Viral Networks: An Advanced Workshop in Digital Humanities and Medical History

Join the National Library of Medicine, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) through a grant to Virginia Tech, for this exciting opportunity! On January 29-30, 2018, NLM will host Viral Networks: An Advanced Workshop in Digital Humanities and Medical History, bringing together scholars from various fields of medical history whose innovative research shows promise through the use of methods, tools, and data from the digital humanities. Viral Networks will combine a face-to-face workshop with structured virtual-editing activities to produce and advance the innovative scholarship of the participants, and to help build the larger community of scholars who are pushing the envelope at the intersection of medical history and the digital humanities during this time of expanding digital resources and data-driven research. The focus on networks connects new computational tools for analyzing large-scale interactions between people, organizations, and ideas with the established emphasis of humanities scholarship on meaning, value, and significance over time and across cultures. Workshop participants will include twelve contributing scholars, who each will produce a chapter of original research in the planned open-access scholarly publication; consulting scholars who are experts in network analysis; and an advisory board which will coordinate stages of collaborative writing, peer review, collective editing, the final publication, as well as the preservation of data...
Source: NN/LM Middle Atlantic Region Blog - Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Tags: Data Science Education News from NLM/NIH Technology Source Type: news