I found a short blog post wherein someone expresses the same level of excitement about the semi-new archival standard for encoding authorities, EAC-CPF, that I have been buzzing with of late. (Be sure to check out the project links, so you can get as excited as I am!)

I have just started playing with EAC-CPF, and doubt I don’t know enough to “teach” it, but I’m happy to lead a discussion on the topic. In particular, I am interested in finding out how aware the DH community is of EAC-CPF, and whether anyone else (DH, archivist, or otherwise) has been exploring or using it.

When the James B. Hunt Jr. Library at North Carolina State University was planned, NCSU Libraries made the strategic decision to build immersive visualization spaces throughout the building, including four large, public, architecturally-integrated video walls. These visualization displays allow the Hunt Library to be a storytelling building: a building that provides a narrative window for the teaching, research, and learning activities on campus.

Video walls and immersive digital environments are creating new opportunities for digital humanities research and pedagogy. In this session, you can learn a little bit about our walls, but more importantly, we’ll brainstorm about potential DH applications for this kind of technology and discuss the challenges around implementing projects and services.

Let’s meet up, demo our projects, and share secrets.  Ultimately we are interested in providing baseline workflows and best practices for geospatial discovery layers for our core digital library collections that can be adapted and customized for digital research projects.  I’d like to know how other libraries are handling mapping with Neatline or other open-source tools.

For more context, see a recent Digital Humanities Questions & Answers session: digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/are-any-libraries-using-neatline.

Also, for those of you interested in issues like these, you should consider joining to the GeoHumanities ADHO special interest group: adho.org/announcements/2013/announcing-geohumanities-special-interest-group.

I am interested in discussing the use of digital video in research and teaching. I believe that the current options available for digital video on the web do not meet the needs of researchers and instructors. for the most part most digital video on the web expects you to start at the beginning of the video and play to the end without many options. I think to use digital video effectively for research and teaching, you need to be able to:

1. Segment and annotate video

2. Play back a segment (and only that segment of video) with it’s annotation

3. Be able to present video segments in the broader context of the entire video

4. Enable community commentary on that video segment, whether that community is a group of students in a class, the general public or a learned group of colleagues.

5. The ability to provide transcriptions of the digital video with the annotation. That transcription can also come from the types of communities mentioned above.

To this end, I received a startup grant from the NEH Office of Digital Humanities for a plugin to Omeka that provides the majority of requirements above (commentary and transcription need some additional work). That plugin is now publicly available at www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/omeka2/ for those who are interested. To look at using digital video for research see www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/oufinopo/ for a framework I developed with Richard Edwards at Ball State for studying 20 public domain films noir that we had hoped would be used for a MOOC he was teaching.

I would hope this session would be a discussion of the general issues of using video for research and teaching with a discussion of successes and failures in that process. And not only in traditional classroom settings but also using video in MOOCs and other community based projects.