ENGL 481: Digital Humanities

This blog is about how to teach digital editions more like a seminar. Digital editions are about pedagody, culture preservation, and interpreting. She uses this term as a broader Digital Humanities method to create a network that uses interpretive knowledge and connected skills to reach a certain audience. By making this teaching more like a graduate seminar students are able to contribute more to the class because they will be more easily self-motivated. Students will understand that there is one instructor and that they contribute to their project while also remembering who the audience is.

300 students in the UK had the opportunity to learn more about digital skills, such as coding and reporting, away from a classroom setting. They were broken up into small groups and ask to create a report about a certain event. This helped the students collaborate and share their skills in an enviornment they were more comfortable then with students who had similar skills and interests as them.

This blog is over a first year teachers proposal to teach a writing course that is digitally based. By teaching this way allows for students to focus more on analyzing, archiving, and transforming into a more modern method. Instead of composing through a word documents, students will use the XML program which does not tell any computer what to do with the information. This program requires students to describe what they are doing as they do it. It also allows students to see all of their editing work and has other advantages that Word does not.

Information retrieval is the activity of obtaining information resources relevant to an information need from a collection of information resources. Searches can be based on metadata or on full-text indexing. A subtopic of the broader concet with which defining the structure and scope of it will align perspectives for other topics as an example.

Data visualization is the study of the visual representation of data, meaning "information that has been abstracted in some schematic form, including attributes or variables for the units of information". A subtopic of the broader concet with which defining the structure and scope of it will align perspectives for other topics as an example.

The topic of Digital Humanities is discussed as a new teaching a research method. Since it is has been newly founded many people find it difficult to use and leave it to scholars and researchers to do most of the work. There are six factors that go into researching humanities that have been found also in researching sciences: publication practices, data, research methods, collaboration, incentives, and learning. By using this process one can easily understand Digital Humanities.

This blog article tied to the Special Collections of Virginia Tech's Culinary program discusses a two volume set book they have posted online for readers to share. The books are called "Modernist Cuisine at Home" and contains 456 pages for cooks to examine how food can be examined differently and broken down into separate chemical reactions. The blog poster explains to readers that this addition to their collections is immensely helpful for readers, even when it at first seems intimidating to read.

This blog article is one of the many posts related to Virginia Tech's Culinary History Collection. This project brings together historical information about food culture, customs, eating behaviors, and technological progress in cooking. In this specific article, two Spanish and two German books are highlighted, discussion the types of drinks and cocktails made by these countries.

This blog post created in anticipation of a panel on undergraduate work and research in the digital humanities creates many questions and ideas for discussion at the panel. The author invites others to share input in hopes of turning it into a discussion to bring forward to the panel at the 2013 Digital Humanities conference. Among these questions and ideas are questions of the best way to incorporate project-based digital humanities research approaches in the undergraduate classroom as well as designing curricula to incorporate Digital Humanities into the coursework while still including traditional humanities disciplines.

Audrey Altman is set to give a presentation at the University of Iowa entitled, "Attck of the Digital Map! The Wonderful Monsters We Create When Humanities and Technology Collide." In her upcoming presentation Audrey will discuss both historical analysis and digital mapping and the requirements that both bring to the table individually in any given project. Both are individually composed of different aspects and Audrey will try to discuss the pros and cons of both tools when used together simultaneously for one project. Altman will also highlight on the project that she and her undergraduate students have embarked upon this semester that attempts to utilize the two aspects into one project. She will attepmt to delve into the findings, triumphs, ailures, and education gained by she and her students throughout the whole experience.

This short blog post announces and advertises Audrey Altman's upcoming talk about digital mapping. This talk is designed to discuss how historical analysis of maps and digital mapping require different sets of skills and methodologies. She is speaking from the context of a project she is heading which is which is involving undergraduate students in to creation of map-based documents for an archive on Iowa Latino/a history. Her talk is going to talk about both problems and surprises involved with the project and digital mapping.

Richard E. Miller, an English professor at Rutgers University, gives a presentation to the Rutgers University Board of Governors on Digital Humanities. He argues that the English department is moving towards that of Digital Humanities due in large part to the internet becoming increasingly involved in English and humanities education. His presentation defines and discusses Web 2.0 (the web as used for creation rather than just research) and how the use of things such as Wikipedia, blogs, etc. are pushing everyone towards creation-mode on the internet. Through this presentation, Miller hopes to convince the Board of Governors to allow for the creation of a Digital Humanities department at Rutgers University.

The 126th annual American Historical Association meeting held in Chicago was one of the largest meetings ever. This year, the NEH Office of Digital Humanities sent a representative to the meeting to discuss the relevance of Digital Humanities in the field of history.

Digital Humanities 2012 was a conference held in July of 2012 with the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. ADHO is an umbrella organization meant to promote digital research and teaching within the humanities disciplines. Originating in 1989, the Digital Humanities 2012 conference was held at the University of Hamburg in Germany this year. The website contains all of the conference activities as well as many of the presentations in the form of podcasts.

The NEH Office of Digital Humanities joined together with the Museum of the City of New York in October to put on a panel presentation. This presentation was over the museum's effort to create a massive collection of digitized photographs. The presentation also covered how using technology can help cultural heritage organizations to enrich an improve access to collections of cultural heritage items.

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.

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.

This information page on the NEH website is meant to explain the purpose of the Office of Digital Humanities within the National Endowment for the Humanities. It explains the impact that digital technology has had on how scholars do their work and explains that the ODH is meant to "support projects that employ digital technology to improve humanities research." This is done through government grants to those projects that the office sees as most deserving of aid in improving their work. The ODH also collaborates with the scholars and librarians in the DH field through conferences and workshops.

This is the main page of UK-based Digital Humanities project DIGHUMLAB. This project's purpose is to "contribute to skills development, internationalisation and innovation through a national focus on Digital Humanities in research, education and knowledge transfer." In other words, it is a project designed to further the importance of research in the Digital Humanities field through the development of a variety of new methods for use in the Digital Humanities.

This is the information page from the publisher's website on our class textbook, "Debates in the Digital Humanities." A summary of the text and its usefulness in the classroom is included as well as an excerpt from a New York Times Magazine review of it. It also includes links to pages on related texts for those further interested in the Digital Humanities.

Kirstyn Leuner's blog post announces and links to "The 18th-Century Common Project." She also gives readers a list of what to expect from the project when it is launched. She also talks about her part in the project's growth, which includes reviewing it. This post is just the first part in a 3-part series on "The 18th-Century Common Project."