Description

In this episode, Sara Whitver talks to Rebecca Salzer about the development of the Dancing Digital project which she leads with collaborator Gesel Mason. Salzar and Mason have collaborated on a number of Digital Humanities endevors over the years. Their work seeks to document and make the work of women choreographers of color accessible through video documentary and archives. Their current endeavor extends this idea to creating visibility for these choreograhers through Linked Open Data in their new Digital Dancing Commons. The DDC is a wikibase project that will bidirectionally share Linked Open Data from a number of video archives projects, the wikibase DDC, and Wikimedia commons.

Season: 2

Episode: 2

Date: 10/06/2023

Presenter: Rebecca Salzer

Topic: The Dancing Digital Project

Tags: Linked Open Data, Video Documentary, Dance & Theater

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KU Leuven’s very own interdisciplinary ReproducibiliTea journal club is looking for coordinators and participants who want to learn from each other about what it takes to do open research. Learn more about everything from open data to preprint publishing, preregistration, and handling personal data, like in the following example:

That’s one of the most interesting things about ReproducibiliTea Leuven for me: Every time, I learn something new. For example, about the multitude of different data types that people work with or about the diverse array of issues researchers from different disciplines must consider. In one of our meetings, a colleague from movement sciences explained that they worked a lot with video data, which comes with major privacy issues; when a participant’s arm is being filmed and the participant has a tattoo, that is identifiable data. Another researcher talked about how to handle sensitive interview data from bereaved parents, and it all made me realize how crucial it is that open science practices are flexible, so they can cater to an array of potential use cases.

The next ReproducibiliTea@KULeuven journal club will take place online on Thursday 17 June (15h00-16h30). Two papers related to open data will be discussed, you can find the papers on the OSF page and Zotero library of ReproducibiliTea. Both staff and students from KU Leuven are welcome to attend (register here). Upon registration, you will receive an e-mail with a link needed to enter the online meeting. More information can be found here (KU Leuven intranet page).

ReproducibiliTea is a grassroots journal club initiative aimed at discussing diverse issues, papers and ideas about improving science and research reproducibility. The ReproducibiliTea@KULeuven journal club is a space for interdisciplinary discussion about science in general, and more specifically about Open Science and Reproducibility. They welcome people from all backgrounds and disciplines, and hope to create an inclusive environment for friendly discussion.

DHSITE 2021 is taking place the weeks of May 17-21 and May 24-28. In this two-week period, they organize 18-hour micro-course workshops. Workshop topics include an Introduction to Python (in English and in French), Issues in Digital Humanities, Introduction to Linked Open Data, Text Analysis, and Machine Translation. The detailed program can be found on the event website.

Registration is open! Be sure to reserve your spot. Micro-course workshops with low pre-registration will be cancelled.

Additionally, part of DHSITE 2021, the University of Ottawa Library will deliver a two-day research data management workshop. Visit the “Making Research Data Public” website for a complete schedule and information about registration.