Digital Humanities

Digital Humanities at UVic: From Book of Kells to the e-book

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:36:11 GMT

Source: www.facebook.com --- Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Digital Humanities at UVic: From Book of Kells to the e-book Digital Humanities at UVic: From Book of Kells to the e-book | The Ring ring.uvic.ca From ancient cave markings and handmade books to Facebook and Tumblr, people have been reading and storytelling in various forms for thousands of years. But what does the future hold? ...

Je t’aime, moi non plus. Career, Financing and Academic Recognition in the Digital Humanities (#dhiha5)

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:03:05 GMT

Source: hypotheses.org --- Thursday, June 13, 2013
Posted in: The following text is based on a statement I gave at the workshop “Research Conditions and Digital Humanities: What are the Prospects for the Next Generation?” (#dhiha5) organized in Paris on the 10/11th of June by Mareike König, Georgis Chatzoudis and Pierre Mounier. It is thus a work in progress, presenting thoughts in a flux, including personal remarks that I originally didn’t want to keep for the written version, but then decided to maintain, not least because of the encouragement of colleagues who [...] ...

‘Digital Commons’ becomes meeting place for ‘new’ Humanities

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:07:37 GMT

Source: news.uwgb.edu --- Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Relevance. It’s a word that takes on new meaning daily, or even quicker in the Digital age. So what does it mean for the Humanities — a study that evokes traditional images of students studying the Classics, delving into prose and patterns, with deep and meaningful discourse between students and faculty? What does it mean for multi-tasking college students who have shorter attention spans and higher expectations for graphic stimulation? Assistant Professor Chuck Rybak and his colleagues in Humanistic Studies see relevance not as an ending to the traditional Humanities but as a greater opportunity for sharing the Humanities — ancient and modern languages, literature and philosophy and religion, history and the visual and performing arts — than ever before. Rybak and a number of his students and colleagues interested in furthering the “public Humanities” are also delving into the “Digital Humanities.” Just in its introductory stages, Rybak has created an online “Digital Commons” where his students can explore the Humanities without the barriers of classroom and library walls and receive unlimited feedback on their projects, research and ideas from a public, instead of within the confines of a small group discussion or faculty feedback. Check out the commons , and some of the projects of both Rybak’s students and colleagues. Look for the “projects” link. “Unlike a website, this ‘commons’ is meant to be more participatory with chronicled ...

Digital Humanities in the Spotlight at PhillyDH@Penn

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:15:43 GMT

Source: hnn.us --- Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Tuesday, June 4, found just under two hundred very excited people gathered on the sixth floor of the Van Pelt Library at the University of Pennsylvania for PhillyDH@Penn sponsored by PhillyDH, a consortium of "universities libraries / archives, museums, cultural institutions and Digital media innovators." View from the sixth-floor balcony. Photo Courtesy of Jen Rajchel . Author: Michelle Moravec Bio: 6-11-13 Michelle Moravec is an associate professor of history at Rosemont College. Follow her on Twitter @professmoravec . read more ...

PhillyDH@Penn: digital humanities future taken on at unconference

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:30:09 GMT

Source: technical.ly --- Monday, June 10, 2013
The ever-encroaching impact of the web into academia and the broader soft sciences of language, research and the like took a commonplace method for discussion in the technology world: the unconference format. More than 150 people recently packed into the University of Pennsylvania’s brand new Special Collections Center on the sixth floor of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library for PhillyDH ’s Digital Humanities unconference. See the website for takeaways and attendees here . As always with this style of an event: no schedule, just an open day-long calendar, like-minded people and the promise of shared ideas and futurist-minded conversation. The all-day program featured several technology workshops on a variety of tools like WordPress and OpenRefine, the data organization application from Google, and how these years-old resources are changing work that has been done for generations. The event also included three different unconference discussion sessions and a featured guest speaker, Michael Edson , who is the Smithsonian Institution’s director of web and new media strategy. One of the event’s main organizers, Anu Vedamtham , who is the director of the Weigle Information Commons at Penn’s libraries, worked closely with Will Noel , the director of the Special Collections Center, to organize the event. “What’s wonderful about this conference is that people from so many institutions as well as private individuals have come together in one p ...

On Changing the Rules of Digital Humanities from the Inside

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 00:36:10 GMT

Source: hastac.org --- Friday, June 07, 2013
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Thanks to Wikimedia UK, Wikisym 2013 and Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 08:16:30 GMT

Source: www.oii.ox.ac.uk --- Friday, June 07, 2013
Han-Teng Liao on 7 June 2013 at 09:16AM My personal thanks to Wikimedia UK, Wikisym 2013 and Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School, I will present my findings at the Wikisym+OpenSym 2013 and do public engagement work for both English- and Chinese-language audience regarding the global-local dynamics of Wikipedia projects. Thanks … Continue reading → [...] ...

Therapeutic hypnosis, psychotherapy, and the digital humanities: the narratives and culturomics of hypnosis, 1800-2008.

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 04:22:04 GMT

Source: www.hubmed.org --- Thursday, June 06, 2013
Am J Clin Hypn . 2013 Apr; 55(4): 343-59 Rossi E, Mortimer J, Rossi K Culturomics is a new scientific discipline of the Digital Humanities-the use of computer algorithms to search for meaning in large databases of text and media. This new Digital discipline is used to explore 200 years of the history of hypnosis and psychotherapy in over five million digitized books from more than 40 university libraries around the world. It graphically compares the frequencies of English words about hypnosis, hypnotherapy, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and their founders from 1800 to 2008. This new perspective explore issues such as: Who were the major innovators in the history of therapeutic hypnosis, psychoanalysis, and psychotherapy? How well does this new Digital approach to the Humanities correspond to traditional histories of hypnosis and psychotherapy? ...

Digital Humanities Data Curation Institute

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 20:48:24 GMT

Source: www.lis.illinois.edu --- Thursday, June 06, 2013
The three-day workshop will provide a strong introductory grounding in data curation concepts and practices, focusing on the special issues and challenges of data curation in the Digital Humanities. Learning will be largely case-based, supplemented by short lectures, guest presentations, and practical exercises. For more information, visit the Digital Humanities Data Curation Institute website . Event Date: Mon, 06/24/2013 - Wed, 06/26/2013 ...

Book Review of Matthew K. Gold’s (2012) Debates in the digital humanities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 04:50:53 GMT

Source: www.craigbellamy.net --- Wednesday, June 05, 2013
Matthew K. Gold (ed.). (2012). Debates in the Digital Humanities . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780816677955.516 pages. USD 34.95. Matthew K Gold has brought together a number of leading figures in Debates in the Digital Humanities in a broad-ranging collection of articles that attempt to outline the contested, eclectic, and progressing landscape of computing in the Humanities. At first glance the premise of the book may seem odd to those new to the field; the very idea that there are high-level academic debates about the construction and application of computing technology within Humanities research. However, apart from the distinctive culture of building and coding Digital tools, these often heated debates largely constitute the field of the Digital Humanities and reveal its growing maturity. Gold’s book is a commendable attempt to delineate the discursive nature of computational tools within the Humanities, rather than reconstitute a formulaic, passive and instrumental understanding of computing. In Gold’s introduction and framing of the book, largely focusing upon North American issues, he does perhaps overstate the so-called rise of the Digital Humanities. The field is perhaps not advancing any more quickly than any other field in the Humanities and often the ‘determinist’ and overly optimistic lens in which computing is viewed clouds other realities. A sophisticated, contextual and applied understanding of c ...

#dhiha5 Panel 4: Career, Financing and the Academic Recognition of Achievements in the Digital Humanities

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 18:47:50 GMT

Source: hypotheses.org --- Tuesday, June 04, 2013
Posted in: hypotheses11 Working group: Anne Baillot (Humboldt University, Berlin), Natalia Filatkina (University of Trier), Anika Meyer (artefakt ) Topic of the panel This panel was devoted to career, funding and academic recognition of achievements in the Digital Humanities. After harvesting requirements and ideas in the blog carnival #dhiha5, we identified three main areas on which to focus our analysis and our propositions: recognition of persons, recognition of performances, and early career as a long term... ...

A digital humanities pioneer - Interview with Dr. Edward Goldberg

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:30:00 GMT

Source: www.3pipe.net --- Tuesday, June 04, 2013
In 2011, while searching for images online related to the Medici, I stumbled across Italy's Secret Places , a somewhat quirky blog that focused on the intriguing and sometimes unsettling aspects of Italy's history, as revealed by its many monuments and inscriptions. On closer inspection, the author of the blog was none other than Dr. Edward Goldberg, author of books such as After Vasari and the fascinating Jews and Magic at the Medici Court . I soon discovered Dr. Goldberg was founder of the Medici Archive Project (a fact not easily discernible when visiting the MAP website) and is a resident of Florence, whose passion for art and history was expressed through archival discoveries. What followed was a steady and frank exchange of information, as I sought to expand the scope of my writing at 3PP to include a sound methodological foundation. In short time, Dr. Goldberg became a much valued friend and mentor, whom I had the delight of meeting in person (along with Dr. Alexandra Korey) when I returned to Florence in 2012. During both of my brief excursions to Italy, in 2010 and 2012, it quickly became apparent that Digital innovation in the cultural sector is something the nation and its dominant institutions are yet to grasp. I often marveled at the impressive feat the creation of the Medici Archive Project represented, and had wanted to ask Dr. Goldberg about this, and many other aspects of his long and interesting career in and out ...

NEH Digital Humanities Start-up Grants – Applications due Sept. 12, 2013

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 17:20:01 GMT

Source: nlcblogs.nebraska.gov --- Monday, June 03, 2013
Closing Date for Applications: September 12, 2013 Award Amount: Up to $60,000 The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) invites applications to the Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program. This program is designed to encourage innovations in the Digital Humanities. By awarding relatively small grants to support the planning stages, NEH aims to encourage the development of innovative projects that promise to benefit the Humanities. Proposals should be for the planning or initial stages of Digital initiatives in any area of the Humanities: planning and developing prototypes of new Digital tools for preserving, analyzing, and making accessible Digital resources, including libraries’ and museums’ Digital assets; scholarship that focuses on the history, criticism, and philosophy of Digital culture and its impact on society; scholarship or studies that examine the philosophical or practical implications and impact of the use of emerging technologies in specific fields or disciplines of the Humanities, or in interdisciplinary collaborations involving several fields or disciplines; innovative uses of technology for public programming and education utilizing both traditional and new media; and new Digital modes of publication that facilitate the dissemination of Humanities scholarship in advanced academic as well as informal or formal educational settings at all academic levels. Details are available at http://www.neh.gov/grants/ ...

Music, Mayans, Maps: Citizen science and the digital humanities

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 12:24:42 GMT

Source: blogs.plos.org --- Monday, June 03, 2013
Teaching scientific and technical writing to undergraduate STEM students at North Carolina State University, a land-grant institution known for its engineering and agricultural programs, has forced me to think quite a lot about what C.P. Snow called the two cultures … ...

#dhiha5 Panel III: Evaluierung und Qualitätssicherung in den Digital Humanities

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 06:47:14 GMT

Source: hypotheses.org --- Sunday, June 02, 2013
Posted in: de.hypotheses Arbeitsgruppe: Sascha Foerster (Max Weber Stiftung, Bonn), Lilian Landes (BSB München), Bertram Triebel (TU Bergakademie Freiberg) Wir haben uns mit zwei großen Themenfeldern beschäftigt: Evaluierung und Qualitätsmanagement. Bei beiden Themenbereichen beginnen wir mit einer Beschreibung des Status quo, um anschließend so konkret wie möglich Empfehlungen an verschiedene Zielgruppen auszusprechen (an die sich als Ergebnis der Tagung auch das gemeinsame Manifest richten wird), also z.B. Förderorgan... ...

DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: The Productive Unease of 21st-century Digital Scholarship

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 08:58:24 GMT

Source: tags.library.upenn.edu --- Saturday, June 01, 2013
Productive Unease of 21st-century Digital Scholarship ...

Readings | Introduction to Digital Humanities - bibliography

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 08:58:23 GMT

Source: tags.library.upenn.edu --- Saturday, June 01, 2013
Digital Scholarship, ...