making sense of digital humanities: a conversation starter
DESCRIPTION
Short presentation to Colleagues/students on Digital Humanities, trying to make sense of Digital Humanities.TRANSCRIPT
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MAKING SENSE OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES - A CONVERSATION STARTER
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Outline
• Introduction• Brief history• DH Projects• DH Tools• DH Organisations/Conferences/Workshops• DH@UCT• More
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What is this thing called Digital Humanities or DH?
• Umbrella term covering a wide range of activities, from online preservation and digital mapping to data mining and use of GIS technologies , like infrared scans, geolocation mapping, and optical character recognition to enrich these resources with related information or make entirely new discoveries about them.
There have been scholars and technologists doing DH work long before DH was a word!
Previously known as Human Computing
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Variety of meanings
• Day in the Life of Digital Humanities (8 April 2013)
• Definitions http://dayofdh2013.matrix.msu.edu/members/
The humanities, now with digital.
Using new methods to
find out more about old
things
Digital humanities is the broader exploration of how technology can be
integrated into traditional scholarly
activities and the creation of new forms of scholarship and media
I defined DH for my aging parents
as "using computers to
improve the ways I study, learn, and write about my
research and my experiences, even though I'm not a rocket scientist."
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Brief History
• ImageL http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/typo3temp/pics/7212f0d7fe.jpg• Image: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/card2.jpg• Images: http://www.osservatoreromano.va/orportal-portlets-portal/detail/binaries/news/cultura/2011/184q11-lettore-fermati----morto-padre-busa/184q05b.jpg• ImageL http://www.sas-sas.it/Alice/images/Thomis6.jpg
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Corpus Thomisticum
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Timeline of DH Developments
• Computer Centres
• Scholarly societies and journals
• Standards (Text Coding Initiative –TEI)
• Library digitization and digital humanities centres
Image: http://atomictoasters.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Word-Proc-1.jpg
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Library Digitization and Digital Humanities Centres
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DH Projects
• What knowledge can digital humanities scholars produce that their predecessors could not?
• One of the principle projects was making historical and literacy texts available online
• Data mining and text encoding projects are often paired with interesting visual representations, multimedia, and interactive tools
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Charles Darwin’s Library
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Mapping the Republic of Letters
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First World War Poetry Digital Archive
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Shoah Visual Archives
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Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
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Kindred Britain
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Old Bailey Proceedings
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DH Tools + Technical Resources
• Comprehensive list at Bamboo DiRThttp://dirt.projectbamboo.org/• Text editing• Textual analysis• Repositories• Display/Publishing
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Text analysis
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DH Organisations/conferences/journals/workshops
• Thatcamps http://thatcamp.org/• Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations
(ADHO) – Journals– Summer Institutes– Annual conference
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DH@UCT
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• Adam Crymble describes his Digital Humanities Thesis in two minutes
“Big Data, Old History “
http://www.phdcomics.com/tv/#047