Katherine D. Harris (San Jose State University)
Friday 20 March, 1-3 pm
Jack Erskine 240
This workshop will reflect on metadata frameworks for historical periodicals and working with digitised image/text corpora.
Katherine D. Harris, Director of Public Programming, Advocacy & Outreach for the College of Humanities & the Arts and Professor of Literature & Digital Humanities at San Jose State University, teaches and publishes about literature and technology ranging from the mechanization of the printing press in 19th-century England to ethical development of generative artificial intelligence. After publishing Forget Me Not: The Rise of the British Literary Annual, a digital edition, and a print edition focusing on British 19th-century literary annuals and women’s voices, she completed co-editing the award-winning un-book, Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities, which focuses on valuing pedagogy as scholarship. She initiated the DH@CSU initiative to build a Digital Humanities consortium across all 23 Cal State campuses funded by the Mellon Foundation and the Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium. Her work with community engagement has garnered several grants for the Public Art as Resistance in San Jose project and allowed her to explore the field of Public Humanities.
Thanks to several modest grant awards during a year-long research leave, her latest project involves collaborating with the Internet Archive to digitize and create metadata for 19th-century periodicals and investigating 35,000 pages of new literary texts and 1000 engravings using machine learning. (Bluesky: @triproftri)