{"id":6954,"date":"2012-03-12T18:27:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T22:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/?p=6954"},"modified":"2020-10-08T16:02:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T20:02:25","slug":"mith-associate-director-participating-in-knowledge-organization-and-data-modeling-in-the-humanities-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/mith-associate-director-participating-in-knowledge-organization-and-data-modeling-in-the-humanities-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"MITH Associate Director Participating in \u201cKnowledge Organization and Data Modeling in the Humanities\u201d Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I will be one of the participants at a three-day workshop on <a href=\"http:\/\/datasymposium.wordpress.com\/\">&#8220;Knowledge Organization and Data Modeling in the Humanities&#8221;<\/a> co-sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zde.uni-wuerzburg.de\/\">Centre for Digital Editions at the University of W\u00fcrzburg<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/cds\/\">Brown University Center for Digital Scholarship<\/a>, and hosted by Brown. The workshop was organized by Julia Flanders (Brown University) and Fotis Jannidis (University of W\u00fcrzburg) and is being supported through generous funding from the DFG\/NEH Bilateral Digital Humanities Program.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/datasymposium.wordpress.com\/people\/\">roster of other speakers<\/a> at the event is top-notch and all the <a href=\"http:\/\/datasymposium.wordpress.com\/abstracts\/\">presentations<\/a> promise to be engaging. For my part, I was asked to contibute to a more practically-oriented section on &#8220;Research Ontologies&#8221;\u2014focusing on how data modeling happens in humanities projects\u2014and also, to talk a little about the similarities and differences related to modeling data in a DH context versus a library one. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be speaking about the process we&#8217;re engaged in now here at MITH for developing the data models that underlie our transcriptions of materials for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shelleygodwinarchive.org\/\">Shelley-Godwin Archive<\/a>. Data modeling is an immensely-important but largely under-discussed topic in digital humanities (it&#8217;s certainly under-represented in the published literature\u2014though this conference is part of an effort to change that). Data modeling is part of the crucial &#8220;DH-specific&#8221; intellectual work of translating between the (often implicit) understandings that scholars have of the objects they study and the affordances of a particular digital technology (which might be a relational database or TEI XML or any number of things). For projects that are attempting to conform to standards and best practices, data modeling never begins from a blank slate. I&#8217;m particularly interested in the ways\u2014social, conceptual, and technical\u2014that we use to build (and hopefully share) data models for our projects within an ecology of &#8220;received ideas&#8221; in the form of something like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tei-c.org\/release\/doc\/tei-p5-doc\/en\/html\/index-toc.html\">TEI Guidelines<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The workshop is intended to engage remote participants as well as those of us who will be in Providence this week. I strongly encourage interested members of MITH&#8217;s community to follow along <a href=\"http:\/\/datasymposium.wordpress.com\/\">on the web<\/a> and via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/datasymposium\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I will be one of the participants at a three-day workshop on &#8220;Knowledge Organization and Data Modeling in the Humanities&#8221; co-sponsored by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,74,77],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>MITH Associate Director Participating in \u201cKnowledge Organization and Data Modeling in the Humanities\u201d Workshop &ndash; Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/mith-associate-director-participating-in-knowledge-organization-and-data-modeling-in-the-humanities-workshop\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MITH Associate Director Participating in \u201cKnowledge Organization and Data Modeling in the Humanities\u201d Workshop &ndash; 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