Last fall I attended Rails Girls DC, a one day workshop that introduces women to programming using Ruby on Rails. It was a wonderful event and I learned a lot. But I also left inspired to bring this sort of event to the Digital Humanities! We too have a gender gap and need to support women interested […]
(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 […]
Taxonomies and other classification schemes are omnipresent in Information Architecture. It recently occurred to me though that there is a great deal of confusion with regards to what a taxonomy is, and how it should be designed, constructed, and managed. Often this is simply because people have different backgrounds and intents when dealing with taxonomies, […]
My colleague Oliver Duke-Williams and I had a paper on ‘Joint and multi-authored publication patterns in the Digital Humanities’ accepted to the recent Digital Humanities conference in Nebraska. After the talk a number of people contacted us to say that our findings would be useful for them when they sit on tenure, promotion and hiring committees […]
Public History in a Digital World: The Revolution Reconsidered University of Amsterdam, Thursday 23 October 2014 – Saturday 25 October 2014 FIRST CALL for PROPOSALS Historical sources and narratives about the past infiltrate every corner of the web, from home-made digital media to online exhibitions, across social networks and in virtual museums. Digital tools have become […]
This month, I shifted gears from installation and configuration of my local Infinite Ulysses site to the first new coding work on the project (read more about the project itself here). I’ve captured a brief tech review of the existing tools and projects that are helping me through example or incorporation.
The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is hosting its second UnCamp on September 8-9, 2013, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The UnCamp is “targeted to the digital humanities and informatics tool developers, researchers and librarians, and graduate students,” and is “part hands-on coding and demonstration, part inspirational use-cases, part community building, and a part […]
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 […]
