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Katherine L. WalterCo-director, Center for Digital Research in the
Humanities (CDRH)Professor and Chair, Digital Initiatives & Special
CollectionsUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Librarieshttp://libraries.unl.edu
Digital Humanities: From the past to the future
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Definitionsfrom A Companion to Digital Humanities (Oxford,UK et al: Blackwell Publishing 2004)
• “…using technology to illuminate the human record and bringing an understanding of the human record to bear on the development and use of information technology.”—Schreibman, Siemens, Unsworth
• Digital humanists are “concerned with applications of computing to research and teaching within subjects loosely defined as the humanities—Hockey
Digital Humanities:From the Past to the FutureKatherine L. Walter
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Selected Early AdoptersCCH, King’s College LondonIATH, University of VirginiaSTG, Brown University
Selected Adopters 2.0Center for Digital Research in the Humanities(CDRH),
University of Nebraska-LincolnMATRIX, Michigan State UniversityMaryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
(MITH)
Digital Humanities:From the Past to the FutureKatherine L. Walter
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Librarieshttp://libraries.unl.edu
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TokenX, text analysis Abbot, schema harvesting (developed for the MONK project)Preserving Virtual WorldsMannahatta Project, http://welikia.org(GIS)Rome Reborn, (3D modeling) http://www.romereborn.virginia.eduWalt Whitman Archive, (scholarly editions)
http://www.whitmanarchive.orgWilla Cather Archive, http://cather.unl.edu (scholarly editions, ref
works, google maps, TokenX)USC Interactive Media Lab, game design
Digital Humanities:Selected examples of research workKatherine L. Walter
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Librarieshttp://libraries.unl.edu
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Professional Associations:
Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO):members: Assn of Computers & the Humanities (ACH), Assn for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), Society for Digital Humanities (SDH-SEMI)
peer-review journals: DHQ, LLCcenterNet: regional affiliates in 4 regions of the worldTEI Consortium (more on this later)NINES: peer review Association for Documentary Editing’s Scholarly Editing:
Digital Humanities:From the Past to the FutureKatherine L. Walter
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Librarieshttp://iris.unl.edu
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Open Source Resources
Open source software (Free, non-proprietary and built by community of users)
• SourceForge, http://sourceforge.net• Databases: MySQL with PHP• Ruby on Rails, http://rubyonrails.org
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Metadata Standards and Best Practices
• eXtensible Markup Language (XML)See W3C Schools at http://www.w3schools.com
Tag Libraries: TEI, EAD, etc.See http://www.tei-c.org/index.xmlSee http://www.loc.gov/eadSee http://www.loc.gov/premisSee http://www.loc.gov/mets, etc.
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More to think aboutCharacter encoding:ISO-10646 UNICODE, UTF-8International Organisation of Standards
(ISO) http://www.iso.org/iso/home.html,National Institute of Standards (NISO)
http://www.niso.orgDocument, document, document
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Funding • University seed grants• State humanities council funding or state
library funding or state foundations• National Endowment for the Humanities,
http://www.neh.gov• Institute of Museum and Library Services• National Science Foundation• Department of Defense• Private Foundations: See Foundation
Directory Online Professional
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Discover CDRH!Katherine L. Walter
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Librarieshttp://iris.unl.edu
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Discover CDRH! Katherine L. Walter
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Librarieshttp://iris.unl.edu
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Discover CDRH!Katherine L. Walter
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Librarieshttp://iris.unl.edu
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Discover CDRH!Katherine L. Walter
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Librarieshttp://iris.unl.edu
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Contact informationKatherine L. WalterProfessor and Co-directorCenter for Digital Research in the
HumanitiesUniversity of [email protected]
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Digitization Workshop
Katherine L. WalterProfessor and Co-Director, CDRH
Digitization Workshop:Katherine L. Walter
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Digitization Concepts• Is digitization preservation?• Advantages—access, public engagement,
alternative to print• Disadvantages—costs, data loss,
migration issues, equipment obsolescence, etc.
• Knowing when not to digitize
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Copyright Basics• U.S. Copyright Office,
http://www.copyright.gov/ Copyright FAQ and copyright investigative services
• Orphan Records • Your own work—copyright and licensing• Creative Commons:
http://creativecommons.org• Electronic Freedom Foundation,
http://www.eff.org (Blogger’s rights, etc.)
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Project Management• Staffing• Training• Providing documentation for student staff
and volunteers• Documentation (copyright permissions,
policies, procedures, processes and workflow
• Communication
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Project manager resources
• Summary of project goals• Outline of expectations• Training manual • Templates• Quality Control Checking
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Estimating Project Time
• It takes longer than you think• Use benchmarks or action items to track
progress (esp. for grant funded projects)
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Sustainability• Document what you do• Use non-proprietary software or write
contracts with commercial companies that will allow you to export or extract your data in non-proprietary formats
• Redundancy of data is good; ditto off-site storage of data
• Consider the life cycle of your data from creation to migration
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