The Getty's Digital Art History Lab (Day 2)
Day 2 of tweets, discussion, responses, and ideas shared in the Digital Art History Lab at the Getty.
10 AM (PST) marks the start of Day Two of the Digital #ArtHistory Lab @TheGetty. Live tweeting continues! #DigitalHumanities- Today's #DAHLab agenda (if you just can't wait to know what topics will be explored!) digitalarthistory.weebly.com/agenda.html #DigitalHumanities @TheGetty
- Day 2 kicked off with a demo, presentation, and discussion of a new project at the Getty, called Getty Scholars' Workspace. The first of the initial three pilot projects was Digital Mellini, a collaborative workspace to virtually annotate and analyze a 1681 art-collection inventory written entire in rhyming verse.
- Digital Mellini (Getty Research Institute)The Digital Mellini research project, a collaboration between the Getty Research Institute and the Department of Art History of the Unive...
Creating an Online Collaboration Tool for Scholars|The Getty IrisLast month, I gave a presentation with my colleague Tina Shah at the annual Museum Computer Network (MCN) conference in Atlanta about an ...- Technologists and art historians worked iteratively to create Digital Mellini using Drupal.
We used co-ment module @drupal co-ment.com for scholars to annotate the Mellini manuscript text #digitalhumanities #arthistory- Francesca Albrezzi of the project team contributed a behind-the-scenes look at the project on the Iris.
Creating "Getty Scholars' Workspace": Lessons from the Digital Humanities Trenches |The Getty IrisContinuing this week's conversation on Rethinking Art History, Francesca Albrezzi of the Getty Research Institute provides a behind-the-s...- Murtha Baca revealed to all who enjoy the toil of academia that "technology does not make work less time-consuming (au contraire)!"
- There is a lot of WORK involved in digital scholarship: image manipulation, text encoding, cataloging work, etc... #digitalhumanities
- But....
- frm a tech person's perspective, #digitalhumanities work is the fun stuff! We want to work on these projects! Fun, innovative + mind-opening
- The need for increased collaboration and knowledge-sharing was an ongoing theme of the day.
RT @jolifanta: So many of us are building the same tech tools over and over! How can we fix this? #digitalhumanities #arthistory- A backchannel conversation, meanwhile, broke out about the previous day's blog post by Nuria Rodriguez Ortega on "re-establishing" digital art history.
@jherr555 @GettyMuseum Completely agree; “re-establishment” of digital art history is vital & the lack of infrastructure is a major problem.- The post's dense language attracted some amusing critique.
Guffwatch: what is 'digital art history'? - Art History News - by Bendor GrosvenorA history of art blog covering news stories on art history matters. The blog covers news of auctions from the likes of Sotheby's, Christi...
What is 'digital art history'? (ctd.) - Art History News - by Bendor GrosvenorA history of art blog covering news stories on art history matters. The blog covers news of auctions from the likes of Sotheby's, Christi...- Back in meatspace, Wes Walker, the software engineer who built the lion's share of Digital Mellini, pointed out that working digitally changes not just how research is done, but the outcomes and conclusions of that research.
- Digital tools & collaboration don't just change the HOW of scholarship; they change the WHAT. #digitalhumanities #discuss
