ENGL 481: Digital Humanities

The main page for Stanford's CESTA is in a blog format. The moderator posts announcements, such as research positions that need to be filled, projects that they would like to 'spotlight,' and new/interesting information collected through one of the 3 projects. There are also posts of events/seminars/workshops/lectures/publications that relate either the subjects being researched in CESTA or about the digital humanities itself.

This is the main page of Stanford University's projects in digital humanities, mainly the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA). CESTA is a digital humanities project comprised of several projects, that span a wide variety of content areas and use different approaches. Two of the three projects mentioned (Mapping the Republic of Letters and Spatial History Project) seem to be a collaborative research effort to digitally map a concept. The last project under CESTA, Literary Lab, seems to be an archive of papers, dissertaions, and research by the current students and staff members of Stanford.

AHDO, or the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organization offers this website to "promote and support digital research and teaching across all arts and humanities disciplines, acting as a community-based advisory force, and supporting excellence in research, publication, collaboration and training." The website organizes news and current events in the field of digital humanities, making it very user friendly and a valuable source for those wishing to keep up to date. There are also sections on the website for publications, other resources, conferences, awards, committees, and how to join ADHO.

DH answers s is a part of the Association for Computers and Humanities' website that people can register to and join the online conversation about the Digital Humanities. Most of the forum is dedicated to issues digital humanists can run into in the technical side of the field. This link takes you directly to a list of the forums that many people use to ask questions, opinions, and overall discuss an problems or thoughts they may be having about the digital humanities.

Zotero forums is a part of Zotero's website that people can register to and join the online conversation about the Digital Humanities. Most of the forum is dedicated to issues digital humanists can run into in the technical side of the field. This link takes you directly to a list of the forums that many people use to ask questions, opinions, and overall discuss an problems or thoughts they may be having about the digital humanities.

This website is the main website for UCLA's Digital Humanities department and area of study. Here you can navigate between the programs the school offers, research projects, and many other aspects of the digital humanities through the school. The website is well thought out and very organized, which makes their program look streamlined and well done.

This website for The Journal of Digital Humanities allows for easy access of the journal. The Journal of Digital Humanities is a comprehensive, peer-reviewed, open access journal that features the best scholarship, tools, and conversations produced by the digital humanities community in the previous quarter. Here you can view the journal online through your web browser or download it to your computer.

This news article posted by Newsroom America outlines the quiet victory for librarians that occurred pertaining to copyright laws. This event has been described as a major victory for the digital humanities. Earlier in October 2012, a federal court ruled against the Authors Guild in favor of the HathiTrust, a massive digital archive of library materials converted from print that is co-owned and managed by a partnership of more than 60 academic institutions, including the University of Illinois. Publishers Weekly claimed this ruling as a "landmark in copyright" law.

This is a post on the website AIMS, the Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies. The author of this posting is informing the website users of the symposium coming up hosted by the Miami University Libraries entitled "What is Digital Humanities?" Symposium, sponsored by the MU Humanities Center, on October 23rd from 3:00-6:30pm in King 320. The posting explains that "this symposium will be a chance for faculty, graduate students, and librarians to think about the implications, practices, and uses of Digital Humanities and digital collections."

This news article by Casey Gould for Campus Times of the University of Rochester addresses the Presidential Symposium and their meeting to discuss what to do with and about the humanities in higher education. The panel discussed what to do with the humanities to continue to make it relevant in times where many are claiming that it isn't. The discussion of digitizing the humanities came up to some agreement and disagreement.

This website, ThinkingCulture, aims to exercise the cultural imagination. Figure/Ground conducts a series of interviews for the website, continued here with Miriam Posner. Miriam Posner teaches Digital Humanities at UCLA. The interview with Posner focuses on the her path into her academic post. Posner explains her struggles with tenure and her early career in academics. The interview continues on to discuss Posner's teaching, digital humanities work and her writing plans.

This article, titled Humanities in the Digital Age by Alan Liu and William G. Thomas III, addresses the hard times that have fallen upon higher education. One solution and innovative way to combat these financial cuts, the writers claim, is to make a movement into the digital humanities in higher education. The article continues on to highlight the best parts of digital humanities and how it can be a huge help to struggling universities both public and private.

This website called Humanist is an "international electronic seminar on humanities computing and the digital humanities." The goal of this website is to create a forum where people can log on and discuss any issues with the digital humanities and share thoughts and ideas. Humanist is a publication of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) and the Office for Humanities Communication (OHC) and an affiliated publication of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).

Journalist Angelyn Irvin of the Daily Pennsylvanian covers a story about the Digital Humanities Forum (DHF) and about digital humanities as a general topic. One main goal of DHF is to essentially produce a better way to share information between those in technology and scholarly work. This forum is still in it's beginning phases, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation until the year 2014. The people helping funnel this project are professors, scholars, and students.

This website, arts-humanities.net, aims to support and advance the use and understanding of digital tools and methods for research and teaching in the arts and humanities by providing: information on projects creating and using digital content, tools and methods to answer research questions, information on tools and methods for creating and using digital resources, a listing of expert centers and individual researchers, a library documenting lessons learned through case studies, briefing papers, and a bibliography. The website encourages people to become members and to contribute.

This article discusses The University of Canterbury (UC) and its brand new QuakeStudies digital archive to document the Canterbury earthquakes by collecting reports, documents, stories, photos and film. According to the website, the launch is "the culmination of a year's work by a project team from the UC College of Arts Digital Humanities department. The breadth of the content sought for the QuakeStudies archive is unprecedented, and will become a significant record of these major historical events."

D.D. Guttenplan of New York Times covers an article about an ancient Egypt virtual environment created by the digital humanists of Harvard University's Berkman Center of Internet and Society.This virtual tour is called "Giza 3D" where a person can see real life places such as the waves by Ancient Egypt's harbor, funeral rites, and even pyramid burial shafts that have not been seen by humans for over 100 years. The entire tour can even be seen in 3D at home with 3D glasses. Guttenplan compares this project to the works of other digital humanists. He brings up another excellent project titled Hypercities Egypt, created at the University of California, which archives tweets from Cairo. Such an archive allows people to see what is posted in real time and track back tweets back to the start of the protests in Tahrir Square.

Left of Black, a video program from Duke University, reveals a conversation between Professor Mark Anthony Neal, Howard Rambsy II, and Jessica Marie Johnson--all of whom are scholars. The three have an educational discussion over digital humanities and its relation to those who study different cultures and ethnicity, specifically Black Studies. Over this thirty minute conversation Rambsy and Johnson talk about what they have been doing in digital humanities and what can be done to incorporate more Black Studies work. For instance, Rambsy has been creating archival work in Black Studies by posting historical issues of "Negro Digest." Johnson explains how media effects the finance black studies digital humanities receives and that there are a variety of ways to produce black history in powerful ways online. Rambsy believes one great way to spread black studies digital humanities is to introduce and push students into projects in related fields.

This article discusses digital humanities through the works of Todd Carter and his Tagasauris data-curation platform. This program allows people to tag their pictures and other forms of media by the use of crowdsourcing and digital intelligence. He divides Tagasauris into three categories: Findability, Linkability, and Discoverability. With his creation, people such as Valerie Matteau have been able to digitize an art collection, which reveals eighty years of american history such as Correta Scott King's funeral.

In this short blog post, Beth Corzo-Duchardt introduces a project she is working on in the Gender Studies Program. She has decided to "ditch" Blackboard, because it does not a smooth functioning user-friendly program for students and her. Instead, she is using Wordpress and is hoping it will work better for her classrooms.