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Greene is asking "What do digital humanities scholars need from digital collections?" Reporting on a study she did. #thatcampks

One useful thing for me today has been defining research databases as "big data." Harriett Greene's paper implicitly agrees. #thatcampks

"Design fiction" -- material mockups or prototypes of our ideas about the future. #thatcampks

Now up: @karikraus on "Phylogenetic Futures Big Data and Design Fiction." Abstract: http://t.co/8lcXtfnG #thatcampks

RT @Ted_Underwood: Enjoying #thatcampks abstract from Katherine Coles & Julie Lein. For people spectating from afar, abstracts are h ...

I'm actually rather surprised that they've tried to represent individual poems or so few poems at once. Not sure why. #thatcampks

So far hearing about failures to make visualizations that represent poems "accurately," that is, aesthetically, experientially. #thatcampks

Now hearing from Julie Lein and Katharine Coles on their @NEH_ODH Digging Into Data work on visualizing poetry. #thatcampks

Also a good point: dirty OCR etc makes data problematic but by no means useless, just like documents diplomatic historians use. #thatcampks

"Digital sources contribute knowledge beyond individuals," says @benmschmidt, & we need to know how to read them. #thatcampks

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