John, You're muted. There we go. Sorry. Yes. So digital humanities services also, I hate computers. I just want to set that out first. I think they're the bane of all of our existence. We should all just give up on them. Anyway. Digital humanities services, who we are. It's me another, I'm technically within research informatics and publishing. The digital humanities unit is me and had there and learn Cooper. But in terms of the people who are doing services as we sort of understand those words to the campus. That's heather and I. Because Lauren works with CBD are anyway, so I'm the digital humanities librarian and Heather and literary informatics librarian. And we're going to sort of do this a little bit together. So what do we do? Our main job is to facilitate computational analysis in the humanities. And that involves doing consultation and instruction. An eye towards helping researchers find in use software methodologies that they need to do computational analysis. We help connect people to the myriad digital services on campus or on all of our campuses as much as we can. Because there are so many different groups, not just in the libraries. There are so many different groups that are supporting different aspects of things that get put under the umbrella of digital humanities. We also do a lot of work helping scholars identify. Here I say funding opportunities, but I forgot also training opportunities. And one of the sum of something that I did in liberal arts was create a training fund for faculty and graduate students in the College of the Liberal Arts to be able to, to help defray the cost of getting digital humanities training from various places. Anyway. So we help people with grants, we help them seek additional training. We facilitate data collection. I have we do all sorts of curriculum development from one-shot workshops to actually helping to develop four credit courses. So we do a bunch of different things. But consultation or instruction. One weird thing that we do is, which isn't really digital humanities. I wouldn't say it's just a random thing that happened because I've been doing social media analysis for in my job prior to coming here. As we support the collection and analysis of social media data technically in general, but specifically really Twitter. And again, that's connecting researchers with tools, helping them figure out how best to analyze and sort of extract the knowledge that they want to from this, this data. So you might be asking where he is, his arm where local camera lean towards faculty and students, like some undergraduates didn't say why are very interested in these kinds of questions. We do a lot of work that's manatees discipline specifically inputting our history. Thanks. History. Not be confused with their history, but we also work with the members of communications are sciences and the College of Communications more generally. Including communication foods that Israel, sociology, economics and business. So we have a wide range of audiences that we tend to think, primarily humanities, it does end up touching a lot of other different disciplines. Can connect with the next slide, please. Okay, and so we're also really interested and invested in working with library materials and putting research from special collections. This says included the digital by mountain Fletcher project that I've been working on with a member of the English Department. We've been making a digital, online digital edition. Let's see several plays. We have one up currently this in collaboration with the libraries publishing team, putting alley there and end-of-year hurt in the group for me as the SRD. This is a way to kind of make one of our special collections materials that is quite rare, more accessible to a larger audience. We work with different kinds of databases. For example, I worked a lot with different kinds of databases that have offered up text and data mining platforms such as J store and Gail, we did a child ProQuest admission of you have been very interested in that than the travel request to see if we wanted to continue to work with them on that text and data mining platform, things like that. This is an undoing source of library resources. And we also work with print collections for scanning and OCR, you know, helping people get materials up on through the digitization cycle. So we can have researchers start to use them down the line for other primary source purposes. So calm. Do you want to go ahead to the data curation model? I want to add one thing about the database. So Heather is been creating lib guides for a number of hour for text analysis in general. But with specific guides related to platforms like jewelry stores, constellation. I think there are others you're working she's working on one for using Hathi Trust. So if there are databases that we subscribe to that have textContent and you want to know more about essentially how to facilitate working with those texts. Talk to Heather. And if it makes sense to she can put together a lib guide so that you would be able to are you that folks subject specialist say? I don't know how many there are in the audience. I think a couple can point people to these guys. So I wanted to point that out. The data curation model thing. I mean, it's really a kind of a reiteration. We primarily focus on analysis and we do help people with the collection process. Particularly because few minutes, as Heather has noted in, in different fora. Humanists are often new to things like spreadsheets and working with spreadsheets and conceptualizing their work as data. And so we have to do a lot of work to get that kind of preparatory work with. Now, all of the people we work with, but a number of people that we work with, um, to kind of get them up to speed. That's sort of something prior to data collection. That's just sort of understanding things like how a spreadsheet operates, how many, how much information you want to have in one cell, and so on and so on. Which also gets into obviously metadata issues. And we do some basic curation for preservation. But, you know, we were working with people who are generally producing essentially text files. That's nothing super-complicated. I would say. And the XML form of text firewall is probably the most complicated that we would get into. And say actually just as a provocation, I guess. Maybe it's not a provocation, but I'm very much on the preserve assets now. Object. Not the digital project. Um, and so like with the digital Beaumont and Fletcher, what I am interested in is the XML files that underlie it. I'm not interested in trying to preserve the website as a website. That's just my own bias. I'm an old man. I've been doing this for probably too long. Our aspirations and Ash, I actually have a lot of different aspirations and some of which it's already come up in conversations prior to this. But one of the things that I've been working on and running up against this, the problem of needing better support for the commonwealth campuses. This is an issue that's come up in multiple surveys and it needs assessments that are unit has done. And I mean, it's something that I am I think this community of practice will really, I think address a lot of those issues. And the other thing is Heather has been working some, particularly at Abington with student focused research projects. And I think that that model and it's a model that maybe not quite as complicated as the CCP model. Complicated in the sense of having a lot of people involved. But this model of trying to get more research opportunities for students in the humanities and digital humanities projects are really great way of doing that. And digital Pokemon Fletcher involve both the undergraduate and graduate students in the project. And I would really like to see more opportunities like this to get more students involved in these kinds of hands-on research group. Our activities. And so that is it for us. And I will stop sharing. And if there are questions for us or even questions going back to Lauren and CCP or CBD or rather, if in case something has come to mind. While I've been talking or we've been talking. Sorry, Heather, I just erased you. That's fine. It's not fine. Should yell at them. I'm curious how much how much labors involve tether and creating a platform specific lib guide to help users with that work. It seems like it could be quite a process. I mean, a lot of it is going through the database itself and seeing what it offers. A lot of them use a lot of the same kinds of general outcomes. They're all using some kind of Jupyter Notebooks. They might have a couple visual elements to kinda look at as an introduction to and just kinda making a list of like, okay, what are the features? How do we describe them? What, what does someone need to know to be able to pick this up kind of early on and then can synthesize that into something that looks a little bit more instructive. Here's a pile of notes on this thing and I try to give examples. Like if you want to do this thing, you could do this kind of approach. One of the more recent ones have just written is the kind of Slate one. And it has this really great opportunity to look at like how someone talks about the word Baroque in art history and art history scholarship. So like that's a nice kind of infinite to it. I'm not sure. That's really answering your question in terms of actual labor. I mean, a lot of them are kind of in an arms race with each other to try and make similar outcomes. But it's, it's more about knowing how to synthesize than it is nothing but how to actually sit down and do all the work outright, I think. Does that answer your question, Nathan? Well, thank you. We've got a couple minutes before we necessarily have to start our next presentation. I'm curious, John, what are your other aspirations? Said you have many well, one long-standing one that I've had since 2017 is this sort of humanities digital collections. Ideas like working with subject specialists in the humanities to select print material for digital conversion to collections as data stuff. Though, I hate using that phrase for the transformation of print material to computation. We amenable material because in my mind, collections as data actually incorporate as larger philosophical field. But anyway, so thinking about more of our print collections as sources for contemporary research and data reuse. Definitely doing more collections as data work in general, but particularly with an eye to the pedagogical aspects of the collections as data. When I've been working with art history students to help them learn how to work with data. What I would have them do is create dataset to then create tutorials for the datasets. So that both their duct, so that their documentation that they're creating around the data set With an understanding of the intellectual process of creating the data. So it's a README file that to guide to the data and how it was created, documenting the decisions that were made. And then also a to use the Santa Barbara statement language, a pathway into the work that's represented by a tutorial. And it's a great exercise for the students to have to think about their data in a kind of insanely alien way. Like how do I make use of this data through a particular program? And it causes them to reflect on their data. And a lot of different ways. Thanks, I'm sorry. I forgotten other my aspirations. I'm sorry. It's okay. It's an a mental folder somewhere and labeled ideas. Thank you, John. Thank you Heather, for an introduction and overview of digital humanities services. I'm going to stop the recording.