A number of ID members attended Digital Humanities 2011, held at Stanford University from June 19th to the 22nd. They presented a panel called “The Interface of the Collection.” Geoffrey Rockwell introduced the panel, framing it in the context of the problem of information overload. He also presented a paper on “The corpus from print to the web,” in which he identified and compared various patterns of print and web corpora. Stan Ruecker gave a paper entitled “The Paper Drill,” in which he presented a prototype tool created by the INKE team for following citation trails through academic articles (see Fig. 1).

Fig. 1: The Paper Drill

He also gave a talk that had been co-authored by Milena Radzikowska, who was unable to attend, entitled “Structured Surfaces for JiTR,” which described the usefulness of structured surfaces in collection interfaces (see Fig. 2).

Fig. 2: A structured surface

Daniel Sondheim presented on “The citation from print to the web,” arguing that citations hold collections together, and proposing a topology of citation design patterns. Mihaela Ilovan gave a talk entitled “Diachronic view on digital collections interfaces,” in which she explained the benefits of studying interface evolution over time.

In addition to the talks, ID members were involved in giving two workshops on “Visualization for Literary History” and “Text Analysis with Voyeur.” The former involved explanations and demonstrations of a number of tools including Voyeur, Mandala, Orlando Mandala, OVis, Breadboard, and Degrees of Separation. It was given by Stan Ruecker, Geoffrey Rockwell, Stéfan Sinclair, Susan Brown, and Daniel Sondheim. The latter was specifically about Voyeur, and was given by Stéfan Sinclair and Geoffrey Rockwell.