David Shepard

Developer, digital humanist, modern lit scholar.

[Valerie Shepard @ShepardValerie]

@shepdl 😀For #dayofdh2020 #dayofdh2020art our daughter drew: "Mommy, Daddy, Mommy's 1 computer, Daddy's 2 computers, and the waiting room." @DHWoGeM

[David Shepard @shepdl]

@epyllia @JamelOstwald @adlangmead Agreed. Being able to handle files changes everything. I'd also cover string parsing, file encodings (something a CS-focused "basic" Python course would probably ignore, but something DH people run into). Plus, installing libraries and virtual environments.

[joe Sabado @JoeSabado]

How’s this for an equation - The standard Model of Particle Physics! Cool talk by VC for Research Dr. Incandela. #uctech2019

[David Shepard @shepdl]

@quinnanya I know. That's earlier than last year, right?

[David Shepard @shepdl]

#dh2020 CfP out: https://t.co/rc6IwEngtS Note deadline is October 15.

[David Shepard @shepdl]

Just won an Enterprise-class pizza cutter at #uctech2019

[David Shepard @shepdl]

At #uctech2019? See Daniel Park's and my talk: "Students go in Cognito: Securing Serverless Apps on AWS Lambda" today at 4:30 https://t.co/AhFefTX7pj

[Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia]

.@tla #DH2019 raises some provocative questions: good markup == markup that *means something*. meaning => function. functionality => process, logic, and code! Transcription = nterpretation Software dev ALSO form of interpretation! Can interpretation be automated via software dev?

[Merisa Martínez @merisamartinez]

@sp_meta @mia_out The big Q. It's a paradigm shift from 'keep what makes us special' to 'share what makes us special' & it's difficult to make that massive shift. institutional heads need to trust us, build time into our schedules for collabs & encourage staff in concrete ways to engage. #DH2019

[Rachel Hendery @RHendery]

"The two most terrifying words in the English language" #DH2019

[David Shepard @shepdl]

@jamescummings @jotis13 @chnm Oh, absolutely. Those are interesting problems. But then there are those moments when you've removed that 99th Gutenberg header or had to fix the 100th CSV file's encoding. Aren't those boring? #dh2019

[David Shepard @shepdl]

Point made by GMU team: a lot of labor is done for free, or by undergraduates. Little institutional commitment to long-term support. Reliance on unpaid or cheap labor. #dh2019

[David Shepard @shepdl]

@jamescummings @jotis13 @chnm LOL. To clarify: my job involves both DH and non-DH stuff (administrative apps). The latter is more likely to go to undergrads. #dh2019

[Christof Schöch – https://fedihum.org/@christof @christof77]

I love it when DH'ers use the phrase "traditional machine learning" to distinguish things like #SVM from more recent neural network / deep learning approaches. #DH2019

[@[email protected] Tyng-Ruey Chuang 🇺🇦 @trc4identica]

https://t.co/gWGUCLMu1J <-- How sustainable is my DH project? Take the questionnaire! #DH2019 Martin Holmes

[@[email protected] Tyng-Ruey Chuang 🇺🇦 @trc4identica]

Near-zero hard funding, Unsustainable "free labor", Continuous loss of institutional knowledge, Unfounded mandates for infinite lifetimes <-- Maintaining digital humanities project websites in the long run #DH2019 Faolan Cheslack-Postava

[David Shepard @shepdl]

This is a good point: how many times have you heard at your institution "can we hire a student dev to do that"? Not blaming the managers who cut costs, but institutions that don't account for real needs and fund it adequately. #dh2019