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A Digital Humanities Partnership With The Harvard Center For Hellenic Studies (Panel D), Christine Tulley

Network Detroit: Digital Humanities Theory and Practice

In this presentation, I describe the results from participating in Sunoikisis at the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies and how the participation cultivates an introduction to the digital humanities in a graduate rhetoric program. Some of the direct benefits graduate students received from participation in the program were 1) weekly lectures taught live in a Google Hangout chat from classics scholars to showcase digital humanities methods, 2) a semester wide discussion on Homer and the debate over the start of rhetoric as a field of study (using Rachel Knudsen’s Homer and the Origins of Rhetoric as a starting bridge text …

Folksonomies & Folklore: Connecting The Communities Of The Past With The Present In The James Callow Archive At Udm (Panel C), Tanya Davidson

Network Detroit: Digital Humanities Theory and Practice

My topic focuses on the James Callow Folklore Collection that is housed at the University of Detroit Mercy. I have written a case study on the current archival practices for the collection, and I explore the possibility of including community based tagging and open contributions to the database as a way to connect the collection from the past communities to the present. The poster presentation would be an examination of the implications that such elements would have on the collection and on the representation of communities– and I will illustrate in real time how adding folksonomies into the current taxonomy …

A Narrative Of One’S Own: Twine And Community In The Classroom (Panel D), Cody Mejeur

Network Detroit: Digital Humanities Theory and Practice

One of the best aspects of the Digital Humanities is their strong emphasis on praxis, especially the making of digital tools and archives that serve our scholarly and public communities. In this spirit, the Digital Humanities can challenge educators to reconfigure learning around making and doing, and furthermore to find new ways to create in a digital world. My presentation will focus on a recent course I taught at MSU on video games, narrative, and culture, in which I tasked my students with learning through creating their own games and stories with Twine. Twine is a free, web-based software for …

Using Python To Wrangle Public Datasets: Researching Property Ownership In Detroit (Panel A), Eric Seymour

Network Detroit: Digital Humanities Theory and Practice

In this paper, I discuss my research on the ownership of residential real estate in Detroit since the onset of the mortgage foreclosure crisis in the mid-2000s. During this time, roughly 70,000 Detroit homes were repossessed by banks and federal housing agencies. I argue the pressures these institutions faced---pressures from Congress, stockholders, and others---and the systems used by these entities for selling properties worsened the effects of the foreclosure crisis and harmed many of Detroit's historically intact middle- and working-class neighborhoods. My research draws on numerous public and proprietary datasets to identify property ownership, real estate transactions, and notices of …

Building A Community Of Practice Bridging Making And Thinking (Panel B), Julie Thompson Klein

Network Detroit: Digital Humanities Theory and Practice

The field of Digital Humanities spans many communities of practice, from design of digital texts, archives, and libraries to cultural studies of new technologies and media. The discourse of Making is fostering a new community of practice emerging from intersections of the epistemology, rhetoric, and aesthetics of building. Building tools is being reconceptualized from a reductive mechanical production to an intellectual endeavor with its own practices, theory, and standards. Framed by the historical boundary between thinking and doing, the emergence of this expanding community was signaled by the shift from the label ”humanities computing” to “digital humanities.” Growing theorization of …

Keynote, J Mark Souther

Network Detroit: Digital Humanities Theory and Practice

J. Mark Souther, Center for Public History + Digital Humanities at Cleveland State University
From Exhibition to Conversation: Digital Storytelling and the Elusive Community.

What Is Consulting Services? Our Approach To Supporting The Needs Of The Scholarly Community, Allen Sprague

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

An outline of the thought and approach behind bepress's Consulting Services model.

Evaluating Scholarly Communication Services And Programs To Plan For Sustained Success, Jacklyn Rander, Matt Ruen

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

The scholarly communications program and institutional repository at Grand Valley State University began in 2008, and in its first seven years, grew rapidly. Our team, recently-expanded, now includes three full time positions, and through our repository we host open textbooks, open-access journals, and thousands of documents. Our initial growth was organic and opportunistic, which enabled this initiative to successfully take root in the University Libraries. The next challenge for our scholarly communications program is to make sure those early roots are strong and healthy, so that we can sustain our initial success through the next seven years and beyond.

In …

Beyond Assessment: Using Metrics To Make Institutional Repositories Indispensable, Harrison W. Inefuku, Todd A. Bruns

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

The collection, analysis, and reporting of metrics is a valuable tool for repository managers in measuring and assessing the growth and usage of their institutional repositories. These metrics are varied in nature and purpose, and can include download counts to measure readership of repository materials, numbers of uploaded items to measure repository growth, sources of inbound visitors to determine the success of search engine optimization, and names and numbers of contributing authors to measure faculty uptake.

The stakeholders in an institutional repository extend beyond the library to include university administration, academic departments, research centers, professors, staff, students, and alumni. These …

Pampering Uploaders: Easing The Metadata Upload Process, Craighton T. Hippenhammer

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

Impromptu Lightning Talk, listing five tips for configuring submission forms to ease the process of item upload for users.

Using Built-In Features, Stephanie Gaskins, Elizabeth Richardson

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

At Kent State, we work on Digital Commons all times of day so communication is important. We utilize many of bepress’s built-in features to facilitate this. Based on our conversations with other Digital Commons institutional repository managers, many of Digital Commons’ built-in features are not used or not used to their fullest potential. We are moving toward taking full advantage of built-in features in our workflow and hope to push beyond what is available and to suggest enhancements from bepress. We aim to use built-in features for training, internal communication within our team, external communication with authors and rights holders, …

"Make It Work": Patching Together A New Ir Workflow To Sustain Growth, Teresa Schultz

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

Growing an institutional repository at a small university library with limited resources brings a number of challenges, and VU is no different. The Christopher Center Library has no dedicated employees who work solely with its IR, ValpoScholar, and instead relies on a mix of interns and other employees to create records and upload works in their spare time. VU has had some success in finding faculty works for ValpoScholar through self-submissions for an annual celebration of faculty research and by searching databases but wanted to see if there was still a better way. In Fall 2014, the library began to …

How To, And How Not To Recover And Preserve Two Orphan Journals: A Case Study Of The Journal Of Communication Therapy And Insight And Hindsight, Paul Blobaum

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

The OPUS repository at Governors State University, University Park IL was launched in May, 2014. The Repository replaces Dspace. Materials in the University Archives were reviewed for possible candidates for digitization and utilization of the Digital Commons Journal series structures for optimal showcasing of archived content of these defunct journals that originated at the University. Copies of the Journal of Communication Therapy, and Insight and Hindsight, journal were discovered in the University Archives, and identified for recovery of the publication's opus (filling in missing issues), digitization, and archival preservation. A collaborative effort with Texas State University library was implemented to …

Academic Publishing Folklore: Finding A Unified Narrative For Open Access, Dave Johnston

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

There is often no systematic means by which information about open access and the scholarly publishing landscape is shared between faculty, students and administrators and the particular concerns can vary considerably from discipline to discipline. The patchwork of beliefs about open access and publishing on our campuses bears more similarity to a body of folklore, an academic publishing folklore. Like all folklore, it can contain elements of both misinformation and truth.

Working as a librarian in a scholarly communications role brings with it the responsibility of conveying the importance of open access to faculty members, students and administrators in order …

Scholarly Communication Outreach: Oers, Etds, And Liaisons, Todd Bruns, Steve Brantley, Stacey Knight-Davis

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

At Eastern Illinois University (EIU) several library faculty have been involved with a coordinated outreach effort to provide scholarly communication support services to EIU's faculty. This presentation will highlight many of those efforts, including producing the results of the recent Bepress survey trial of faculty digital research needs, using the IR as a platform for hosting Open Educational Resources, marketing the IR and library services to faculty via "Success + Service" reports, training library subject liaisons to be "scholarly communication coaches," and outreach efforts to specific campus entities such as EIU's Research and Sponsored Programs Office, the Center for Humanities, …

An Integrated Digital Services Model For Institutional Repositories, M Ryan Hess

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

DePaul University Library created a suite of digital services to support faculty projects which addressed common hurdles to repository adoption. In a faculty survey we ran in the fall of 2014, faculty reported an unawareness of the repository, uncertainty of how they might use it. However, they also reported that they placed value on the repository services we presented to them and a desire to hear more information. Anecdotally, we also heard the common refrain that faculty are too busy and too technologically challenged to engage with the repository on their own. In response, we defined several interrelated services to …

Accessing Library Literature On Your Ipad, Alexandra Sarkozy

Scholars Cooperative Brown Bag Series

Demonstration of Zotero, EndNote, and Browzine on iPads

H-Index: Assessing An Author's Impact, Katherine Akers

Scholars Cooperative Brown Bag Series

Description of the h-index and discussion of its strengths and weaknesses

Apis And The Library: What, Why?, Graham S. Hukill

Scholars Cooperative Brown Bag Series

APIs (Application Programming Interface): What are they? Why are they? Introduction to APIs and their role in the Library

Relief Mural Projects, Arturo Rodriguez, Arturo Rodriguez

The Mid-America Print Council Conference

I will have student-created print works installed on the exterior walls of buildings on the campus of Wayne State University during the MAPC conference. Additionally, I will have the same prints installed around the campus of the University of Toledo, thus bridging the two cities and creating one big connected “Print City”.

Students will create large woodblock prints that would be adhered to exterior walls of buildings. These large images will be printed on Japanese Kozo (rice paper). The life span of these murals depends directly on exposure to weather. The paper will be adhered to the chosen site using …

Print & (Pedagogical Issues In Printmaking), Shelley R. Gipson, Josh Dannin, Sarah Dahlinger, Emily J. Stokes, Whitney Korstange

The Mid-America Print Council Conference

This panel addresses how the contemporary printmaker must adapt traditional approaches to making, collaborating, teaching, and networking to an increasingly digital landscape. With creative adaptation a necessity for artists and the medium of printmaking's sustained relevance, panelists will discuss their experiences: transforming traditional journals into digital archives, seeking innovative approaches to portfolio exchanges, pursuing alternative vocations, and readying the next generation of artists for these challenges.

Poetry & Prints: Impressions From Detroit & Brazil, Marion Jackson Ph.D., Thomas L. Pyrzewski

The Mid-America Print Council Conference

This panel presentation will discuss how one good idea developed into the blueprint for a high-quality arts program for Detroit area youth that can be used year after year.

Eight Detroit arts organizations are collaborating to offer a 9-week summer program of workshops presenting high-quality instruction in visual arts and poetry for Detroit youth – introducing students to a variety of media and techniques, focusing particularly on poetry, screen printing, and letterpress printing. As part of the summer program, students will learn about a fascinating artistic tradition of the Northeast of Brazil known as literatura de cordel (“stories on a …

Gross Anatomy: Collaborative Book, Arturo Rodriguez

The Mid-America Print Council Conference

A panel discussion/reflection with several students who participated in a unique creative collaboration between two studio classes: printmaking and drawing. In the fall of 2012, lecturer Ben Pond and I taught Anatomy and Lithography courses respectively. Our students worked collaboratively on a large format (30”x22”), series of prints/drawings based on the theme “Gross Anatomy.” All students first created lithographs and then further embellished them using various drawing techniques. Three complete sets of print/drawings were created as a result of the collaboration, two of which were bound into hard-cover books. Students who participated in the creation of the book will give …

Beyond The Institution: Creating An Independent Creative Life Without Academia, Edward C. Bernstein

The Mid-America Print Council Conference

Having just retired in August 2013 as Head of Printmaking , School of Fine Arts, Indiana University, Bloomington, I have had the privilege of IU’s providing me with a studio for 22 years. More importantly, I have had many opportunities to compete for institutional grants for creative research and travel, including trips to our professional conferences. I was able to make really innovative work and take risks that otherwise might have been very difficult. I am now transitioning to my own recently acquired raw studio space beginning a new chapter in my life without institutional support.

Like many baby boomerish …

Between Paper And Porcelain, Alternative Printmaking Techniques, Thomas Lucas

The Mid-America Print Council Conference

As contemporary printmakers continue to push the boundaries of the printmaking medium across the disciplines, the role of the print has proved an important creative element with mediums such as ceramics. This demonstration will showcase traditional printmaking techniques such as etching and lithography transfer applications to porcelain clay. The ceramics community has been aware of printmaking techniques such as screenprinting and monoprinting for many years. These approaches have opened up, the possibilities for applying images on the surfaces of ceramic vessels and sculptural forms. As well as, supporting a more interdisciplinary perspective towards the arts in general.

The idea of …

Integrating Digital Imaging And 4-Color Printing Using Photopolymer Printing Plates, Janet Ballweg

The Mid-America Print Council Conference

Demonstration:

This demonstration will integrate digital image-making (both 2d imaging and 3d modeling) with traditional and contemporary print processes. The presenter will walk through the process of preparing digital images in 3D and Photoshop, creating color separations, printing transparencies, exposing images to polymer printing plates, inking, registering, and printing the plates as a 4-color image.

Kinetic Inquiry In The Always-Already Expansive Field Of Printmaking, Noel W. Anderson

The Mid-America Print Council Conference

Kinetic Inquiry in the Always-Already Expansive Field of Printmaking

Printmaking, historically a language of mass dissemination – by association plural access – is now being explored and extended through other mediums. Ideas of multiples, multiplication, and repetition, at once fundamental to printmaking’s character, is now characteristic of video. Fitting with the theme of an intersection between academic and “urban” spaces, the members on this panel will present lectures and engage in a critical discourse about personal uses and/or visions of video’s role in the ever-expanding field of printmaking. Drawing from such diverse territories as folk, graffiti, pop, poetry, and academic …

Superstitions And Rituals Of The Print Shop, Meredith L. Setser, Brian Gonzales, Liz Menard, Mark L. Smith, Phd

The Mid-America Print Council Conference

Panel Proposal: Superstitions and Rituals in the Print Shop

Abstract: Printmaking, a medium that utilizes rational knowledge and a concrete understanding of scientific processes and chemistry, seems like a rather unlikely field for superstitions to abound. However, it is surprising to note that this is generally not the case, as the field is chock full of ritualistic behaviors, superstitions, and “good luck” objects. Printmakers, much like athletes, tend to be a very superstitious lot. This may be due to the fact that the act of printmaking with its emphasis on process, is performance based, much like athleticism. The types of …

Controlled Chaos; Versatility And Variety Of Mark-Making Within Screenprint, Jennifer Ghormley, Brian Spolans, Nichole Maury

The Mid-America Print Council Conference

Screenprint is highly accessible to artists of all sorts, and has many avenues of expression - fine art, installation art, t-shirts, posters, graffiti, really as many outlets as there are people who produce screenprints. A visible upsurge in the use of screenprint in contemporary printmaking and in the proliferation of new screen-based print shops can be seen as artists use its various processes to create work that is no longer restricted by identifiable style, scale, or dimension. This demonstration represents a range of potential methods in the expressive and flexible nature of the contemporary screenprint process, from hard-edged graphic forms, …

Abstraction, Landscape, And Contemporary Woodcut, Endi Poskovic

The Mid-America Print Council Conference

Title of Session: Abstraction, Landscape and Contemporary Woodcut

Chair: Endi Poskovic, Stamps School of Art and Design, University of Michigan

Panel Members: Teresa Cole, Tulane University, New Orleans

Katy Collier, independent artist, Minneapolis

Susan Goethel Campbell, independent artist, Detroit

Goedele Peeters, Academie Berchem Beeldende Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium

Abstract: The origin of modern abstraction may be rooted in the 19th-century Romantic landscape tradition of Northern Europe; a premise set forth by renowned American art historian and professor Robert Rosenblum (1927-2006) in the early 1970s. This panel invites artists and makers, critical thinkers and art historians interested in expanding the conversation about …