Hyperstudio – Digital Humanities Lab at MIT – Annotation Studio

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Hyperstudio

Digital Humanities Lab at MIT

A domain-specific, depth-first approach to digital humanities

  • Who: Kurt Fendt, Executive Director; Jamie Folsom, Web Developer, presenting
  • How: Projects come out of conversations with practitioners and are developed in consultation and collaboration with them.
  • Current Projects:
    • Annotation Studio
    • CFRP
    • Artbot
    • US-Iran
We are at: http://hyperstudio.mit.edu/ These slides are at: http://hyperstudio.github.io/

Annotation Studio

Collaborative annotation for teaching and learning

Simple, hosted, private, social annotation.

  • Who: Literature Prof. Wyn Kelley and others, NEH-funded.
  • How: Driven by lots of feedback from users, open source.
  • Done: Word and PDF upload/conversion, annotation tagging and filtering, user groups, multi-tenancy, public documents.
  • Next: User idea organization/outlining, import/export of documents for writing, multimedia annotations, color-coded categorization of annotations, visualization.
Example: As We May Think

CFRP

Comédie Française Registers Project

A dataset of ticket sales from the Comedie Française Theater in Paris from 1680-1793

  • Who: History Prof. Jeff Ravel, with Comedie Française, Université de Paris-Nanterre, Sorbonne, Harvard and Hyperstudio
  • How: Manually written records are manually entered into a database
  • Done: Tools for data entry, a completed data set, and a RESTful JSON web API
  • Next: publication, search, filter, visualize, mashups
Example: http://app.cfregisters.org/registers/41849/edit

Artbot

Art event discovery mobile app

Personalized recommendations for art events around Boston.

  • Who: Funded by Cindy and John Reed; R&D by Liam Andrew and Desi Gonzales
  • How: Scrapes art events from museum websites, categorizes them using open linked data.
  • Done: Version 1.0 of the app; data technology
  • Next: Adoption by a startup from Sloan
Example: http://artbotapp.com/bylocation.html

US-Iran

Missed Opportunities in US-Iran Relations

Digital archive of declassified documents from recent US/Iran diplomatic history

  • Who: Prof. John Tirman in CIS, with Hyperstudio
  • How: Documents from Critical Oral History Conference Briefing Books scanned and OCR'ed
  • Done: Archive, search, filter, sort, visualize
  • Next: More media, possibly tools for researchers, K-12 teachers
Example: http://usiran.mit.edu/documents