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Papers by Nicole Coleman
Leonardo, Oct 1, 2016
In this article the authors present an ongoing research project aimed at supporting scholars in t... more In this article the authors present an ongoing research project aimed at supporting scholars in the exploration of historical networks through a highly visual and interactive environment for the construction and the manipulation of graphs. They briefly illustrate and discuss a set of techniques defined within a multidisciplinary academic context to better integrate scholars and students’ knowledge beyond the graph.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Jun 30, 2023
This work is in copyright. It is subject to statutory exceptions and to the provisions of relevan... more This work is in copyright. It is subject to statutory exceptions and to the provisions of relevant licensing agreements; with the exception of the Creative Commons version the link for which is provided below, no reproduction of any part of this work may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press.
arXiv (Cornell University), May 10, 2022
We take a snapshot of current resources available for teaching and learning AI with a focus on th... more We take a snapshot of current resources available for teaching and learning AI with a focus on the Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) community. The review was carried out during 2021 and 2022. The review provides an overview of material we identified as being relevant, offers a description of this material and makes recommendations for future work in this area. 1
These are the slides from the 2021 Workshop 'The Role of Data Curation in AI', which is p... more These are the slides from the 2021 Workshop 'The Role of Data Curation in AI', which is part of the series 'Applying and deploying Artificial Intelligence (AI) in GLAMs' organised by AI4LAM (Teaching and Learning Working Group) and co-hosted by LIBER and the BnF. What is Machine Learning and what role does data play? How is the data used to train AI models? What kinds of decisions do librarians make in the process of data curation and how might these impact machine-generated predictions? This workshop will take a project-based approach to explore the importance of data curation in machine learning outcomes. The speakers will explore how data is thought of in a data science context and how that maps to library practices. Concerns of data bias will be considered including data provenance (What is the history and context of the source material?), defining the boundaries of a data set (Who is in and who is out?) and feature engineering (What is relevant and what is not?)...
ABOUT EIGHT YEARS AGO, WE rather serendipitously found ourselves in the early stages of a group r... more ABOUT EIGHT YEARS AGO, WE rather serendipitously found ourselves in the early stages of a group research project that seemed to have potential as an experiment with how to do digital history. The result was Mapping the Republic of Letters, a collaborative endeavor based at Stanford University. The project consists of a growing number of wide-ranging case studies, including “British Architects on the Grand Tour in Eighteenth-Century Italy,” the subject of the second article in this AHR Forum. The case studies engage in multiple ways with the early modern Republic of Letters, and, as each is based on a different source of information, they pose a variety of problems for data-handling and unique challenges for visualizing it. All of them are available on our common website.1 At one time, archival material remained more or less in the archives. Historians inclined to use such materials routinely performed acts of intellectual pilgrimage, as many of us still do today, to be initiated int...
Previous NEH-funding made it possible for "Mapping the Republic of Letters" project to ... more Previous NEH-funding made it possible for "Mapping the Republic of Letters" project to develop a series of visualization prototypes to analyze the geographic breadth, historical shape, and social composition of intellectual networks; tools that support a domain expert's capacity to make sense of complexity, rather than relying on automated reasoning. With this project we will develop our most successful visualization techniques to serve historical research with three user groups in mind: 1. Digital humanities scholars with the technical expertise to integrate our code into their own projects and web applications (the "widget" model); 2. Scholars seeking easy upload, exploration, and analysis of historical data sets, without having to touch any code; 3. Early modern scholars who want to use these tools to explore and analyze their own data in the larger context of data already collected for "Mapping the Republic of Letters."
This paper describes the design of Knot, a digital tool for exploring historical social networks,... more This paper describes the design of Knot, a digital tool for exploring historical social networks, developed within a multidisciplinary research context involving designers, humanities scholars and computer scientists. The goal of the tool is to provide scholars and researchers with an environment for exploring multi-dimensional and heterogeneous data, allowing them to discover and create explicit and implicit relationships between people, places and events. What distinguishes our approach to traditional network exploration and analysis is an emphasis on the construction of the network graph through the visual interface, rather than on its static observation. Knot aims to explore new opportunities for interface design and information visualization within the definition of novel research practices in the humanities, bringing together scholars, HCI, design, and computer science communities. Author Keywords User Interface design; network visualizations; digital
Collaborative experiments that engage computer scientists and humanities scholars in visualizing ... more Collaborative experiments that engage computer scientists and humanities scholars in visualizing large-scale historical data sets present rich opportunities both for creating new knowledge in the humanities and for exploring how scholars interpret and use data visualizations. We present visualization tools we created to explore the Electronic Enlightenment [1], a database of thousands of letters exchanged between prominent intellectuals in the 17 and 18 centuries known as the Republic of Letters. We discuss the value of our interdisciplinary collaboration for the historians and computer scientists involved in it.
Choice Reviews Online
Review of Stanford University's interactive visualization project networking Enli... more Review of Stanford University's interactive visualization project networking Enlightenment correspondence.
The American Historical Review
The American Historical Review
ABOUT EIGHT YEARS AGO, WE rather serendipitously found ourselves in the early stages of a group r... more ABOUT EIGHT YEARS AGO, WE rather serendipitously found ourselves in the early stages of a group research project that seemed to have potential as an experiment with how to do digital history. The result was Mapping the Republic of Letters, a collaborative endeavor based at Stanford University. The project consists of a growing number of wide-ranging case studies, including "British Architects on the Grand Tour in Eighteenth-Century Italy," the subject of the second article in this AHR Forum. The case studies engage in multiple ways with the early modern Republic of Letters, and, as each is based on a different source of information, they pose a variety of problems for data-handling and unique challenges for visualizing it. All of them are available on our common website. 1 At one time, archival material remained more or less in the archives. Historians inclined to use such materials routinely performed acts of intellectual pilgrimage, as many of us still do today, to be initiated into this essential rite of historical apprenticeship. They traveled, learned how to use their archives onsite, and extracted hardearned information like Forty-Niners panning for gold, returning home with pages of notes, perhaps even a bit of microfilm to read on a machine or print out on that nauseatingly smelly paper whose pungent chemical odor was anything but the nirvana of
This paper presents an ongoing research focused on understanding the role that design, especially... more This paper presents an ongoing research focused on understanding the role that design, especially through the definition of information visualizations and interfaces, can have within digital humanities research. A review of the current involvement of design within the digital humanities is provided and several projects, coming from a two-year collaboration within a digital humanities initiative, are then presented and discussed in detail, with particular attention to the design processes involved. Finally, a collaborative model for research is articulated, emphasizing the need for new hybridized forms of thinking and making between designers, scholars and computer scientists.
Proceedings of the Biannual Conference of the Italian Chapter of SIGCHI on - CHItaly '13, 2013
ABSTRACT This paper describes the design of Knot, a digital tool for exploring historical social ... more ABSTRACT This paper describes the design of Knot, a digital tool for exploring historical social networks, developed within a multidisciplinary research context involving designers, humanities scholars and computer scientists. The goal of the tool is to provide scholars and researchers with an environment for exploring multi-dimensional and heterogeneous data, allowing them to discover and create explicit and implicit relationships between people, places and events. What distinguishes our approach to traditional network exploration and analysis is an emphasis on the construction of the network graph through the visual interface, rather than on its static observation. Knot aims to explore new opportunities for interface design and information visualization within the definition of novel research practices in the humanities, bringing together scholars, HCI, design, and computer science communities.
ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 Art Gallery on - SIGGRAPH '09, 2009
This talk discusses the rationale, process, and mechanisms behind the interactive visualizations ... more This talk discusses the rationale, process, and mechanisms behind the interactive visualizations for the well-formed.eigenfactor project. GreenLite Dartmouth visualizes complex, real-time energy data using interactive animations to create an emotional relationship between energy use and its effects. When electricity use is low, for example, a polar bear is happy and playful. As more energy is used, the bear becomes distressed, and his well-being is endangered. Synchronous Objects is an interactive screen-based work that illuminates, reinterprets, and transforms the choreographic structures in William Forsythe's dance One Flat Thing, reproduced through a vivid collection of information objects designed by a team of multidisciplinary researchers at The Ohio State University.
Leonardo, Oct 1, 2016
In this article the authors present an ongoing research project aimed at supporting scholars in t... more In this article the authors present an ongoing research project aimed at supporting scholars in the exploration of historical networks through a highly visual and interactive environment for the construction and the manipulation of graphs. They briefly illustrate and discuss a set of techniques defined within a multidisciplinary academic context to better integrate scholars and students’ knowledge beyond the graph.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Jun 30, 2023
This work is in copyright. It is subject to statutory exceptions and to the provisions of relevan... more This work is in copyright. It is subject to statutory exceptions and to the provisions of relevant licensing agreements; with the exception of the Creative Commons version the link for which is provided below, no reproduction of any part of this work may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press.
arXiv (Cornell University), May 10, 2022
We take a snapshot of current resources available for teaching and learning AI with a focus on th... more We take a snapshot of current resources available for teaching and learning AI with a focus on the Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) community. The review was carried out during 2021 and 2022. The review provides an overview of material we identified as being relevant, offers a description of this material and makes recommendations for future work in this area. 1
These are the slides from the 2021 Workshop 'The Role of Data Curation in AI', which is p... more These are the slides from the 2021 Workshop 'The Role of Data Curation in AI', which is part of the series 'Applying and deploying Artificial Intelligence (AI) in GLAMs' organised by AI4LAM (Teaching and Learning Working Group) and co-hosted by LIBER and the BnF. What is Machine Learning and what role does data play? How is the data used to train AI models? What kinds of decisions do librarians make in the process of data curation and how might these impact machine-generated predictions? This workshop will take a project-based approach to explore the importance of data curation in machine learning outcomes. The speakers will explore how data is thought of in a data science context and how that maps to library practices. Concerns of data bias will be considered including data provenance (What is the history and context of the source material?), defining the boundaries of a data set (Who is in and who is out?) and feature engineering (What is relevant and what is not?)...
ABOUT EIGHT YEARS AGO, WE rather serendipitously found ourselves in the early stages of a group r... more ABOUT EIGHT YEARS AGO, WE rather serendipitously found ourselves in the early stages of a group research project that seemed to have potential as an experiment with how to do digital history. The result was Mapping the Republic of Letters, a collaborative endeavor based at Stanford University. The project consists of a growing number of wide-ranging case studies, including “British Architects on the Grand Tour in Eighteenth-Century Italy,” the subject of the second article in this AHR Forum. The case studies engage in multiple ways with the early modern Republic of Letters, and, as each is based on a different source of information, they pose a variety of problems for data-handling and unique challenges for visualizing it. All of them are available on our common website.1 At one time, archival material remained more or less in the archives. Historians inclined to use such materials routinely performed acts of intellectual pilgrimage, as many of us still do today, to be initiated int...
Previous NEH-funding made it possible for "Mapping the Republic of Letters" project to ... more Previous NEH-funding made it possible for "Mapping the Republic of Letters" project to develop a series of visualization prototypes to analyze the geographic breadth, historical shape, and social composition of intellectual networks; tools that support a domain expert's capacity to make sense of complexity, rather than relying on automated reasoning. With this project we will develop our most successful visualization techniques to serve historical research with three user groups in mind: 1. Digital humanities scholars with the technical expertise to integrate our code into their own projects and web applications (the "widget" model); 2. Scholars seeking easy upload, exploration, and analysis of historical data sets, without having to touch any code; 3. Early modern scholars who want to use these tools to explore and analyze their own data in the larger context of data already collected for "Mapping the Republic of Letters."
This paper describes the design of Knot, a digital tool for exploring historical social networks,... more This paper describes the design of Knot, a digital tool for exploring historical social networks, developed within a multidisciplinary research context involving designers, humanities scholars and computer scientists. The goal of the tool is to provide scholars and researchers with an environment for exploring multi-dimensional and heterogeneous data, allowing them to discover and create explicit and implicit relationships between people, places and events. What distinguishes our approach to traditional network exploration and analysis is an emphasis on the construction of the network graph through the visual interface, rather than on its static observation. Knot aims to explore new opportunities for interface design and information visualization within the definition of novel research practices in the humanities, bringing together scholars, HCI, design, and computer science communities. Author Keywords User Interface design; network visualizations; digital
Collaborative experiments that engage computer scientists and humanities scholars in visualizing ... more Collaborative experiments that engage computer scientists and humanities scholars in visualizing large-scale historical data sets present rich opportunities both for creating new knowledge in the humanities and for exploring how scholars interpret and use data visualizations. We present visualization tools we created to explore the Electronic Enlightenment [1], a database of thousands of letters exchanged between prominent intellectuals in the 17 and 18 centuries known as the Republic of Letters. We discuss the value of our interdisciplinary collaboration for the historians and computer scientists involved in it.
Choice Reviews Online
Review of Stanford University's interactive visualization project networking Enli... more Review of Stanford University's interactive visualization project networking Enlightenment correspondence.
The American Historical Review
The American Historical Review
ABOUT EIGHT YEARS AGO, WE rather serendipitously found ourselves in the early stages of a group r... more ABOUT EIGHT YEARS AGO, WE rather serendipitously found ourselves in the early stages of a group research project that seemed to have potential as an experiment with how to do digital history. The result was Mapping the Republic of Letters, a collaborative endeavor based at Stanford University. The project consists of a growing number of wide-ranging case studies, including "British Architects on the Grand Tour in Eighteenth-Century Italy," the subject of the second article in this AHR Forum. The case studies engage in multiple ways with the early modern Republic of Letters, and, as each is based on a different source of information, they pose a variety of problems for data-handling and unique challenges for visualizing it. All of them are available on our common website. 1 At one time, archival material remained more or less in the archives. Historians inclined to use such materials routinely performed acts of intellectual pilgrimage, as many of us still do today, to be initiated into this essential rite of historical apprenticeship. They traveled, learned how to use their archives onsite, and extracted hardearned information like Forty-Niners panning for gold, returning home with pages of notes, perhaps even a bit of microfilm to read on a machine or print out on that nauseatingly smelly paper whose pungent chemical odor was anything but the nirvana of
This paper presents an ongoing research focused on understanding the role that design, especially... more This paper presents an ongoing research focused on understanding the role that design, especially through the definition of information visualizations and interfaces, can have within digital humanities research. A review of the current involvement of design within the digital humanities is provided and several projects, coming from a two-year collaboration within a digital humanities initiative, are then presented and discussed in detail, with particular attention to the design processes involved. Finally, a collaborative model for research is articulated, emphasizing the need for new hybridized forms of thinking and making between designers, scholars and computer scientists.
Proceedings of the Biannual Conference of the Italian Chapter of SIGCHI on - CHItaly '13, 2013
ABSTRACT This paper describes the design of Knot, a digital tool for exploring historical social ... more ABSTRACT This paper describes the design of Knot, a digital tool for exploring historical social networks, developed within a multidisciplinary research context involving designers, humanities scholars and computer scientists. The goal of the tool is to provide scholars and researchers with an environment for exploring multi-dimensional and heterogeneous data, allowing them to discover and create explicit and implicit relationships between people, places and events. What distinguishes our approach to traditional network exploration and analysis is an emphasis on the construction of the network graph through the visual interface, rather than on its static observation. Knot aims to explore new opportunities for interface design and information visualization within the definition of novel research practices in the humanities, bringing together scholars, HCI, design, and computer science communities.
ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 Art Gallery on - SIGGRAPH '09, 2009
This talk discusses the rationale, process, and mechanisms behind the interactive visualizations ... more This talk discusses the rationale, process, and mechanisms behind the interactive visualizations for the well-formed.eigenfactor project. GreenLite Dartmouth visualizes complex, real-time energy data using interactive animations to create an emotional relationship between energy use and its effects. When electricity use is low, for example, a polar bear is happy and playful. As more energy is used, the bear becomes distressed, and his well-being is endangered. Synchronous Objects is an interactive screen-based work that illuminates, reinterprets, and transforms the choreographic structures in William Forsythe's dance One Flat Thing, reproduced through a vivid collection of information objects designed by a team of multidisciplinary researchers at The Ohio State University.