1. Digital Technologies in the Humanities (at RENCI) Leesa Brieger Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI)

2. RENCI New web site: http://www.renci.orghttp://www.renci.org Resources –immersive media camera (take a look at the KML file) –DeltaSphere 3D Laser Scanner (see http://www.deltasphere.com/) –Social Computing Room – a wrap-around-the-room desktop –Showcase Room – a 15-ft tilted dome (pseudo 3D) –ultra-high resolution teleimmersion facilities (3D glasses and all) –touch screens, touch tables (see the YouTube videos) –coming: high-resolution setup to photograph art –engagement sites: UNC-CH, Duke, NCSU, UNC-A, ECU, UNC-C, Coastal Studies Institute –compute, storage resources

3. RENCI Some of the focus areas: –Education and Outreach (http://www.renci.org/focus-areas/education-and-outreach)http://www.renci.org/focus-areas/education-and-outreach –Humanities, Arts and Social Science Computing (http://www.renci.org/focus-areas/humanities-arts-and-social-science)http://www.renci.org/focus-areas/humanities-arts-and-social-science –Visualization and Collaborative Environments (http://www.renci.org/focus-areas/humanities-arts-and-social-science)http://www.renci.org/focus-areas/humanities-arts-and-social-science

4. RENCI The Shoah VHA from USC hosted for the Triangle by RENCI see http://college.usc.edu/vhi/generalvideo/http://college.usc.edu/vhi/generalvideo/ Jennifer Shelton, manager of Outreach and Education, takes this educational material out to the public schools (teacher conferences and materials) three parts: data collection, cataloguing (curation), dissemination and education

5. RENCI The Archimedes Palimpsest Project http://www.archimedespalimpsest.org/palimpsest_making1.html imaging (multi-spectral, X-ray fluorescence) optical character recognition RENCI in discussions to collaborate (visualization, high- def resolution, interface to the data/value-added applications)

6. RENCI NARA Transcontinental Persistent Archive Prototype a DICE group project, iRODS technology UNC provides a node on the NARA data grid (RENCI, SILS, Odum) RENCI 2030 how North Carolinians (non-scientists) view emerging technologies to inform policy makers, educators, legislators, RENCI strategists on the public’s level of education about and attitude towards technology

7. RENCI Software to enhance collaboration in the Social Computing Room wrap-around imaging (Infomesa-like) position/movement sensors adapting gadgets and applications to the room Information Visualization Coauthorship (data from Mark Newman) RTP start-up firms (data from Ted Zoller)

8. RENCI Partners (Croquet) Cobalt – at Duke –See http://www.opencroquet.org/index.php/Main_Pagehttp://www.opencroquet.org/index.php/Main_Page –Higher education’s answer to Second Life –Potential for collaborative environments, innovative interfaces to data collections IAH’s CHAT festival – February 2010 –Kick off a movement of digital arts and humanities at UNC

9. Examples from the Great Wide World Rome Reborn http://www.romereborn.virginia.edu/ The Blake Archive http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/ Hypercities http://www.hypercities.com/ People like Dan Anderson, Comparative Lit at UNC http://www.thoughtpress.org/writenow Institutional repositories/digital libraries (CDLA, CDR)

10. Wide World DIRT: Digital Research Tools http://digitalresearchtools.pbwiki.com/ Information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively. From Richard Marciano’s reference: http://www.hastac.org/node/1934 http://www.hastac.org/node/1934 Interview with Brett Bobley, Director of the NEH's Office of Digital Humanities (ODH)

11. Perspective The Horizon Report - a collaboration between the New Media Consortium (http://www.nmc.org/about)http://www.nmc.org/about and Educause (http://www.educause.edu/)http://www.educause.edu/ Data, data, data –primary resources accessible world-wide –safety of the data (curation, preservation) –access to the data (interfaces): exploration, discovery –analysis data mining, knowledge discovery simply by comparing more data than ever, notice new things

12. More Perspective A vast distance between developers and consumers of CS in the humanities (article by Plaisant, et al) What will really change in the humanities? –education? –communication? –expression? –collaboration?