Percila Richardson
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WHAT IS/ARE/ISN'T THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES? - 0 views
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In this article, Stanley Fish is trying to explain what he believes it means to be in the digital humanities field. There seems to be an undercover snobbery situation when it comes to individuals in the academic world placing a title on themselves. For example, one may prefer to be known as a philosopher rather than a humanist. Not knowing what exactly falls into the term "humanities" is not new.
The Landscape of Digital Humanities - 0 views
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Describes digital humanities as an up incoming "buzzword". This growing field is being adapted to many different ideas and fields. This has created a broad base for the digital humanities landscape. Awareness is a main argument here as Partik Svennson believes it is the key for the field to grow.
DH: The Name That Does No Favors - 1 views
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Blogger and self proclaimed Digital Humanist Shannon Christine Mattern worries that the technical term "digital humanities" does not do the field any justice. The title was then broken down by Mattern. She says that digital is too broad of a term. If something by chance involves technology, it might be prematurely designated into Digital Humanities. The focus relies too heavily on "digital".
"Do curators dream of electric collection records?" Exploring how the Powerho... - 1 views
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This article addresses the subject matter of the audiences in Digital Humanities. Working with the Powerhouse online database, researchers have been able separate this audience into four different categories. This includes the familiars, seekers, utilisers, and wanderers making up the largest percentage.
Spatial Humanities - 0 views
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This is an official website for a project being done at the Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship. The area of spatial humanities is very map and image driven. The purpose to produce a better understanding and cultivate new questions that may not have been addresses before mapping.
Mapping St. Petersburg - 0 views
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This is the official site for the project known as Mapping St. Petersburg. This project has taken over two centuries of text from St. Petersburg. The purpose in building the site to fill the gap between literature and place. Dr. Young then shares eight keys things she has learned from this project.
Google Ngram Games - 0 views
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Blogger whose identity I could only trace to as John has written into this Digital Humanities website. He shares with us an announcement that Google has now opened their text mining project that allows for better searching using frequency of words and phrases. This tool is compared to a game using a Star Trek example.
Digital Humanities GIS projects - 1 views
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This article is focuses on the mapping side of digital humanities. Digital cartography is an important area allowing for a different understanding. John describes his problems with integrating older mapping technologies and with modern cartography.
France wants to Forget; Facebook Doesnt - 0 views
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Facebook is no stranger to controversy. In this article written by Evgeny Morozov, he describes a legal controversary. Facebook's policy allows for them to keep on file information about your online data even after a user has cancelled their account. French government officials however are not agreeing.
The MONK Project - 0 views
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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has generously funded the MONK Project. MONK is a digital landscaped designed to help humanities scholars in their research and analysis of text. This projects is publicly available with texts from Indiana University, University of Virginia, Martin Mueller at Northwestern University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Digital Preservation - 0 views
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This is an government website detailing resources and practices that fall into digital preservation. Digital preservation is a growing area with the advancement of technology. The website features sections that include partners, collections, tools showcase, multimedia & publications, meeting & events, and education & training.
Is Google Good for History? - 0 views
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Blogger Dan Cohen discusses how Google is good for history. Historians are simply a group of people who dig through information from the past, put it all together as possible facts or theories, and then share. Cohen then teases Google for a bit when bringing attention to the hand scans that can be occasionally found in Google Books. Their is a question of quality and direction.
Where Credit is Due - 0 views
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In this Digital Humanities field, collaboration is seen often. The basic idea that two heads are better than one even in projects where there is one official reseracher rings true in this. However, there seems to be an issue to where credit will be given. The MLA "task force" encourages this and states that suspicion should never occur.
Critical Discourse in the Digital Humanities - 1 views
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The main topic of this article is criticism. Alan Liu posses the question where is cultural criticism and dies it even exist. Three ideas surround this: digital humanists have not created an effective critical discourse around their work, more rubrics need to be established and because of the uniqueness of the field a new kind of peer review should be utilized.
Tools for Humanist - 1 views
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This publication is a write up for a project done of tools for digital humanities and their importance. Since this discipline heavily relies on technology, newer and more efficient tools are always being invented. An example includes identification tools that help analyze word choice and use.
The Strange Dynamics of Technology Adoption and Promotion in Academia - 0 views
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This Dan Cohen blog discusses the weird relationship between the databases purchased by organizations and libraries and how they are utilized in the academic world. Many of these purchases are unwarranted. These buyers are over buying accumulating multiple software programs for more than one 'category". The main problem discussed is that since the buyer is not the user, ignored functional issues arise.
Digital Journalism and Digital Humanities - 0 views
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This is another blog in the Dan Cohen series. In this one in particular, Cohen opens calling digital journalism and digital humanities "kindred spirits". He believes that these two areas of concentration would greatly benefit from working together. The areas in which would be the most profitable from partnership are listed and discussed. A few include use of common tools, platforms and infrastructures, and the idea that developers and technologists should be partners.
A Day in the Life of a Digital Humanities Postdoc - 3 views
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Adrianne Wadewitz is featured as a guest writer in this article. She shares with us details about her position as a Digital Humanities postdoc at Occidental College. The freedom provided by her position seems to be her favorite aspect of her job. Wadewitz includes in this article a four point list of her planned tasks and activities for October 1st. This includes working on an article discussing teaching with Wikipedia.
What do Digital Humanities and American Studies Have in Common? - 2 views
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In this article, Susan Garfinkel compares the changes and shifts in American Studies to those in Digital Humanities. As a grad student at the University of Pennsylvania, Garfinkel was able to gain a first hand account of how an ever changing diverse program can evaporate. The changes then witnessed in American Studies can now be seen in Digital Humanities. Both concentrations are growing and hopefully by incorporating each with the other they will continue.