Catherine Nicole Coleman
Research Director, Humanities+Design, Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Research
Affiliate, Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA)
Bio
Nicole is Digital Research Architect for the Stanford University Libraries and Research Director for Humanities+Design, a research lab at the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis. Nicole works at the intersection of the digital library and digital scholarship as a lead architect in the design and development of practical research services. She is currently leading an initiative within the Library to identify and enact applications of artificial intelligence —machine perception, machine learning, machine reasoning, and language recognition— to make the collections of maps, photographs, manuscripts, data sets and other assets more easily discoverable, accessible, and analyzable.
At Humanities + Design she has led the design and development of numerous tools for data visualization and analysis including Palladio, Breve, and Data Pen. The lab encourages and supports collaboration between researchers from the humanities and design to encode interpretive method in tools for data analysis. Lessons learned in that work have proven essential to improving the design of machine learning based tools for research.
Institute Affiliations
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Research Director, Humanities+Design, Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Research
2023-24 Courses
- Digital Traces
AFRICAAM 198B, ANTHRO 198B (Win) -
Prior Year Courses
2022-23 Courses
- Digital Traces
AFRICAAM 198B, ANTHRO 198B (Win)
- Digital Traces
All Publications
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The Network Turn: Changing Perspectives in the Humanities
Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
Cambridge University Press. 2020
View details for DOI 10.1017/9781108866804
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Managing Bias When Library Collections Become Data
International Journal of Librarianship
2020; 5 (1)
View details for DOI 10.23974/ijol.2020.vol5.1.162
- Seeking the eye of history Digitizing Enlightenment: Digital Humanities and the Transformation of Eighteenth-Century Studies Oxford, UK Voltaire Foundation Liverpool Liverpool University Press. 2020
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British Travelers in Eighteenth-Century Italy: The Grand Tour and the Profession of Architecture
AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
2017; 122 (2): 425–50
View details for DOI 10.1093/ahr/122.2.425
View details for Web of Science ID 000402901500006
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Historical Research in a Digital Age: Reflections from the Mapping the Republic of Letters Project
AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
2017; 122 (2): 400–424
View details for DOI 10.1093/ahr/122.2.400
View details for Web of Science ID 000402901500005
- Historical Research in a Digital Age: Reflections from the Mapping the Republic of Letters Project AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW 2017; 122 (2): 25
- British Travelers in Eighteenth-Century Italy: The Grand Tour and the Profession of Architecture AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW 2017; 122 (2)
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Idiographic Network Visualizations
LEONARDO
2016; 49 (5): 447-447
View details for DOI 10.1162/LEON_a_01267
View details for Web of Science ID 000385433200025
- Communication Design and the Digital Humanities 4th International Forum of Design as a Process 2013
- Knot: an interface for the study of social networks in the humanities Proceedings of the Biannual Conference of the Italian Chapter of SIGCHI 2013: 15