Category: digital humanities
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Supporting Digital Humanities
A conference is being held in Vienna, Austria titled ‘Supporting Digital Humanities’ (19-20 October). It is the first joint conference between the two major European digital humanities infrastructure projects, CLARIN and DARIAH. There is a crucial distinction to be made here between ‘supporting the digital humanities’ and supporting the humanities. Accordingly, the conference’s aims are…
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Emerging Genres in Scholarly Communication
Thanks to Dan Cohen’s blog for the link… Current print-based models of scholarly production, assessment, and publication have proven insufficient to meet the demands of scholars and students in the twenty-first century. In the humanities, what literary scholar James Chandler calls “the predominating tenure genres†of monograph and journal articles find themselves under assault from…
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A short history of blogging (Part 1)
I first started blogging sometime around 2001. And I just logged onto one of the original blogging systems, Blogger, and discovered that all my posts were still there. The first post that I ever made was in a (private) blog imaginatively called ‘production diary’. And ironically, the very first task I set for my blog…
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The ‘shock of the new’ in the Digital Humanities
If there is such a thing as a ‘gold standard’ in the Digital Humanities, it is using computing in research to find out something new. And by something new I mean new in a research context, not new as a new pair of jeans or a new as in a new hair style. There have…
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Are Digital Humanists underdogs?
I am increasingly confronted by many in the broader Digital Humanities field’s hackneyed claims that they are underprivileged. I see full Professors do this, Directors of Centres do this, lecturers and programmers do it. They claim they are misunderstood and unloved because they are Digital Humanists. They claim they are discriminated against, spat on in…
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The ‘what is’ question?
The ‘what is’ question is a tough one. Researchers get it a lot. And it is probably more prevalent in Australia than any where else because of our excessively modern penchant for simplicity and speed. Australia’s want simple answers quickly and if they aren’t provided, then there must be something wrong with the search engine.…