A5020759107- Digital Humanities and Scholarship
- Research Data Management Practices
- Media, Religion, Digital Communication
- Digital and Traditional Archives Management
- Christian Theology and Mission
- American Constitutional Law and Politics
- Religion and Society Interactions
- Religion, Society, and Development
- Mathematics, Computing, and Information Processing
- Wikis in Education and Collaboration
- Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems
- Biblical Studies and Interpretation
- Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Reformed Theology and Governance
- Semantic Web and Ontologies
- Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
- Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
- Religious Tourism and Spaces
- Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
- Philosophy and Historical Thought
- Cognitive Science and Education Research
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Big Data and Business Intelligence
- Mormonism, Religion, and History
- German Literature and Culture Studies
Vanderbilt University
2014-2024
Center Of Theological Inquiry
2023
Texas A&M University
2022
Princeton Theological Seminary
1999-2010
Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine
2003
Understanding the mechanisms by which physical activity is influenced particularly relevant for health promotion efforts aimed at women, who display lower levels of and may experience more barriers to exercise than men. This study examined number motives reasons previous quitting as predictors behavior. Specifically, cognitive complexity quitting, indicators exercise‐related memory associations that reflect structure, were evaluated. In a sample 394 women aged 17–54, did not predict current...
We provide an overview of the use machine-learning and artificial intelligence at Vanderbilt Television News Archive (VTNA). After surveying our major initiatives to date, which include full transcription collection using a custom language model deployed on Amazon Web Services (AWS), we address some ethical considerations encountered, including possibility staff downsizing misidentification individuals in news recordings.
Abstract WikiProject Clinical Trials is a Wikidata community project to integrate clinical trials metadata with the Wikipedia ecosystem. Using methods for data modeling, import, querying, curating, and profiling, brought ClinicalTrials.gov records into enriched them. The motivation was gaining benefits of hosting in Wikidata, which include distribution new audiences staging content Wikimedia editor develop it further. Project pages present options engaging environment. Example applications...
This article considers the increase in business research that involves text-mining techniques. The authors provide a brief survey of possible applications school research, steps and life cycle projects, case study from Vanderbilt University Library Owen Graduate School Management. give suggestions on how libraries librarians can skills services to partner with researchers support this form research.
What potential does digital humanities have to shape the practice of theology? Are there theological questions at stake? This essay is exploratory, aspiring identify points contact between and theology.
In this paper, I provide an introduction to deepfakes and related machine-learning technologies for theologians, assess their danger as well potential uses, advocate developing a spirituality of critical empathy in response.
XQuery provides an excellent means for teaching programming to digital humanists because it works seamlessly with their existing XML data, has elegant and simple core a well-structured standard library, can be used in conjunction databases develop end-to-end web applications. However, current materials do not address the needs of humanists, presupposing implicit knowledge concepts that they frequently lack. Based on experience (including alt-ac professionals, archivists, faculty members,...
The scholarly communications ecosystem in theology and religious studies differs significantly from other disciplines. In this paper, we draw on a multi-year investigation at Vanderbilt University as well practitioner’s perspective the Center of Theological Inquiry to document extent which existing bibliometric tools fail capture full output scholars these subdisciplines. After presenting our findings, express hope that open-source crowdsourced initiatives based linked data principles may...
This paper provides a brief history of the Vanderbilt Television News Archive that was established in 1968 with goal recording and preserving national news programming on three major networks at time (ABC, NBC, CBS). The archive has faced several challenges as it evolved (it now covers representative from Fox CNN cable networks) - most notably financial legal issues – who really “owns” news? Even today archiving digital remains financially legally challenged number increase privacy laws...
Swiss theologian Karl Barth traveled to the United States only once during his long career. In 1962, newly retired, he came visit family and deliver a series of lectures subsequently published (by Eerdmans) as Evangelical Theology: An Introduction, which remains in print widely read this day. Besides recounting some delightful poignant biographical details about Barth's two-month journey through States, authors book revisit central themes mature theology explore theological ethical...
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This paper introduces and exegetes the Data-First Manifesto, which calls for prioritizing data curation over interface design in digital scholarship projects as well rethinking how to foster scholarly communication performance of digita
This paper examines the intersection of legacy digital humanities projects and ongoing development research data management services at Vanderbilt University’s Jean Alexander Heard Library. Future directions for curation protocols are explored through lens a case study: (re)curation from an early 2000s e-edition Raymond Poggenburg’s Charles Baudelaire: Une Micro-histoire. The vagaries applying Library Congress Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS) to metadata theMicro-histoirewill be...
This paper briefly summarizes an in-conference workshop about Wikidata and its potential uses for scholarly communications in religious studies theology.
Data lakes offer an emerging option for librarians who are seeking to develop data repositories institutions of higher education. provide flexible, secure environments students and faculty compute with licensed data. This paper presents a high-level overview the lake architecture, highlighting its differences from traditional warehousing solutions. The also touches on staff expertise required create successful in academic libraries.