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A project of the

Seeing Data Differently

Shawn Day

17. 02. 2010 - University of Ulster, Magee Campus

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Agenda

• Opening Welcome and Introductions• Project Slam• Coffee• Digital Communications Clinic • Lunch• Hands-On with Text• Coffee • Hands-on with Data• Wrap-Up and Closing

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Welcome

• Who We are• What is the DHO?

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Digital Humanities Observatory• Part of Humanities Serving Irish Society (HSIS)• Identifying and promoting best practices for…

Digitisation Archiving Curation Discovery Presentation

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DHO Staff

• Susan Schreibman, Director• Don Gourley, IT Manager• Kevin Hawkins, Visiting Metadata Manager• K Faith Lawrence, DH Specialist• Shawn Day, DH Specialist• Emily Cullen, Programme Manager• Paolo Battino, Web Developer• Bruno Voisin, Programmer

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Domain expertise for partner projects and institutions via

Project consultations Educational activities

Workshops Symposia Schools

Outreach and Events

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Curriculum and Outreach Evolution

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Spring 2010 Events• 23 Feb 2010

DHO Seminar: Tools to Think With: Re-conceiving Humanities Research

• 31 March 2010DHO Workshop: e-Publishing for Post-Grads

• 7 – 8 April 2010Text Encoding Workshops

• 9 April 2010Using Digital Resources for Research and Teaching in Irish Studies

• 28 April 2010Symposium on TEI and Scholarly Publishing in conjunction with the TEI Council Meeting

• 27 June 2010 – 2 July 2010DHO Summer School 2010

• 14 Jan 2010Digital Project Clinic and Digital Project Management Workshop

• 15 Jan 2010Digital Humanities Symposium: Metadata, Markup and Digital Management

• 21 Jan 2010DHO Lecture: Supporting Digital Humanities Scholarship in Ireland

• 9 Feb 2010DHO Lecture - Discovering Open-Access Resources at the Library Association of Ireland

• 17 Feb 2010DHO Digital Humanities Workshop - Seeing Data Differently: Emerging Tools for Scholarly Analysis and Presentation

• 18 Feb 2010DHO Digital Humanities Workshop - A Date With Data: What is this Markup Stuff Anyway?

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DHO Summer School 2010

• Registration opens 10 February

• 60 Participants

• Sponsored Seats for HSIS Participants

• Partnering with NINES and EpiDoc

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DHO Summer School 2010

• 2 Lectures– Hugh Denard: Puppets, Players and

Painted Stages: Virtual Worlds, Ancient and Modern

– Ian Gregory: Censuses, literature and newspapers: Integrating sources and scholarship using GIS

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DHO Summer School 2010

• 4 Main Workshop Strands– A Practical Introduction to the Text

Encoding Initiative– Text Transformations with XSLT: Single

Source Publishing to Multiple Media– Data Visualisation for the Humanities– An Introduction to EpiDoc Markup and

Editing Tools

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DHO Summer School 2010

• 5 Single Day Workshops– Visualising Space, Time and Events: Using Virtual

Worlds  for Humanities Research– Finding the Concepts In the Chaos - Building

Relationships With Data Models– Using Digital Resources for Irish Research and

Teaching– Geospatial Methods for Humanities Research– Planning Digital Scholarly Resources: A Primer

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www.dho.ie/ss2010

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DRAPIer – Digital Resources and Projects in Ireland

• Register of digital humanities projects created by universities in Ireland

• Descriptive information about projects, teams, supporting institutions, etc.

• Projects tagged with methods, techniques, data formats, metadata formats, subject areas, geographic and temporal coverage, etc.

• Collaboration with arts-humanities.net

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A project of the

Project Slam

Shawn Day

17. 02. 2010 - University of Ulster, Magee Campus

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Objective

Present the most pertinent aspects of your digital project in the space of 5 minutes

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• We will stop you at 5 minutes• Be concise• Hit the key points

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• We will stop you at 5 minutes• Be concise• Hit the key points

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Let’s Try an Experiment

• Introducing NING www.ning.com• A useful tool and one we’ll use today• Join our network:

– http://differentdata.ning.com

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Seeing Data Differently

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Take a Few Minutes (20)• Join the network• Try watching the videos• Consider what they are about• Add a favourite of your own

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Activity• Comment on the videos• Introduce your project• Comment on another presentation• Share your best hint for better project

communication• Comment on your first impressions of this

tool