Collections as Data
a Digital Humanities Network panel with
Peter Leonard (Yale University), Laurie Allen (Library of Congress), and Jamie Mears (Library of Congress)
This is the third in a series of lectures organized by the Digital Humanities Network at Ohio State. We hope you can join us for this and ongoing conversations as we work towards building a sustainable network for research, teaching, and community outreach in digital humanities.
This series is sponsored the Humanities Collaboratory, the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme, the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design, & University Libraries, and is free and open to the public.
Dr. Peter Leonard is the Director of the Digital Humanities Lab and a Whitney Humanities Center Fellow at Yale University. A Fulbright Fellow at Uppsala University during 2007-08, he completed his dissertation on diversity, ethnicity, and inclusion in Scandinavian literature at the University of Washington in 2011. During Spring 2022, he will teach Humanities Data Mining as a Lecturer in Yale’s department of Statistics and Data Science.
Laurie Allen is a Program Analyst at the Library of Congress in the Office of Digital Strategy, where she works on a range of strategic initiatives including the shepherding in a new Connecting Communities Digital Initiative. Before joining the Library of Congress, she was the Director for Digital Scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries and the Coordinator for Digital Scholarship and Research at Haverford College. Outside her work at The Library of Congress, she also serves as Senior Research Advisor for Monument Lab, a public art and history studio based in Philadelphia.
Jaime Mears is a Senior Innovation Specialist for the Library of Congress Labs, where she supports research and experiments to connect the library to the public. She leads the Innovator in Residence program, a creative research residency for technologists and artists. In her previous role as a National Digital Stewardship Resident, Jaime created the Memory Lab at DC Public Library, now an IMLS-funded national program to support personal archiving at public libraries. Jaime also serves as a board member for Digital Cultural Heritage DC.