Having left an institute, Texas A&M, with a strong DH community and coming to ORNL which does not have a community of its own. I’ve been thinking about trying to bring together people to create a local community.
This session would be to talk about strategies, techniques, and challenges others are facing and have faced in their own localities and how we can get build DH even in areas where the activity may not be seen as favorably.
About Paul Logasa Bogen II
Dr. Bogen is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Computational Data Analytics Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Dr. Bogen received his PhD in Computer Science with a certificare in Digital Humanities from Texas A&M University under Drs. Richard Furuta and Frank Shipman. Dr. Bogen works in the areas of text analytics and digital libraries. He has worked on several Digital Library and Humanities projects such as the Cervantes Project, the Picasso Project, the Herbarium Digital Library, the Ensemble Computing Portal, the Ember Digital Memorial Museum, and Project Injustice.
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Dear Paul,
It seems like such a easy thing, right? But we are all locked in our little boxes. We don’t want to leave our offices/homes to meet face to face, and we don’t want to spend another three hours on line in a G+ hangout, but we all need some humanity.
Interesting topic!
I was planning on proposing something very similar to this! I’d love to get in on this discussion. I’m interested in exploring ways that digital humanists (using that term loosely) can get buy-in from colleagues and faculty who see it at a passing fad/extraneous layer of hassle instead of a new way to engage in the scholarship they’ve been doing for years.
I actually have the opposite issue here at Oak Ridge, the lab defines it self in terms of science and doesn’t see the benefits of how DH can feed back in to Science.
Dear Paul, I’d love to discuss this. I’m very interested to learn how the Oak Ridge lab defines itself in terms of science and how that’s opposed to the humanities. If science means quantifiable measurement and data analysis, I’d argue that DH is necessary to properly frame and support the science. As Christine L. Borgman notes: “Humanists use the largest array of information sources, and as a consequence, the distinction between documents and data is the least clear” (Scholarship in the Digital Age, 214). The complicatedness of the humanities and thus the DH data landscape is extremely productive to inform the scope and abstracted conceptual structures supporting data intensive scientific inquiry. Of course this is arguable, and how that feedback from DH into Science can be structured is another matter. Looking forward to this discussion!