Hi all, I’m Alex. I teach at Hope College in western MI. I’m finishing up my diss on soccer in Buenos Aires at Michigan State. I’m interested in a lot of DHey stuff but right now focusing on databases and visualizations. I also co-edit GradHacker.

Hey everyone!

My name is Stefan [stefn] (or http://twitter.com/fourtonfish) and I’m a “full stack” web developer living in Brooklyn, NY (originally from Central Europe, moved here almost a year ago).

I’m working on a site for botmakers called http://botwiki.org. Everyone is also welcome to join our community (link on the site).

Really happy to be in this Slack, looks very interesting!

Hi all, i’m also Alex (in this case, last name Humphreys). I’m from JSTOR Labs (http://labs.jstor.org), a small team within JSTOR that works with labs, libraries, scholars and publishers to build experimental (and often DH-ey) tools for researchers and teachers.

I’m also a still-working-at-it writer, a boy-this-is-harder-than-it-looks father and an unabashed game player.

Hi, all! I’m Amanda Visconti (@literature_geek on Twitter). I’m a DH web developer, assistant prof/digital humanities specialist at Purdue, and run the http://InfiniteUlysses.com participatory digital edition (I finished a no-chapters DH dissertation in April based around that site). I also have the owner role for the DH Slack, so feel free to contact me with any admin-type questions or requests to post something about the DH Slack to #announcements.

Hi all, Im Thomas Padilla, Digital Scholarship Librarian at Michigan State University. Ive been called ‘obsessed with Humanities data’, which I suppose Ill take as a compliment. Interested in humanities data curation, digital preservation, and data information literacy, among other things.

Thomas IS obsessed with humanities data

Greetings! I’m Trip Kirkpatrick, with a sufficiently stable nick (@triplingual) across media. I’m at Yale in the Instructional Technology Group of the Center for Teaching and Learning, so yay digital pedagogy! I’m proud to be a (small) member of the Photogrammar <http://photogrammar.yale.edu> team and a worker here on the FemTechNet DOCC. I’m also trying where I can to work toward an expansive, accessible, progressive, plurilingual/-cultural DH. :tada:

hi, I’m Ed Summers; I work as a developer at http://mith.umd.edu ; I’m interested in archival theory, hypermedia, history of the Web, infrastructure studies, bots, other stuff :simple_smile:

I’m Matt Lincoln (@matthewdlincoln on twitter), a PhD candidate in art history at the University of Maryland. I work with network analysis and museum data to analyze historical patterns of artistic interaction in the early modern era. I’d love to chat about #networks, #simulation, R, and cultural data analysis in general :wave:

I’m Tom Elliott (aka @paregorios many places). I collaborate on research computing and associated pedagogy at NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. Trained as a computer programmer and a Roman historian. Doing #geospatial stuff like http://pleiades.stoa.org and #textencoding stuff like http://epidoc.sf.net . Python. XML/XSLT.

Hi everyone! I’m Jason Heppler (@jaheppler), a PhD candidate in History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the Academic Technology Specialist in the History Department at Stanford University. I do things with #visualization, mostly, using R or JavaScript.

hey folks - I’m shawn graham (aka @electricarchaeo round the intersphere) in the history department at carleton in canada. started academic life as a roman archaeologist; now I just futz with things, cause trouble, etc.

TROUBLEMAKER!

Amanda French, @amandafrench, not to be confused with Amanda Visconti. Former THATCamp guru, current libraryland denizen.

Ethan Watrall….MSU, digital archaeology & heritage, blah, blah, blah

@captain.primate: you forgot to add all-seeing eye of Sauron, too

AND THE ALL SEEING EYE OF SAURON!

/giphy eye of sauron

wow

that was unexpected. #off-topic

Hi all. I’m Mike Widner (@mwidner) and work at the Stanford University Libraries, also as an Academic Technology Specialist like @jheppler, except I hate R. It’s just so ugly.

Hello everyone. I’m Adriana Bastarrachea. I come from Latinamerican literature, and Art history. Currently at the MA in Digital Humanities at UCL. Self-assigned ‘novice’ title regarding DH, but tend to overcompensate with enthusiasm and passion. Specially interested on information theory, media theory, software theory, visualization, web development, software programming, education, and many many other things.

Hello, I’m Anouk Lang (@a_e_lang), lecturer in DH at the University of Edinburgh. English lit, modernism, networks, maps, gender, postcolonialism, Canlit, not enough sleep.

Hi all! I’m Hugh Cayless (hcayless on Twitter). I’m an old, grizzled DH developer who works for DC3 at Duke University (think Digital Classics geekiness and you’re on the right track). I’m also Chair of the TEI Technical Council. I’ve done stuff in a bunch of languages (Java, Javascript, Ruby, Python, PHP, and Clojure to name a few). Never done anything in R, though. I suppose I’m a “full-stack” developer, though I’m not certain what that means these days.

Hi, everyone. I’m a software engineer at Emory University Library with a PhD in English. I’ve worked on a number of digital libraries and digital humanities projects. Recent endeavors include http://readux.library.emory.edu (access to our digitized book content to support research, with the immediate goals of supporting annotation and digital critical editions) and Belfast Group Poetry| Networks http://belfastgroup.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/

Hello! I’m a reference librarian at the Graduate Center (CUNY) and I co-edit dh+lib, a collaborative project to bridge the dh and library communities, so I keep track of a lot of different developments in both worlds. I lean towards digital history and am working on encoding correspondence with TEI. Also interested in feminist dh, critical pedagogy and data literacy, privacy, and working to help grad students manage their dissertation data, even when they like to think it’s not data.

Hi, everyone! I’m Sarah (@svmelton on Twitter), and I’m a digital projects coordinator at Emory University’s Center for Digital Scholarship. I do a lot of work with open access, open research data, and open educational resources, in addition to a number of geospatial projects. My DH background is in open access publishing, and I’ve worked to start, foster, and support a number of OA humanities publications/projects like http://southernspaces.org and http://atlantastudies.org.

I’m also a PhD candidate, and my background is in public history/American Studies. I’m interested in the ways global histories of human rights are commemorated and contested in public spaces, and I’ve done research here in the US and in South Africa.

Hello! I’m Neil (@fitnr on twitter). I’m an artist and an urban planner. I’m not an academic, but I’ve taught data visualization methods at the New School. I dabble in cartography and I’m interested in creative uses of geospatial data.

https://makerba.se/m/q7sm7r/timfinnegan

Hi everyone! I’m mia (@mia_out on twitter), I’ve just joined the British Library as Digital Curator, having finished a PhD in Digital History over the summer. Before that I was a museum technologist/UX researcher

I just created #bibliography, a channel probably about encoding, managing, publishing, and exploiting bibliographic information in the context of DH publications, projects, subjects, and reading streams. Etc.

Question for probably @literature_geek: what Slack plan is this under? The free one? I ask because the JSTOR Labs team has been using Slack for about a year now and we absolutely love it although we’re finding now that with a long history the free version gets constraining — especially the inability to search for / show more than the most recent 10k posts. That could constrain the ability for there to be a “long memory” to discussions made. (that could be perfectly fine, of course — not everything needs to be archived — but thought it might be helpful to flag.)

@alex: Thanks, that’s good to know. It’s currently the free plan, but I’ll look into funding for a paid plan.

no prob, @literature_geek. You might also look into Slack for Non-profits: https://slack.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/204368833.

Hi everyone! I’m Aaron Brenner (@abrennr). I’m a librarian and I work as the Coordinator of Digital Scholarship in the #libraries at the University of Pittsburgh. I’m a generalist so I’m interested in everything :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: My background is in building repositories and digital collections, but lately I get most excited about things like learning theory and pedagogical design (#teachingdh), spaces for learning and working with information, transdisciplinarity, community and organizational design, and digital stewardship and #data-sharing. Also #bots and #visualization :wave:

:clap: welcome!

Hey folks, I’m Matt Burton (@mcburton on most interwebs). I’m a Visiting Assistant Professor / Post-doctoral researcher at Digital Scholarship Services (with @abrennr) and the School of Information Sciences. I recently-ish completed my PhD at the School of Information at the University of Michigan where I studied Digital Humanities blogs. I got started with DH when I was working part-time on #zotero for a hot DH minute that never ended :smiley:

Hi everyone! I’m Stewart Varner (@stewartvarner). I’m the Digital Scholarship Librarian at UNC, Chapel Hill. My thing is working with researchers and instructors who want to incorporate technology in into their research and teaching and connecting them to library resources. Other interests include old bicycles and large burritos.

@stewartvarner: +1 UNC-CH and +1 large burritos

large burritos are good for the soul

+1

Greetings. Sebastian Heath here. Hailing from NYU. I like doing fun things with data and teaching others to do the same.

sfsheath!

Howdy all– Dan Diffendale; PhD candidate in classical archaeology at the U of Michigan, @diffendale on twitter. I take pictures of old stuff and make ‘em available online, also interested in doing things with geospatial data

Hi all! Anne Donlon, a CLIR postdoc at Emory (Emory Center for Digital Scholarship and the Stuart A Rose Manuscript, Archives & Rare Book Library) and recent CUNY Grad Center PhD in English. I’m doing work with network graphs, text analysis, born digital archives.

Would it be appropriate to discuss here whether creating a particular new channel is warranted? Or is there a better venue for such discussions (or a better pattern for deciding to create a channel)?

Hi everyone! Mark Wardecker, Instructional Technologist at Colby College. Right now I’m working a lot with text analysis and games.

Stephen Ross here, of http://mvp.uvic.ca, linkedmodernisms, and http://zaxis.uvic.ca. The last is the newest, and it would be great if people wanted to take a look. We’re sort of in beta, sort of in production. I’m very interested in networks, graphing RDF relationships, LOD (when I can get over my distrust of the crowd), and of course – modernism!

welcome @ghostprof you might be interested in the #geospatial channel too

@paregorios: Oh yes I am. Thanks!

hi :simple_smile: i’m a high school teacher writting from mexico :simple_smile: (i never know how to properly present myself, but) i studied philosophy and arts (?)… hi :smile: (thanks for accepting my request so quickly) :smile:

@paregorios: using this channel as a place to ask about creating / “introduce” new channels makes sense to me

(Hi all!)

@literature_geek: ok thanks

Hi! I’m currently a grad student at Mills College getting my master’s in Interdisciplinary Computer Science. My undergrad is in anthropology and sociology. Interested in geospatial data, data science, machine learning. Also interested in making tech a better place for everybody, especially by making data science tools available to people who aren’t technically-inclined.

Hi all! I’m Finn Arne Jørgensen, associate professor of history at Umeå University in Sweden, where I spend a fair amount of time hanging around HUMlab. I do a little bit of everything DH, but wouldn’t say I master anything… I’ll be teaching a digital history course (grad) for the second time in the spring - see http://digitalhistorian.net/umedh2016. I’m one of the editors of Ant Spider Bee: Exploring the Digital Environmental Humanities (http://antspiderbee.net) and Digital Content Editor for the journal Environmental History. Oh, and I’m @finnarne on twitter etc.

Hello! I’m Alix Keener (@alix_rae), Digital Scholarship Librarian at the University of Michigan. Working on ramping up support for DH and digital scholarship at the U-M Library.

What would we think about a #codesnippets channel? I had first thought of a #reproducible-research channel but maybe that’s high and mighty sounding. Pointers to short pieces of code that actually do things is what I’m thinking. Plus longer more formal efforts when those appear. Distinct from full blown applications. Like this: https://gist.github.com/portableant/0bd366d68f59bc48f01f

:+1:

only thing is that i can imagine many of the other channels having snippets too (bots, data-sharing, networks, visualization, etc)

not opposed though

@sfsheath: Is there a way of setting up github groups for gists? Would be good if you could have that kind of group and integration with a #codesnippets channel

that said, along with reproducible research there are other code-related bits and pieces that could have a home there, library recommendations, guides for getting started with X

@fmcc not sure. I did note that slack asked if I wanted to import the gist. I said no as I wasn’t sure what it would look like and didn’t want to clog the feed. That doesn’t quite answer your question, but indicates that there might be some fun things that slack can do with such a group.

yeah - i’ve worked with groups with git + slack integration before - it’s more tagging and grouping gists that I don’t know about

might be good to start an R channel if that’s your thing ; I’m sure you would find @mdlincoln in there quickly :simple_smile:

@edsu, @fmcc yes, sort of a catch-all. Good if links to code/scripts/etc are littered throughout this slack. #codesnippet might just be one channel for increasing likelihood of fun stuff being shared and seen.

I’ll start #codesnippets , and I’d join and #R channel as well.

I’m not totally convinced about language-specific channels

but I’m maybe not seeing what role they would have, who would use them

Hi! I’m faculty and a librarian at City University of New York. I recently made a tool that does visualizations of CUNY library holdings.

Hi! I’m Caitlin Christian-Lamb (@christianlamb on twitter), and I’m an archivist at Davidson College. Depending on the day, I teach undergrads about archives and digital scholarship, work on digital preservation planning, work on our IR, run social media/blog for my department, plan outreach events, reference q’s, many meetings etc etc. :sunglasses:

hiya @caitlinchristianlamb :wave:

Hello, I’m Eduardo Robles (@hardrived around the internet :simple_smile:), currently I’m a graduate student in Information Technology at University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (that’s way down in South Texas). My 2 B.A’s are in Anthropology and Mexican American Studies and my research focus is around online communities and digital protest.

Hi! I’m Cliff Anderson and I’m the director for scholarly communications at Vanderbilt University. My colleagues and I work with a lot of digital humanities scholars on a range of topics from GIS to TEI. A particular area of interest for me is using XQuery, a functional programming language for JSON/XML documents, for projects in the digital humanities. For instance, we’re collectively editing a digital critical edition of Charles Baudelaire in TEI and using XQuery to build the digital interface. In any case, I look forward to communicating and collaborating with others here.

Hi. I’m Ben Brumfield, an independent developer in Austin, Texas. I specialize in crowdsourced transcription and collaborative digital editions in many forms, but focus particularly on an open-source tool I developed called FromThePage. Currently I’m hacking on features for IIIF and JSON-LD encoding of transcripts, features for assessing student contributions, and support for embedded tabular data within free-form text. I’m here because @andersoncliffb told me about the DH Slack at a workshop on encoding historic account books, and I’m delighted to find this forum.

@benwbrum: Good to see you in Regensburg! I’m new here too but, hey, welcome!

Hi, I’m Paige Morgan, currently a DH/DS postdoc at the Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship at McMaster University, and soon to be the DH Librarian at the University of Miami. I work on DH curriculum, community, and infrastructure building. My own project, slow-moving but making progress, is at http://www.visibleprices.org. I’m here after having heard about this forum at DLF in Vancouver, and am looking forward to more conversations.

Hi everybody, I’m Cory Taylor. I’m a PhD candidate in religious studies from the University of Iowa. My research focuses on literary social network analysis, as well as EpiDoc/TEI and 3D modeling. In my day job, I’m a data analyst at a marketing firm in Lincoln, NE.

Hello! I coordinate the DH program at UCLA. I’ve never been part of a Slack channel before. How exciting!

@miriamposner: the future is now!

Hellooooooo @miriamposner !

Hi, you nerds!

Lo! I’m a postdoc historian with UCLA Computer Science. I study historical/political economies of computer network infrastructures, which I also teach on sometimes at UCLA DH. I’m @brfidler on the tweets, and @miriamposner turned me on to this!

HI @brfidler!! It’s good we have another channel for communication!

@miriamposner i can’t self-actualize without a constant stream of push notifications that fall like anvils on my consciousness!

Hi all! I’m Laura Braunstein, Digital Humanities Librarian at Dartmouth College. Good to see lots of familiar and new names in this slacktiverse.

Hi everyone! I’m doing a doctorate in business administration part-time, looking for inspiration for my dissertation. I work as a lawyer. I’m @kevinkoosk in Twitter.

i’d say my dh cred goes back to reading roget’s thesaurus 50yrs ago (does that compute?)

…and that thesaurus work still informs my current project to stretch the expressiveness of emoji: http://expressiveemoji.blogspot.com/ and https://twitter.com/EmojiUlysses

Hi folks! I direct a DH centre in London and work mostly on imaging and digitisation. I’m trying to get my head round how this works! :) good to see many friends here!

It’s @melissaterras! Huzzah!

welcome!

In da house!!!!! No idea how the house works, mind! :)

Time for you to Scottish this place up!

Well you did ask :)

/giphy thumbs up

:)

Hi all, I am a cultural anthropologist and assistant prof/research data specialist with Purdue University Libraries. I am interested in ethical, methodological and preservation issues that arise within collaborative digital projects.

I am @kendallR on Twitter.

Welcome anthropologist!

Hi, @kendallroark!

Hello fellow anthropologist @captain.primate ! Thanks for inviting me @literature_geek !

Hi all! I work at UCLA’s Center for Digital Humanities as the lead developer. My background in English, so I like text mining, but I also love development and mapping (I worked on HyperCities, too).

My twitter name is the same as my name here

Hi @shepdl!

Hi Everyone! I’m a graduate student in the English Department (second language studies) at Purdue University. I’m interested in digital projects, especially how they relate to writing (kind of broad.. I know).

@olaswa: Go Boilers!

hey i am a data engineer at a greeting card company. previously i worked at the alternative press center. thanks to the mods for maintaining this space and i look forward to the chatting

hi everyone, my name’s sam brenner. i’m a developer at the cooper hewitt museum. found out about this through this post https://ryanfb.github.io/etc/2015/11/03/finding_near-matches_in_the_rijksmuseum_with_pastec.html which i’m looking forward to trying out over here!

hi al – scott williams and I’m the dba for the yale art gallery. found out about this group through the same blog post as sam. Cheers!

@scott.williams: I just visited the Yale Art Gallery on Tuesday (while on a trip to the East Coast from Vanderbilt). Really impressive–must be a great place to work! Welcome!

@andersoncliffb: thanks – the galleries really are spectacular; they did a great job with the renovation ~three years ago.

@andersoncliffb: Would have loved to try to talk when you were here! @scott.williams

It was a kind of impromptu visit. Thanks for the invitation, though! I’ll definitely drop you a line next time I’m planning a trip to New Haven.

I’ll be cross-posting this in #dhanswers, but since it is very much a question that demands as wide as possible a range of perspectives, I am also dropping in the largest-population channel: https://github.com/programminghistorian/jekyll/issues/152

Hi! I’m a postdoc in Public Digital Humanities at Brown University and a recent graduate of Northeastern University. Excited to learn that this group exists! :pizza:

@jmcgrath: Hey! See you tomorrow!

@literature_geek: yes! Excited!

@jmcgrath: pass the san pelly!

@svmelton: :droplet:

Hi! I’m an independent software developer working in the DH space. I love talking about online scholarly editions, annotation, and collation. I’m the lead dev for Juxta and JuxtaEditions. My company is Performant Software Solutions LLC.

Welcome, Nick – you’re not the only independent DH developer here. (And thanks for the advice on MLA – I’m attending but not exhibiting this year. Hope to drop by your booth.)

Thanks @benwbrum - it would be good to get together sometime - I won’t be at MLA this year, I just was at DLF Forum and that’s really great. You should check it out next year it is in Milwaukee in November. It is a unique mix of DH/Lib/Dev folk

Hi, all! I’m Sveta. I’m a humanities reference librarian at the University of Hawaiʻi. Interested in digital/media history, intersections of dh/critical theory, teaching dh, and language + linguistics. Currently in early stages of a project visualizing Pacific language collections.

Hi! I’m Zoe. I’m a doctoral candidate in the history department at Vanderbilt University, and I work on international histories of anti-colonialism and the MENA region. I’m interested in dataviz, mapping, text mining, and network analysis. Also big time internet lurker so happy to finally post smth - even if it’s only an intro :simple_smile:

Welcome @zoeleblanc and @oksveta !

the #philosophy channel is currently my monolog on my view of the philosophy of dh, with particular emphasis at the moment on visualising episode ten of ulysses… but anyone is welcome to reply or offer their own philosophy of dh

Hi everybody - my name is Ian, and I’m an assistant professor of Canadian and digital history at the University of Waterloo. I work on historical use of web archives. Looking forward to (finally) participating here.