Zoom registration: https://tinyurl.com/snu-digital-korean-studies 18 May 2022 17:00 KST (10:00 CET)Hilde De Weerdt (KU Leuven)Toward a Critical Digital History of Material Infrastructures in East Asia 20 May 2022 09:00 KST (19 May 20:00 EDT)Ruth Mostern (University of Pittsburgh)The World Historical Gazetteer: Modeling Space and Place in a Linked Data Infrastructure 27 […]
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19 to 29 May 2022 International Symposium & Project IncubationSeoul National University 26 to 28 June 2022 Publication Workshop & Debut PresentationsUniversity of Copenhagen The uses and application of digital methods have become commonplace in Korean studies. Despite the challenges caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the extraordinary collection of online […]
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23 February 2022 10:00 KST Mél Hogan (University of Calgary) As media objects, the ‘data center’ and ‘the cloud’ serve as a kind of oracle; they are buildings that embody much of the hype and many of the anxieties that stem from our now globally wired planet, as well as […]
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26 January 2022 10:00 KST Victoria Lemieux (University of British Columbia) In this talk, Dr. Victoria Lemieux presents an overview of the uses and potential of blockchain in records management and archival applications, along with some perils and pitfalls. The presentation will draw upon Dr. Lemieux’s work as a member […]
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27 November 2021 10:00 KST Hossein Azari (CEO, cmorq) Joseph Kim (CEO, LSJ Technologies) Is humanity creating a new economic system? Will blockchain technology and the move toward decentralization manage to overcome performance bottlenecks and the troubles of surveillance capitalism? Big Data Studies Lab invites two business experts in the […]
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13 November 2021 10:00 KST Matthew G. Kirschenbaum (University of Maryland) What are the future prospects for literary knowledge now that literary texts—and the material remains of authorship, publishing, and reading—are reduced to bitstreams, strings of digital ones and zeros? What are the opportunities and obligations for book history, textual […]
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25 September 2021 Bo Zhao, Associate Professor of Geography and GIScience, University of Washington The developing convergence of Artificial Intelligence and GIScience has raised a concern on the emergence of deep fake geography and its potentials in transforming human perception of the geographic world. Situating fake geography under the context […]
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17 June 2021 History of… the Future? As we saw in Archives of the Future, the fragility of digital storage media and the rise of big data have reverse the historian’s relationship with our primary sources. Future historians will have access to what we choose to save for them. Historians […]
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20 May 2021 The May session of Big Data and the Historian’s Craft shifts our attention to data science and methodological reflections. Text analysis, GIS, network analysis, and machine learning have become part and parcel of digital methods training. However, historians used cadastral surveys, census records, ledgers, maps, and genealogies […]
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15 April 2021 In “Energetics of Big Data,” we will discuss big data as energy. Data centers are energy gobblers that consume anywhere between 1% to 5% of the world’s electricity, depending on how you run the estimate. While historians have known that the carving of woodblocks, mass printing, and […]
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