Making (in) the Digital Humanities
I was writing up a thing today, a thing about "values in design," and was thinking about how I've oft heard the "Digital Humanities is about making things," but [citation needed]. So I decided to ask DHe twitter internets and see what they thought.
- Word is bond.
- Time to dig into the MLA twitter archive: http://archive.mla12.org/tweets/
- Borgman 2009 poses the question "Whose problem is it to...design, develop, and deploy the scholarly infrastructure for digital humanities?" In response she cites Drucker: "Leaving it to 'them' is unfair, wrongheaded, and irresponsible. Them is us" from her Chronicle article "Blind Spots: Humanists must plan their digital future."
Borgman 2009 - http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/4/000077/000077.htmlDrucker 2009 - http://chronicle.com/article/Blind-Spots/9348She also talk about this during a Digital Humanities session at the iConference in Toronto. I have notes I should type up...when I have time? 
Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0 Launched | HASTACThe UCLA Mellon Seminar in Digital Humanities has launched a second version of the Digital Humanities Manifesto (available as both a pdf ...- The UCLA link to the Manifesto has been broken for some time, but we found a living URL.
@mcburton @ShepardValerie We moved it to private hosting: http://www.humanitiesblast.com/manifesto/Manifesto_V2.pdf
@davelester @mcburton blog posts: @sramsay http://lenz.unl.edu/papers/2011/01/08/whos-in-and-whos-out.html , @samplereality http://www.samplereality.com/2011/05/25/the-digital-humanities-is-not-about-building-its-about-sharing/ & @jenterysayers http://projectroomseattle.org/2012/03/making-things/- A trio of excellent blog posts:
- Who's In and Who's OutI'm pleased to offer a transcript of my pithy, underdeveloped position paper at the "History and Future of Digital Humanities" panel at t...
" The digital humanities is not about building, it's about sharing SAMPLE REALITYEvery scholarly community has its disagreements, its tensions, its divides. One tension in the digital humanities that has received consi...
Making Things in the Digital Humanities | The Project RoomBy Jentery Sayers Posted on When Off Paper invited me to write a piece on why I make things, I forwarded that same question to people in ...
@melissaterras @davelester @mcburton @sramsay @samplereality @jenterysayers http://hastac.org/blogs/ernesto-priego/rt-what-and-isnt-digital-humanities-1- RT: What Is (and Isn't) the Digital Humanities? | HASTACToday, in a blog post titled "The shock of the new in the Digital Humanities" Craig Bellamy raises interesting points about what the Digi...
@mcburton Digitizing 'Chinese Englishmen' project by @adelinekoh: http://chineseenglishmen.adelinekoh.org/ & 'Transcribe Bentham' project: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project/transcribe_bentham
Transcribe BenthamTranscribe Bentham In 2010 the Bentham Project was awarded a Digital Equipment and Database Enhancement for Impact (DEDEFI) Award from th...
