Join the CDH this week for a series of virtual events on descriptive bibliography for African American literary studies, privacy in the age of big data, and creating digital collections of Indigenous cultural heritage.
Note: All times are Eastern unless otherwise noted.
March 23, 4:30 to 6 p.m.: Why Black Bibliography Matters. This is the first of the Rare Book Working Group and CDH Speaker Series, featuring Professor Kinohi Nishikawa (English / African American Studies) and Tim Thompson, Librarian for Applied Metadata Research at Yale University. This two-part presentation explores the work of outlining a rationale for Black textual criticism in the twenty-first century within the context of the Black Bibliography Project (BBP). The discussion will examine BBP’s methodological grounding in descriptive bibliography and digital humanities and advance an argument for a seemingly paradoxical pursuit: the systematic study of the wide diversity of Black textual production.
March 24, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.: How Librarians Can Protect Privacy in the Age of Big Data. Join Library Freedom Project director Alison Macrina to learn about the role of librarians in the digital privacy fight, the most pressing digital privacy issues facing society today, and how librarians and community members can work together to take control of our digital lives.
March 26, 3 to 4:15 p.m.: Mukurtu, the Spalding-Allen Collection, and the Plateau Peoples’ Web Portal. Dr. Trevor James Bond (Co-Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation and the Associate Dean for Digital Initiatives and Special Collections at the Washington State University Libraries) will describe the process of adding the Spalding-Allen Collection to the Plateau Peoples' Web Portal including the creation of community records and the sharing of research materials. The Plateau People’s Web Portal uses Mukurtu (MOOK-oo-too), an open source platform built with Indigenous communities to manage and share digital cultural heritage.
