The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab is pleased to invite you to a talk with Dr. Bill Pascoe (U Newcastle) on Time, Space, Technology, and Meaning.
When: Tuesday, September 17, 3:30-4:30,
Where: ETCL / McPherson Library A314, University of Victoria
Abstract: Digital maps provide a way to improve our literacy in reading the country and the places we inhabit. The University of Newcastle, Australia is leading a national initiative to build digital mapping infrastructure for the humanities – Time Layered Cultural Map. Emerging from interdisciplinary digital humanities research, we are exploring methodological, theoretical, and technical challenges, learning from indigenous mapping technology, adapting existing mapping software, and embarking on ambitious new developments for humanities research needs – from automated mapping of textual corpora across time to intermedia mapping and mixed reality.
This talk is the second of two that Dr. Pascoe will be offering as part of his Visiting Scholar week at the ETCL.
Dr. Pascoe is a Digital Humanities specialist with the Centre For 21st Century Humanities and the Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing, University of Newcastle, Australia. With a background in English, philosophy, semiotics, and software development, he has been a leader and contributor on innovative and high impact DH and eResearch projects, including the Colonial Frontier Massacres project, the EMWRN archive, ELDTA endangered languages, IA stylometry software, Virtual Biobank 3D medical image processing and eWater. He is currently system architect on an Australian national infrastructure project for digital mapping in the humanities, Time Layered Cultural Map.