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Scholarly Communication in the Digital Humanities

Consider the Radarange

ELECTRONICS AGAIN

Broadcasting, Telecasting (Archive: 1945-1957)31. 16 (Oct 21, 1946): 198

Consider the Radarange

RADIATION LEAK LAID TO 6 HOSPITAL OVENS

Special to The New York Times. New York Times (1923-Current file); May 24, 1969; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2009) with Index (1851-1993) pg. 33

The 1950’s

Laura Shapiro. Something From the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America. (New York: Viking, 2004), xviii-xix

[After] World War II … the food industry [took] aim at home cooking per se, rapturously envisioning a day when all contact between the cook and the raw makings of dinner would be obsolete.”

The 2010’s

Fast forward and switch fields…

…the Digital Humanities take aim at literary study per se, rapturously envisioning a day when all contact between the scholar and the text would be obsolete.

Boom.

The Mark-21 Nuclear Bomb, 1955

Show Me the Money

“institutional support for digital humanities by administrators, foundations, and legislators can work to conceal or compensate for reduced support given to the traditional humanities, and as such can contribute to the undermining of the liberal arts in higher education.”

Richard Grusin“The Dark Side of the Digital Humanities –

Part 2”http://www.c21uwm.com/2013/01/09/dark-side-of-the-digital-humanities-part-2/

The Dark Side of DH

Digital Humanities is: insufficiently diverse. suffers from “techno-utopianism” and “claims to be the

solution for every problem.” “a blind and vapid embrace of the digital” insists upon coding and gamification to the exclusion of more

humanistic practices. detache[d] from the rest of the humanities (regarding itself

as not just “the next big thing,” but “the only thing”). complicit with the neoliberal transformation of higher

education; it “capitulates to bureaucratic and technocratic logic”;

support[ed by] comes administrators who see DH’ers as successful fundraisers and allies in the “creative destruction” of humanities education.

On ‘The Dark Side of the Digital Humanities’ January 5, 2013, 11:14 am, Chronicle of Higher EducationBy William Pannapacker

The Challenges

Monograph remains the gold standard for Humanities Scholarship

Suspicion of Open AccessPrimacy of Citation Analysis for

understanding impactCollaboration Devalued/DiscouragedHow to Support Unfunded ProjectsThe Humanities Payoff?

Make it work.

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Interventions

Outreach for Repository ServicesEvangelize Open Access

e-Journal Support Citations and Readership Larger “Publics” for Scholarship

Evangelize Altmetrics Networks of Scholarship Influence and Impact beyond Citation

Collaboration on DH Projects beyond mass digitization & special collections

The Domain of Information Sciences:

MetadataControlled VocabulariesLong-term preservationInfrastructureDiscoverabilityAccessibilityReuseSustainabilityCentrality/Neutrality

Digital Humanatees

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UNT’sDigital ScholarshipCo-Operatifve(DiSCo)

http://disco.unt.edu

@UNTDiSCo

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