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a community driven website and mobile app about Champaign- Urbana arts, culture, & history

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Presented by Sarah Christensen at the Annual Conference of the Visual Resources Association, April 3rd - April 6th, 2013, in Providence, Rhode Island. Session #12: Making the Digital Humanities Visual: Opportunities and Case Studies ORGANIZER/MODERATOR: Sarah Christensen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign PRESENTERS: John Taormina, Duke University Sarah Christensen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Massimo Riva, Brown University Endorsed by the Education Committee The digital humanities are shaping the way that scholars teach and perform research, providing them with tools to answer existing research questions or to pioneer new approaches in their respective fields. This session seeks to explore opportunities in which visual resources professionals can contribute to or initiate digital humanities projects, utilizing specialized knowledge in visual media to form new partnerships with interdisciplinary collaborators. John Taormina from Duke University will speak about his experience as part of a discussion group called “Digital Technologies and the Visual Arts: Reconfiguring Knowledge in the Digital Age,” which addressed new media technologies in art history research and teaching with a focus on digital literacy, pedagogy, and scholarly viability. The group met for two years and gained interest from faculty and staff from across campus, and resulted in a week long workshop that has now been offered both at Duke and at Venice International University. Sarah Christensen from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will discuss “Explore CU,” an Omeka based mobile app developed by researchers at Cleveland State University. The mobile app and accompanying Omeka site aims to curate the art, culture, and history of Champaign-Urbana through community contributed content. Massimo Riva, Director of the Virtual Humanities Lab at Brown University, will present the Garibaldi Panorama Project. This project is a “digital archive that seeks to provide a comprehensive resource for the interdisciplinary study and teaching of the life and deeds of one of the protagonists of the Italian unification process (1807-1882), against the historical backdrop of 19th-century Europe, reconstructed with the help of materials from special collections at the Brown University libraries. The project will devote particular attention to the way Garibaldi’s figure, his actions and the Italian Risorgimento as a whole were portrayed in contemporary media.”

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a community driven website and mobile app about Champaign-Urbana arts, culture, & history

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agriculture ART architecture buildings cemeteries CULTURE ghosts history LANDMARKS legends libraries LINCOLN memorials museums PARKS people places pranks railways SCHOOLS stories sports supercomputers UNIVERISTY war

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University Library & Visual Resources Center, College of Fine and Applied Arts

Funded through the University Library’s Innovation and Seed Funding Grant

Project partners to date include Muriel Scheinman, Champaign Park District, Urbana Park District, Allerton Park and Retreat Center, Urbana Free Archives, Parkland College Library, Krannert Art Museum, NCSA, Grand Prairie Museum, City of Urbana, Monticello Rail Museum

One 25% graduate hourly, one volunteer, and one independent study student

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Center for Public History and Digital Humanities at Cleveland State

University

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Challenges: • Sustainability • Funding

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Future:• Focus more on pedagogical applications rather than general community involvement• Time the release of new tours to coincide with events in the community in order to maximize interest