The American Antiquarian Society was generous enough to offer me a fellowship this summer, so I took a month to research in the AAS’s wonderful collections. A fair bit of my time was spent reading through the nearly complete print run of American Tract Society pamphlets from the early to mid-nineteenth century. I wanted to […]
After five days and nights of intense collaboration, the One Week | One Tool digital humanities team has unveiled its web application: Serendip-o-matic <http://serendipomatic.org>. Unlike conventional search tools, this “serendipity engine” takes in any text, such as an article, song lyrics, or a bibliography. It then extracts key terms, delivering similar results from the vast […]
Research on practices to share and reuse data will inform the design of infrastructure to support data collection, management, and discovery in the long tail of science and technology. These are research domains in which data tend to be local in character, minimally structured, and minimally documented. We report on a ten-year study of the […]
The Making History Project is an attempt by artists and archaeologists based within the University of Southampton to collaboratively develop innovative uses for 3D technologies. Techniques such as high resolution data capture and 3D printing represent a new era in digital imaging. As these technologies become increasingly affordable they are coming to play a more […]
(What follows is a keynote I gave at the Digital Preservation 2013 conference on July 23, 2013. If you’re curious, there’s a video up of the talk and the Q & A as well and a pdf of the slides I showed (some of which vary from what I’ve shown here). “Disembodying the past to preserve it” I am, as you’ve […]
(This post is a slightly edited version of a talk I gave at the European Summer School “Culture & Technology” at the University of Leipzig, Germany, on July 26 2013.) This talk is about data in the humanities. Most of my colleagues in literary and cultural studies would not necessarily speak of their objects of study as […]
Digital Humanities 2013, by Geoffrey Rockwell Notes: These conference notes are being written live. I will get all sorts of things wrong and there will be gaps when I’m bored or interested (or skipping.) These conference notes are about the Digital Humanities 2013 conference at Lincoln Nebraska. Digital Humanities 2013: hooks in the 21st Century: Feminist Pedagogy in […]
AHA Statement on Policies Regarding the Embargoing of Completed History PhD Dissertations. The American Historical Association strongly encourages graduate programs and university libraries to adopt a policy that allows the embargoing of completed history PhD dissertations in digital form for as many as six years. Because many universities no longer keep hard copies of dissertations […]
This post is based on a talk I gave at Vancouver Island University’s “DH Innovations: Lab Based Environments in the Humanities” conference in late May. The full title of the talk was ”Portable, Tacit, Temporary: Popup Makerspaces in the Humanities,” and during that talk I read aloud a portion of what’s below. I want to thank […]
For Cinema Journal in 2009, Tara McPherson wrote the following: The “we” in McPherson’s sentence may be interpreted as media studies practitioners in particular or humanities practitioners in general. And in 2012, I took her statement seriously as a challenge to teaching and learning at the graduate level. That year, I designed and taught a graduate seminar […]
