The morning is devoted to brief (5 minutes) lightning round presentations followed by digital demonstrations highlighting the current projects of the participants.
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Bonnie Finn (College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University)
Musical Styles and Composers by Era
This project was taken from a class wiki assignment in a graduate class on Musical Styles and turned into a Scalar website with contributions from various students. The talk will discuss the project and demonstrate additional analysis made possible by the Scalar platform, such as Lenses and Visualizations.
Erin Ridnour (Iowa State University)
Computers Reading Cookbooks
Computers Reading Cookbooks is a collections-as-data project that examines community cookbooks using natural language processing tools to identify shared food traditions and culturally distinct recipes across Iowa communities.
Sam Gotch, Ava Shaker, Kaisheng Zhou, Mai Tran (Carleton College)
AI Approaches to Handwriting Transcription: What are they good for?
Recently, generative AI models, particularly Gemini 3.0, have shown impressive accuracy in transcribing images of handwritten text, including the ability to use historical context clues to arrive at more accurate results. We will report on findings from our study testing these AI approaches using datasets from Carleton professors, as well as their implications for using AI to transcribe handwritten documents.
Walter Greason (Macalester College), Hermann-Grima and Gallier Historic Houses (NOLA)
Shifting Landscapes: Slavery and the Built Environment
This 360 degree panoramic virtual tour of of Gallier House in New Orleans, LA will explore the idea of “shifting landscapes”: not only the ways in which the spaces meant different things to different people at different times.
Leah Duncan (Davidson College)
Building Digital Collections with CollectionBuilder (vs. Omeka)
This sessions demonstrates the affordances of CollectionBuilder as an open source framework for creating digital collection and exhibit websites powered by modern static web technology. as compared to the more widely used, database-driven platform Omeka.
Jenny McBurney, Kirsten Delegard, and Amelia Palacios (University of Minnesota)
Save Our Signs
Save Our Signs (http://saveoursigns.org/) is a crowdsourced project to collect photographs of National Park Service interpretive signs before they are censored by the federal government.
Shana Crosson (Mapping Together)
Why Would We Make a Map?
Why would we want to make a map of that? Turns out, making maps from primary sources opens the door to entirely new historical questions. Plot the data, layer in related sources, and suddenly you’re uncovering hidden patterns, challenging long-held assumptions, and seeing the past in ways a stack of documents never could.
Amelia Palacios, Kirsten Delegard, Rebecca Gillette, Penny Petersen (University of Minnesota – Twin Cities)
Mapping Prejudice: Process is the Product
The Mapping Prejudice team will explain how it brings the public into the creation of its maps, and why this is critical for digital humanities projects that aim to advance social justice.
Akua Agyeiwaa Denkyi-Manieson (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
Beyond Recovery: A Geospatial Mapping of Place Names in Gold Coast Novels
This project explores how tagging and mapping place names in early Gold Coast (now Ghana) novels opens up new ways of seeing the colonial and anti-colonial geographies.
Megan Vossler (Macalester College)
Figure Drawing for Every Body: An Inclusive and Accessible Open Educational Resource for Learning to Draw the People Around You
Figure Drawing for Every Body is a forthcoming OER for teaching and learning figure drawing, centering gender-expansive language, representation of a wide range of bodies, and accessibility features.
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