From June 12-16, I participated in the annual Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria, Canada. I took the seminar entitled "Beyond TEI: Metadata for Digital Humanists," to learn about metadata markup practices, and standards of information design in support of my developing project The Meta-Narratives of Meta-Data.  To the right are some images of skills and practical things we experimented with in the seminar, including: producing an "ontology of crime" based on the provided dataset; querying the NYPL database with Python; and using Open Refine to standardize data.

​This was third year participating in the Institute. In prior years, I took "Visual Design for Digital Humanities" (2013) and "Sound for Digital Humanists" (2015), both seminars that I attended with the goal of learning about some tools, and trying out some experimental ideas. The year I attended for the "Sound" seminar, for instance, I experimented with representing data aurally rather than visually, producing an aural word cloud of interviews about DHSI from the seminar's participants. The final image to the right is a screenshot of the garage-band file.