Digital Humanities, Data, and the role of MIT Libraries

Three librarians involved with digital scholarship at the MIT Libraries will present on some of the context for DH at MIT skills they are building in order to grapple with some issues in digital humanities, especially around data and evidence. This informal panel will cover the way that librarians are building support for digital humanities at MIT, how to approach the question of evidence in the humanities when using non-traditional forms of data, and how online research spaces like HATHITrust figure with increasing prominence in the development of corpora and tools for digital humanists.

Speakers:

Ece Turnator

Humanities and Digital Scholarship Librarian MIT Libraries

Mark Szarko

Literature, Global Studies and Languages Philosophy, and Theater Arts Librarian

Karrie Peterson

Dept Head, Liaison Instruction and Reference Services, MIT Libraries

Ece Turnator’s Personal Room-20180411 1716-1

Wednesday, April 11, 2018
2:14 pm | Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00)

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