This post is substantially the same as a talk I delivered at the University of Nebraska on Friday, Feb 8th. In recent months I’ve had several conversations with colleagues who are friendly to digital methods but wary of claims about novelty that seem overstated. They believe that text mining can add a new level of precision […]
Interview with artist and media critic Alessandro Ludovico by Janneke Adema. The interview focuses on the post-digital print condition, print-digital hybrids, independent and networked publishing and the potential of post-digital print projects to question, disturb, and subvert existing hegemonic and exploitative practices and institutions. http://culturemachinepodcasts.podbean.com/2013/02/06/post-digital-print-and-networks-of-independent-publishing-alessandro-ludovico/ Culture Machine Live is a podcast series dedicated to discussions of […]
open access reads: digital humanities in libraries « the girl works The newest issue of the Journal of Library Administration is subtitled, Digital Humanities in Libraries: New Models for Scholarly Engagement. I don’t subscribe, can’t find it in EBSCO, and can’t find it at the library. Luckily, the authors have already posted a great deal of their work […]
Around DH in 80 Days | Global Outlook::Digital Humanities It is my pleasure to introduce to you one of our first pilot projects at GO::DH, Around DH in 80 Days! AroundDH hopes to be a fun way to introduce the work of colleagues around the world to those who are just starting out. Everyday for […]
After the Flood: Digital Art Recovery in the Wake of Hurricane Sandy | The Signal: Digital Preservation. Though this story has a happier ending, it underscores issues for everyone wishing to ensure the security and longevity of their data. Any sort of disaster – not just natural — can wreak havoc on digital data and […]
Preceptor in Digital History. The Department of History seeks applications for a preceptor in Digital History. The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2013. We are looking for a promising scholar to implement a vision for digital history in the department and beyond. The preceptor will be responsible for offering support and instruction […]
Text Encoding Initiative Seminar at Brown « Early Modern Online Bibliography. Readers may be interested in the following announcement from Julia Flanders about a special NEH-funded “Taking TEI Futher” institute. Additional information is available at the WWP’s webpage for their Seminars on Scholarly Text Encoding.
Many, many events have come and gone without comment in the last two months on this blog. Significantly, in January I went to both the AHA in New Orleans and to the Digital Humanities Winter Institute (DHWI) at the University of Maryland. On the former, there’s a post brewing particularly about a round table I […]
as i mentioned in my last post, the ”short guide to digital humanities” (pages 121-136 of digital_humanities, by anne burdick, johanna drucker, peter lunenfeld, todd presner, and jeffrey schnapp, mit press, 2012) includes the following stricture under the heading “what isn’t the digital humanities?”: the mere use of digital tools for the purpose of humanistic research and communication […]
Parsing CSV Data with Ruby Computers offer us a wonderful opportunity to automate and ease some of the tasks associated with data cleanup and preparation in the humanities. After a conversation with a researcher at CESTA on Friday, I thought about a problem he was confronting with a spreadsheet of data he is collecting that contains many […]
