Dh presentation helig 2014
- 1. MAKING SENSE OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES - A CONVERSATION STARTER: A LIASA HELIG WEBINAR Presented by Ingrid Thomson, UCT Libraries
- 2. Outline • Introduction • Brief history • DH Projects • DH Tools • DH Organisations/Conferences/Workshops • DH@UCT • Role that Libraries play
- 3. What is this thing called Digital Humanities or DH? • Umbrella term covering a wide range of activities, from online preservation and digital mapping to data mining and use of GIS technologies , like infrared scans, geolocation mapping, and optical character recognition to enrich these resources with related information or make entirely new discoveries about them. There have been scholars and technologists doing DH work long before DH was a word! Previously known as Human Computing
- 4. Definitions.... • Day in the Life of Digital Humanities (8 April 2014) • Some definitions: http://dayofdh2014.matrix.msu.edu/members/ DH is a cover term for a wide variety of activities that attempt to explore and expand areas of knowledge typically examined in the Humanities by developing and/or applying computational tools or methods in ways best suited for these areas. DH is also a cover term for a supporting community of practitioners who share a common interest in the tools and methods--and challenges--generated by the activities DH scholars, as well as potentially useful activities in fields outside the traditional Humanities. - Scott Kleinman California State University, Northridge
- 5. Definition We use “digital humanities” as an umbrella term for a number of different activities that surround technology and humanities scholarship. Under the digital humanities rubric, I would include topics like open access to materials, intellectual property rights, tool development, digital libraries, data mining, born-digital preservation, multimedia publication, visualization, GIS, digital reconstruction, study of the impact of technology on numerous fields, technology for teaching and learning, sustainability models, and many others . -Brett Bobley, NEH, United States (2011)
- 6. More definitions I define the digital humanities as two things. Firstly, I think of it as using new and emerging technologies to enhance our understanding of our humanistic fields of inquiry. For me, as a historian, it is learning new things through technology that we couldn't learn otherwise. Secondly, I think of it as playing and exploring new methods of scholarly communication - i.e. putting history online - Ian Milligan, Uni of Waterloo The humanities are the humanities. Technology is merely a tool (albeit a powerful one), not a defining factor of a discipline. You use it or you don't. The Digital Humanities do not exist. - Ethan Gruber American Numismatic Society
- 7. Brief History • Image: http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/typo3temp/pics/7212f0d7fe.jpg • Image: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/card2.jpg • Images: http://www.osservatoreromano.va/orportal-portlets-portal/detail/binaries/news/cultura/2011/184q11-lettore-fermati----morto-padre-busa/184q05b.jpg • ImageL http://www.sas-sas.it/Alice/images/Thomis6.jpg
- 9. Timeline of DH Developments • 1949 – 170 Computer Centres • 1973 – 1992 Scholarly societies and journals Standards (Text Coding Initiative –TEI) • 1992 – 2004 Library digitization and digital humanities centres • 2005 - onwards Mainstreamed Image: http://atomictoasters.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Word-Proc-1.jpg
- 10. Library Digitization and Digital Humanities Centres
- 12. Different types of DHers • Research DH impact on Humanities • How to embed technology into pedagogy • Project managers bringing together experts in various fields • Study large collections of texts, numeric data etc • Visualising traditional humanities data using new data visualisation techniques • Digital content creation
- 13. DH Projects • What knowledge can digital humanities scholars produce that their predecessors could not? • One of the principle projects was making historical and literacy texts available online • Data mining and text encoding projects are often paired with interesting visual representations, multimedia, and interactive tools
- 14. DH Tools + Technical Resources • Comprehensive list at Bamboo DiRT http://dirt.projectbamboo.org/
- 15. Types of analysis and research • Network analysis • Data visualisations • Text mining/analysis • GIS • Digital exhibits
- 16. Network analysis • Explore the relationships between individuals, places, topics and more e.g. Sex, Race and Allegiance in the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings http://www.eduhacker.net/digital-humanities/sex-race-allegiance-hobbit-lord-of-the-rings.html
- 17. Data Visualisation • Visualise to tell a story, understand, identify trends, make connections, see patterns .... With great speed • A tool called Palladio which was used to do Mapping the Republic of Letters http://palladio.designhumanities.org
- 18. Text analysis • Studying texts with computers and software to uncover new patterns, overlooked connections and deeper meaning
- 19. GIS • A geographic information system (GIS) integrates hardware, software and data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information http://timemapper.okfnlabs.org/
- 20. Digital Exhibits • Digitising of collections
- 22. Mapping the Republic of Letters
- 23. First World War Poetry Digital Archive
- 26. Kindred Britain
- 28. DH Centres and Organisations
- 31. DH@UCT
- 32. DH and Libraries
- 33. COAR Report Joint Task Force on Librarian’s Competencies in support of e-Research and Scholarly Communication • Evolving specialisation in librarianship • Needs domain expertise in arts and humanities • Techie grounding to support research + teaching in Humanities • Project Management • Advisor, advocate and partner for special collections
- 34. COAR Report Joint Task Force on Librarians’ Competencies in support of e-Research and Scholarly Communication: Competencies/Skills/Expertise • Subject/domain knowledge • Technical Skills • Project Management • Partnerships/Collaboration • Teaching/Training
- 36. • Adam Crymble describes his Digital Humanities Thesis in two minutes “Big Data, Old History “ http://www.phdcomics.com/tv/#047
- 37. Useful Reads + Links EXAMPLES OF DH PROJECTS • Mapping the Republic of Letters http://www.republicofletters.stanford.edu/ • First World War Poetry Digital Archives http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/www1lit/ • Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces • Kindred Britain http://kindred.stanford.edu/# • Old Bailey Proceedings http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/ • Charles Darwin’s Library http://www.biodiversity.org/collection/darwinlibrary • Sex, Race and Allegiance in the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings http://www.eduhacker.net/digital-humanities/sex-race-allegiance-hobbit-lord- of-the-rings.html TOOLS TO EXPLORE • Bamboo Dirt http://dirt.projectbamboo.org/ • Voyant http://www.voyant-tools.org • Tapor http://portal.tapor.ca/portal/portal • Palladio http://palladio.designhumanities.org ORGANISATIONS • Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations http://adho.org/ • That Camps http://thatcamp.org/
- 38. Useful Reads + Links • ACRL Digital Humanities Interest Group http://connect.ala.org/node/158885 • Task Force on Librarians’ Competencies in Support of E-Research and Scholarly Communication https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/support-and-training/task-force-competencies/ • Schaffner, Jennifer and Erway, Ricky: Does Every Research Library Need a Digital Humanities Center? OCLC http://oclc.org/research/publications/library/2014/oclcresearch-digital-humanities-center-2014-overview.html • Response from Beth Nowviskie to the OCLC Report above http://nowviskie.org/2014/asking-for-it/ • Dh+lib: where the Digital Humanities and Librarianship meet http://acrl.ala.org/dh/ • Coble, Zach: Make it New? A dh+lib Mini Series zachcoble.com/dhlib/Make-It-New-A-dhlib-Mini-Series.pdf • Hubbard, Melanie: Explore Digital Humanities. Syracuse University. http://melaniehubbard.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/exploredh_plan_20141.pdf • Adams, Jennifer and Gunn, Kevin. Digital Humanities: Where to start. College & Research Libraries News vol. 73 no. 9 536-569 October 2012. http://crln.acrl.org/content/73/9/536.full • VandeGrif, Michau: What is digital humanities and what is it doing in the library? http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/dhandthelib/ • Alexander,Laurie , Case, Beau David , Downing, Karen E, Gomis, Melissa and Maslowski, Eric: Librarians and Scholars: Partners in Digital Humanities. Educause Review Online, June 2, 2014. http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/librarians-and-scholars-partners-digital-humanities • Lease, Eric Morgan: Digital Humanities and Libraries (blog posting on Days in the Life of a Librarian) http://blogs.nd.edu/emorgan/2014/04/dh-and-libraries/ • Unsworth, John: What’s digital humanities and how did it get here? http://blogs.brandeis.edu/lts/2012/10/09/whats-digital-humanities-and-how-did-it-get-here/ BOOKS Gold, Matthew: Debates in the Digital Humanities. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012. Bryson, Tim: Digital Humanities. Washington, DC : Association of Research Libraries, c2011. LIBGUIDES • Boston College Libguide to Digital Humanities http://libguides.bc.edu/c.php?g=44359&p=280873 • University of Ottawa Libraries: Digital Humanities: Research guide to provide information about the growing field of study called Digital Humanities http://uottawa.ca.libguides.com/digitalhumanities-en
Editor's Notes
- #9: The project to digitize the entire corpus of St. Thomas Aquinas' work by Roberto Busa is often cited as the beginning of digital humanities
- #15: Repositories like Dspace, Fedora, Digitool. Display/publishing ones projects - Greenstone, Omeka, Zotero (which can be integrated with other DH research tools)
- #20: Timemapper
- #28: Can use tools like Voyant, and Zotero to do data mining. Called with Criminal Intent Project.