osw digital humanities

Digital Humanities: Examples of PracticeR. John RobertsonCETL One Session WonderOctober 14th 2013

Overview

Introductions

Framing the conversation

Shaped by Lisa Spiro’s Digital scholarship blog: http://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/

three things

University provides a myriad of opportunities for students. What three things do students most need to learn in order to graduate and thrive after university?

What is Digital Humanities?

"In a short period of time, digital technology has changed our world. The ways we read, write, learn, communicate, and play have fundamentally changed due to the advent of networked digital technologies. These changes are being addressed in fascinating ways by scholars from across the humanities, often working in collaboration with scientists, librarians, museum staff, and members of the public." http://www.neh.gov/divisions/odh/about

Digital Humanities landscape

Text - what are we studying and what countsData - new approaches and perspectivesCommunity - who participates, with what role, and how?

AACU: Kuh’s High Impact Practices First Year Seminars and ExperiencesCommon Intellectual ExperiencesLearning CommunitiesWriting Intensive CoursesCollaborative Assignments and ProjectsUndergraduate ResearchDiversity / Global LearningService Learning/ Community-Based LearningInternshipsCapstone Courses and Projects http://www.aacu.org/leap/hip.cfm

21st Century Skills

http://www.imls.gov/about/21st_century_skills_list.aspx

Examples

Tools

Registry of Digital Research Toolshttp://dirt.projectbamboo.org/

Twitter Archivinghttp://mashe.hawksey.info/2013/02/twitter-archive-tagsv5/

Corpus analysis

Topic modelling http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/

D. M. BLEI (2012) Topic Modeling and Digital Humanities.Journal of Digital Humanities vol 2 issue 1 http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/2-1/topic-modeling-and-digital-humanities-by-david-m-blei/

Figure 1: Some of the topics found by analyzing 1.8 million articles from the New York Times. Each panel illustrates a set of tightly co-occurring terms in the collection. Hoffman, M., Blei, D. Wang, C. and Paisley, J. “Stochastic variational inference.” Journal of Machine Learning Research, forthcoming.

For example, Mallet & GUI version

Wordpress xml export - first pass topic maphttp://code.google.com/p/topic-modeling-tool/

Corpus analysis

Geospatial analysisWhaling grounds through ships charts in a collection. See http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/

Professions and names in a place in timehttp://addressinghistory.edina.ac.uk/

Photographs and tweets can frequently be geolocated

Interrelatedness@wired UK friends network by Martin Hawkseyhttp://mashe.hawksey.info/2011/09/twitter-network-analysis-and-visualisation-ii-nodexl/

Digital Humanities syllabi

http://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/digital-pedagogy-in-practice-workshop-materials/https://www.zotero.org/groups/digital_humanities_educationhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/digital_humanities_education/items/collectionKey/MXXEMX7Phttp://commons.gc.cuny.edu/wiki/index.php/DH_Syllabi

Student blogging

Blogging as:academic discoursepublic engagementcommunal activityownership of identity and ideas

See:SOTL Scholar worketc.

Bite size academics

Twitter vz Zombieshttp://www.twittervszombies.com/http://www.jessestommel.com/blog/files/twitter_vs_zombies.html

Tweet your thesishttp://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/you-can-summarize-your-thesis-in-a-tweet-but-should-you

Shared Creative Practice

*without a net*public / open*choice*building ability and confidence*academic?

DS106 Assignment Bankhttp://assignments.ds106.us/

For who and by who? http://phonar.covmedia.co.uk/

An Open Photography Course*impact of digital *modality *distributed / open*inclusive / expertise

Libraries

How do some of these examples interact with your 3 things

How might this work in _____ ?

Is there a type of activity which you do or might do in your course that you consider to fit with this?

Siteshttp://www.dhthis.orghttp://digitalhumanitiesnow.orghttp://journalofdigitalhumanities.org http://www.neh.gov/divisions/odh http://dh2013.unl.edu http://humanexperience.stanford.edu/digital_humanities http://www.cdh.ucla.edu/research/dhprojects.html http://phonar.covmedia.co.ukhttp://dirt.projectbamboo.org/ http://dmlcentral.net

Referenceshttp://chronicle.com/article/Stop-Calling-It-Digital/137325/ http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/Journal/files/Beyond_Rigor.html http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/09/the-rise-of-the-reader-katharine-viner-an-smith-lecture http://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/digital-pedagogy-in-practice-workshop-materials/ http://www.hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/2012/04/08/single-best-free-way-transform-classroom-primary-lifelongl-any-size-http://digitalscholarship.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/gettysburgdhcasestudiesfinal.pdf http://www.aacu.org/leap/What_is_liberal_education.cfmhttp://www.imls.gov/about/21st_century_skills_list.aspxhttp://www.aacu.org/leap/hip.cfmThis presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1sMOAdgSHjIQtrIMPkfY4bvyB74cop9cExfb-OsxWuEc/edit?usp=sharing