Editors’ Choice : Digital Humanities Now

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Editors’ Choice: Big Data Needs Thick Data

By Tricia Wang | May 16, 2013

Big Data can have enormous appeal. Who wants to be thought of as a small thinker when there is an opportunity to go BIG? The positivistic bias in favor of Big Data (a term often used to describe the quantitative data that is produced through analysis of enormous datasets) as an objective way to understand our [...]

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Editors’ Choice: Does This Post Make Me a Tool?

By Michael Kramer | May 14, 2013

My response to OPEN THREAD: THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES AS A HISTORICAL “REFUGE” FROM RACE/CLASS/GENDER/SEXUALITY/DISABILITY?, http://dhpoco.org/2013/05/10/open-thread-the-digital-humanities-as-a-historical-refuge-from-raceclassgendersexualitydisability/#comment-1907: This is a rich and multifaceted discussion. I just want to add one observations that it has made me ponder. The discussion has made me think about the metaphor of “tools” in digital humanities work. This makes sense, because the word [...]

Editors’ Choice: Open Thread: The Digital Humanities as a Historical “Refuge” from Race/Class/Gender/Sexuality/Disability?

By Adeline Koh and Roopika Risam | May 14, 2013

Read David Golumbia’s post on the “Dark Side of the Digital” conference yesterday? Consider this: In 2007, Martha Nell Smith observed: When I first started attending humanities computing conferences in the mid-1990s, I was struck by how many of the presentations remarked, either explicitly or implicitly, that concerns that had taken over so much academic work in literature—of gender, race, [...]

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Editors’ Choice: Saving Face

By Aaron Straup Cope | May 9, 2013

Museums and the Web 2013 wrapped up a couple weeks ago. The Cooper-Hewitt won an award for the work we’ve done on the collections website this year, which was nice. I was also part of a panel about Humour as an Institutional Voice. I asked Heather Champ to join me to talk about the subject [...]

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Editors’ Choice: What’s Next for Digital Memory Banks?

By Sheila Brennan | May 9, 2013

As I watched the news on April 15 and thought about another April tragedy, at Virginia Tech, I wondered if it made sense to create an online collecting site. I have some experience building and managing online collecting sites/digital memory banks, now referred to as crowdsourced collections, at RRCHNM including the April 16 Archive. A [...]

Editors’ Choice: Tate Digital Strategy 2013–15: Digital as a Dimension of Everything

By John Stack | May 7, 2013

Through the development of a holistic digital proposition there is an opportunity to use the digital to deliver Tate’s mission to promote public understanding and enjoyment of British, modern and contemporary art. To achieve this, digital will need to become a dimension of everything that Tate does. 1. Vision Through embracing digital activity and skills across the [...]

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Editors’ Choice: 4Humanities: Values, Strategies, Technologies for Humanities Advocacy in the Digital Age

By Alan Liu | May 7, 2013

In April, Dr. Alan Liu, Professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, spoke about ways in which the skills and resources of the DH community can help advocate for the humanities. Listen to podcast here.

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Editors’ Choice: The managerial humanities; or, Why the digital humanities don’t exist

By Daniel Allington | April 30, 2013

As we all know, the digital humanities are the next big thing. A couple of years ago, I gave a presentation at a digital humanities colloquium, explaining what I saw as the major reasons for this (Allington, 2011). We are working within an economic system in which owners of capital (funders) invest in research speculatively [...]

Editors’ Choice: Visualization Across Disciplines

By Forum guests Jeremy Douglass, Lev Manovich, Elijah Meeks, Michael Stamper, and Mia Ridge | April 25, 2013

In recent years, visualization has become an all-purpose technique for communicating and exploring data within the humanities. There are a wide availability of tools offering different points of entry from IBM’s Many Eyes to Gephi to Tapor 2.0. Projects like the Visual Thesaurus, Mapping the Republic of Letters, and Hypercities, among countless others, all engage with visualization as an integral part of their [...]

Editors’ Choice: The Boolean Logic of the Digital Humanities

By Jason Rhody | April 23, 2013

… Instead of focusing only on defining DH, as though we can come to a single result from a complex Boolean query, I’d like to suggest that we also consider the practice of DH as a recurring process of refining. Boolean logic presumes winnowing and filtering, but as any scholar who has spent a few hours in the [...]

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