Fibra Workshop - Tools for Humanities Research

Date
Tue January 10th 2017, 9:00am - Thu January 12th 2017, 5:00pm
Event Sponsor
CESTA, Digital Humanities Focal Group, Humanities + Design Lab
Location
CESTA Conference Room 433A
Humanities + Design and CESTA invite you to participate in a workshop to help design database building tools for humanities research that take advantage of networked resources across libraries and archives. To learn more about this ACLS funded project, see http://hdlab.stanford.edu/fibra/
 
The workshop will bring together humanities researchers, designers, computer scientists, library technologists and at least one physicist to discuss how linked data is reshaping library and archive access, how it is already being used for humanities research, and the design challenges around digital search and access. 
 
The first day, Tuesday, will feature a talk by Marten Düring (University of Luxembourg) co-sponsored by the Digital Humanities Focal Group. 
 
"histograph - graph-based exploration and crowd-based annotation"
 
Abstract:
histograph treats large collections of digital documents as networks and supports their graph-based exploration and crowd-based annotation. The underlying assumption is simple: if two documents mention e.g. the same person, place or institution we assume that these documents and the entities which they mention may have something to do with each other and store these relations in a graph database. To explore and improve this data, we make use of a graph visualization module, a recommender system for related objects, various search and filter functions, automated and crowd-based annotation and disambiguation of named entities and their enrichment with third-party identifiers such as DBpedia and VIAF. For more information and a demo see http://histograph.eu/. 
 

Please RSVP at the Eventbrite page here. Contact Nicole Coleman (cnc [at] stanford.edu (cnc[at]stanford[dot]edu)) with any questions about the workshop. 

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