Feb.2016 Demystifying Digital Humanities - Workshop 1
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The document explores digital humanities (DH), defining it as the integration of digital tools and methods into scholarly research and communication. It emphasizes the diversity of DH and encourages exploration of its values, goals, and methodologies while fostering a supportive environment for experimentation. Additionally, it outlines resources for further learning and collaboration in the field of digital humanities.
![Defining DH
• “the use of digital evidence, [and/or] methods
of inquiry, [and/or] research, [and/or]
publication and[/or] preservation to achieve
scholarly and research goals.” (Scholarly Communication
Institute, University of Virginia)
• “research that uses information technology as
a central part of its methodology, for creating
and/or processing data.” (University of Oxford)](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/miami-demystifyingdh-session1slides-160527154129/85/Feb-2016-Demystifying-Digital-Humanities-Workshop-1-8-320.jpg)
Feb.2016 Demystifying Digital Humanities - Workshop 1
- 1. What are the digital humanities, and why should I care? Paige Morgan Digital Humanities Librarian February 12, 2016
- 2. Goals: what I can do • Provide necessary background and strategic advice. • Allow you to begin charting your own course. • Help make UM Libraries a supportive space for experimenting and learning about DH. • Continue building a digital humanities cohort at Miami.
- 3. Limits: what I can’t do CAN BECOME A DIGITAL HUMANIST
- 5. The point of this workshop is not to convert you to digital humanities.
- 6. There is no single way of being a digital humanist.
- 7. Defining DH • By the start of the “first DH project” (1946, approximately: date of Roberto Busa’s plan for the Codex Thomisticus, a digital concordance of the works of Aquinas) • By its stability, or lack thereof, its self- consciously mutable and multimodal nature • According to its friction with traditional a.k.a. “analog” humanities
- 8. Defining DH • “the use of digital evidence, [and/or] methods of inquiry, [and/or] research, [and/or] publication and[/or] preservation to achieve scholarly and research goals.” (Scholarly Communication Institute, University of Virginia) • “research that uses information technology as a central part of its methodology, for creating and/or processing data.” (University of Oxford)
- 9. DH goals and methodologies depend on the specific subject matter, and the availability of primary/secondary source materials and tools.
- 10. Alternatives to the “What is DH?” question • How does this project/essay/argument engage with current and previous scholarship in my discipline? • What sort of critical thinking and interpretive work is involved in this project? • How does this project fit into the existing environment of projects and resources?
- 11. Why values? • While the tools, projects, and methods are diverse, values tend to be more holistic • Understanding the values that drive digital scholarship allows you to participate in conversations whether or not you yourself identify as a digital scholar
- 12. Values behind DH • adaptive • sustainable/resource- aware • multimodal • interdisciplinary • auto-didactic • collaborative • ad hoc • process & product- driven • accessible • public & transparent • project-oriented • social
- 14. Most DH projects are, in essence, sources, processed and presented.* • “Sources, processed and presented” is the framework used by Miriam Posner in “How Did They Make T hat? The Video,” http://miriamposner.com/blog/how-did-they-make-that-the-video/
- 15. They’re also designed with a specific audience (or audiences) in mind.
- 16. Websites for Evaluation TBA Friday!
- 17. Questions for Evaluation • What is the project doing? Why are its creators doing this? • What aspects of it work well? What aspects could be improved? • Which DH values do you see exhibited within the project?
- 18. What is DH? (a humbler definition) Thinking about the available materials; how digital tools will allow you to process them and present them to audiences in ways that weren’t previously possible (or at least, weren’t easy) – and acting on your thoughts.
- 19. Why should you care? • Opportunities for scholarship in new forms. • Better understanding of how digital scholarly sources are made. • Even if you’re not planning to build digital tools, your scholarly expertise is relevant to digital humanities research.
- 20. The big question: What do you want to do with digital scholarship?
- 21. Flash Project Development Brainstorm a DH project with your team! (Students at Cabrini College brainstorm a DH project on porn. Image c/o Adeline Koh.)
- 22. Will it focus on one distinct topic? Or on bringing multiple topics together? What artefacts will it contain, or collect? How will users interact and/or contribute? What forms (modes) will it take? Flash Project Brainstorming What perspectives do you want it to explore?
- 23. Resources for further training and collaboration • Florida Digital Humanities Consortium (http://fldh.org/) • HASTAC: http://www.hastac.org • DHNow: http://digitalhumanitiesnow.org • TransformDH: http://transformdh.org • Profhacker: http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker / • How Did They Make That? http://miriamposner.com/blog/how- did-they-make-that-the-video/ • Digital Humanities on Twitter -- no account needed https://twitter.com/paigecmorgan/digi tal-humanities and https://twitter.com/GrandjeanMartin/li sts/digital-humanities • Digital Research Tools (DiRT) http://dirtdirectory.org • DHCommons http://www.dhcommons.org • DHSI: http://www.dhsi.org • TEI Seminars at Brown University: http://www.wwp.northeastern.edu/ou treach/seminars/
- 24. Thank you! Want to chat more about DH? Email me (p.morgan@miami.edu ) or make an appointment (http://paigecmorgan.youcanbook.me)