[SIGCIS-Members] EVENT: Preserving and Analyzing Digital Texts [Online]

[James A Hodges]

Greetings all, and please excuse the cross-promotion:

I'm running a free online event April 21, sponsored by Andrew W. Mellon
Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School

Preserving and Analyzing Digital Texts
Date: 21 April 2023
Time: 3:00-4:30 p.m. ET
Location: Zoom

Join us for a virtual symposium exploring the materiality and historical
value of digital texts, with special attention paid to methods for
preservation and analysis.

Everyone is welcome to attend this free event. Advance registration is
required: https://bit.ly/digitaltextsSJSU

Emily Maemura is Assistant Professor in the School of Information Sciences
at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on
data practices and the activities of curation, description,
characterization, and re-use of archived web data. She is interested in
approaches and methods for working with archived web data in the form of
large-scale research collections, considering diverse perspectives of the
internet as an object and site of study. She previously worked as an
academic librarian at Ryerson University in Toronto. Her work has been
published in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and
Technology and the International Journal of Digital Humanities. She
completed her Ph.D. at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information,
with a dissertation exploring the practices of collecting and curating web
pages and websites for future use by researchers in the social sciences and
humanities.

Ryan Cordell’s scholarship seeks to illuminate how technologies of
production, reception, circulation, and remediation shape the meanings of
texts within historical communities, as well as how the complexities of
historical texts pressure modern scholarly infrastructure. He is currently
Associate Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University
of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Before joining the UIUC iSchool, Ryan Cordell
was Associate Professor of English at Northeastern University and a core
founding faculty member in the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks. Cordell
primarily studies circulation and reprinting in nineteenth-century American
newspapers, but his interests extend to the influence of digitization and
computation on contemporary reading, writing, and research. He collaborates
with colleagues in English, History, and Computer Science on the Viral
Texts project, which uses robust data mining tools to discover borrowed
texts across large-scale archives of nineteenth-century periodicals. He is
also a practicing letterpress printer who explores intersections between
historical and contemporary information technologies through the lens of
maker culture. Cordell is a Senior Fellow in the Andrew W. Mellon Society
of Fellows in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School and serves as the
Delegate Assembly Representative for the MLA’s Forum on Digital Humanities.

Benjamin Charles Germain Lee is a Ph.D. candidate in the Paul G. Allen
School for Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington,
where he works with Professor Daniel Weld and is a member of the Lab for
Human-AI Interaction. Previously, he was a 2020 Innovator in Residence at
the Library of Congress. He is currently pursuing research toward a
dissertation at the intersection of machine learning and human-computer
interaction, with application to cultural heritage and the digital
humanities. His Ph.D. research is supported by an NSF Graduate Research
Fellowship in machine learning. Before beginning his Ph.D., he was the
inaugural Digital Humanities Associate Fellow at the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum, as well as a Visiting Fellow in Harvard’s
History Department. Benjamin also writes essays, which have appeared in
Current Affairs, Gawker, Real Life, and GoldFlakePaint.

James A. Hodges is Assistant Professor in the San José State University
School of Information, where he studies digital archives and preservation
with a particular focus on the history of computing. His current book
project uses digital forensics to uncover the technical legacy of 1960s
counterculture in early multimedia software. Prior to joining SJSU, James
was Bullard Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Texas at
Austin School of Information. He is also a Junior Fellow in the Andrew W.
Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School as
well as Senior Book Reviews Editor for Information & Culture. He earned his
Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 2020, and his work has appeared in
journals such as Journal of Documentation, Journal of the Association for
Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Internet Histories, New Media
& Society, and Information Research.

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*JAMES A. HODGES, PH.D. *(he/him/his)
Assistant Professor
San José State University
School of Information
http://www.jameshodges.net

Senior Book Reviews Editor
Information & Culture <https://infoculturejournal.org/>
Member, Committee on Publication Ethics <https://publicationethics.org/>
 (COPE)

Junior Fellow, Rare Book School
Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography
<https://rarebookschool.org/admissions-awards/fellowships/sofcb/>
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