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RECOMMENDED: Never Neutral: Critical Approaches to Digital Tools & Culture in the Humanities

Oct

22

2013

Josh Honn (Northwestern University) presented a talk last week at Western University titled, “Never Neutral: Critical Approaches to Digital Tools & Culture in the Humanities” (paper is available here). Honn continues recent discussions of cultural criticism in DH, examining “how the critical curation of digital tools can lead to a cultural critique of a hegemonic Silicon ...

RECOMMENDED: Cultural Criticism in the Digital Humanities

Sep

17

2013

Stephen Ramsay, Alan Liu, Alex Reid and others have recently engaged in a fruitful conversation about the role of cultural criticism in the digital humanities. Ramsay begins the exchange with a post revisiting Liu’s 2011 article in Debates in the Digital Humanities, “Where is Cultural Criticism in the Digital Humanities?” Quoting Liu, “How the digital ...

RECOMMENDED: Serendip-o-matic, From the One Week | One Tool Team

Aug

6

2013

Twelve digital humanists gathered from Sunday July 28 – Saturday August 3, 2013, for One Week | One Tool, a summer institute sponsored by the NEH Office of Digital Humanities and held at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, to create a new digital humanities tool. The idea was to ...

RECOMMENDED: “The Literary”: Digital Humanities Quarterly (Issue 2013 7.1)

Jul

16

2013

The latest issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly, edited by Lisa Swanstrom and Jessica Pressman, is devoted entirely to “The Literary,” and contains several articles of interest to the library and archives community. From the introduction to the issue: As the essays in this issue demonstrate, the conjunction of the literary and the digital humanities produce ...

RECOMMENDED: “A Map and Some Pins”: Open Data and Unlimited Horizons

Jun

18

2013

Tim Sherratt (@wragge on Twitter) has published his keynote address to April’s Digisam Conference in blog form, in which he makes an inspired and passionate case for making cultural heritage data openly available. Sherratt reminds us that this data is infused with history and “resists our attempts at reduction,” while calling into question the notion ...

RECOMMENDED: Data curation as publishing for digital humanists

Jun

4

2013

Text and slides from a talk delivered by Trevor Muñoz, Assistant Dean for Digital Humanities Research at the University of Maryland Libraries, at the CIC Center for Library Initiatives conference. Muñoz presents an intriguing synthesis of a couple of growing trends in libraries – data curation and publishing. Data curation here is defined as “information work ...

RECOMMENDED: The Joy of Topic Modeling

Jun

4

2013

Matt Burton, graduate student at the University of Michigan School of Information, provides an accessible introduction to topic modeling. Aimed at beginners (though useful for everyone), the article unpacks the meaning of the terms used in topic modeling, such as model, word, document, topic, tokenization and stemming. For example, At the start of any text ...

RECOMMENDED: The Poetics of Non-Consumptive Reading

May

28

2013

Building off of the amicus brief filed by Matthew Jockers, et al. in Authors Guild vs. Google, Mark Sample (George Mason University) has written a provocative post urging digital humanists to think critically about what it means to frame non-consumptive use–text-mining, topic modeling, etc.–as “non-expressive.” As the brief’s abstract explains: The brief argues that, just ...

RECOMMENDED: U.S. Open Data Policy

May

15

2013

On May 9, 2013, the U.S. government issued Executive Order 13642, declaring that “the default state of new and modernized Government information resources shall be open and machine readable.” The announcement coincided with a memorandum outlining the creation of an open data policy that requires government agencies “to collect or create information in a way ...

RECOMMENDED: #dhpoco Open Thread

May

15

2013

The Digital Humanities as a Historical “Refuge” From Race/Class/Gender/Sexuality/Disability? Sparked by David Golumbia’s recap of the “Dark Side of the Digital” conference (#c21dsd) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Postcolonial Digital Humanities posted an open thread on the issues of race, gender, class, sexuality, and disability in DH. The thread has generated over 150 comments, providing ...

RECOMMENDED: DH Genealogies and the Academy (Weekend Round-Up)

May

7

2013

“I just got done with a good twenty-four hours of arguing with people online about digital humanities.” So begins Stephen Ramsay’s post, “DH Types One and Two,” written in response to a flurry of conversations that took place online over the weekend. In part a reaction to Daniel Allington’s “Managerial Humanities: or, Why the Digital ...