This reader brings together, for the first time, in one core volume the essential readings that have emerged in digital humanities. He spent the academic year of 20152016 as a a distinguished visiting fellowvisiting professor at the graduate center, city university new york. We also develop new computational tools to enable software driven cultural theory and criticism. Digital humanities the university of michigan press. Part 6 of a new series exploring the role of the digital humanities.
The tools selected are aimed at humanities subject librarians who might be asked for ideas by their patrons. In the first article, i examined the discursive transition from humanities computing to digital humanities, looking at how this naming is related to shifts in institutional, disciplinary, and social organization. His current work can be loosely organized under two themes. Although media studies and digital humanities are established fields, their overlaps have not been examined in depth. Patrik svensson is professor of humanities of information technology at umea university and visiting professor of digital humanities as ucla. Patrik svensson, humanities computing as digital humanities, digital humanities quarterly 3. His current research spans information technology and learning, research infrastructure, screen cultures and the digital humanities as an emerging field. In between humanities and the digital, edited by patrik svensson and david theo goldberg, 28394. Beyond the big tent patrik svensson debates in the digital. Alex gil, lauren klein, marisa parham, miriam posner and jacqueline wernimont. The routledge companion to media studies and digital humanities. Starting points in the digital humanities profhacker.
However, the computational analysis of large image and. As such, like automated terrain analysis that is given an arbitrary number of containers in which to group regions of high similarity, each topic can have highly variant topology. Comparing vectors with more traditional digital humanities publications, patrick svensson notes that, vectors, on the other hand, is clearly invested in the digital as an expressive medium in an experimental and creative way. Svensson is the former director of humlab 20002014. This is the second article in a fourpart series exploring the intersection of the humanities and the digital. Th e fi rst section describes the humanities computing tradition. Their products are ported for both macintosh and windows machines. May 22, 2015 scholars from a range of disciplines offer an expansive vision of the intersections between new information technologies and the humanities. 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.
Over the course of 4 days, i tried desperately to meet people i only knew from tiny twitter pictures or github or even citations, and in between attempted to catch as many presentations as i could. Some thoughts on making academic events with particular attention to the midsized event, digital infrastructure in art and humanities research, umea university. For at least the past decade, the term digital humanities dh has captured the imagination and the ire of scholars across american. As patrick svensson notes, the dh community offers rather strong support for expanding the territory and for achieving a higher degree of penetration across the humanities community humanities computing as digital humanities. Vectors is recognized as an experimental precursor to the digital humanities, producing and publishing a range of highly interactive works of multimedia scholarship. Dh can be defined as new ways of doing scholarship that involve collaborative, transdisciplinary, and computationally engaged. Patrik svensson is professor of humanities and information technology at umea university and visiting professor of digital humanities at ucla. In the academic journal digital humanities quarterly patrick svensson 2010 explored the current landscape of digital humanities and its connection to the field of library and information science, digital humanities 2. Syllabus dhum 70000 introduction to digital humanities.
A related and muchdiscussed issue highly relevant to digital humanities generally and to humanities computing as digital humanities concerns whether humanities computing should be independent and possibly an academic discipline in its own right or whether it should primarily interrelate with existing humanities departments. Digital humanities are a hot topic in disciplines as varied as literature, history, and cultural studies, but at present theology and religious studies departments seem to be lagging behind. A librarians guide this brochure presents a collection of digital humanities tools that are currently being used by professional scholars, graduate students and persons in information science. Located in hood river, oregon, it is one of the largest publishers of educational software for primary and secondary students. A collection of tutorials written for digital humanities novices. As these articles were coming out, enthusiasm around digital humanities was acquiring a great deal of momentum and significant disagreement about what did or didnt count as digital humanities work. For instance, humanities computing is predominantly used in the section where the contributors are described, while digital humanities is much more common than humanities computing in the introduction called the humanities computing and the digital humanities. Three colleagues at a small liberal arts universitya digital librarian, a historianarchivist, and a historiandigital humanistplanned an integrated set of assignments and projects in an introduction to digital humanities course that introduced students to archival management and digitization of. Together with pat shrimpton i was the pi of a project that. It was established in march 2005 and covers the digital humanities, publishing work that cannot exist in print. Its chief deliverable is a set of guidelines since 1994 that specify encoding methods for machinereadable texts, chiefly in the humanities, social sciences and linguistics.
The differences between digital humanities and digital. The digital humanities as a humanities project patrik. Digital scholarly media digital humanities specialist. Th is article discusses digital humanities and the growing diversity of digital media, digital materials and digital methods. The routledge companion to media studies and digital. In one of his series of four seminal articles on digital humanities, director of the humlab in umea university, patrick svensson discusses how the researchoriented infrastructure of technology, relationships, and practices, called cyberinfrastructure can be built specifically for humanities teaching and research 2011. The digital humanities as a humanities project patrik svensson, 2012. Inside digital learning here showcases the contributions of five rising stars of the digital humanities. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Patrick svensson has a solid piece in dh quarterly called the landscape of digital humanities. Prospects for digital humanities in th eological libraries by benjamin p. Typically the interviews and clips are brief and integrated into the program. This rapidly growing field lies at the intersections of computers and the disciplines of arts and humanities, library and information science, media and communications studies, and cultural studies.
The rising stars of the digital humanities inside higher ed. Humanities infrastructure, inflection and imagination. The term digital scholarly media can refer to one of many products created in academia to visualize, analyze or similarly treat with data and claims traditionally presented using linear, narrative text, typified by monographs and journal articles. Linguists may use digital tools such as concordance software, acoustic analysis or dialectal mapping tools to do their research, but if they move to incorporate digitally mediated language or. Last week was the marvelous international conference for digital humanities, held this year at beautiful university of nebraskalincoln. Bowling green state university bgsu has built its website around the standards of the world wide web consortiums w3c hyper text markup language html 5 and cascading style sheets css.
Humanities software was started in 1986, writing software for dos. Digital humanities and conditions for knowledge production. The three case studies focus on humanities lab work, academic events and presentation software. This is the published static version of october 15, 2019 version 1.
This comprehensive collection fills that gap, giving readers a critical guide to understanding the array of methodologies and projects operating at the intersections of media, culture, and practice. Big digital humanities has its origins in a series of seminal articles patrik svensson published in the digital humanities quarterly between 2009 and 2012. Nonetheless, humanities computing has been renamed to digital humanities, even though svensson 2009 asserts that this renaming is not necessarily congruent with a broad and inclusive notion of. Free and open to the public with reception to follow. Patrik svensson is a professor of humanities and information technology at humlab, umea university, and the former director of humlab 20002014. Patrik svensson is a professor of humanities and information technology at umea university and visiting professor of digital humanities at ucla. These include technologybased infrastructures such as grid, computing, software. The narrowing down in the case of the clir report is particularly noticeable in the focus on building digital collections and associated tools, using these collections, and serving as a repository, 12. And, finally, he reflects on how his thinking on digitalhumanitiesinfrastructure has. It includes the systematic use of digital resources in the humanities, as well as the analysis of their application. A post by a uva graduate student, chris forster, attempted to define dh. Analysis of humanities computing as a field prior and contemporarenous to the digital humanities. What, then, is digital humanities and whats it doing in the library.
The search for solutions will require collaboration across disciplinesin the. As scholarship becomes increasingly digital and interdisciplinary, challenges emerge with respect to organizing, engineering, and deploying the technologies needed to operate at a very large scale. Patrik svensson s academic background is in linguistics, language learning, philology and corpus methodology. Most of the software is written for both spanish and english speakers. Some humanities projects call for close reading of text and image. Patrick keilty university of toronto lectures in the society for the humanities digital humanities lecture series. My sense of internet studies is is that it largely focuses on.
Digital humanities doesnt have a place in the library. Funding agency structures and programs, often seen as barriers in the humanities computing tradition cf. Svenssons work has been at the center not only of my own work to situate the lab i run, the media archaeology lab mal, in and around the. The goal of the digital humanities series will be to provide a forum for groundbreaking and benchmark work in digital humanities.
The study starts out from typologies of digital humanities, a flythrough of the. The course aims to provide students with the theoretical and practical knowledge of tools, standards and methods for research, creation, management, circulation and the reuse of metadata and documentation, analogue and digital, with a practical reference to systems designed for the management of electronic resources, libraries and other preservational institutions. Patrick svensson, for example, argued that the allocation of space and the ability to collaborate with people in and outside the humanities department is as important to digital humanists as computers and information systems. If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation manager of your choice. Introduction to digital humanities is the first course in a yearlong, twocourse sequence of classes that aims to introduce students to the landscape of digital humanities tools and methods through readings and classroom and online discussions, lectures offered by prominent scholars and technologists, handson workshops, and collaborative.
Digital humanities researchers have already done many projects with texts and geospatial data see new york times series of articles on humanities 2. Comprehending the digital humanities topology topics documents data further research as stated on the topic modeling page for mallet, a topic consists of a cluster of words that frequently occur together. This comprehensive collection fills that gap, giving readers a critical guide to understanding the array of methodologies and projects operating. Creating dynamic undergraduate learning laboratories through. While no selection can represent the full scope of a field, these scholars represent the emergent and promising work within digital humanities. Can you explain to a nonlibrarian what a digital humanities librarian does. Recent publications include big digital humanities. Svenssons own unique perspective and special stake in the digital.
Imagining a meeting place for the humanities and the digital. Apr 24, 2018 for more than a decade, patrik svensson has been relentlessly documenting, imagining and, now, reimagining the physical and conceptual meeting places that bring together the digital and the humanities. Digital humanists share a commitment to collaboration, openness, and experimentation. The digital humanities 3 why the digital humanities. New digital worldstraces the formation of postcolonial studies and digital humanities as fields, identifying how they can intervene in knowledge production in the digital age. Digital humanities and the future of theology cursor. A survey of a range of disciplines whose practitioners are venturing into the new field of digital rhetoric, examining the history of the ways digital and networked technologies inhabit and shape traditional rhetorical practices as well as considering new rhetorics made possible by current technologies. For a big tent digital humanities, it would seem that a broader engagement with the digital is advantageous as it increases the possible points of interaction between the humanities and the digital, and between the digital humanities and the humanities. Drawing together the work of established and emerging researchers, it gives pause at a crucial moment in the history of technology in order to offer a sustained reflection on the practices involved in producing, editing and reading digital scholarly editionsand the theories that underpin them. This diversity, across disciplines and between academics, stands at the center of how hyperstudio works with individual faculty members. In every real sense, the library alwaysalready has the necessary pieces in place to support, engage in and do digital humanities work. D igital humanities as it is currently constituted has not erased the differences between academic disciplines. Scholars from a range of disciplines offer an expansive vision of the intersections between new information technologies and the humanities.
Infrastructures for a reimagined humanities by patrik svensson. Roopika risam examines the role of colonial violence in the development of digital archives and the possibilities of postcolonial digital archives for resisting this. Creating dynamic undergraduate learning laboratories. Comparing vectors with more traditional digital humanities publications, patrick svensson notes that, vectors, on the other hand, is clearly invested in the digital as an. Big digital humanities the university of michigan press. By catherine smith, software sustainability institute fellow, university of birmingham, and iain emsley, university of sussex on the final day of carpentry connect manchester 2019, we coled two workshop sessions to bring together some of the conversations already taking place about teaching technical skills relevant to digital humanities within the carpentries framework. The next big thing in humanities, arts and social science. Aug 02, 2017 inside digital learning here showcases the contributions of five rising stars of the digital humanities. Big digital humanities has its origins in a series of seminal articles patrik svensson. About dh tools for beginners latest stories archive about medium terms. Between humanities and the digital, edited by patrik svensson and david goldberg, the mit press, 2015, pp. When these digital projects failed to deliver their promises, this infrastructure model began to generate criticism.
A similar narrowing down of epistemic scope in that case from a broad sense of digital humanities to traditional humanities computing was noticed in an analysis of the call for papers for the digital humanities 2010 conference svensson 2009a. Software for digital humanities software studies initiative researchers exploring a video collection using the tools developed in the lab. What is digital humanities and whats it doing in the library. Earlier this week, william pannapacker published big tent digital humanities, a view from the edge. Humlab, a digital humanities center at umea university, serves as a case. The text encoding initiative tei is a consortiumthat develops and maintains a standard for the representation of texts in digital form. Digital humanities dh is an area of scholarly activity at the intersection of computing or digital technologies and the disciplines of the humanities. Rather than wait for the new version to be finished, though, orbis v2 will be developed publicly, with the code available on github. New media and technologies provide opportunities to enhance research, teaching, and learning in the humanities. Digital humanities software sustainability institute. In between humanities and the digital, edited by svensson and goldberg, 41128. We provide a historical overview of how the term humanities computing developed into the term digital humanities, and highlight core readings which explore the meaning, scope, and implementation of the field. As we have seen in the earlier analysis of humanities computing as digital humanities svensson 2009a, the.
Terras and smithies, are used as a gatekeeping device. For more than a decade, patrik svensson has been relentlessly. The leiden university centre for digital humanities lucdh is an interdisciplinary centre that brings together students and faculty from across the leiden community. Guide to using imageplot in polish by radoslaw bomba we have developed a number software tools for working with big image and video collections, including preparing image data, automatically analyzing. Contains a nice comparison of drupal to other web options, such as omeka, wordpress, tei, etc. This way, orbis will benefit from the user feedback and feature requests of the larger digital humanities and software development community. Envisioning the digital humanities alliance of digital. Patrick svenssons essay beyond the big tent employs peter galisons concept of trading zones to articulate a vision of digital humanities as a space that allows for collaboration between multiple epistemic traditions and disciplines. Patrik svensson is a professor in the humanities and information technology and director of humlab, umea university. The first book in the new coding for humanists series, which provides an introduction to technologies applicable to digital humanities scholarship, without assuming the reader has prior technical background. Digital curation universita degli studi di milano statale. Imagining a meeting place for the humanities and the digital svensson, patrik on. It documents the multiplicity of ways that humanities scholars have turned increasingly to digital and information technology.
Our postdoctoral program was instrumental in this way and also the. Patrik svensson professor at ucla and umea university. This volume presents the state of the art in digital scholarly editing. Together, we are committed to the study of human cultures using computational approaches and to rethinking the role of the humanities in a digital age. Digital humanities software bowling green state university.
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