This unconference-style workshop was held at the Delta Meadowvale in Mississauga, ON on 16-17 October. It was supported by generous funding from SSHRC via an Image, Text, Sound and Technology workshop grant.

The Workshop on APIs for the Digital Humanities gathered researchers and programmers from some of the key online projects in Canada, the US and the UK, to develop a strategy for providing APIs that mesh seamlessly with one another, expose data that has remained inaccessible until now, and provide a platform for a new generation of online research. For more information, please e-mail Bill Turkel at william.j.turkel@gmail.com

Social scientists and humanists in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom are well-served by online access to library catalogues and archival finding aids, repositories of digital sources, research software, teaching and outreach websites, and strategic clusters of networked scholars. [ Click here to read more » ]

The workshop was attended by researchers, programmers and librarians from the US, Canada and the UK. Workshop activities were also supplemented by people following along on Twitter and Google Wave. [ Click here to read more » ]

Raymond Yee led an introductory group session on mashups and APIs, drawing examples from Google Maps and Flickr. We also had a round of lightening presentations. [ Click here to read more » ]

The participants were given the task of forming into groups of 5-7 people and describing a potential future application in the digital humanities that integrated some of the projects, strengths and interests represented by the people around the table. [ Click here to read more » ]

The participants were asked to gather into groups representing research communities, individual researchers, students and teachers, librarians, developers, content providers, and so on. Each group was asked to explore the issues that mashups and APIs raised for their particular stakeholders. [ Click here to read more » ]

People participated in the API workshop in a number of ways, both online and off. Here is a sample of some of their reflections. [ Click here to read more » ]

Roy Tennant and Owen Stephens compiled an extensive list of library-related APIs. [ Click here to read more » ]

If you have material you would like added to this page, please email it to Adam Crymble: adam_crymble@hotmail.com [ Click here to read more » ]