2015-11-5

Eli and Sarah attended the DLF conference in Vancouver to present on the DRS Project Toolkit. Our toolkit is definitely unique in that it's the most lightweight and reproducible. Tradeoffs come in functionality - the heavier sights can also have bigger tools options. Some interesting projects came up - University of Iowa in particular had a cool contextualization of original recordings of space. They worked with engineers on the project.

Worth noting - we need to document a lot of things for the toolkit code, etc, so that if we bring in other developers they know what's going on.

Julia went to a conference on the early history of humanities computing, and then her and Syd attended the TEI conference. The TEI conference had a lot of project reports. TAPAS announced its 2.0, was on a panel on TEI infrastructure.

Amanda went to the Vermont Library Association to talk about wikipedia Learned a lot about working in non-metro are higher education: distributed population, internet issues. Students are starting to think about refugees, taking in oral histories Wikipedia talk went well.

Interview with programmer/analyst tomorrow

Things to look out for in the future - there's a lot of interest about data sets from Boston and their analysis. There may eventually be a formal research group.

NU quarterly GIS meeting - Finding a shared storage space and analysis space has been a significant problem. Went very well, brought the community together, they have their own slack that Bahare has set up.