Category: Editors’ Choice

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

… 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 […]

Knowing only that they had signed up for English 1110.01, first-year writing, my students walked into the classroom for the first time to see projected on the front screen what I’m currently projecting now. While many of the students weren’t familiar with the exact nature of XML, they all could infer its status as a […]

The Internet Archive is the largest collection of historical software online in the world….  a fully-accessible, worldwide-reachable, massive-bandwidth and completely unrestricted collection of computer history up right now, in these [Internet Archive collections] I’ve just mentioned. Some are mirrors of incredible projects that have been around long before this moment, and let me not diminish […]