I’m really excited about the types of DH projects university folks are creating. I’m also curious about discussing more applied DH projects that meet community needs and serve people beyond university walls. Universities have notoriously contentious community relations and it seems like more intentional collaborative outreach could help. If communities were involved in DH, what kind of projects would be prioritized? I’d like to brainstorm ways to create community centered projects that not only advance academic goals, but help make our world a better place. What kind of SouthEast specific community based project can be dreamed up? All power to the people! 🙂
I’m working with a local historic site to become a digital humanities center. Other than exhibiting a collection of Contraband images, I need ideas of what would draw tourists or history buffs to our site.
You might be interested in Peter Organisciak’s masters thesis, which looked at motivations for participating in DH projects. goo.gl/BYix6 He’s given a few talks on the subject at past DH conferences as well.
Personally I’m a fan of Robert Stebbin’s Serious Leisure work, which has studied “amateurs” in various settings. What I like are his nuanced lifecycle of engagement. So the question many not only be who, but at what stage of engagement. See more and a list of papers at: www.seriousleisure.net/
An idea I have had is related to video. I’m interested in using Omeka for segmented and annotated video. I thought a good project or class would be to get some of the cheap digital video cameras, train folks on doing interviews or even general filming techniques and let them go out into the community to create videos of people, events, locations, etc. Then pull all of this back to a web site, possibly using Omeka, and with other tools, segment and annotate the video for presentation on the web.
Here is the link to our Google doc:
docs.google.com/document/d/11nZlQHvdb-mRnjJR7bBq0_qNa-1xAneQV41yDvIksmA/edit
Here is the link to the final version of the FairCite thread on DH Answers
digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/faircite-who-should-we-cite-in-collaborative-dh-projects
And the link to the final version of the Collaborators’ Bill of Rights:
tclement.ischool.utexas.edu/blog/Final_Report_Off_The_Tracks.pdf
Our session merged this proposal with the “Who Owns This?”
southeast2012.thatcamp.org/03/08/who-owns-this-stuff/#comments