Author: carolamigo

Eugene Barsky

In this session, we plan to cover a number of ways UBC Library is supporting DH community with RDM:

Data Management Repository — UBC Library has implemented robust data management software – Abacus Dataverse. The system is designed to manage and preserve data and it is opened to UBC researchers, labs and institutes.

Data Management Plans – We have implemented national DMP Assistant software – is a bilingual tool for preparing data management plans (DMPs). The tool follows best practices in data stewardship and walks researchers step-by-step through key questions about data management. DMP Assistant is designed to meet the anticipated Data Management Plan requirements (in English or French) of most Canadian funders.

Data Management Guidance — Research Data Management Website – is a valuable tool for researchers to learn about data management, specifically at UBC.  Open access materials were developed to provide training for UBC researchers, faculty and students. Please see our DataGuide to get started and data privacy and security best practices document that outlines key considerations for researchers when working with sensitive data and Personal Information.

Discoverability of Data – We are working to increase the visibility of research datasets already added to the UBC’s data repository.  These datasets can be discovered through many search interfaces, including Google and Summon. We have embarked on a project to assign DOI’s to all UBC Library digital assets including datasets, via our new Open Collections portal – https://open.library.ubc.ca/.  DOIs will increase the further visibility and discoverability of UBC research data.

Facilitator(s): Mark Christensen, Susan Atkey, Larissa Ringham, Milena Constanda

Candice McGowan

Do you have a lot of messy text data? Does it have a lot of spelling mistakes or variations? OpenRefine, a free, open-source tool can help you clean your data. In this introductory workshop, we will cover what OpenRefine is, when it’s useful (as well as when it’s challenging to use), and how to do some basic data cleaning using OpenRefine on a demo dataset. Bring your laptop so that you can follow along!

Link to dataset.

Link to Open Refine.

Facilitator(s): Mark Christensen, Susan Atkey, Larissa Ringham, Milena Constanda

Jeremy Frey, Professor of Physical Chemistry, Head of Computational Systems Chemistry, University of Southampton, UK

Audrey McCulloch, Chief Executive, Association of Learned Professional and Society Publishers (ALPSP) and Director of the Publishers Licensing Society

Ellen Finnie, Head, Scholarly Communications & Collections Strategy, MIT Libraries

Michael Levine-Clark, Dean and Director of Libraries, University of Denver

Text and Data Mining (TDM) facilitates the discovery, selection, structuring, and analysis of large numbers of documents/sets of data, enabling the visualization of results in new ways to support innovation and the development of new knowledge. In both academia and commercial contexts, TDM is increasingly recognized as a means to extract, re-use and leverage additional value from published information, by linking concepts, addressing specific questions, and creating efficiencies. But TDM in practice is not straightforward. TDM methodology and use are fast changing but are not yet matched by the development of enabling policies.

This webinar provides a review of where we are today with TDM, as seen from the perspective of the researcher, library, and licensing-publisher communities.

Link to the webinar.

Allan Cho

This presentation is based on a recent study visit to East Asia.   Not
only is the digital humanities in Asia a new and highly contested area of research, the digital tools and text corpora – considered the raw material of text mining and computational text analysis – are often more abundant in English and other Latin alphabetic
scripts than they are for projects dealing with Non-Latin orthographies.  Despite this, there is an emerging movement among East Asian academics both inside and outside the continent that are expertly driving new research and interdisciplinary collaborations
in the area of digital scholarship.  This presentation looks at three in particular: the Hong Kong Martial Arts Living Archive; the Hong Kong Memory Project; and the MemoryHunt photo project in Japan.  This presentation will be thirty minutes in length.

Presentation: Digital Humanities in East Asia (Aug 11)

Useful links:

• http://dsr.nii.ac.jp/cgi-bin/memory-hunting/before-after.pl?projectID=3&before=8AF419FA-6B25-11E4-B0A4-8430D00D5249&after=14B8DAF6-6DEF-11E4-8AC2-E060D00D5249&lang=en
• http://www.hkmemory.hk/
• http://dsr.nii.ac.jp/memory-hunting/

Facilitator(s): Mark Christensen, Susan Atkey, Larissa Ringham, Milena Constanda

Marc Stoeckle

The “British Columbia and Canada Through Arriving Eyes” project run by the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, intends to identify key materials describing German immigrants’ experiences of British Columbia and Western Canada.

This will include German and English material relating to immigrants with a German, Austrian or Swiss background, which immigrated ca. 1850-present to Western Canada.

Link to the blog, and link to the website.

Facilitator(s): Mark Christensen, Susan Atkey, Larissa Ringham, Milena Constanda

Joey Lee (MSc), Mozilla Science Fellow. Twitter: @leejoeyk

“Web Maps for the Digital Humanities” will be a friendly workshop on building interactive maps for the web. The goal of the workshop is to get you started in building your own interactive web maps to help you explore your geographic data. Please bring your laptop, enthusiasm and curiosity! We encourage people with all skill levels to join, especially beginners.

Requirements: Please bring a laptop if you’d like to build a map. Otherwise, just come and hang out.

Link for the tutorial.

Facilitator(s): Mark Christensen, Susan Atkey, Larissa Ringham, Milena Constanda

Schuyler Lindberg and Krista Parham

Run powerful queries, perform advanced analysis, and build custom views, apps, and widgets with full access to the Open Collections’ metadata and transcripts.

Presentation available here.