Resources for the Humanities: Brown Conference

Online Resources for the Humanities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives was a conference that was hotsted by Brown University and organized by Massimo Riva. It was one of the better small conferences I have been to in a long time (so there will be a series of blog entries on the ideas that circulated.) As Dr. Riva put it:

We are in a process of transcribing the humanities. This involves both representing the traditional evidence of the humanities in digital form and the developing new questions and techniques which we can ask of digital evidence.

One special feature of the conference was that it brought together a number of people in Italy doing Humanities Computing with people in North America. For me it was a chance to see a breadth of activities from Italy and to talk about humanities computing in Italian.

My talk argued for e-text projects to expose their texts to tools like TAPoRware. I showed TAPoRware and different ways TAPoR tools like TAPoRware can interact with open texts.
– Open texts like those in the Hyperliste project can be processed by TAPoRware, even if they have their own interface.
– Specialized interfaces can be created that call TAPoRware
– Text collections can load texts into tools like HyperPo (I showed an example from ARTFL)

Of interest may be the slides where I presented a view of how we encounter a text bearing questions. This model was designed to show where computer assisted text analysis can formalize the asking of questions.

Download file for a subset of the slides.

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