The Getty's Digital Art History Lab (Day 1)
Tweets and links from day 1 of the Digital #ArtHistory convened by Murtha Baca at the Getty Research Institute.
- The Lab brought together some 30 scholars from art history and allied fields, including software development, library science, digitization, data management, and intellectual property law.
@saschel Murtha's colleague Susan Edwards will be live tweeting the #arthistory lab @thegetty! #Digitalhumanities #GettyVoices
Currently at the Getty in Los Angeles doing a #digitalhumanities thing for Rethinking #arthistory- AgendaPlease click here for a PDF DAY ONE (TUESDAY, MARCH 5) - BOARD ROOM 10:00 a.m. Welcome, Logistics, Introductions (Baca and Royston; all) ...
Excited for Digital #ArtHistory Lab @theGetty - Today, W & Th. I'll tweet it up! #digitalhumanities @dzorich and Johanna Drucker this am- Diane Zorich, author of a pioneering Kress Foundation report on the state of art history and technology, began the day with an overview of the challenges and opportunities facing art historians in the digital age.
- Diane addressed the many disruptions shaking the field of art history -- disruptions in reward systems (like tenure and publication), in methodology, and in working method, among others.
- Distruption in pace and process of #arthistory - describe themselves as perfectionists - this is a roadblock #digitalhumanities @dzorich
- Build it and they won't come: Communities must be built & involved from the *beginning* of every #digitalhumanities project. @dzorich
Art historians need to get out more: talk w/ #digitalhumanities ppl, go to confs, think partnerships with for-profits @dzorich- Johanna Drucker of UCLA continued with a fascinating and blazing-fast overview of where digital humanities projects stand now. She called for a focus on portals and platforms over projects, which are already numerous and varied in quality. Some examples:
- The Homer MultitextThe Homer Multitext seeks to present the textual transmission of the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey in a historical framework. Such a framewor...
- The Perseus Digital Library. Truly a classic:
Perseus Digital LibraryAnnouncements July 11, 2012 We would like to call attention to a thoughtful blog post on the Latin Word Study Tool in Perseus and why it ...- The Digital Sculpture ProjectThis website is devoted to studying ways in which 3D digital technologies can be applied to the capture, representation and interpretatio...
- Scholars of the 19th century have their own portal, NINES:
N I N E SLOG IN | Create new account. What is NINES? | Peer Review. Search NINES: Searching 972882 peer-reviewed digital objects from 111 federa...- Johanna made the point that many digital humanities sites (especially those long in the tooth) are, frankly, ugly. By contrast, a new site, Mapping French Gothic, is a model of beauty and functionality. It's also highly accessible to non-specialists.
- Pioneering #digitalhumanities project that's also just massively cool: French cathedrals up close at mappinggothic.org
Mapping Gothic FranceWith a database of images, texts, charts and historical maps, Mapping Gothic France invites you to explore the parallel stories of Gothic...- Another approach: the Jan Brueghel Wiki invites scholars to build a collaborative online catalogue raisonné (requires login):
