Oh, the digital humanities!
Mon 4 Feb 2008, 11:19 pm
It might just be that I have been paying more attention lately, but I seem to be hearing more and more about interesting projects in digital humanities. Here is a little linkdump:
- Digital Scholarship in the Humanities is a fairly new blog by Lisa Spiro. She kicked off the year with a three-part roundup on the subject of Digital Humanities in 2007 (part 1, part 2, part 3). Many of the links below are in those three posts, though I heard about some of them from other sources.
- Dan Cohen and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason seem to have interesting new announcements every week. These are the folks behind the citation tool Zotero and a platform for online media collections called Omeka that I’m eager to get my hands on. Plus there is their latest project…
- THAT Podcast, or The Humanities and Technology Podcast. The first episode featured an interview with Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress.
- Dorothea Salo points us to the Bamboo project, a proposal to the Mellon Foundation to fund the development of a shared technology platform to support arts and humanities research. At least I think that’s what it is; the report is in my “printed but not actually read” pile for now. (They might think of getting the History and New Media guys to come up with a new name for the project, as “Bamboo” is gonna be a royal pain to google.)
- The relatively new DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly, which bills itself as “an open-access, peer-reviewed, digital journal covering all aspects of digital media in the humanities.”
- Database as Genre: The Epic Transformation of Archives by Ed Folsom appeared in PMLA 122 (5), Oct. 2007. The link, I’m sorry to say will only help you if your institution subscribes to PMLA. The article is a very interesting look at how the database can be seen as a literary genre unto itself, based on the author’s work as co-editor of the Walt Whitman Archive. I plan to write more about this article, once I have read the responses that were published in the same issue.
- License:
- File under: Arts & Humanities,Digital libraries
- Comments? One
[...] exploring the archive Filed under: books, words — snail @ 2:27 am Been slowly catching up on work stuff, personal stuff and blog stuff. Somehow or other I got distracted last night in the blog stuff by ending up at a spot, I think via a comment on Walt Crawford’s blog, that mentioned an article on the idea of the digital archive as genre. It sort of piqued my interest, not sure yet where this will lead but the article sounds interesting. The company I work for does a nice line in digital archives and they’re an area I always feel I’m under utilising. Plus I’m curious as to how others approach the idea of such archives, I’m well aware of their value for research, particularly as they reduce the need to fly all over the world to view significant texts. Personally, I would happily fly all over the world doing such My partner has managed to source the article in question, as well as the responses plus the odd other paper that may be of interest. A preliminary scan suggests there is much to ponder and I look forward to reading it and associated pieces. Hopefully I’ll be able to comment further at a later date. [...]
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