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'Expressive archives' a public lecture by Bethany Nowviskie

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  • Dec 9, 2010 from 5:00am to 6:00am
  • Location: Ann Harding Conference Centre, Building 24, University of Canberra
  • Latest Activity: Dec 3, 2020
The Digital Design + Media Arts Research Cluster at the University of Canberra is pleased to present a free public lecture by Dr Bethany Nowviskie, Director of Digital Research & Scholarship at the University of Virginia Library, on the Neatline archival visualisation project.This is an important opportunity to learn about cutting edge work in the digital humanities and its significance for archival research and access.All are welcome. Please join us from 5.30pm for drinks, nibbles and chat.RSVP online by 3 December.Abstract:Dr. Bethany Nowviskie will describe support for and experimentation in the spatial humanities at the University of Virginia Library’s “Scholars’ Lab.” This work includes Neatline, a set of Omeka plugins designed to allow scholars to build on archival metadata to produce rich, evocative – and explicitly theoretical – geospatial and temporal visualizations of the content or context of catalogued documents and artifacts. Neatline therefore provides a framework for fruitful interchange among scholars and the stewards of primary resources, and is offered as a “contribution to interpretive humanities scholarship in the visual vernacular.” Nowviskie will frame her discussion in terms of graphesis (or knowledge-making through iterative graphical expression), constraint, and play.
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