Broadcast NewsScape
Montage of snapshots of the entire program
Clip about “Macarthur Park”
2011DH Program
Research Library Renovation
Research Library Renovation
Close reading
Distant viewing
Research Library Renovation
DR 284, Hunnestad Monument Ystad, SwedenCirca 1000Photo by Hedning (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0or GFDL ], via Wikimedia Commons
Just as our communities of practice, interfaces and
applications were evolving to embrace close and distant
reading practices, so too our physical spaces.
But why the library?
Library has traditionally functioned as a “macroscope” for humanities researchers
Libraries• Physical space has been
devoted to close reading communities
• Digital projects produce and maintain surrogates
Palimpsest
Re-imagining the Research Commons
nexus: interplay of close and distant practices
showcasing the process
Using the Research Commons as a classroom/laboratory
Encyclopedia of Egyptology
Encyclopedia of Egyptology
Summer Institutes
Photos by Peter Leonard
East Asian Macroscope
Quan Tang shi (collected court poems of the Tang Dynasty
Developed by Peter Broadwell UCLA Library
Reading against/across the synthetic view(s)
Spatial analysisNetwork analysis
Imagery: US Department of State Geographer, Copyright 2012 Google, Image Copyright 2012 TerrraMetrics, Data SIO, NOAA, U.S. Navy, NGA, GEBCO
Uncovering Antebellum Reprinting Networks
ExporttoEarth (Gephi plugin) by David Shepard, UCLA
Ryan Cordell
What’s next?