a new mode of scholarship: digital humanities, the library, and the collaboratory
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Digital Humanities, the Library, and the Collaboratory
A New Mode of Scholarship:
Steven Hoelscher / Alix Keener / Setsuko Yokoyama
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DIGITAL HUMANITIES:➊ Using digital tools and methods to do
traditional humanities research➋ Analyzing new digital technologies using
traditional humanities modes of inquiry
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✪ Provide wide access to cultural information
✪ Enable manipulation of that data✪ Transform scholarly communication✪ Enhance teaching and learning✪ Make a public impact
LISA SPIRO:
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“Using the Digital to Read Literary Texts in Context”
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“COLLABORATORY”
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DATA-CENTRIC VIRTUAL SPACES TO FACILITATE COMMUNICATION & DISTRIBUTION OF INFORMATION
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➊ DOMAIN➋ PROJECT MANAGEMENT➌ DATA MANAGEMENT➍ ANALYTICAL
FOUR EXPERTISES:COUNCIL ON LIBRARY AND INFORMATION RESOURCES’
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➊ COMMUNICATION➋ DOCUMENTATION➌ USER-CENTERED DESIGN
COLLABORATORIES REQUIRE:
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➊ COMMUNICATION79 Main Themes; 108 Secondary Themes
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➋ DOCUMENTATIONCommodities Mentioned:
✪ This includes any commodities mentioned in the text, but only those exhibiting exchange value, which includes cultural or symbolic capital in addition to monetary value. It does not, however, include use value. This section uses the language of the text.
✪ The distinction between use value and exchange value:✸ “the pretty coat at the ball” has exchange value because it is there
representing a cultural sign of wealth or beauty.✸ “the coat” that is mentioned as being worn in the winter because it is
cold has use value. It keeps the wearer warm but does not represent a cultural or exchange value.
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➌ USER-CENTERED DESIGNRAPID PROTOTYPINGITERATIVE DESIGN
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➌ USER-CENTERED DESIGN
landofsunshine.org
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“COLLABORATORY”AS A PHYSICAL SPACE TO WONDER IN
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EXPLORATORY NATURE OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES RESEARCH & THE TRADITIONAL FUNCTION OF THE LIBRARY
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Mark Sample
“On the Death of the Digital Humanities Center”
26 March 2010
“We’ll never have the chance to work with programmers who speak the language of the humanities as well as Perl, Python, or PHP.”
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Workshops to Humanize and Sample Tools
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Workshops to Humanize and Sample Tools
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✪ a facilitator of searching and browsing
✪ the access point to the tools
LIBRARY & LIBRARIANS AS:
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BEYOND DIGITIZATION: Digital Humanities, Academic Libraries, and Library Publishing
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Moving beyond narrow definitions of digital humanities as simply text analysis or digitizing physical material
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✪ Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH)
✪ Scholar’s Lab at UVA (established at UVA library)✪ MATRIX at MSU✪ Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at
University of Nebraska-Lincoln (partnership between UNL libraries and College of Arts & Sciences)
✪ Princeton is in the process of building a center with library as a main sponsor
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“...a free-floating signifier, one that increasingly serves to focus the anxiety and even outrage of individual scholars over their own lack of agency amid the turmoil in their institutions and profession.”
Matthew Kirschenbaum, “What Is Digital Humanities and What’s It Doing in English Departments?”
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Library publishing and digital humanities movements
=similar origins
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“This [focus of anxiety] is manifested in the intensity of debates around open-access publishing, where faculty members increasingly demand the right to retain ownership of their own scholarship—meaning their own labor—and disseminate it freely to an audience apart from or parallel with more traditional structures of academic publishing.”
Matthew Kirschenbaum, “What Is Digital Humanities and What’s It Doing in English Departments?”
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COMMON THREADS✪ Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) for
publishing; TEI for DH projects✪ Twitter as peer-review; Twitter to
build community✪ DH projects as extension of digital
publishing
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Michigan Publishing seeks to create innovative, sustainable structures for the broad dissemination and enduring
preservation of the scholarly conversation.
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FUTURES
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✪ ACRL DH Discussion Group ACRL Interest Group
✪ dh+lib✪ New centers and labs ✪ Permanent positions
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“I cannot think of a successful digital humanities center — anywhere in the world — that did not begin with a bunch of people who had found each other through various means and who were committed to the bold and revolutionary project of talking to one another about their common interests. Over time, that had morphed into an even bolder and more revolutionary idea: the idea that perhaps they could work on something together.”
Stephen Ramsay, “Centers Are People”
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Will—or should—digital humanities and scholarly
communication find the same home in the library?
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What kind of expertise is needed? Collaborator or
supporter?
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Works Cited:
Gold, Matthew K. 2012. Debates in the digital humanities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Ramsay, Stephen. “Centers are People.” Stephen Ramsay. April 2012. http://stephenramsay.us/text/2012/04/25/centers-are-people/
---. “The Hermeneutics of Screwing Around; or What You Do with a Million Books.” Stephen Ramsay. 17 April 2010. http://www.playingwithhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/hermeneutics.pdf
Sample, Mark. “On the Death of the Digital Humanities Center.” Sample Reality: Own Your Ideas. Make Them Free. 26 March 2010. http://www.samplereality.com/2010/03/26/on-the-death-of-the-digital-humanities-center/
Spiro, Lisa. “Why the Digital Humanities?” Digital Scholarship. 7 October 2011. http://digitalscholarship.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/dhglca-5.pdf
Williford, Christa, and Charles Henry. “One Culture. Computationally Intensive Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences.” June 2012.
THANK YOU.Steven Hoelscher / Alix Keener / Setsuko Yokoyama
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