From Calisphere: Calisphere provides free access to more than 2,000 collections digitized and contributed by all ten campuses of the University of California and more than 300 cultural heritage organizations (libraries, archives, and museums and historial societies ) throughout the state. Each of these organizations has specific collection emphases, which may be informed by local…
The Quantification of Urban Space: an introduction We live in a world of numbers. Weight and length are measured before birth. Footsteps are tallied. Square footage is priced. Air temperatures are calculated. Ice melt is tabulated. From the most intimate aspects of our lives to the global scales of our planetary environment, our world and…
UCSB Center for Black Studies Research presents: Associate Professor Roberto Strongman“Black Digital Devotions: Ethno-Religious Transnationalism and Data Gathering in the Era of Pandemic Travel Restrictions”Tuesday, April 20, 2:00 PM This talk explores the creation of a virtual devotional space for the Black Christ of Portobelo that would enable an alternative continuation of the pilgrimages that…
Call for Papers: Styles Revisited: From Iconology to Digital Visual Studies (online/ to take place every other Monday at 2pm (GMT+1), with the dates a priori considered : September 20, October 18, November 15, December 13, 2021 and January 24, February 7, March 7, April 11, May 16, June 13, 2022)Submission Deadline: May 15, 2021…
There will be a joint Library Carpentry workshop with UC Merced, teaching the fundamentals of working with messy data. This workshop is geared toward learners in the humanities, social sciences, or natural sciences and those who work with messy data. The lessons include Git/Bash, Regular Expressions, and OpenRefine. Learners will learn to: automate repetitive, boring, error-prone…
Even if a summer in Paris is not possible, one of the world’s most massive museums has announced an encompassing digitization of its vast collection. Read more