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Our guest today is Dr. Vincent F. Scalfani. Vincent serves as the director of research computing services at the University of Alabama Libraries, providing leadership and support for the newly evolving research computing services across the disciplines. Additionally, he serves as subject liaison for chemical sciences and mathematics. Before joining the University of Alabama in 2012, he earned a PhD in chemistry from Colorado State University.

His research interests include chemical information and cheminformatics. Today, we’re going to be talking about a project that has been ongoing, a project that I am just absolutely in love with. It’s the University of Alabama Libraries Scholarly API Cookbook, which is an open-access online book featuring concise code examples or recipes that illustrate how to interact with various scholarly web service APIs.

These APIs enable researchers to automate search queries, customize data sets, and more easily integrate their information workflows into downstream data analysis processes. Launched in 2022, the cookbook is continually enhanced and updated by student programmers at the libraries. Vin and I have been on faculty here at the university libraries for about 13 years.

Season: 5

Episode: 2

Date: 3/2025

Presenter: Vincent Scalfani

Topic: Scholarly API Cookbook

Tags: Coding; Scholarly API research; research computing

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Our guest today is Dr. Jennifer Feltman. Jennifer is associate professor of medieval art and architecture. Her research focuses on the design, interpretation, and preservation of Gothic sculpture. She is directing “Notre Dame in Color,” which is hosted by the Alabama Digital Humanities Center.

“Notre Dame in Color” investigates, documents, and virtually recreates the vibrantly painted sculptures of the Gothic cathedral of Paris. This project has received funding from the Face Foundation, Transatlantic Research Partnership, a program of the French embassy in the United States, the NAH, and the UA Collaborative Arts Initiative.

Season: 3

Episode: 1

Date: 11/2024

Presenter: Jennifer Feltman

Topic: Scultural Art History

Tags: Notre Dame Cathedral; Art History; Sculture; 3D modeling; collaborative research

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In this episode, Sara talks to Art Historian Rachel Stephens about a number of her Digital Humanities projects, and specifically about her most recent collaborative project, Joe Minter’s African Village.

Season: 2

Episode: 3

Date: 11/03/2023

Presenter: Rachel Stephens

Topic: Documenting Living Artists

Tags: Documentary Research, GIS, Mapping, Southern American Art, Virtual Reality

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