Digital Humanities Now

Resource: Git for Data Publishing from Open Data Institute

the Editors — Thu, 23 May 2013 19:30:24 +0000

I’ve built a Git Data Viewer, which wraps around a git repository (not necessarily GitHub), and exposes some information about the contents in a more data-user-friendly way than the standard GitHub view.

Git for Data Publishing | Open Data Institute.

Report: Digital Humanities & Libraries: More of THAT

the Editors — Thu, 23 May 2013 19:00:30 +0000

In this report on the Digital Humanities & Libraries THATCamp, Michelle Dalmau draws out and discusses six broad themes that emerged from the sessions. As an organizer and attendee, Dalmau also invites fellow campers to respond with their own versions of camp stories.

Digital Humanities & Libraries: More of THAT! ← dh+lib.

Prize: Digital Humanities Essay Prize | Global Outlook::Digital Humanities

the Editors — Thu, 23 May 2013 18:30:45 +0000

This competition is for research papers looking at some aspect of the national, regional, or international practice of the Digital Humanities.

Global Outlook::Digital Humanities: Global Digital Humanities Essay Prize | Global Outlook::Digital Humanities.

CFParticipation: DH attitudes towards development practices Survey

the Editors — Thu, 23 May 2013 18:00:37 +0000

This survey is intended for scholars, researchers and practitioners within the Digital Humanities. All data will remain anonymous.

DH attitudes towards development practices Survey.

CFP: Digital Humanities Series – Open Book Publishers

the Editors — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:30:31 +0000

Proposals in any area of the Digital Humanities are invited. Please see our Information for Authors page for instructions on how to submit a proposal to us.

Digital Humanities Series – Open Book Publishers.

CFP: DíaHD (Día de Humanidades Digitales)

the Editors — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:00:16 +0000

We hope to provide a forum that will help us identify digital humanists in Portuguese and Spanish speaking countries or researchers from other parts of the world that work primarily in these languages, as well as providing them with the opportunity to share their work

Call for participation in DíaHD (Día de Humanidades Digitales).

Editors’ Choice: The Poetics of Non-Consumptive Reading

Mark Sample — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:30:38 +0000

“Non-consumptive research” is the term digital humanities scholars use to describe the large-scale analysis of a texts—say topic modeling millions of books or data-mining tens of thousands of court cases. In non-consumptive research, a text is not read by a scholar so much as it is processed by a machine. The phrase frequently appears in the context of the long-running legal debate between various book digitization efforts (e.g. Google Books and HathiTrust) and publishers and copyright holders (e.g. the Authors Guild). For example, in one of the preliminary Google Books settlements, non-consumptive research is defined as “computational analysis” of one or more books “but not research in which a researcher reads or displays substantial portions of a Book to understand the intellectual content presented within.” Non-consumptive reading is not reading in any traditional way, and it certainly isn’t close reading. Examples of non-consumptive research that appear in the legal proceedings (the implications of which are explored by John Unsworth) include image analysis, text extraction, concordance development, citation extraction, linguistic analysis, automated translation, and indexing….

Borrowing from my experience making House of Leaves of Grass, I want to advocate for a poetics of non-consumptive reading in the digital humanities. Scholars and students of art, literature, history, and culture ought to transform more of our non-consumptive research into expressive objects. Nonexpressive use of texts is a dead-end for the humanities. A computer model surrounded by a wall of explanatory words is not enough. Make the computer model itself an expressive object. Turn your data into a story, into a game, into art. Call it aesthetic empiricism or empirical aesthetics. Call it whatever you want. But without a poetics of machine reading, there is nothing.

Read Full Post Here.

Editors’s Choice: RDF: Resource Description Failures and Linked Data Letdowns

Robert Sanderson — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:00:26 +0000

Thinking about modeling your data using Resource Description Framework (RDF)? As with any choice of technology, there are benefits and downsides, appropriate situations for Linked Data and use cases that would be fulfilled more effectively by other frameworks. This presentation will focus on the pitfalls to avoid and the challenges of using graphs that are swept under the rug by some RDF advocates, and contrast them with the benefits in order to facilitate informed decision.

RDF: Resource Description Failures & Linked Data Letdowns, a project briefing from CNI’s spring 2013 member meeting by Robert Sanderson of Los Alamos National Laboratory, is now available on CNI’s video channels:

Watch Video Here.

Report: MuseumNext 2013 digested

the Editors — Tue, 21 May 2013 19:00:56 +0000

Highlights from MuseumNext Conference.

MuseumNext 2013 digested | Clairey Ross.

Resource: Digital Humanities Boilerplate from UCDH

the Editors — Tue, 21 May 2013 18:30:22 +0000

This site contains content that can be used as boilerplate to help with the development of digital humanities courses and programs

UCDH | Digital Humanities Boilerplate.