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Community-Driven Linked Data Approaches in Builders and Defenders: Nashville's Historical Black Civil War Database
  • Angela Sutton
  • Jessica Power
  • archives
  • collaboration
  • data analytics
  • data curation
  • databases
  • digitization
  • ethics
  • semantic web
  • interdisciplinarity
  • race
  • social justice
  • network
  • public history
  • social justice
  • race studies

This article explores the use of community engagement and the principles behind linked data to create a spatial history database that both serves a local Black community in the US South and makes accessible the sources that complicate our understanding of the Civil War.

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From Archive to Database: Using Crowdsourcing, TEI, and Collaborative Labor to Construct the Maria Edgeworth Letters Project
  • Hilary Havens
  • Eliza Alexander Wilcox
  • Meredith L. Hale
  • Jamie Kramer
  • collaboration
  • transcription
  • metadata
  • markup
  • archives
  • manuscripts
  • semantic web
  • ethics
  • editing
  • crowdsourcing
  • Zooniverse
  • TEI
  • linked open data
  • Maria Edgeworth
  • name authorities
  • digital archives
  • Romantic period
  • long eighteenth century
  • correspondence
  • controlled vocabularies

Our article describes how we are building the Maria Edgeworth Letters Project, an open-access archive containing Maria Edgeworth's correspondence, tracing our steps including image retrieval and processing, metadata generation, transcription, linked open data, and TEI encoding.

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What Counts? Digital Humanities Pedagogy Seminars as Teaching
  • Crystal Hall
  • Lauren Tilton
  • Griffin Ng
  • collaboration
  • pedagogy
  • dh
  • labor
  • seminars
  • experimentation
  • intersectional feminism
  • values-based DH

In the teaching-research-service triad of labor in higher education, reframing digital humanities pedagogy workshops as teaching brings us closer to the goals of the field.

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Making the Whole Greater than the Sum of its Parts: Taxonomy development as a site of negotiation and compromise in an interdisciplinary software development project
  • Jennifer C. Edmond
  • Alejandro Benito Santos
  • Michelle Doran
  • Roberto Therón
  • Michał Kozak
  • Cezary Mazurek
  • Eveline Wandl-Vogt
  • Aleyda Rocha Sepulveda
  • collaboration
  • project report
  • interdisciplinarity
  • dh
  • data curation
  • markup

    We discuss how the cross-disciplinary design of a taxonomy of sources of uncertainty in Digital Humanities (DH) became not just an instrument to organise data, but also a tool to negotiate and build compromises between different communities of practice.

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    Afro-Indigenous Women Healers in the Caribbean and Its Diasporas: A Decolonial Digital Humanities Project
    • Franny Gaede
    • Ana-Maurine Lara
    • Alaí Reyes-Santos
    • Kate Thornhill
    • race
    • indigenous
    • collaboration
    • glam
    • data curation
    • project report
    • area studies
    • Black digital humanities
    • Caribbean
    • Digital archive

    This interdisciplinary team placed the healers’ community at the center of the research project to publicly validate and share aspects of their knowledge with the healers, teachers, researchers, and students studying race, indigeneity, ethnobotanical medicinal healing, and intersectionality.

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    Ensuring Minimal Computing Serves Maximal Connection
    • Grant Wythoff
    • dh
    • minimal computing
    • cultural criticism
    • collaboration

      This article first takes a broader view of minimalism to register several problematic echoes of minimal computing among digital detoxers and disaster survivalists in intensities ranging from Luddism to asceticism.

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      Minimizing Computing Maximizes Labor
      • Quinn Dombrowski
      • globalDH
      • access
      • tools
      • minimal computing
      • ethics
      • collaboration

        This paper focuses on the practical realities of implementing the most common minimal computing methods for web development.

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        Simple but Beautiful: A Case Study on the ZHI Project of Traditional Craftsmanship
        • Jing Chen
        • Mengqi Li
        • Wensi Lin
        • Yinzhou Zhao
        • Mengyue Zhang
        • Han Chen
        • Qiang Hu
        • Yongqing Xie
        • project report
        • visual art
        • cultural heritage
        • collaboration
        • minimal computing
        • history
        • publishing

          This essay offers a case study of the ZHI project, a digital craftsmanship project showcasing the beauty of traditional craftsmanship at three levels: knowing, making, and intelligence.

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          The Making and Re-making of The Philadelphia Negro
          • Stephanie Boddie
          • Amy Hillier
          • race
          • geospatial
          • collaboration
          • Digital humanities
          • Du Bois
          • GIS
          • Philadelphia
          • race
          • racism
          • Social Survey Movement
          • (anti‑)Blackness

          An exploration of primary source documents that provide new details about how W. E. B. Du Bois went about his original research mapping Philadelphia's Seventh Ward, focusing on the humanities and social science research methods that he employed.

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          Leonardo, Morelli, and the Computational Mirror
          • Alison Langmead
          • Christopher J. Nygren
          • Paul Rodriguez
          • Alan Craig
          • collaboration
          • visual art
          • machine learning
          • digitization

            Explores the value, role, and pitfalls for digitel methods of art attribution

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            Playing With Unicorns: AI Dungeon and Citizen NLP
            • Minh Hua
            • Rita Raley
            • nlp
            • games
            • machine learning
            • collaboration
            • code studies
            • linguistics

              Argues for an approach to the the text adventure game AI Dungeon 2 as a model for future human-AI collaborative creative practices

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              Ticha: Collaboration with Indigenous communities to build digital resources on Zapotec language and history
              • George Aaron Broadwell
              • Moisés García Guzmán
              • Brook Danielle Lillehaugen
              • Felipe H. Lopez
              • May Helena Plumb
              • Mike Zarafonetis
              • collaboration
              • history
              • cultural heritage
              • digital libraries
              • indigenous
              • language studies
              • translation
              • access
              • social justice
              • digital schoalrship
              • digital humanities
              • Colonial Mexico
              • Zapotec
              • archives
              • collaoration
              • humanidades digitales
              • México colonial
              • zapoteco
              • archivos
              • colaboración
              • colaboración

              This article discusses the Ticha project which is a digital text explorer that provides access to media and documents associated with the Zapotec community.

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