Event Title
The Veterans Legacy Program: How DH Tools and Values are Reshaping the Landscape of Public Commemoration and Expanding Communities of Practice
Location
CB1-122
Start Date
3-11-2017 1:45 PM
End Date
3-11-2017 3:15 PM
Description
In her essay "This is Why We Fight': Defining the Values of the Digital Humanities," Lisa Spiro calls upon DH scholar-practitioners to identify shared values -- collaboration, experimentation, open access, etc. -- that define the field and unite its diverse communities of practice. This panel will examine the critical application of DH tools and values to a federally funded project -- The Veterans Legacy Program -- from the diverse scholarly, pedagogical, and administrative perspectives of its stakeholders. A partnership of the National Cemetery Administration and the University of Central Florida History Department, the Veterans Legacy Program engages academic historians, data visualization specialists, graduate research assistants, undergraduate history majors, public high school teachers, and federal program administrators in a collaborative effort to research the lives and legacies US veterans buried and/or memorialized at Florida National Cemetery. UCF's Center for Humanities and Digital Research is facilitating the project.
Roundtable participants will include:
Dr. Bryce Carpenter, Educational Outreach Program Officer, National Cemetery Administration, will introduce the VLP program and discuss how each institutional stakeholder is contributing to the overall project design.
Dr. Scot French, Co-PI, Associate Professor of History, University of Central Florida, will discuss the role of digital humanities in shaping the VLP project and highlight the expansion of "communities of practice" to include those with little or no prior experience or identification with the field.
Dr. Caroline Cheong, Co-PI, Associate Professor of History, University of Central Florida, will discuss how graduate students in her Cultural Resource Management seminar are contributing to the multi-disciplinary framing of the project.
Dr. Amy Giroux, Co-PI, Computer Specialist, Center for Humanities and Digital Research, University of Central Florida, will discuss the website and augmented reality app created for the project.
Tyler Campbell, Graduate Research Assistant, will address the collection of gravesite and biographical geospatial data and possibilities for digital storytelling with GIS.
Mark Barnes, Graduate Research Assistant, will discuss the editing and curation of student-authored narratives for presentation through the open-access VisualEyes web-authoring tool.
Kendra Hazen, a participating Polk County public school teacher, will discuss strategies for linking the VLP website and VisualEyes storymaps to lesson plans and Florida's K-12 standards.
The Veterans Legacy Program: How DH Tools and Values are Reshaping the Landscape of Public Commemoration and Expanding Communities of Practice
CB1-122
In her essay "This is Why We Fight': Defining the Values of the Digital Humanities," Lisa Spiro calls upon DH scholar-practitioners to identify shared values -- collaboration, experimentation, open access, etc. -- that define the field and unite its diverse communities of practice. This panel will examine the critical application of DH tools and values to a federally funded project -- The Veterans Legacy Program -- from the diverse scholarly, pedagogical, and administrative perspectives of its stakeholders.
