Digital methods have begun to make their way into the research practices of music scholars, and most this insurgence can be attributed to the rise of the discipline of music technology. Though music encoding is becoming increasingly prevalent among the research and teaching methodologies of music scholars, evidence gathered from course…[Read more]

In this progress report, we describe the issues encountered during the design and implementation of TabMEI, a new MEI module for encoding instrumental tablatures. We discuss the main challenges faced and lay out our workflow for implementing the TabMEI module. In addition, we present a number of example encodings, and we describe anticipated…[Read more]

Poster

Underground ‘extreme’ styles of heavy metal are marked apart by other sub-genres of metal by their adoption of a punk rock ethos and overt rejection of commercialism. In metal culture being ‘true’ is a by-word for a perceived authenticity of the artist(s) in their commitment to the culture and integrity as composers/performers. Authenticity is a…[Read more]

The music of Soundgarden represents a unique blend of heavy metal power and and art-rock sensitivity, this is clearly displayed in the song ‘Outshined’. The unorthodox harmony, use of odd time time signatures and sectional variation seem to blur genre boundaries within rock music and also lend the music a sense of emotional instability that runs…[Read more]

Guitar solos were a defining foundational aspects in the early formative years of what would become known as heavy metal music. Though Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath has been largely credited as the most influential guitarist on the wider genre, this essay argues that it is the style of Ritchie Blackmore that has been of greater importance and…[Read more]

This report is intended as a guide to facilitate the development of the Transgender Media Portal (transgendermediaportal.org). The Transgender Media Portal aims to make audiovisual work by trans, Two Spirit, nonbinary, intersex, and gender-nonconforming people more available to artists, activists, festival programmers, researchers, instructors,…[Read more]

A discussion of how digital resources (?) can contribute to research in classical studies. The presentation looks at the application of Voyant text mapping in a critical literary examination of the work of Diodorus Siculus.

The current video presents a brief How to use Stylo, a WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) text editor for writing and editing scientific articles in the social sciences and humanities. Stylo is available online for free at this address: https://stylo.huma-num.fr Stylo is designed by the Canada Research Chair on Digital textualities of the…[Read more]

This set of slides presenting the case for and providing an introduction to the Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship (LINCS) initiative, a Canadian venture to produce a robust infrastructure for the creation, dissemination, and use of Linked Open Data (LOD) for the humanities. From articulating the need for such an…[Read more]

PowerPoint presentation to accompany Reassembling The Social Organization

Franz Boas’s 1897 report, The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians, was a landmark in anthropology for its integrative approach to museum collections, photographs, and sound recordings as well as text. A result of participant observation and extensive collaboration with Indigenous partners—especially George H…[Read more]

Dans sa nouvelle Wearable books (Pidd 2016), Michael Pidd propose un monde académique dystopique où les technologies numériques de publication sont devenues un système de contrôle, de traçage et d’uniformisation de la recherche et des modèles épistémologiques sur lesquels elle est basée. Dans ce monde Pidd imagine des universitaires révolutionn…[Read more]

Our presentation seeks to address current pitfalls within AR mobile game design, and offer up a set of guidelines for future game designs with the hopes of moving towards the production of games that account for an intersectional understanding of identity with regards to personal risk in particular spaces. To do so, we draw on post-humanist…[Read more]

Currently, AI ethics is failing in many cases. Ethics lacks a reinforcement mechanism. Deviations from the various codes of ethics have no consequences. And in cases where ethics is integrated into institutions, it mainly serves as a marketing strategy. Furthermore, empirical experiments show that reading ethics guidelines has no significant…[Read more]

The objective of this study is to provide a historical and geographical analysis that contributes to the dialogue about the impact of war in children and the actual role of negotiators, mediators, and organizations in the mitigation of these violations. It analyses 1518 world peace agreements, ceasefire agreements, and other related documents such…[Read more]