Aug 02, 2017 inside digital learning here showcases the contributions of five rising stars of the digital humanities. Public witness testimony driving innovation through. Library, could be applied to other areas of research and provide a working model for other academic disciplines, stauffer and mcgann said. My hope is to position our workthe work of the digital humanities dh community that has nurtured me with kindness for some 18 yearsless as it is lately figured that is, less as a fragmenting set of methodological interventions in the contemporary, disciplinary agon of humanities scholarship and more as one cohesive and improbably. The following is a brief talk i gave at the opening plenary of rbms 2019, a meeting of the rare books and manuscripts section of the acrlala. The history of aesthetics is populated chiefly by descriptive approaches. Bethany nowviskie is director of the digital library federation dlf at the council on library and information resources clir. Bethany nowviskie, chronicle of higher education 20. Debates in the digital humanities 2019 collects a broad array of important, thoughtprovoking perspectives on the fields many sides. This is the lightly edited text of a talk given at the 2011 nines summer institute, a national endowment for the humanitiesfunded workshop on evaluating digital scholarship for purposes of tenure and promotion, hosted by the networked infrastructure for nineteenthcentury electronic scholarship.
Ive made lowres versions of my slides and an audio reading available for download on vimeo, alex gil has kindly translated the talk into spanish, and melissa terras wonderful performance is now up on the digital humanities 2014 website. Aug 18, 2010 the following was a response i made in an email exchange with tom elliot of the pleiades project and bethany nowviskie. University, rikk mulligan association of research libraries, bethany nowviskie digital library federation, susan nutter north carolina state university, and bryan sinclair georgia state university. The latest installment of a digital humanities bellwether contending with recent developments like the shocking 2016 u. Digital humanities curio cabinet submitted by elijah meeks on 9 february 2014 6.
Interpretive tools for online humanities wiki home. It enables administrative users to mashup and visualize a variety of digitized humanitiesrelated material, including historical maps, images, manuscripts, and multimedia content. Report of a cniarl workshop planning a digital scholarship. Our flagship software prospect is a flexible, repurposable, extensible digital humanities toolkit we have developed for nontechnical users. Posted on 15 march 2015 16 march 2015 by bethany nowviskie i recently had the pleasure of responding to a creative and beautifully grounded talk by kevin hamilton of the university of illinois. Collaborative, technologyenabled projects can enliven the digital humanities. Major sections focus on the experience of particular disciplines in applying computational methods to research problems. Posted on 30 june 2019 30 june 2019 by bethany nowviskie. Between humanities and the digital offers an expansive vision of how the humanities engage with digital and information technology, providing a range of perspectives on a quickly evolving, contested, and exciting field. Aug 08, 20 were pleased to announce that applications are open for a 2day, nehfunded symposium and summit to be held at the scholars lab this november 4th and 5th. Nines project enhances tools for digital research in the.
Posted on 24 july 2009 24 july 2009 by bethany nowviskie. Bethany nowviskie, president, association for computers and the humanities. Presidential election, the radical transformation of the social web, and passionate debates about the future of data in higher education, debates in the digital humanities 2019 brings together a broad array of important, thoughtprovoking perspectives on the fields many. The graduate center, the city university of new york established in 1961, the graduate center of the city university of new york cuny is devoted primarily to doctoral studies and awards most of cunys doctoral degrees. Special collections and climate change, and my copanelists were frances beinecke of the national resources defense council and brenda ekwurzel of the union of concerned scientists. Contains 37 original articles written by leaders in the field. The digital humanities have supported a remarkable diversity of teaching, scholarship and service pursued by a diverse group of leaders who are shaping the fields values and priorities. In abgs account, uva is the academic version of the headquarters of hydra, an analogy i wish i had not thought of, because now im casting the roles. What is digital humanities and whats it doing in the library. A kit for hosting speaking in code by bethany nowviskie posted 07242014 10. Alex gil, lauren klein, marisa parham, miriam posner and jacqueline wernimont. O ne of the least helpful constructs of our digital humanities moment has been a supposed active opposition, drawn out over the course of years in publications, presentations, and social media conversation. I write to you as a scholar whose research was transformed and amplified by small but. Susan schreibman, ray siemens and john unsworth, oxford.
M ost mornings, these daysespecially when i am the first to arrive at the scholars labill start a little something printing on our replicator. Dec 17, 2008 the collex software that powers nines, designed by bethany nowviskie, director of digital research and scholarship at the u. And as i discuss them, please note that ill be referring to the digital humanities and to digital librarianship somewhat looselyin their cultural lineamentsspeaking to the diffuse and socially constructed way both are practiced on the ground. Perspectives on the digital humanities, in a companion to digital humanities, eds. Tools carolina digital humanities digital innovation lab. Critiquing the critique of digital humanities text patterns. Devising new roles for scholars who can code the chronicle. Evaluating collaborative digital scholarship or, where. Bethany nowviskie is director of the digital library federation dlf at clir, the council on library and information resources, and research associate professor of digital humanities in the department of english at the university of virginia. Digital humanities curio cabinet digital humanities at stanford. Selected resources for digital humanities praxis and pedagogy.
Im currently vp of the ach and chair of our outreach committee. In a recent oped as part of the chronicle of higher educations digital campus special issue, bethany nowviskie, director of digital research and scholarship at the university of virginia library and president of the association for computers and the humanities, highlights uvas praxis program. This is the blended and edited text of two talks i gave last week. What follows is a slightly modified and expanded version of that email conversation.
One of the least helpful constructs of our digital humanities moment has been a supposed active opposition, drawn out over the course of years in publications, presentations, and social media conversation, between two inanesounding concepts. The digital humanities summer institute at the university of victoria provides an ideal environment for discussing and learning about new computing technologies and how they are influencing teaching, research, dissemination, and preservation in different disciplines. While no selection can represent the full scope of a field, these scholars represent the emergent and promising work within digital humanities. Planning, goals and strategy laying the groundwork for a successful dsc depends greatly upon the context in which it will operate. May 22, 2015 scholars from a range of disciplines offer an expansive vision of the intersections between new information technologies and the humanities. Bethany nowviskie dean of libraries, senior academic.
This companion offers a thorough, concise overview of the emerging field of humanities computing. Inside digital learning here showcases the contributions of five rising stars of the digital humanities. One, titled on capacity and care, was the keynote presentation at the 2015 office of digital humanities project directors meeting at the national endowment for the humanities. After heavily funding digital humanities projects for almost a decade, the neh founded an office of digital humanities in 2008, setting up a permanent and separate funding stream devoted to. Scholars lab, to host a twoday summit on the scholarly and social implications of tacit knowledge exchange in digital humanities software development. Jerome mcgann as red skull that ones obvious bethany nowviskie as. A kit for hosting speaking in code council on library and. Posted on 1 may 2015 1 may 2015 by bethany nowviskie.
I invited bethany nowviskie to author this final section, since the conceptual and technical development of this research project has proceeded largely under her intellectual guidance. I direct the scholars lab at the university of virginia library, where im also associate director of the scholarly communication institute. O ne of the least helpful constructs of our digital humanities moment has been a supposed active opposition, drawn out over the course of years in publications, presentations, and social media conversation, between two inanesounding concepts. Public witness testimony driving innovation through federal. The collex software that powers nines, designed by bethany nowviskie, director of digital research and scholarship at the u. Digital humanities startup grants, neh digital humanities, neh white papers. The association for computers and the humanities candidates. Were pleased to announce that applications are open for a 2day, nehfunded symposium and summit to be held at the scholars lab this november 4th and 5th. Scholars from a range of disciplines offer an expansive vision of the intersections between new information technologies and the humanities. In every real sense, the library alwaysalready has the necessary pieces in place to support, engage in and do digital humanities work.
The following was a response i made in an email exchange with tom elliot of the pleiades project and bethany nowviskie. General resources digital humanities research guides at. She also serves as research associate professor of digital humanities in the department of english at the university of virginia u. Debates in the digital humanities 2019 university of. For bethany nowviskie, the digital humanities means a great deal, although she states that defining what this meaning is exactly has been a distraction and detraction from the work itself. I do this before i dive into my email, head off for consultations and meetings, or more rarely settle in to write. This would also be a place to address questions of rank and tenure, where, as bethany nowviskie observes, junior scholars in digital humanities struggle to make their own new work look enough like their forebears old work to earn a modicum of employment stability nowviskie 2015. What, then, is digital humanities and whats it doing in the library. Brand management campaign management digital asset management. With a wide range of subjects including genderbased assumptions made by algorithms, the place of the digital humanities within art history, and databased methods for exhuming forgotten histories, it assembles a whos who of the field in more than thirty. One of the least helpful constructs of our digital humanities moment has been a supposed active opposition, drawn out over the course of years in publications, presentations, and social media conversation. Digital humanities is a diverse and still emerging field that encompasses the practice of humanities research in and through information technology, and the exploration of how the humanities may evolve through their engagement with technology, media, and computational methods. Syllabus dhum 70000 introduction to digital humanities.
Evaluating collaborative digital scholarship or, where credit is due bethany nowviskie. Speaking in code will bring together a small cohort of accomplished digital humanities software developers. Digital humanities in the anthropocene digital scholarship. The other was titled grand challenges inand graduate education, and was presented at the university of michigan, to inaugurate a series of mellon. Busa is often cited as the pioneer of both humanities computing and digital humanities. Patacritism is a project to develop interpretive tools for online humanities. Jun 30, 2019 the following is a brief talk i gave at the opening plenary of rbms 2019, a meeting of the rare books and manuscripts section of the acrlala. The other was titled grand challenges inand graduate education, and was presented at the university of michigan, to inaugurate a series. Addresses the central concerns shared by those interested in the subject. Bethany nowviskies ten rules for humanities scholars new to project management consider a written agreement.
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