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General DH

• Twitter has emerged as the key platform for communication among digital humanists. See DH on Twitter, DH Now in Journals, and Tips.
• DHAnswers (@dhanswers on Twitter) is a Q&A board collaboratively run by the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Chronicle of Higher Education’s ProfHacker. Users post their questions (big and small), and the questions are tweeted to the DH community, who come to the board to provide answers. It is already becoming, as the repository of answers builds, a rich source of DH expertise – as well as a space for sustained conversation among those in the field.
• HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory, pron. “haystack”), “a network of individuals and institutions inspired by the possibilities that new technologies offer us for shaping how we learn, teach, communicate, create, and organize our local and global communities.” Site hosts competitions, projects, discussion, news and events information, member blogs. Led by Cathy Davidson and team at Duke University. See also HASTAC scholars in Scholarships/Fellowships.
• Humanist, an email listserv that has been running since 1987, under the stewardship of Willard McCarty at King’s College London: “an international electronic seminar on the application of computers to the humanities. Its primary aim is to provide a forum for discussion of intellectual, scholarly, pedagogical, and social issues and for exchange of information among members.” Note that this is a somewhat formal environment, with distinguished participants. Archives are available via the Humanist site.
• NEW! DHCommons, “a hub for people and organizations to find projects to work with, and for projects to find collaborators” – otherwise known as “a match.com for DHers.”
• NEW! MLA Commons will likely become an important space for DHers. See the Digital Humanities group there.
• Arts-humanities.net, based at King’s College London, is similar to HASTAC, but with an emphasis on UK/European work. It also includes a library (containing, for instance, interviews from DH2010), an extensive bibliography, listing of tools, and a taxonomy of humanities computing methods.
• There is also a Digital Humanities Zotero group that collaboratively produces a shared Zotero library.
• Decoding the Digital Humanities, an informal meet-up (in the pub) to discuss readings and share ideas with others in the Digital Humanities. Founded by University College London’s Centre for Digital Humanities, they now have chapters around the world.
• Not specific to DH: The Academic Commons – aims to enable faculty, academic technologists, librarians, administrators, and others to “share knowledge, develop collaborations, and evaluate and disseminate digital tools and innovative practices for teaching and learning with technology” in the context of liberal arts education. Sponsored by the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College.
• Likewise not specific to DH, but related: H-NET, “an international interdisciplinary organization of scholars and teachers dedicated to developing the enormous educational potential of the Internet and the World Wide Web.” Run by MATRIX at Michigan State University.

Area/Discipline-Specific

Readers, please help build out this section! Some examples:

• NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship) “is a scholarly organization devoted to forging links between the material archive of the nineteenth century and the digital research environment of the twenty-first.”
• Digital Americanists (@DigAmericanists) – “a scholarly society dedicated to the study of American literature and digital media.”

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• The CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative (DHI), of course.
• Other Commons-based groups of interest to DHers:
  • GC Digital Initiatives, a project of the Provost’s Office that highlights digital work at the Graduate Center
  • The Digital Studies Group
  • The CUNY Graduate Center IT & Pedagogy Certificate Program
  • The CUNY Graduate Center New Media Lab
  • Open Education at CUNY
  • The CUNY Games Network
  • The CUNY Omeka group
  • Graduate Center Composition & Rhetoric

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• The NEH Office of Digital Humanities sponsors a range of institutes (including One Week | One Tool, see below).
• Introductory workshops in digital skills (formerly known as BootCamps) are held at selected THATCamps (see Conferences & Events); fellowships are sometimes available.
• Digital Humanities Workshops – workshops also precede major conferences such as the annual DH conference (see DH2011 for examples) and the MLA Convention (2013’s event featured a “Getting Started in DH” workshop run by DHCommons).
• The Digital Humanities Summer Institute is run annually at University of Victoria, Canada. Offers week-long intensive courses in topics such as digitization, TEI, GIS, data analytics, project management, etc, and is open to scholars at all levels. Scholarships and travel bursaries are available. Read about it in the Chronicle of Higher Ed and on ProfHacker.
• The Digital Humanities Winter Institute, modeled on DHSI, runs for the first time in January 2013 at MITH.
• The first One Week | One Tool took place in 2010 at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, “a unique summer institute, one that aims to teach participants how to build an open source digital tool for humanities scholarship by actually building a tool, from inception to launch, in a week.” (The result: Anthologize, a plug-in for WordPress 3.0 that transforms online content into an electronic book.) The August 2013 “DH Barn Raising” produced Serendip-o-matic, a search engine that extracts key terms from texts to return a serendipitous selection of images from collections for users to make new connections
• The Cultural Heritage Informatics (CHI) Fieldschool focuses on collaborative cultural heritage projects. It is held every other summer (in odd years) in MSU’s Department of Anthropology.

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• Students at CUNY Graduate Center should consider the ITP (Interactive Technology & Pedagogy) Certificate program – many CUNY DHers are faculty, alums, or current students there.

 

Readers, do you know of any DH-related courses at local universities that would be of interest to CUNY graduate students? If so, please include them here.

 

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See also the various institutes in Training/Professional Development.

• THATCamp (The Humanities & Technology Camp): an “‘unconference’ [see Wikipedia] where humanists and technologists meet to work together for the common good.” Started by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University in 2008, THATCamps are now held around the US and the world, and are a locus for innovative, collaborative DH work. The site provides details of upcoming THATCamps and records of past conferences, and #thatcamp hashtag on Twitter is used throughout the year for THATCamp-related discussions.
• Digital Humanities is the annual international conference for digital scholarship in the humanities, sponsored by the ADHO, and held since 1989. DH2011 took place in Stanford, DH2012 in Hamburg; DH2013 will be hosted by University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The ADHO provides bursaries to students and young scholars who are presenting at DH, and awards the Fortier prize for the best paper by a young scholar.
• The DH Summer Institute (DHSI) is an annual week-long summer institute at the University of Victoria that combines intensive coursework, seminars, and lectures that help participants share ideas and methods, and develop expertise in using advanced technologies. It has now been joined by the DH Winter Institute at MITH, run for the first time in January 2013.
• Day of Digital Humanities – run annually since 2009 by Geoff Rockwell and team at the University of Alberta; takes the pulse of the DH community by asking participants to blog about the work they do on one day in March.
• The MLA Convention – DHers have a robust presence at the MLA, as you can see from Mark Sample’s list of DH-related sessions for 2013. The ACH sponsors sessions annually, and has maintained a list of sessions going back fifteen years.
• The first undergraduate Digital Humanities Conference – “Re: Humanities: A Symposium on Digital Media in Academia” was held in 2010, and has been hosted annually since then by Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges.
• The Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) is an annual DH conference in Chicago hosted by a different area school each year.
• The Society for Textual Scholarship hosts an annual conference that includes many sessions on DH topics.

For more, watch:

• HASTAC’s event listing
• The calendar, run by Amanda French, of Conferences for Digital Humanities, Digital Archives, Digital Libraries, and Digital Museums

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• The annual CUNY IT Conference, held in December each year, offers DHers opportunities to present and learn about new applications of technology to research and pedagogy. Follow our blog for updates.
• The Digital Studies Seminar meets throughout the year with invited speakers, sponsored by the Center for the Humanities. Topics have included the preservation of born digital literary texts, the philosophy of free software, internet surveillance and privacy, and teaching interactive technology and pedagogy to doctoral students. Our blog will provide the schedule.
• And of course the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative hosts speakers too; follow our blog for news about upcoming events.

 

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DH Journals

Most active journals (currently) are listed first.

• Digital Humanities Now was launched in November 2009, and instantly became essential reading for DHers. Now relaunched as a PressForward publication, it automatically collates and curates links to news items, blog posts, etc. shared on Twitter by people in the DH community. Read more about the editorial process here.
• NEW! The Journal of Digital Humanities, another PressForward publication, presents peer-reviewed and edited pieces that were originally selected for inclusion in the Editors’ Choice section of Digital Humanities Now. Appears quarterly.
• Literary & Linguistic Computing (LLC), a traditional pay-for-access journal that has been published quarterly since 1986. It is a publication of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), see Organizations/Associations. Here it is at Mina Rees.
• Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ) – an open-access, peer-reviewed online journal that was launched in 2007. It is also a publication of the ADHO, and is affiliated with LLC above.
• Digital Studies / Le Champ Numérique – an open-access, peer reviewed online journal based at the University of Victoria, Canada. It is a publication of the Canadian association SD/SEMI (see see Organizations/Associations).
• The International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing (formerly History and Computing) is published approximately once per year by the Edinburgh University Press, and sponsored by The International Association for History and Computing, the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative at UC Berkeley, and Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts (DRHA, a UK-based conference).
• Vectors – an “investigation at the intersection of technology and culture”; peer-reviewed, publishes only works that require multimedia forms: “In so doing, we aim to explore the immersive and experiential dimensions of emerging scholarly vernaculars across media platforms.”
• TEXT Technology; the journal of computer text processing has been dormant since 2007, but has strong work in its archives (see for example the combustible penultimate issue).

Other Journals

• First Monday – First Monday was one of the first openly accessible, peer–reviewed journals on the web, and is devoted to study of the Internet. It has appeared since May 1996 on the first Monday of every month. Although its scope is much broader than DH, it publishes many articles that are germane to the field.
• Kairos – an open-access, refereed online journal exploring the intersections of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy; publishes bi-annually, in August and January, with occasional special issues in May.

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• NEW! The Graduate Center’s Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program has launched an open-access, peer-reviewed online journal, The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. The JITP aims “to promote open scholarly discourse around critical and creative uses of digital technology in teaching, learning, and research,” and welcomes contributions on topics in the Digital Humanities.

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Bloggers

A brief selection of assorted bloggers. Note that not all of the bloggers listed here necessarily identify as digital humanists – but all have views to share that are important to the field. Readers, please help us build out this list, by discipline/area of focus.

• Abject Learning (Brian Lamb) – educational technologist at University of British Columbia, Canada
• academhack (David Parry) – Assistant Professor of Emerging Media and Communications at the University of Texas at Dallas (see also Hot Topics)
• bavatuesdays (Jim Groom) – instructional technologist at University of Mary Washington (see also Hot Topics)
• Ian Bogost – videogame researcher, critic, and designer; professor at Georgia Tech (see also Hot Topics)
• clioweb (Jeremy Boggs) – Design Architect for Digital Research and Scholarship at Scholars’ Lab, University of Virginia Library; historian (see also Hot Topics)
• CogDogBlog (Alan Levine) – instructional technologist
• Brian Croxall – Digital Humanities Strategist in the Robert W. Woodruff Library and Lecturer of English at Emory University (see also Hot Topics)
• Dan Cohen’s Digital Humanities Blog – associate professor in Dept of History & Art History and Director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History & New Media at George Mason University (see Centers for DH Work)
• Composing Spaces (Bill Wolff) – assistant professor of Writing Arts at Rowan University
• Cathy Davidson – Co-founder, HASTAC, Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English and John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University (see also Hot Topics)
• Diapsalmata (Whittney Trettien) – English PhD student at Duke University, published MIT Masters thesis on early modern text-generating poems as a web-based combinatory reading/writing program (see also Hot Topics)
• Digital Digs (Alex Reid) – associate professor of English, University at Buffalo, NY
• Digital History Hacks (William J. Turkel) – associate professor, History, University of Western Ontario; blog no longer active but valuable resource (see also Sample Projects)
• Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (Lisa Spiro) – director of NITLE Labs (see also Hot Topics and Tools & Methods)
• edwired (T. Mills Kelly) – Director, Global Affairs Program, Associate Director of Roy Rosenzweig Center for History & New Media, George Mason University
• Found History (Tom Scheinfeldt) – Managing Director of Center for History & New Media, assistant professor of History, George Mason University (see also Hot Topics)
• Amanda French – English PhD, THATCamp coordinator at Center for History & new Media, George Mason University, working on book about poetics of Twitter
• if:book – the blog of the Institute for the Future of the Book, founded by Bob Stein
• Matthew Jockers – Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln; formerly at Stanford University where he co-directed its Literature Lab with Franco Moretti (see Sample Projects and Hot Topics)
• Matt Kirschenbaum – associate professor of English, director of Digital Cultures & Creativity Honors Program, associate director of Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), all at University of Maryland; author of Mechanisms (see Centers for DH Work, Some Reading, and Hot Topics)
• D’Arcy Norman – educational technologist at University of Calgary, Canada
• Bethany Nowviskie – President of the ACH, Director of Digital Research & Scholarship (including the Scholars’ Lab) at the University of Virginia Library and Associate Director of the Scholarly Communication Institute (see also Centers for DH Work, Hot Topics)
• Planned Obsolescence (Kathleen Fitzpatrick) – Director of Scholarly Communication at the Modern Language Association, Professor, Department of Media Studies, Pomona College, and co-founder of MediaCommons, a digital scholarly network (see also Some Reading and Hot Topics)
• Post Position (Nick Montfort) – Associate Professor of Digital Media, Writing and Humanistic Studies, MIT (see also Some Reading)
• Stephen Ramsay – Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Fellow at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
• Geoffrey Rockwell – Professor of Philosophy and Humanities Computing at University of Alberta, Canada; project leader for TAPoR (see Sample Projects and Hot Topics); also maintains a wiki of work in progress
• Sample Reality (Mark Sample) – associate professor of Contemporary American Literature and New Media Studies in the English Department at George Mason University
• Stefan Sinclair – Associate Professor in Digital Humanities at McGill University; co-developer of TAPoR and Voyant, among other tools (see Sample Projects)
• Melissa Terras – Co-Director of the University College London Centre for Digital Humanities (see also Hot Topics)
• Text Mining & the Digital Humanities (Aditi Muralidharan) – PhD student in Computer Science at UC Berkeley, specializing in text mining

Blogs for Centers/Institutions

See Centers for DH Work for details.

• HASTAC
• Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH)’s blog and podcasts
• ODH Update from the NEH’s Office of Digital Humanities
• South Jersey Center for Digital Humanities @ Stockton College (SJCDH)
• University of Virginia Scholars’ Lab

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CUNY DHers, please add your blogs here!

• Bloviate – Luke Waltzer, historian and educational technologist, Assistant Director for Educational Technology at the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute at Baruch College.
• cac.ophony – blog on communication-intensive instruction at the college level authored by the Fellows of the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute, Baruch College, CUNY
• The Lapland Chronicles – Matt Gold; Advisor to the Provost for Master’s Programs and Digital Initiatives; teaches in the English Department at the New York City College of Technology and the ITP Certificate Program at CUNY Graduate Center; Project Director of the CUNY Academic Commons.
• CUNY Graduate Center New Media Lab
• Prestidigitation – Joseph Ugoretz; Director of Technology and Learning at Macaulay Honors College (CUNY); serves as a member of the Consortial Faculty for the CUNY Online Baccalaureate; also on the faculty of the ITP Certificate Program at CUNY Graduate Center.
• Teleogistic – Boone B. Gorges, committing developer for the BuddyPress project, Lead Developer of the CUNY Academic Commons and Anthologize.

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• Twitter has emerged as the key platform for communication among digital humanists. See DH on Twitter, DH Now in Journals, and Tips.
• DHAnswers (@dhanswers on Twitter) is a Q&A board collaboratively run by the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Chronicle of Higher Education’s ProfHacker. Users post their questions (big and small), and the questions are tweeted to the DH community, who come to the board to provide answers. It is already becoming, as the repository of answers builds, a rich source of DH expertise – as well as a space for sustained conversation among those in the field.
• HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory, pron. “haystack”), “a network of individuals and institutions inspired by the possibilities that new technologies offer us for shaping how we learn, teach, communicate, create, and organize our local and global communities.” Site hosts competitions, projects, discussion, news and events information, member blogs. Led by Cathy Davidson and team at Duke University. See also HASTAC scholars in Scholarships/Fellowships.
• Humanist, an email listserv that has been running since 1987, under the stewardship of Willard McCarty at King’s College London: “an international electronic seminar on the application of computers to the humanities. Its primary aim is to provide a forum for discussion of intellectual, scholarly, pedagogical, and social issues and for exchange of information among members.” Note that this is a somewhat formal environment, with distinguished participants. Archives are available via the Humanist site.
• NEW! DHCommons, “a hub for people and organizations to find projects to work with, and for projects to find collaborators” – otherwise known as “a match.com for DHers.”
• NEW! MLA Commons will likely become an important space for DHers. See the Digital Humanities group there.
• Arts-humanities.net, based at King’s College London, is similar to HASTAC, but with an emphasis on UK/European work. It also includes a library (containing, for instance, interviews from DH2010), an extensive bibliography, listing of tools, and a taxonomy of humanities computing methods.
• There is also a Digital Humanities Zotero group that collaboratively produces a shared Zotero library.
• Decoding the Digital Humanities, an informal meet-up (in the pub) to discuss readings and share ideas with others in the Digital Humanities. Founded by University College London’s Centre for Digital Humanities, they now have chapters around the world.
• Not specific to DH: The Academic Commons – aims to enable faculty, academic technologists, librarians, administrators, and others to “share knowledge, develop collaborations, and evaluate and disseminate digital tools and innovative practices for teaching and learning with technology” in the context of liberal arts education. Sponsored by the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College.
• Likewise not specific to DH, but related: H-NET, “an international interdisciplinary organization of scholars and teachers dedicated to developing the enormous educational potential of the Internet and the World Wide Web.” Run by MATRIX at Michigan State University.

Area/Discipline-Specific

Readers, please help build out this section! Some examples:

• NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship) “is a scholarly organization devoted to forging links between the material archive of the nineteenth century and the digital research environment of the twenty-first.”
• Digital Americanists (@DigAmericanists) – “a scholarly society dedicated to the study of American literature and digital media.”

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• The CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative (DHI), of course.
• Other Commons-based groups of interest to DHers:
  • GC Digital Initiatives, a project of the Provost’s Office that highlights digital work at the Graduate Center
  • The Digital Studies Group
  • The CUNY Graduate Center IT & Pedagogy Certificate Program
  • The CUNY Graduate Center New Media Lab
  • Open Education at CUNY
  • The CUNY Games Network
  • The CUNY Omeka group
  • Graduate Center Composition & Rhetoric

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Here are a few entry points to ongoing – often heated – debates in the field. What topics would you add? What other readings would you recommend to someone new to DH?

The Digital Humanities and the Humanities

The annual MLA Convention seems to provoke intense discussion of the relationship between the Humanities and the Digital Humanities, often focused by coverage in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Articles are below, with responses. Be sure to read the comments too.

MLA 2009:
William Pannapacker announces the “arrival” of DH.

• “The MLA and the Digital Humanities,” William Pannapacker, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Dec. 28, 2009
• “The MLA, @briancroxall, and the non-rise of the Digital Humanities,” Dave Parry, Jan. 6, 2010
• “Be online or be irrelevant,” Dave Parry, Jan. 11, 2010
• “The Future of the Humanities,” Cathy Davidson, Jan. 9, 2010
• “The Turtlenecked Hairshirt: Fetid and Fragrant Futures for the Humanities,” Ian Bogost, Jan. 9, 2010

MLA 2011:
Pannapacker’s review finds DH triumphant, but dominated by an in-group/out-group mentality – DH has its “stars,” DH itself is the “cool kids’ table.”

• “Pannapacker at MLA: Digital Humanities Triumphant?,” William Pannapacker, Jan. 8, 2011
• “Digital Humanities Silos and Outreach,” Perian Sully, Jan. 9, 2011
• “The (DH) Stars Come Out in LA,” Matt Kirschenbaum, Jan. 13, 2011

MLA 2012:
The fireworks this time are brought by Stanley Fish, no less.

• See Stanley Fish’s articles in the New York Times.
• Responses come from Martin Mueller, Ted Underwood, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Matthew Wilkens, and Timothy Burke, among others.

See also John Unsworth’s “The State of Digital Humanities, 2010,” June 2010, and Ian Bogost’s more recent take, “Beyond the Elbow-Patched Playground,” August 23-25, 2011.

Marking the Field (Turf Wars?)

There are tensions within the field too – see the above posts, and the many Definitions of DH. As Whittney Trettien puts it: “Who can claim to be a digital humanist? Do you have to have a PhD? How much coding do you have to know? Are humanities bloggers and twitterers participating in e-scholarship? At the root of it all: how do we (or do we not) want to delimit our community?”

• “The Stakes of Disciplinarity,” Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Jan. 14, 2010
• “Inclusion in the Digital Humanities,” Geoff Rockwell (work in progress)
• “Humanities Computing as Digital Humanities,” Patrik Svensson, Digital Humanities Quarterly v3 n3 (Summer 2009)
• “What Is Humanities Computing and What Is Not?,” John Unsworth, Nov. 8, 2002
• “Digital Humanities Vs the Digital Humanist,” Whittney Trettien, Apr. 13, 2010
• “Digital Humanities is a Spectrum: or, We’re All Digital Humanists Now,” Lincoln Mullen, Apr. 29, 2010
• A provocation: “Who’s In and Who’s Out,” Steve Ramsay, Jan. 8, 2011. Which he thoughtfully re-frames a few days later: “On Building,” Jan. 13, 2011

A Culture of Making, and Its Implications

Many DHers subscribe to a project-based, build-something mentality that has been summarized as “more hack, less yack,” or “less talk, more grok” – see for instance, THATCamp, and One Week | One Tool. The emphasis is on teamwork and collaboration versus the “lone scholar” model. But it also raises a range of questions: do digital humanists need coding skills? How do all members of the team get the recognition they deserve (and need to prove their worth to their employers)? How can we promote openness in our making practices? Is making in tension with thinking?

To Code or Not to Code – A Canard?

• “Hello Worlds,” Matt Kirschenbaum, May 23, 2010
• “A ‘Hello World’ Apart (Why Humanities Students Should Not Learn to Program),” Evan Donahue, May 28, 2010
• The debate is joined by Ian Bogost (“Computers Are Systems Not Languages,” Jan. 25, 2011) and Tim Morton “Should Computer ‘Languages’ Qualify as Foreign Languages for PhDs?, ” Jan. 25, 2011)
• An important perspective added by Miriam Posner – “Some things to think about before you exhort everyone to code,” Feb. 29, 2012 – eliciting thoughtful, frank, and powerful comments (see especially Steve Ramsay’s contribution).

Collaboration and Participation:

• “monopolies of invention,” Bethany Nowviskie, Dec. 30, 2010
• “where credit is due,” Bethany Nowviskie, May 31, 2011
• The NEH-funded report “Off the Tracks: Laying New Lines for Digital Humanities Scholars,” which includes a “Collaborators’ Bill of Rights“
• “Participating in the Bazaar: Sharing Code in the Digital Humanities,” Jeremy Boggs, Jun. 10, 2010

Thinking and Making:

• “Sunset for Ideology, Sunrise for Methodology,” Tom Scheinfeldt, Mar. 13, 2008
• “I’m Chris. Where am I wrong?,” Chris Forster, Sep. 8, 2010 – a great post that triggered intense and wide-ranging discussion in the comments, a major topic being Scheinfeldt’s argument above
• See also this recent thread on DHAnswers, “Doing DH vs Theorizing DH“

Calls to Action

Melissa Terras’s address has been widely acclaimed; the Manifestos have received more uneven endorsement. Bethany Nowviskie summons us to reform graduate education, and Lisa Spiro issues a call for the DH community to create an open, distributed certificate program in the digital humanities. Alan Liu challenges DH to be more critically engaged with our culture, and to take a leadership role in advocating for the humanities. Jim Groom’s post – a vision of open education more generally – is straight from the heart and, for CUNYites, an anthem.

• Melissa Terras’s Plenary Address at DH2010; video is available at arts-humanities.net. Matt Kirschenbaum (via Twitter): “my summation of @melissaterras’s justly lauded #dh2010 plenary: party’s over folks, time to get our shit together.”
• It starts on Day One,” Bethany Nowviskie, Nov. 12, 2011
• “Opening Up Digital Humanities Education,” Lisa Spiro, Sep. 8, 2010
• “THATCamp Paris 2010 Manifesto for the Digital Humanities“
• “The Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0,” developed by the UCLA Mellon Seminar in the Digital Humanities
• “Where is cultural criticism in the digital humanities?, Alan Liu, Jan. 7, 2011
• “I Bleed CUNY Blood,” Jim Groom, May 25, 2009

 

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These texts provide an introduction to the field and its main preoccupations. See also the selections in Hot Topics.

• Alt-Academy: Alternative Academic Careers for Humanities Scholars. Ed. Bethany Nowviskie. Collaboratively addresses key issues for those who adopt an “alt-ac” career path, and simultaneously innovates a publishing model that is “both an edited collection and the embodiment of a grassroots, publish-then-filter approach to networked scholarly communication.”
• The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age. Ed. Amy E. Earhart and Andrew Jewell. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press and University of Michigan Library, 2011. Print. Also available online.
• A Companion to Digital Humanities. Ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. Web.
• A Companion to Digital Literary Studies. Ed. Ray Siemens, Susan Schreibman. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008. Web.
• NEW! Digital_Humanities. MIT Press, 2012. Collaboratively authored by Peter Lunenfeld, Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Todd Presner, and Jeffrey Schnapp.
• Debates in the Digital Humanities. Ed. Matthew K. Gold. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. Print. An open access online edition is forthcoming.
• Hacking the Academy. Ed. Tom Scheinfeldt and Dan Cohen. Crowdsourced in one week. “Every aspect of scholarly infrastructure is being questioned, and even more importantly, being hacked.” An edited version is available as an open access online publication and is forthcoming in print under the University of Michigan Press digitalculturebooks imprint. (See also Mark Sample’s remix of the text, Hacking the Accident).
• Learning Through Digital Media: Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy. Ed. Trebor Scholz. New York: Institute for Distributed Creativity, 2011.
• Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination. Matthew G. Kirschenbaum. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008. Print.
• The New Media Reader. Ed. Nick Montfort and Noah Wardrip-Fruin. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. Print.
• Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy. Kathleen Fitzpatrick. New York: NYU Press, 2011. Print. Available online at Media Commons, where it was open for peer review.
• Reading Machines: Toward an Algorithmic Criticism. Stephen Ramsay. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2011. Print.
• NEW! Understanding Digital Humanities. Ed. David M. Berry. Palgrave MacMillan, 2012. Print.
• Writing History in the Digital Age. Ed. Jack Dougherty and Kristen Nawrotzki. Forthcoming from digitalculturebooks after an open peer review. They share both details of their process and its technical underpinnings, noting: “Perhaps this small effort to open up the publishing process will encourage others to take the initiative with their own process.”

Several presses now offer relevant series, including:

• Ashgate Publishing’s Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities;
• University of Illinois Press’s Topics in the Digital Humanities;
• University of Michigan Press and University of Michigan Library’s digitalculturebooks.

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Here are just a few examples of Digital Humanities work to give a sense of its range. What other projects would you want to show to a beginning DHer?

Advocacy

• 4Humanities, a site created by the international community of DH scholars and educators to assist in advocating for the humanities. Provides a communication platform, tools, and resources. “The humanities are in trouble today, and digital methods have an important role to play in effectively showing the public why the humanities need to be part of any vision of a future society.”

The Archive, Digital Preservation of Analog & Born-Digital Materials

• Transcribe Bentham, based at University College London, has been crowdsourcing the transcription of thousands of manuscripts written by Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832). Anyone can sign up to participate, viewing the original documents, and transcribing and encoding them online in a wiki; instructions and a discussion forum are provided.
• See also What’s On the Menu?, which invites users to transcribe the New York Public Library‘s collection of 40,000 menus; a project of NYPL Labs.
• The Rossetti Archive, sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia under the direction of Jerome McGann, provides access to Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s complete works, including high-quality images, detailed descriptions and commentary. Related works (contemporary and antecedents) are also included, along with a bibliography.
• The Walt Whitman Archive – “an electronic research and teaching tool that sets out to make Whitman’s vast work easily and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers, drawing on the resources of libraries and collections from around the United States and around the world.” Directed by Kenneth M. Price (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) and Ed Folsom (University of Iowa).
• Preserving Virtual Worlds 2 – exploring methods for preserving digital game environments. A collaboration between the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), Stanford University Libraries, and the Rochester Institute of Technology.
• The work of institutions such as the Ransom Center at the University of Texas in preserving born-digital textual materials.
• Omeka – a free, open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions; developed by the team at Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University “with non-IT specialists in mind, allowing users to focus on content and interpretation rather than programming.”

Digital Fabrication/Making Things

• See William J. Turkel’s work on humanistic fabrication (also his post “A Few Arguments for Humanistic Fabrication.”)

Networked Pedagogy

• Looking for Whitman – an experiment in multi-campus digital pedagogy funded by the NEH’s Office of Digital Humanities, LFW used open-source tools to connect classrooms in multiple institutions, creating a dynamic, social, collaborative learning environment; students at New York City College of Technology (CUNY), New York University, University of Mary Washington, and Rutgers University-Camden shared their intellectual experiences of exploring Whitman’s work in relationship to specific places in which Whitman lived, with students from Novi-Sad in Serbia adding a global perspective.
• Not specific to DH but an important related movement in Educational Technology are projects that provide open platforms for teaching, learning and collaboration, such as University of Mary Washington Blogs. CUNY is a leader in this space, with the ePortfolio Gateway and Macaulay Social Network at CUNY’s Macaulay Honors College, Blogs@Baruch at CUNY’s Baruch College, and now the OpenLab at City Tech.

Scholarly Communication & Publishing

• The CUNY Academic Commons – you’re on it! A network “designed to support faculty initiatives and build community through the use(s) of technology in teaching and learning.” Members are graduate students and faculty across the CUNY campuses. See also UMW Blogs, Macaulay Social Network, and Blogs@Baruch above.
• Commons-in-a-Box, in which the CUNY Commons team has partnered with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to create an easily implementable installation of the CUNY Academic Commons. The Modern Language Association has used the platform to create an MLA Commons for its 30,000+ members.
• PressForward, a Sloan Foundation-funded initiative of the CHNM: “Bringing together the best scholarship from across the web, producing vital, open publications scholarly communities can gather around.” Publications include the DHNow, the Journal of Digital Humanities, with others such as THATCamp proceedings to come.
• Zotero – a Mellon-funded free, open-source extension to the Firefox browser developed by the team at the CHNM. It enables users to collect, manage, cite, and share research sources. See also Online Communities/Discussion Forums.
• Anthologize – another initiative of the CHNM, this is a plug-in for WordPress 3.0 that transforms online content into an electronic book. See also Training/Professional Development.
• Shakespeare Quarterly conducted an experiment in open peer review for its special issue, 61:3, “Shakespeare and New Media” (available in Project Muse at Mina Rees). The peer review process was conducted online at MediaCommons (a project of the Institute for the Future of the Book), and is available for viewing there. (It also received coverage in the New York Times.)
• Paul Fyfe‘s talk, “Open Access, Open Secrets: Peer Review and Alternative Scholarly Production,” provides an excellent overview of the issues and how scholars are responding.

Text/Data Mining, Analysis & Visualization

• TAPoR (Text Analysis Portal for Research) – a suite of text analysis tools that can be used to analyze user-provided texts; housed at University of Alberta, Canada.
• MONK (Metadata Offer New Knowledge) – an open-source digital environment providing texts and tools for textual analysis; a collaboration of multiple US institutions, based at Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH).
• HyperCities – “a collaborative research and educational platform for traveling back in time to explore the historical layers of city spaces in an interactive, hypermedia environment.”
• Spatial Humanities, an initiative by the Scholars’ Lab at the University of Virginia Library, is a community-driven resource (‘sharing-house’) for those interested in using spatial methods in humanistic inquiry.
• Stanford University’s “Republic of Letters” project visualizes the “social network” of Enlightenment writers through analysis of their correspondence.
• On the Origin of Species: The Preservation of Favoured Traces, Ben Fry‘s visualization of the changes between editions of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species.
• See also the work of Lev Manovich and team at Cultural Analytics.
• Work in progress:
  • The Digging into Data Challenge – a range of projects recently funded by the NEH Office of Digital Humanities.
  • The work of Franco Moretti and Matthew Jockers at Stanford’s Literature Lab (covered in the Chronicle of Higher Education; here is Jockers’s response).
  • Projects funded by Google that will leverage its Google Books corpus – see Dan Cohen’s recent discussion of CHNM‘s text mining work on Victorian novels. Cohen and team have set up a site where they’re describing their research, making their data available, and inviting input.
  • Voyant – text analysis tool developed by Stéfan Sinclair and Geoffrey Rockwell.
  • Wordseer – see it in action here.
• Google gets into the game itself, partnering with scientists at Harvard to create the Google Books Ngram Viewer. The Harvard team launched the project under the rubric of a neologism, “culturomics,” or “the application of high-throughput data collection and analysis to the study of human culture,” via a paper in Science. The DH community has engaged with the project, but with reservations – to get a sense of the views of DHers already working in this space see posts by Dan Cohen, who provides a nice summary of reactions, and Matt Jockers. The Culturomics team has provided a list of FAQs in response to issues raised.

@CUNY

In addition to the major initiatives listed under Networked Pedagogy and Scholarly Communication above:

• See the great work going on at the CUNY Graduate Center New Media Lab.
• Also the graduate projects funded by the Provost’s Digital Innovation Grants.
• Jesse Merandy’s Crossing Brooklyn Ferry – an online critical edition of Whitman’s poem, with links to criticism, commentary, and multimedia; also tracks the edition’s evolution over Whitman’s lifetime, and provides an audio walking tour of Brooklyn that traces the poet’s footsteps.

CUNY DHers, please add your projects to this list!

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