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Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: One Provocation for Big Data

I’ve started thinking a lot about Big Data and what it could mean for museums in a time when, as Danah Boyd and Kate Crawford write “The era of Big Data has begun.” …

… if Big Data is becoming increasingly important in research and the constitution of knowledge, and yet museums are not themselves necessarily likely to be the ones using it internally (assuming that our expertise lies elsewhere) how can we then think of continuity and succession planning for our data, to ensure it is useful for other researchers? Is this something we can even achieve?

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News, Reports

Report: Can Humanities Undergrads Learn to Code?

We were surprised to hear during the December 16, 2011 NITLE web seminar on undergraduate digital humanities (DH) instruction a recurring motif along the lines that coding (markup and programming) is so difficult that undergraduates trained in the humanities cannot learn it quickly or successfully, and so potentially alienating and anxiety-provoking that it should be regarded as too advanced to be considered a core component of the undergraduate DH curriculum. As two undergraduate humanities majors (English Literature and Linguistics) with no prior technical background, we would like to share our own experiences with learning and using computational tools. We hope that our very positive experience will encourage faculty elsewhere to give their undergraduate students the opportunity to become deeply and seriously involved with this exciting and rewarding aspect of DH.

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Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Milo Minderbinder University?

The End of Western Civilization As We Know It

March 21-28, 2008

Over the past couple of years I’ve written a number of posts in which I wrestle with what technological change means for the future of higher education, general education, and history education specifically. Much of my speculating and ranting in these posts has centered on what seems to me to be a clash between the traditional methods by which knowledge is delivered to students (curriculum, teaching) and the world that our students live in (tech-centric, socially networked, etc.).

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Nominations

Philosophical Leadership Needed for the Future: Digital Humanities Scholars in Museums

 Subscribe to Comments for this Post   Editors Note: For the Museum Computer Network Conference in 2011 Neal Stimler, Associate Coordinator of Images at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,  placed a call for a crowdsourced panel. Panelists submitted responses from an open call to the community of professionals in archives, libraries, museums and universities as they […]

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Nominations

Critical Discourse in the Digital Humanities by Fred Gibbs

 Subscribe to Comments for this Post   This post is a moderately revised version of a talk I gave as part of MITH’s Digital Dialogues series, titled “Criticism in the Digital Humanities.” The original audio and slides have been posted; this version has benefitted from the thoughtful questions and comments that followed my presentation. Many thanks to MITH for […]

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Nominations

Academic History Writing and its Disconnects by Tim Hitchcock

 Subscribe to Comments for this Post   This is the rough text of a short talk I am scheduled to deliver at a symposium on ‘Future Directions in Book History’ at Cambridge on the 24th of November 2011. I am on the programme as talking briefly about the ‘OldBailey Online and other resources’ (by which I […]

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CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: Drupal for Humanists

Quinn Dombrowski and I are writing a manual on using the Drupal 7 CMS for digital humanities projects.  Titled unimaginatively Drupal for Humanists, it is meant to provide first an understanding of how to install and configure Drupal and then a series of case studies representative of Drupal’s use in humanities research and the library.

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