Vanderbilt Libraries to Host 'Cultural Heritage at Scale' Symposium

May 25, 2016 · 1 min read
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Understanding the opportunities and challenges related to building sustainable national-scale digital humanities projects is the goal of a free symposium at the Vanderbilt University Central Library June 2 and 3, 2016. “Cultural Heritage at Scale”—the first in what would become an annual series—is co-sponsored by Vanderbilt Libraries, the Council on Library and Information Resources, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Vanderbilt faculty members Jane Landers and David Michelson are among the speakers discussing their digital cultural preservation projects: Landers directs the Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies database, which preserves African and Afro-descended slave records, and Michelson leads Syriaca.org, an online scholarly reference work on Syriac language and culture, both hosted by Vanderbilt’s library. Read more …

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Clifford B. Anderson
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Clifford B. Anderson
Director of the Divinity Library
My research interests include the study of algorithms as cultural artifacts, computational thinking in the humanities, large-scale textual analysis of narrative data, and the religious dimensions of intellectual property.
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