100 Years in the Making: A Case for Books in Curricular Digital Scholarship (Scalar, Tensor and Crossroads)
Start Date
7-10-2017 10:40 AM
End Date
7-10-2017 12:10 AM
Description
Occidental College (Oxy) has been working to develop curriculum and technical infrastructure for sharing curated archival and undergraduate research projects between educational and cultural heritage institutions. This session presents a case study of a pilot undergraduate course in the humanities which deployed the digital scholarly authoring platform Scalar as a means to engage a collection of Russian Avant-garde artist books housed at the Getty Research Institute (GRI). The session will feature a live demonstration of a new middleware tool, Tensor, which has an iTunes-like interface for collecting and migrating content between digital archives and publishing platforms. Tensor will bridge Scalar, as long-form online scholarly publication platform, with Global Crossroads, Oxy’s short-form site-based presentation system, placing these systems in close proximity to each other as a new, open-source and modular system for facilitating and disseminating digital scholarship.
Type
Presentation
Session
#s1b: Exploring Digitized Texts, moderator Kate Boylan
Language
eng
Location
Elaine Langone Center, Center room
100 Years in the Making: A Case for Books in Curricular Digital Scholarship (Scalar, Tensor and Crossroads)
Elaine Langone Center, Center room
Occidental College (Oxy) has been working to develop curriculum and technical infrastructure for sharing curated archival and undergraduate research projects between educational and cultural heritage institutions. This session presents a case study of a pilot undergraduate course in the humanities which deployed the digital scholarly authoring platform Scalar as a means to engage a collection of Russian Avant-garde artist books housed at the Getty Research Institute (GRI). The session will feature a live demonstration of a new middleware tool, Tensor, which has an iTunes-like interface for collecting and migrating content between digital archives and publishing platforms. Tensor will bridge Scalar, as long-form online scholarly publication platform, with Global Crossroads, Oxy’s short-form site-based presentation system, placing these systems in close proximity to each other as a new, open-source and modular system for facilitating and disseminating digital scholarship.