Digital Humanities and Visual Resources: The Material and Digital Lives of Eastern European and Russian Artifacts
Princeton University, September 3-6, 2019
This four-day workshop will combine instructional sessions, keynote lectures, works-in-progress presentations by participants, and time for individual research. The event will also include a trip to the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, home of the renowned Russian & Soviet Nonconformist Art collection.
Keynote talks will be by Glen Worthey, Digital Humanities Librarian in the Stanford University Libraries and Toma Tasovac, Director of DARIAH-EU and Director of the Belgrade Center for Digital Humanities.
Hands-on instructional sessions will be led by Quinn Dombrowski (Academic Technology Specialist, Stanford University) and Andy Janco (Digital Scholarship Librarian, Haverford College). Topics include: structured metadata design, platforms and tools for digital exhibits (OmekaS, Tropy, Wax, IIIF), and computer vision.
Keynote lectures are free and open to the public. Workshop participation requires registration. Please contact Natalia Ermolaev (nataliae@princeton.edu) with questions or to register. Meals are for registered participants only
The schedule is:
Tuesday, September 3
9am Breakfast
Location: Center for Digital Humanities, Firestone Library, B Floor
9:30am: Welcome & Opening Remarks
Location: Center for Digital Humanities, Firestone Library, B Floor
10:15am-12pm-: Special Collections & Artifacts
Location: Rare Book and Special Collections Classroom, Firestone Library, C Floor
12-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:30pm: Hands-on session – Structured Metadata: Connecting Material Objects in the Digital Sphere
Location: Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building, 399
4:30 Keynote – Glen Worthey: Speaking Figuratively: What Does Text Have To Do With Image?
Location: Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building, 399
6pm Dinner
Wednesday, September 4
Location: 245 East Pyne
9am Breakfast
9:30am: Project presentations/lightning talks by participants
12-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:30pm: Hands-on session – Platforms and Tools for Digital Exhibits 1
3:45-5pm: Discussion – Legal and Ethical Issues in Working with Digitized Visual Resources
Thursday, September 5
Location: Wallace Hall, 300
9am Breakfast
9:30am: Hands-on session – Platforms and Tools for Digital Exhibits 2
12-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:30pm: Hands-on session – Computer Vision
4:30pm: Keynote – Toma Tasovac: Thinking Infrastructurally: What’s In It for Humanities Scholars?
6pm Dinner
Friday, September 6
Location: Chancellor Green, 105
9am Breakfast
9:30am: Concluding Discussion – Reflections on workshop and discussion of international collaborations
12-1:30 Lunch
1:3pm: Trip to Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ)
This workshop is co-organized by Princeton University, the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, and Stanford University. Event sponsors include the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), the Slavic Department, the Center for Digital Humanities, the Humanities Council Global Initiative and David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Fund, the Princeton University Library, the Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (REEES), the Department of Art History, the Center for Collaborative History, and European Cultural Studies.
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