Digital Humanities Lab

Join us for a virtual talk by Nick Seaver (Tufts) on algorithmic music recommender systems! Drawing on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, Seaver will explore the challenges that makers of music recommendation face, describing how they navigate the tensions between care and control in the construction of algorithmic systems.

Curious about how data holders can reconcile institutional and disciplinary histories with changing ethical commitments? In this virtual panel discussion, five Yale University Library experts will discuss their work in reparative metadata at every level, from implementing local changes with code to updating shared international standards.

In this online workshop, participants will learn about the typical structures of data-focused APIs, practice using an API to obtain data, and review strategies for working with more difficult or unusual APIs.