Month: February 2024

  • ADHC Talks Podcast: A Conversation with Sarah Bryant & David Allen (2.4)

    ADHC Talks Podcast: A Conversation with Sarah Bryant & David Allen (2.4)

    Description

    In this episode, Sara Whitver talks to book artist Sarah Bryant and ecologist and biology professor David Allen about their collaborative work over the years. Specifically, we will talk about their latest project, Acts of Translation, a five part collaborative project coordinated and designed by Bryant that addresses the communication and conversion of information across disciplines. Sarah Bryant is an internationally recognized letterpress book artist whose creation process uses multiple modes of digital creation and documentation in order to produce her final analog piece of art, a letterpress printed book. David Allen is associate professor of biology at Middlebury College, where his research focuses on forest ecology. They have collaborated multiple times to produce data-driven art. 

    Season: 2

    Episode: 4

    Date: 12/01/2023

    Presenter: Sarah Bryant and David Allen

    Topic: Interdisciplinary Collaboration on Data-Driven Artist Books

    Tags: Letterpress Printing, Digital Documentary, Ecology, Interdisciplinary Collaboration

  • A Conversation with Rachel Stephens (2.3)

    A Conversation with Rachel Stephens (2.3)

    Description

    In this episode, Sara talks to Art Historian Rachel Stephens about a number of her Digital Humanities projects, and specifically about her most recent collaborative project, Joe Minter’s African Village.

    Season: 2

    Episode: 3

    Date: 11/03/2023

    Presenter: Rachel Stephens

    Topic: Documenting Living Artists

    Tags: Documentary Research, GIS, Mapping, Southern American Art, Virtual Reality

  • A Conversation with Rebecca Salzer (2.2)

    A Conversation with Rebecca Salzer (2.2)

    Description

    In this episode, Sara Whitver talks to Rebecca Salzer about the development of the Dancing Digital project which she leads with collaborator Gesel Mason. Salzar and Mason have collaborated on a number of Digital Humanities endevors over the years. Their work seeks to document and make the work of women choreographers of color accessible through video documentary and archives. Their current endeavor extends this idea to creating visibility for these choreograhers through Linked Open Data in their new Digital Dancing Commons. The DDC is a wikibase project that will bidirectionally share Linked Open Data from a number of video archives projects, the wikibase DDC, and Wikimedia commons.

    Season: 2

    Episode: 2

    Date: 10/06/2023

    Presenter: Rebecca Salzer

    Topic: The Dancing Digital Project

    Tags: Linked Open Data, Video Documentary, Dance & Theater

  • A Conversation with George Daniels (2.1)

    Description

    In this episode, Sara Whitver talks to George Daniels about his Fall 2023 course entitled Race, Gender, and Media. The course uses HistoryMakers Digital Archive as a research foundation and incorporates a number of digital projects which allow students to present their research findings using digital methods. George Daniels is an associate professor in the Journalism and Creative Media program at the University of Alabama and a 2023 HistoryMakers Digital Archive Fellow.

    Season: 2

    Episode: 1

    Date: 09/1/2023

    Presenter: George Daniels

    Topic: HistoryMakers Digital Archive

    Tags: History, Digital Pedagogy, African American Studies

  • An Archive of One’s Own: Exploring How Fanfiction Writers Organize their Work in a Fan-Made Archive (1.5)

    Assistant Professor and Digital Scholarship Librarian Carrie Hill shares her work exploring the information behaviors of fanfiction writers who post their work on Archive of Our Own (AO3), self-described as “A fan-created, fan-run, nonprofit, noncommercial archive for transformative fanworks, like fanfiction, fanart, fan videos, and podfic.” She will share the inspiration for her project, challenges she faced while trying to answer her initial question, and where those challenges eventually led her with this study.

    Season: 1

    Episode: 5

    Date: 04/21/2023

    Presenter: Carrie Hill

    Topic: An Archive of One’s Own

    Tags: Fandom, An Archive of Our Own, Fan Information, Taxonomy, Folksonomy

  • A Conversation with Jeri Wieringa (1.4)

    During this ADHC Talk, Sara and Jeri will talk about the future of DH: What technologies will have big impact? What infrastructure will be necessary to support sustained DH scholarship? How do we train future DH scholars?

    Season: 1

    Episode: 4

    Date: 04/14/2023

    Presenter: Jeri Wieringa

    Topic: The Future of the Digital Humanities

    Tags: Digital Humanities, Digital Scholarship

  • A Conversation with the Alabama Memory Project (1.3)

    During this conversation, Sara Whitver will talk to John Giggie and Isabella Garrison about their Alabama Memory Project. Alabama Memory is an Omeka S documentary archive of the lives of lynched individuals in the state of Alabama. Giggie and Garrison will talk about data collection and methodologies for organizing and presenting data with the goal of telling the lived stories of victims of lynching in Alabama.

    Season: 1

    Episode: 3

    Date: 03/24/2023

    Presenter: Dr. John Gggie and Isabella Garrison

    Topic: Alabama Memory Project

    Tags: Omeka S, History, Primary Sources, Lynching Victims, Mapping

  • A Conversation with Amanda Koh (1.2)

    Description

    In the second episode of ADHC Talks, Sara Whitver talks with Chemical Engineer Amanda Koh. Amanda runs the Koh Laboratory which “focuses on engineering soft materials and material interfaces to enable new stretchable electronics, soft robotics, smart devices, and porous materials.” One of Amanda’s current projects is to design a wearable device that helps singers measure their breath while singing, with the ultimate hope of making this device more widely available for breathing therapies. Amanda and Sara will talk about what it means to design and create wearable devices and what kinds of ways these wearable devices can change our perception of what it means to be human and understand our bodies relative to the world around us.

    Season: 1

    Episode: 3

    Date: 02/24/2023

    Presenter: Amanda Koh

    Topic: Soft Materials and Wearable Devices

    Tags: Wearable Devices, Chemical Engineering, Interdisciplinary Collaboration, Humanities and STEM

  • The History of Enslaved People at UA, 1828-1865

    The History of Enslaved People at UA, 1828-1865

    Description

    This project is the result of the work of the Task Force for Studying Race, Slavery, and Civil Rights at UA and documents their comprehensive assessment of University of Alabama Administration Records for the period up to 1865. This project seeks to ensure that all materials pertaining to slavery at the university is identify and transcribe the contents of the main record sets from this time including President Basil Manly’s diaries, President Landon Garland’s letterbooks, the Faculty Minutes, and the collection most commonly referred to as the “slave receipts.” Most important of all, however, was identifying as many of the enslaved individuals who labored on UA’s campus, or who were enslaved by faculty and college presidents, as possible and entering those names, and the records associated with them, in a database

    Project Owner(s): Department of History

    Topic: Enslaved People, History

    Tool: Omeka S

    Methodology: Documentary Research, Primary Sources

    Project Status: Live

    The History of Enslaved People at UA, 1828-1865
  • Journal of A Pandemic Year

    Journal of A Pandemic Year

    This digital museum accompanies Peacock and Peterson’s book, A Deeper Sickness: Journal of America in the Pandemic Year. Beacon Press, 2022. The DAILY ENTRIES cover 200 days of the year 2020. In the EXHIBITS section are housed essays from scholars around the country, creative works submitted by renowned artists, and meritorious undergraduate research projects—all of them dedicated to the study of 2020.

    Project Owner(s): Dr. Margaret Peacock, Dr. Erik Peterson

    Topic: COVID-19, History

    Tool: WordPress

    Methodology: Documentary Research, Primary Sources

    Project Status: Live

    Journal of A Pandemic Year