Digital Humanities Landscape

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Digital Humanities Landscape

• Julia Flanders
• Women Writers Project
• Brown University

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What is Digital Humanities?

• Digital humanities is a diverse and still
  emerging field that encompasses the practice of
  humanities research in and through information
  technology, and the exploration of how the
  humanities may evolve through their engagement
  with technology, media, and computational
  methods.
• Digital Humanities Quarterly, About DHQ.

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Historical Themes

• Naturalization of digital methods
• Shift from individual to group and back
• Emergence of standards
• New digital discourse from within the humanities

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Current Landscape

• Awareness of need for standards
• Urgency of long-term preservation
• Excitement about social network
• Interest in political and social changes
• Concern about credibility and reward

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Key Topics for Today

• Scale
• Genres of scholarship
• Collaboration

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http//www.wwp.brown.edu/
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http//www.whitmanarchive.org/
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http//www.rossettiarchive.org/
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http//www.blakearchive.org/
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http//webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/newton/
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Digital Library Projects

• American Verse Project
• Early American Fiction
• Documenting the American South
• The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United
  States
• Others far too numerous to mention

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The Challenge

• Local horizons of meaning and function
• Standards use is inward-looking
• Habits of scholarship are local rather than global

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http//www.monkproject.org/
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http//www.fedoracommons.org/
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http//www.nines.org/
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http//www.projectbamboo.org/
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http//shibboleth.internet2.edu/
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Approaches

• Tip of the iceberg (NINES, ALUKA, OAI)
• Contribute (MONK)
• Assimilate (Portico)
• Interconnect (Fedora)

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Genres of Scholarship

• Monograph
• Edition
• Database
• Structured data (XML)
• Rhizome?

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Collaboration traditional

• Collegial critique
• Coauthored monographs and articles
• Edited volumes
• Conferences, seminars, symposia
• Departmental and disciplinary service

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Collaboration digital

• All of the above, plus
• Standards development
• Social network tools?
• Digital project development

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Trends to Watch

• Hybrid digital humanities scholars
• Better aggregation
• Shared frameworks for access

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Thank you! Questions?

• Julia_Flanders_at_brown.edu