Category Archives: General

Collaborating with Collaboratives Like Title VI

I’m hoping we can discuss ways we are, will, and want to collaborate with Title VI programs. DH is marked by many exciting features including altac careers, integration of areas that are too often separated (research, teaching, service), opportunities for … Continue reading

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Session Proposal: The Un-gendering of the Artist in Today’s Social Networks

How are today’s artists navigating the social networks as un-gendered creative beings?  Does this un-gendered cyberspace approach serve as an opening to new artists being given exhibitions without the stigma of a gallery trying to fill its shows by weighting … Continue reading

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Session Proposal: Digital Preservation and Digital Humanities

One of the challenges that libraries is starting to grapple with is that of preservation for all this digital stuff that’s being constantly created and converted. It’s not enough to burn some files to a CD or DVD or put … Continue reading

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Session Proposal: Linked Open Data

This is a session that might go well with Richard Urban’s session on the Digital Public Library. I’m becoming more and more interested in the challenges and opportunities surrounding linked open data. For those of you who don’t know, LOD … Continue reading

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Session Proposal: Converting the DH Agnostic

My institution has a newly-established Digital Scholarship Lab that falls under the umbrella of Digital Scholarship and Special Collections. Since this is such a new endeavor (three months old), the concept and “brand” of digital scholarship (and specifically digital humanities) … Continue reading

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Who Owns This Stuff?

In a talk delivered at the NINES Summer Institute last year, Bethany Nowviskie asserts that, within a discipline where collaborative work is the norm, “healthier scholarship will result from generous and full acknowledgment of the contributions of collaborators.” Even more recently, … Continue reading

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Rebooting Graduate Training

I am hoping we can discuss creative approaches to graduate training within given disciplines as well as across them. In the humanities, there has been a groundswell of interest in reforming graduate education, revising masters and PhD expectations (most notably … Continue reading

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Session Proposal: Skills and Tools for Digital Archives

A question that’s been explored before before, but one that remains current — especially with the appearance of several new open-source for digital records: What do archivists need to work with digital records? Of course, having a saw, hammer, and … Continue reading

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#alt-LIS OR The Question of the Hybrarian OR What is Digital Humanities and What’s It Doing in the Library?

{Inspired by the recent JISC article “Does the Library have a role to play in the Digital Humanities?“} I’m a librarian. Sort of. Well, not really. I mean, I work in a research library, I have the MLIS degree (union … Continue reading

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Session Proposal: Studying Games at a Liberal Arts College

I’m interested in the ways that games, game studies, libraries, digital humanities, and liberal arts curriculum intersect, even though I’m not always completely sure how they intersect, especially from a pedagogical perspective.  I noticed the official, legal definition of “humanities” … Continue reading

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