Comments on: Session Proposal: Building a local DH Community.

By: laurien

laurien — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 04:25:14 +0000

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!

By: Paul Logasa Bogen II

Paul Logasa Bogen II — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:17:08 +0000

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.

By: Kristy Dixon

Kristy Dixon — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:05:16 +0000

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.

By: Michelle Kassorla @drkassorla

Michelle Kassorla @drkassorla — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:44:58 +0000

B”H

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!