andrew torget - digital scholarship

Andrew J. Torget, Ph.D.Assistant Professor — History

andrew.torget@unt.edu

Digital Scholarship

“Colleges, like newspapers, will be tornapart by new ways of sharing information

enabled by the Internet.”

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• Six student presenters at the Spring Meeting of the Texas Branch-American Society for Microbiology (1 poster award winner)

• Five posters and one talk scheduled for UNT University Scholars Day

• One student selected to present at the NGRI Symposium.

NGRI 2010 Student Presentations

COMPUTER SCIENTIST How can we develop algorithms that will detect meaningful language patterns scattered across millions of words? (College of Engineering)

CENTRAL QUESTIONWhat do you do with

a million pages of historical newspapers?

LIBRARIAN How do you curate large-scale digital collections in ways that foster new scholarship while also ensuring the long-term preservation of those same massive digital collections? (Library)

HISTORIAN How did people and ideas move simultaneously through time and space across the North American continent from 1800 to 2000? (College of Arts and Sciences)

INFORMATION SCIENTIST How do you organize a million digital newspaper pages in a way that promotes discovery, access to information, and innovative new scholarship? (College of Information)