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Digital Technologies in the Humanities (at RENCI) Leesa Brieger Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) RENCI • New web site: http://www.renci.org • Resources – – – – – – – – immersive media camera (take a look at the KML file) DeltaSphere 3D Laser Scanner (see http://www.deltasphere.com/) Social Computing Room – a wrap-around-the-room desktop Showcase Room – a 15-ft tilted dome (pseudo 3D) ultra-high resolution teleimmersion facilities (3D glasses and all) touch screens, touch tables (see the YouTube videos) coming: high-resolution setup to photograph art engagement sites: UNC-CH, Duke, NCSU, UNC-A, ECU, UNC-C, Coastal Studies Institute – compute, storage resources RENCI • Some of the focus areas: – Education and Outreach (http://www.renci.org/focus-areas/education-and-outreach) – Humanities, Arts and Social Science Computing (http://www.renci.org/focus-areas/humanities-arts-and-social-science) – Visualization and Collaborative Environments (http://www.renci.org/focus-areas/humanities-arts-and-social-science) RENCI • The Shoah VHA from USC •hosted for the Triangle by RENCI •see http://college.usc.edu/vhi/generalvideo/ •Jennifer Shelton, manager of Outreach and Education, takes this educational material out to the public schools (teacher conferences and materials) •three parts: data collection, cataloguing (curation), dissemination and education RENCI • The Archimedes Palimpsest Project • http://www.archimedespalimpsest.org/palimpsest_making1.html •imaging (multi-spectral, X-ray fluorescence) •optical character recognition •RENCI in discussions to collaborate (visualization, highdef resolution, interface to the data/value-added applications) RENCI • NARA Transcontinental Persistent Archive Prototype • a DICE group project, iRODS technology • UNC provides a node on the NARA data grid (RENCI, SILS, Odum) • RENCI 2030 • how North Carolinians (non-scientists) view emerging technologies • to inform policy makers, educators, legislators, RENCI strategists on the public’s level of education about and attitude towards technology RENCI • Software to enhance collaboration in the Social Computing Room •wrap-around imaging (Infomesa-like) •position/movement sensors •adapting gadgets and applications to the room • Information Visualization •Coauthorship (data from Mark Newman) •RTP start-up firms (data from Ted Zoller) RENCI Partners • (Croquet) Cobalt – at Duke – See http://www.opencroquet.org/index.php/Main_Page – Higher education’s answer to Second Life – Potential for collaborative environments, innovative interfaces to data collections • IAH’s CHAT festival – February 2010 – Kick off a movement of digital arts and humanities at UNC Examples from the Great Wide World • Rome Reborn http://www.romereborn.virginia.edu/ • The Blake Archive http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/ • Hypercities http://www.hypercities.com/ • People like Dan Anderson, Comparative Lit at UNC http://www.thoughtpress.org/writenow • Institutional repositories/digital libraries (CDLA, CDR) Wide World • DIRT: Digital Research Tools http://digitalresearchtools.pbwiki.com/ Information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively. From Richard Marciano’s reference: http://www.hastac.org/node/1934 Interview with Brett Bobley, Director of the NEH's Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) Perspective • The Horizon Report - a collaboration between the New Media Consortium (http://www.nmc.org/about) and Educause (http://www.educause.edu/) • Data, data, data – – – – primary resources accessible world-wide safety of the data (curation, preservation) access to the data (interfaces): exploration, discovery analysis • data mining, knowledge discovery • simply by comparing more data than ever, notice new things More Perspective • A vast distance between developers and consumers of CS in the humanities (article by Plaisant, et al) • What will really change in the humanities? – – – – education? communication? expression? collaboration?