THEME:
How might we evaluate the digital humanities as scholarship? What do recent projects and tools look like? Today we will explore a number of recent projects and tools to consider the developing form of digital humanities scholarship across a range of fields.
TIME:
Fri, April 5, 2013, 12-2pm.
PLACE:
Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities Conference Room, Kresge Hall, 1880 Campus Drive, #2-360, Evanston, IL 60208 (click for map).
READINGS:
- Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, “Evaluating Digital Scholarship,” http://cdrh.unl.edu/articles/eval_digital_scholar.php
Projects (feel free to add additional examples on the blog):
- Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular, http://vectorsjournal.org
- Railroads and the Making of Modern America, http://railroads.unl.edu
- Invisible Australians: Living Under the White Australia Policy, http://invisibleaustralians.org
Tools (feel free to add additional examples on the blog):
- Voyant Tools, http://voyant-tools.org
- Bookworm, http://bookworm.culturomics.org
- TokenX, http://jetson.unl.edu:8080/cocoon/tokenx/index.html?file=../xml/base.xml
- WordHoard, http://wordhoard.northwestern.edu/userman/index.html
- Prism, http://prism.scholarslab.org/
- Scripto, http://scripto.org
- Timeline JS, http://timeline.verite.co
- Crocodoc, https://crocodoc.com
SUGGESTED READINGS:
- Lisa Spiro, ” Scholarly Communication, Open Education, and Digital Humanities Support Models,” http://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/scholarly-communication-open-education-and-digital-humanities-support-models/.
- Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy (NYU Press, 2011).
- Project Reviews, Digital History Project, http://digitalhistory.unl.edu/p-reviews.php
- Tool Reviews, Digital History Project, http://digitalhistory.unl.edu/t-reviews.php