Feb. 28 Digital Humanities Speaker Series Features Two Speakers from University of Iowa
Sponsored by the Digital Scholarship Center, the next Digital Humanities Speaker Series event, scheduled for Wed., Feb. 28 in both the Walter C. Langsam Library and the Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library, will feature David Eichmann, director and associate professor in the School of Library and Information Science, and Blaine Greteman, associate professor of English, both from the University of Iowa. Both sessions are free and open to all.
10 a.m.-noon
: [Keynote]: "Networking Print: Small Worlds, Phase Transitions, and Hidden Histories in 500,000 Early English Books." Led by: Blaine Greteman. Co-Presenter: David Eichmann. Location: Walter C. Langsam Library 462
Noon-12:45 p.m.
: Lunch- all welcome, Langsam 462
David Eichmann
1:30-3:30 p.m.
: "Identification of Collaborator Networks in Biomedicine (and How They Relate to the Printing/Publishing Community of Pre-1800 England)." Led By: David Eichmann. Co-Presenter: Blaine Greteman. Location: Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library, Dr. Stanley B. Troup Learning Space (MSB G005G)
David Eichmann has conducted research in relational database theory, software reuse and reengineering, web search engines and intelligent agents, biomedical informatics and ontology-based research profile harvesting and visualization. His current projects include Shakeosphere (modeling the social network of the print community in England 1540-1800), CTSAsearch (aggregating research profiles from 70+ institutions), CD2H (an informatics coordinating center for the CTSA consortium) and Linked Data for Libraries (LD4L) (where he is part of a consortium exploring the next generation of library catalogs).
Blaine Greteman writes regularly for popular publications including
The New Republic
,
Slate
,
TIME
and
The Week
. His first book was
The Poetics and Politics of Youth in Milton's England
(Cambridge University Press, 2013); his forthcoming book,
Networking Early English Print
(Stanford University Press), is based on Shakeosphere, a digital project built in collaboration with David Eichmann. Greteman holds an M.Phil from Oxford, where he attended on a Rhodes Scholarship, and a Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley.
Located in the Walter C. Langsam Library, the Digital Scholarship Center (DSC) is a joint venture of the University of Cincinnati Libraries and the College of Arts and Sciences. Launched in September 2016 as an academic center, the DSC provides faculty and students across the university with support for digital project conception, design and implementation. For more about the Digital Scholarship Center, visit
.
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