Alex Wingate

@[email protected]
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PhD student in #InformationScience. #BookHistory of early modern Navarre (bookselling/private libraries). Also does #DH and #rarebooks (looking to be DH librarian post-PhD). #Bibliography Editor for Chymistry of Isaac Newton and SHARP News. Random posts on #knitting, #sewing, #quilting, and #cooking
Personal websitewww.alexandraewingate.com
Libros en Navarrahttps://int-heuristweb-prod.intersect.org.au/heurist/?db=aewingate_LorenzoCoroneu&website
SHARP Bibliographieshttps://www.sharpweb.org/sharpnews/category/bibliographies/
Alex WingateApr 24, 2023
GVogelerApr 24, 2023

Don't even know if https://dh2023.adho.org has an mastodon account, so cross-posting:

you are spoiled for choice with the pre-conference workshops at the @[email protected] @[email protected] conference!
In addition to the 25 already advertised, there are 3 workshops by @ADHOrg Special Interest Groups! Check out the Workshops on offer: https://dh2023.adho.org/?page_id=616

July 10-14 2023, Graz | Austria – DH 2023, July 10-14 2023, Graz | Austria

Alex WingateApr 24, 2023
Show threadRoopika RisamApr 24, 2023
* BERT for Humanists, an online resource helping humanists use natural language processing, directed by Matt Wilkens, David Mimno, and Melanie Walsh, and reviewed by Lidia Bocanegra Barbecho #ReviewsInDH https://reviewsindh.pubpub.org/pub/bert-for-humanists
Alex WingateApr 24, 2023
Roopika RisamApr 24, 2023
We’re back with the April 2023 issue of #ReviewsInDH, brought to you by yours truly & Jennifer Guiliano. This month, we have projects from our open submissions process for you. In our editors’ note, we reflect on the kinds of interventions we mentor reviewers to provide. #DigitalHumanities #AcademicMastodon https://reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v4-n4
Vol. 4, No. 4: April 2023 · Reviews in Digital Humanities

Vol. 4, No. 4 of Reviews in Digital Humanities, a peer-reviewed journal that facilitates scholarly evaluation of digital humanities work and its outputs, edited by Jennifer Guiliano (IUPUI) and Roopika Risam (Dartmouth College)

Reviews in Digital Humanities
Alex WingateApr 24, 2023
Melissa HubbardApr 24, 2023
RBMS members are once again coordinating mutual aid to support attendance at the RBMS 2023 conference. If you need financial support for registration, or if you are able to pledge support for another attendee, please see this link. And, please boost. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XTAc3b8FXHpaUWNi4uRZC_eySPo_3VYl9DXWoImbHzA/edit?usp=sharing
RBMS 2023 Mutual Aid Guidelines

Mutual Aid for RBMS 2023 Registration The RBMS conference benefits from the diverse experiences, perspectives, and identities of attendees, and this effort supports a robust conference experience for everyone by lowering one of the most significant barriers to participation, the cost of registra...

Google Docs
Alex WingateApr 24, 2023
Open Art DataApr 24, 2023

Wikidata Queries can generate timelines of when artworks owned by someone with some kind of link to a claim for restitution entered museum collections.
This query is filtered for after 1932 and for six museums only.

Try it!
https://w.wiki/6d48

#wikidata #histodon #digitalhumanities #linkeddata #museum #provenance #Sparql #timeline #art #arthistory #dataviz #jewish #history

Alex WingateApr 24, 2023
ashlee, mphApr 23, 2023

on the off-chance you are unaware, umichigan grad workers are on strike for living wages and the umich administration docked their pay. please share and donate to their strike fund:

#PhDChat #AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon #Academia

https://givebutter.com/GEOStrikeFund

GEO Strike Fund

Grad Workers Strike Fund (GEO AFT-Michigan Local 3550)

GEO 3550
Alex WingateApr 23, 2023
Dr. Emily FriedmanApr 23, 2023

Yeah, given the training data of the open web (take a look at what any search engine thinks a professor look like) this is as unsurprising as it is irritating.

RT @[email protected]

ChatGPT ties itself in knots to avoid having professors be female.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ndyjroo/status/1649821809154613248

Andrew Garrett on Twitter

“ChatGPT ties itself in knots to avoid having professors be female.”

Twitter
Show threadAlex WingateApr 23, 2023
And corollary question: Is there a way to teach #teamwork that does not have the pain of group projects? Because clearly we need to be teaching teamwork/collaboration in MLS programs
#education #libraries
Show threadAlex WingateApr 23, 2023
Also, the amount of flowery bullshit in some job ads is astounding. I have so much respect for a clearly written job ad that actually describes what's involved in the position.
Alex WingateApr 23, 2023
I've been reading through 100 library job ads for some research, and something I keep thinking about is why doing group projects in school is something I dread but the idea of working on projects with a team at work is perfectly acceptable. What is the key difference that makes one palatable and the other not? #libraries #education #teamwork