DukeCollaboratory

 

The Duke Collaboratory serves as a central node in a growing network of humanities scholars, designers, teachers, artists, and programmers interested in developing interactive multimedia approaches to collaborative academic research. The group, founded by Tim Lenoir and Casey Alt, is committed to providing simple but powerful digital media tools to further expand the boundaries of collaboration and innovation. As information sources and media formats continue to proliferate at an y accelerating rate, academic researchers face the daunting task of collecting, storing, and analyzing large corpora of multimedia documents. The Duke Collaboratory has approached this problem with a decidedly different philosophy - namely, to develop state-of-the-art data visualizations and content analysis tools to actively represent and conduct collaborative research in a new way. Two of the hpsCollaboratory's most well-received projects thus far have been online timeline and genealogy applications, which allow communities to collaboratively document their own history via flexible, graphically-mediated, data-driven web interfaces.