Ditching theDigital

James Baker, Lecturer in DigitalHistory

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Of course we do need ‘digital’now not least because..

Loss continues (Rosenzweig, 2003)

The paper archive is ~ dead/dyingInformatics folks are doing ‘our’ job

..but it can be unhelpful

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This keynote isn’t..My origin story

This keynote isn’t..What you need to know

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This keynote isn’t..On the latest DH kerfuffle

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“Advocates position Digital Humanities as a corrective to the"traditional" and outmoded approaches to literary study thatsupposedly plague English department”

Allington, Brouilette, Golumbia, ‘Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A PoliticalHistory of Digital Humanities’, LA Review of Books, 1 May 2016

VS

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This keynote isn’t..Prospecting

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This keynote is..Some stories

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digitalhistorymentorship.wordpress.com

Story 1: Mentorship

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The Business of Satirical Prints in Late-GeorgianEngland (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)

Story 2: My Book

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1794 1808

Story 2: My Book

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Story 3: Born Digital

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librarycarpentry.github.ioJames Baker, Caitlin Moore, Ernesto Priego, Raquel Alegre, Jez Cope, Ludi Price,Owen Stephens, Daniel van Strien, Greg Wilson, 'Library Carpentry: software skills

training for library professionals' (forthcoming 2016)

Story 4: Library Carpentry

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Story 5: Peter de Bolla“The extraction of these data from the archive is beset with problems that willbe familiar to anyone who has explored ECCO. As is now wellknown, the optical character recognition (OCR) softwareused by Gale, the publisher, compromises the reliabilityof the data extracted. Although this is regrettable, the following study

is intended to be exemplar of a new kind of conceptual history. When inthe not-too-distant future the glitches in the software nolonger cause these problems, the compilation of moresecure data will be possible. But since I doubt that there will besignificant changes to the profiles I have created for the concepts studiedhere, the revision of precise numerical values will be unlikely to lead todifferent conclusions. I am, nevertheless, confident that at the time ofcarrying out the searches (for the most part in 2009-2010) all of the data arepresented as accurate”

Peter de Bolla, The architecture of concepts the historical formation of human rights (2013)My blog: cradledincaricature.com/2016/04/06/interfaces-between-us-and-our-digital-sources/

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Story 6: Teaching at Sussex

Embedding Digital Historyinto Year 1-3 undergraduate

History courses

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Ditching theDigital

James Baker, Lecturer in DigitalHistory

@j_w_bakerslideshare.net/drjwbaker

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