The Digital Humanities: From the Edge to the CenterGoalsTools and ProjectsGetting Started------------- Learning and TeachingCareer PathsPredictions

Hanger 51Hanger 51. Retrieved: October 29, 2012 from http://indianajones.wikia.com/wiki/Hangar_51.

Casaubons Key to All MythologiesEdward Casaubon, Retrieved on October 31, 2012, from: http://elfestindehomero.blogspot.com/2012/06/el-senor-casaubon-academico-fracasado.html

DH: Some General GoalsCollaboration: Foster active scholarly conversations; engage the public as partners. Innovation: Use digital tools to ask new questions and create new forms of scholarship in new mediums. Academic Engagement: Adopt high-impact educational practices such as collaborative research. Cultivate both the traditional and the digital. Professional and Public Service: Build a new scholarly infrastructure and create resources that serve more diverse local local and global needs. Alternative Career Paths: Develop sustainable alternatives to the tenure track, while working to expand what counts for tenure and promotion.Strengthen the Humanities: Justify ongoing support from institutions, foundations, academic administration, the government, and the public, including students and parents.

DH: Tools and ProjectsDigital Research Tools (DiRT) Wiki. Multimedia Publications: Southern Spaces.Digital Archives: Walt Whitman Archive, Who Speaks for the Negro? Many others, see IATH-Sponsored Archives.Geographic Information Systems (GIS): Cleveland Project, Civil War Washington. Digital Simulations: Digital Roman Forum, Worlds Columbian Exposition. Peer Editing: Writing History in the Digital Age, also countless blogs. Data Mining and Visualization (Culturomics): Google Ngram Viewer, TagCrowd.

Some DH HistoryThe Next Big Thing: Father Roberto Busa (1913-2011), The Index Thomisticus (1949-2005): a corpus analysis tool including 188 books by Aquinas and 61 other authors, originally 70,000 pages, now online. Roberto Busa in the background the Index Thomisticus (2006). Retrieved October 29, 2012, from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Roberto_busa_e_index_thomisticus.jpg

DH: Getting StartedWhat interests you? What kind of pilot project could you develop? Seek inspiration and support. Visit Getting Started in Digital Humanities and NITLEs Digital Research Tools (DiRT) wiki.Read Debates in the Digital Humanities, edited by Matt Gold; A Companion to Digital Humanities by Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemans, and John Unsworth. Find solutions on Digital Humanities Questions and Answers.Become familiar with scholarly best practices for DH in your discipline (MLA and AHA guidelines). Identify sources of grant support, especially the NEHs Office of DH, see their library of funded projects. Participate in the DH communityLook for DH sessions at your disciplinary conferences. Attend a THATCamp or training workshops like the Digital Humanities Summer Institute. Read and respond to DH blogs like Dan Cohens.Follow DHers on Twitter. Advertise your project on DH Commons. Find collaborators: other students, faculty, IT staff, and librarians; look beyond your campus, especially at the DH centers. Present at conferences (such as ADHO), build projects into your syllabi, and publish. Present your project at conferences; apply for grants; publish.

DH: Learning and TeachingHigh Impact Educational Practices (George D. Kuh). Undergraduate ResearchCollaborative Assignments and Projects Common Intellectual ExperiencesService LearningDiversity Experiences/Global LearningLearning CommunitiesCapstone Courses and Projects

DH: TeachingHybrid teaching; the flipped classroom. Social Media: Twitter, FacebookPublic writing--individual and collaborative: blogs, wikis, Google Docs.Cross/multi-institutional courses; enhanced specializationProject-based classes that assemble teams from across disciplines. From student to author and project manager.Alternatives to the research paper, by itself. No more Indiana Jones Warehouses, Keys to all Mythologies. Consider: Early Novels Database, Looking for Whitman. DH Syllabi Wiki.

DH: Alternative Academics

DH: Predictions: 1Traditional scholarly publication, including peer review, will move online and will incorporate DH approaches.Collaborative research and writing will become more accepted in the humanities. Hiring, promotion and the tenure process will recognize and support DH.DH will become part of teaching at all levels of the curriculum, driven by student/market demanda big faculty development challenge. There will be relatively fewer tenure-track positions but a wider range of alt-ac positions; academic careers will become more fluid and mobile.

DH: Predictions: 2Undergrads will become even more skeptical of traditional graduate training. Humanists will be expected to find external support for their projects. Plan for long-term sustainability, collaborative partnerships, public engagement, and assessment. DH skills soon will cease to confer much advantage on the academic job market: they will be assumed. Digital Humanities methods will become part of the ordinary practices of the humanities.

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