Compatible Database Initiative: Fostering Interoperable Data for Network Mapping and Visualization

The Compatible Database Initiative requests Level I Digital Start-Up support to convene a two-day conference and several tele-conferenced planning meetings to foster interoperable person-centric data standards for network analysis and visualization. Numerous humanities scholars are engaged in building relational databases for historical and cultural research. Such network mapping and visualization projects include The Crowded Page, Phylo, Yaddo Archive Project, and Explore Thomas Cole. But these topical projects have developed separately with unique database structures. The field-wide problem is that diverse data structures lack interoperability: data collected for one project is incompatible with data from another. This initiative will spur a conversation among these projects’ architects and leading figures in database architecture and data visualization. Our goal is to create the first open source data design standards for interoperability in database mapping and visualization

Harnessing the Semantic Web for Scholarship

The Semantic Web links data to other data via machine-readable information. Scholars from a wide variety of fields are applying semantic technologies to their research. At this event, panelists cover examples of the scholarly use of linked data and its creation. The panel also consider how linked data is changing the process and outcomes of research

The Decade Show : Frameworks of Identity in the 1980s

The authors examine American artistic practices in the 1980s, emphasizing the histories and work of Asian, Latin, African and Native Americans, women and gays, whose voices have traditionally been suppressed by white male middleclass domination. Includes references to ethnocentrism, deconstruction, democracy, activism, the environment, homelessness, AIDS, video and performance art. Also includes a chronology of the 1980s, and brief biographical notes. Circa 200 bibl. ref