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NERCOMP EVENT
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities and Beyond
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Digital scholarship can be defined as "the development, study and application of new technology techniques and methods to traditional modes of scholarship," which is how Stephen Woodruff defines humanities computing. How do campuses support the production needs for student and faculty whose work draws increasingly on the use of multiple forms of media? What strategies are faculty using to assess multimedia-based research projects? How are media projects disseminated? What pedagogical and production frameworks do librarians and instructional technologists need to understand? In this SIG we will explore these topics for those who wish to express their research in media and data rich digital modes or who support colleagues who do.
Workshop Organizer/Host: Sarah Bordac of Brown University
Date/Time:
Monday, February 01, 2010
9:00am - 3:00pm
Registration begins at 8:00am
Location:
College of the Holy Cross
Hogan Campus Center
Third Floor - Ballroom
Worcester, MA
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Event Schedule:
8:00am - 9:00am Registration & Coffee
9:00am - 9:05am Welcome
Speaker: Sarah Bordac, Head Outreach and Instructional Design, Brown University Library
9:05am – 9:30am Digital Scholarship in the Humanities: Challenges and Opportunities
Speaker: Patrick Yott, Director, Center for Digital Scholarship, Brown University
The adoption of digital scholarly tools and methods presents a range of challenges to traditional support units like the library and central computing. What are these changes and how can we meet them in a climate of tightening budgets and expanding needs? Are these new roles or are they augmentations to existing service models? In this session we will examine the current landscape(s) and opportunities for creative partnerships
9:30am - 10:20am Digital Humanities From a Liberal Arts Perspective
Speakers:
Scott Hamlin, Director of Technology for Research and Instruction, Wheaton College
Patrick Rashleigh, Faculty Technology Liaison for the Humanities, Wheaton College
Until recently, the realm of Digital Humanities Scholarship has been primarily occupied by larger research institutions. However, along with several other small Liberal Arts colleges around the country, Wheaton College's faculty, technologists, and librarians have recently begun working in this area by adapting the methods and technologies of Humanities Computing to suit our particular academic needs and resource pool. This talk will present three aspects of Wheaton's work in the Digital Humanities: (1) its approach to supporting Digital Humanities scholarship, (2) a few representative projects (focusing on TEI and GIS), and (3) a planning project run in conjunction with Dickinson and Mount Holyoke Colleges, and funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) entitled "Publishing TEI Documents for Small Liberal Arts Colleges". This last aspect represents a logical next step for small liberal arts colleges; the pooling of resources though inter-institutional collaboration, to make Digital Humanities research more accessible to scholars and students.
10:20am - 10:35am Break
10:35am – 11:15am Teaching and Supporting the New Digital Scholarship
Speaker: Julia Flanders, Director, Women Writers Project and Associate Director for Textbase Development, Center for Digital Scholarship, Brown University
This presentation will focus on the challenges of teaching and learning the methods of digital scholarship, focusing in particular on the creation of scholarly digital resources. The fundamental concepts of information design and digital representation are central to many digital scholarly publications, and connect directly with important critical concerns. However, these connections may be lost when digital methods are approached from a purely technical standpoint. From the viewpoint of those supporting such projects, what are the most helpful resources and approaches to help faculty get started? How can we help faculty take ownership of these projects?
The Brown University Women Writers Project teaches workshops and seminars in scholarly text encoding, and publishes an online guide to the subject as well as providing consulting and support for new digital projects. Drawing on this work, we will discuss the challenges of designing and using these forms of support, and consider what kinds of new institutional support might be most effective in encouraging high quality digital scholarship.
11:15am – 11:45am Discussion
Moderated by Andy Ashton, Senior Research Programmer, Center for Digital Scholarship, Brown University
11:45am – 12:45pm Lunch
12:45pm - 1:25pm Developing, Shaping and Managing Digital Humanities Research Projects
Speaker: Elli Mylonas, Associate Director, Center for Digital Scholarship, Brown University
The project is the most common starting point for work in digital scholarship. Faculty come to Digital Humanities projects as a result of a research need. Sometimes this need may come from a sense that traditional methods need improvement in power or efficiency. At other times, it may be more important that a digital approach to a research problem allows the sharing of data and methods in a way that makes them more permanent.
Digital humanities projects are becoming more common as source material under consideration is in digital form, as the potential of digital methodologies becomes apparent, and as researchers seek to use the social and collaborative methods that are familiar to them from their personal online experience. These projects require a new set of critical and technical skills, and are often best carried out with a partner familiar with digital humanities methodologies and practices, capable of understanding how to match a critical approach with appropriate technology.
We will talk about how groups like the Center for Digital Scholarship go beyond technology assistance, to provide guidance, build community between related projects and suggest methods, practices, and implementations, provide project management and work with researchers to plan future grant applications as projects develop.
In some cases, a project rooted in a single researcher's desire to address a problem, or to improve a process, need only do that. In many cases, however, a single project will grow into a research agenda, and become part of a wider research strategy. Digital Humanities staff can be the critical component that enable faculty who may have limited digital experience to make this to happen in a way that most benefits the faculty and host institution.
1:25pm - 2:05pm Visual Tools for Research and Collaboration in Digital Humanities
Speakers:
Brett Barros, User Interface Developer, HyperStudio - Digital Humanities at MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kurt Fendt, Executive Director, HyperStudio - Digital Humanities at MIT, Research Director, Comparative Media Studies/Foreign Languages and Literatures, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
This presentation will discuss how digital tools can shape the process of scholarly research in the humanities and how faculty have integrated them into their own research and teaching. Special focus will be given to new forms of collaborative interpretation of resources, dynamic visualization of data, and how the notion of "crowd-sourcing" might generate new insights and different modes of collaboration. Examples will be taken from ongoing HyperStudio research projects such as the US-Iran Relations project, the Comédie-Française Registers project, and the Serial Experience project.
MIT's HyperStudio - Center for Digital Humanities explores the potential of new media technologies for the enhancement of education and research in the humanities. As part of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, HyperStudio works across disciplines and with a range of outside partners. Besides digital humanities research, the creation of media-rich humanities projects, the development of open source scholarly and educational tools is at the core of HyperStudio's mission.
2:05pm - 3:00pm Discussion
Moderated by Andy Ashton, Senior Research Programmer, Center for Digital Scholarship, Brown University
3:00pm Evaluations and End
Speaker:
Andy Ashton
Andy Ashton came to Brown University in 2008 as the Senior Research Programmer for the Scholarly Technology Group. He brought experience as an academic librarian, working closely with faculty on issues of digital assets management and research technologies. In his role at CDS, Andy works with faculty and researchers to bring their digital projects to fruition, and helps to chart the general direction of scholarly technology development at Brown.
Andy’s research interests include exploring the intersection of emerging resource-oriented web standards and digital scholarly collections, particularly XML-based formats such as TEI. In addition to ongoing collaborations with Brown faculty, he is currently involved with several CDS research projects, including the creation of a suite of modular analysis tools for textual collections, the development of a Fedora-based framework for scholarly annotations using AtomPub, and an exploration of the use of OWL ontologies with TEI collections.
Speaker:
Brett Barros
Brett Barros develops the front-end of HyperStudio applications, coding the user interface and stylesheets according to current best practices. He is also a Boston Search Engine Optimization (SEO) specialist, best known for his SEM News which aggregates search engine marketing information. Brett graduated Magna Cum Laude from Boston University’s Advertising program and accordingly applies a customer-driven focus to all of his work.
Speaker:
Elli Mylonas
Elli Mylonas has been supporting and developing digital humanities projects at Brown University since 1994, first at the Scholarly Technology Group, and now in the University Library's newly formed Center for Digital Scholarship. She has worked numerous projects including the Decameron Web (Boccacio's Decameron), MonArch (monastic archaeology), US Epigraphy and Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine (corpora of classical and Judaic inscriptions). She was managing editor during the first phase of the Perseus Project, a scholarly hypertext and multimedia project on Classical Greece that began at Harvard University. She has worked with hypertext, structured
text and XML for scholarly texts, interface and interaction development and other aspects of digital humanities projects. She has gained considerable expertise in shaping and managing digital research projects with humanities faculty. Her background is in Classics, and she has published and spoken on digital humanities and on the rhetoric of the scholarly user interface.
Speaker:
Julia Flanders
Julia Flanders is the Director of the Women Writers Project, part of the Center for Digital Scholarship at the Brown University Library. With an academic background in English history and literature, she began working in the field of digital humanities at the WWP in 1993,
and has extensive experience both in building and managing digital scholarly projects, and in advising faculty on digital methods. She teaches regular workshops on text encoding for humanists and librarians.
Speaker:
Kurt Fendt
Dr. Kurt Fendt is Executive Director of HyperStudio, MIT’s Center for Digital Humanities, which explores the potential of new media technologies for the enhancement of research and education. He is Research Director in the Comparative Media Studies Graduate Program (CMS) and teaches a range of upper-level courses in the German Studies Program in Foreign Languages and Literatures.
Fendt has held Visiting Professorships at the University of Cologne, the Technical University of Aachen (both Germany), and the University of Klagenfurt, Austria; in 2001 he was Visiting Scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute in Sankt Augustin, Germany. He is co-Principal Investigator of the d'Arbeloff-funded Metamedia project, co-Director of Berliner sehen, a collaborative hypermedia learning environment for German Studies, the on-line collaboration space for educators "Berliner sehen Exchange", and co-author of the French interactive narrative "A la rencontre de Philippe" (CD-ROM version). Since 2005, he has been organizing the MIT Short Film Festival.
Before coming to MIT in 1993, Fendt was Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Linguistics at the University of Bern in Switzerland, where he established the Media Learning Center for the Humanities and earned his Ph.D. in modern German literature with a thesis on hypertext and text theory in 1993 after having completed his MA at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany.
Speaker:
Patrick Rashleigh
Patrick Rashleigh has been at Wheaton College for two years, working to facilitate the use of technology in the Humanities for teaching and research, with a focus on online applications, web development, and the application of XML technologies. In the six years prior to coming to Wheaton, he worked in the Government of Ontario, most recently as senior new media coordinator for the Attorney General. He has degrees in English literature and Ethnomusicology.
Speaker:
Patrick Yott
Patrick Yott - as head of the library's Center for Digital Scholarship, Patrick Yott enjoys working with a dedicated team of library staff who share a commitment to supporting the work of Brown's faculty and students. Patrick has been working in the digital library arena since 1993 when he developed one of the first web servers at the University of New Hampshire and used it to serve 1990 Census data and other government information. Following that, he moved on to the University of Virginia in 1995 where he developed and directed the Geospatial and Statistical Data Center and oversaw the development of the Library of Tomorrow project. Since joining Brown in 2001, Patrick's work has focused on developing a deep technical and staff infrastructure to support emerging areas of digital scholarship and digital librarianship. He has taught classes on XML, XSLT, PERL and PHP/MySQL for the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the New England Library Network (NELINET), the Amigos Library Network, as well as other local library consortia. When he is not at work he can most likely be found chasing trout with his fly rod, and lists the Blue Ridge Mountains, Western Maine, and Yellowstone National Park among his favorite locations to wet a line.
Speaker:
Sarah Bordac
Sarah Bordac is currently the Head of Outreach and Instructional Design at the Brown University Library. She manages the user research and interface services group in the Library where she seeks to understand and support the research, teaching and learning practices of users. After receiving a B.A. in Communications from The American University, Sarah earned a M.A. in Educational Technology from Pepperdine University and is presently pursuing a doctorate in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science with a research interest in undergraduate media literacy skills. She has developed projects in technology-enhanced library and museum learning environments, web-based instruction, and public television educational programming.
Speaker:
Scott Hamlin
Scott Hamlin began at Wheaton as the Faculty Technology Liaison for the Humanities. He now leads a group of academic technologists who work with faculty, staff, and students to create and sustain effective learning experiences, support the goals of the college curriculum, and increase information fluency through the use of technology. He has worked with faculty, students, and librarians at Wheaton to digitize and encode texts for class projects on early Spanish exploration of the "New World" and from Wheaton's Archives and Special Collections.
Related Media Files:
DigitalFlanders.pdf
Digital Scholarship Resources.pdf
DigitalWheaton.pdf
Digital Rashleigh.pdf
Digital Yott.pdf
Digital Mylonas.pdf
Contact Information:
Lisa DiMauro
860-345-2081
ldimauro@nercomp.org
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Rooms are available at the Comfort Inn, 426 Southbridge Street in Auburn, MA.
Please state that you are with NERCOMP and you will receive the reduced rate of $85, includes continental breakfast & internet access.
Call the hotel directly at: 1-508-832-8300
The room block will be held until January 22, 2010.
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