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Living out loud: The Visionary Cross Project and the Public
HumanitiesHeather Hobma, Daniel Paul O'Donnell,
Marco Callieri, Matteo Dellepiane, James Graham, Catherine Karkov, Roberto Rosselli Del Turco
CMRS/ETRUS. University of Saskatchewan. January 16, 2014
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Informational vs. Critical
● Critical: Scholars writing for scholars– Low accessibility
– Little broad context
– Not for popular audiences
● Informational: Interpreters writing for public– High accessibility
– Broad context
– Popular audiences
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Digital Humanities
● From early digital editions that mimicked print/critical models (Humanities computing)
● To current generation editions/projects that have heavier public engagement– Crowd-sourcing
– Open annotation
– Linked and open data
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Public wants in
● “You” wants to be/is very active– Wikipedia
– Museum attendance is up (online and in person)
● Public's proxies (government and funding agencies) stress mobilisation and dissemination– Increasingly important part of funding applications
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Stuff is gorgeous
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We are all (going to be) interpreters
● We are the people who both study AND present objects
● Becoming responsible for both critical and educational/informational aspects of our projects
● Run into same issues museum directors etc. have had to face.
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Partially ready
● Computation requires us to go back to first principles (in this case UI design)
● DH has a sense of self of itself as being engaged with the world
● We recognise that our material is great and potentially popular
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But we need to get more serious
● Easy to see the work as trivial– Not at the research coal face
– Can seem an additional/bureaucratic add on
● And yet popular dissemination/instruction is actually very hard
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The Visionary Cross Project
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Dumfries Peninsula
Hadrian’s WallRuthwell Cross
Birrens Roman Fort
Hoddom
Bewcastle
Caerlaverock Castle
Dumfries/Burns museum
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The Ruthwell, Hoddom, and Bewcastle Connections
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Hoddom
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But the actual Anglo-Saxon site is on the terraced hill, in the opposite direction.
The sign orients visitors towards the river.
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Bewcastle
Bewcastle’s exhibition centre
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Exploding Bewcastle’s Interpretive CentreCastle
Cross and church
Interpretive Centre
Roman Bath
(Long Bar)
Roman Fort
(Modern farm)
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Castle Roman Baths
Long Bar
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Ruthwell
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Presenter
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Google Earth