Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI). Day 5. June 8, 2012 Brooke Lestock and Sarah Storti, "The Praxis Program and Prism: Rethinking Graduate Training in a Digital Age"; Daniel Powell, Alyssa Arbuckle, Alyssa McLeod and Shaun MacPherson, "Digital Humanities and the Alt-Ac 'Track': Views from the Grad School Trenches"; Robin Wharton, "How to Make a Digital Humanist" B. Lestock and S. Storti. “The Praxis Program and Prism†• http://praxis.scholarslab.org/ . Out of Univ. of Virginia. Selected graduate students are designing and building Prism, a new tool for "crowd-sourcing" textual analysis, visualization, and humanities interpretation. Goal is not just to transcribe, but interpret. • e.g. James Joyce. Select text, determine modernism and realism, with visualization tools. • Produce visualization for interpretations. Christopher Church and Scott McGinnis: "Computing, the Practice of History, and the Digital Humanities at UC Berkeley" Graduate students in the history department • Graduate-led DH initiatives. DH Coordinator position created, a graduate student position. Connect to already existing resources on campus. Offer training opportunities for history graduate students. Moderate online collaborative student environment. Online resources NOT accessible by faculty. Workshops offered on databases for historians, Gephi, Piazza (https://piazza.com/), Technology in the archive. • Challenges and solutions. Historians resistant at first to idea of TEI workshop. Solution was to be vocal via talking to people. Solution was also to be provocative – at one presentation, speaker showed what traditional historians were missing in not understanding DH and technology in the archive. Graduate students doing DH alongside traditional work (for now). • Advice. Create core group among graduate students devoted to DH. Get feedback. Conect to what already exists. Identify faculty allies. Propose and implement a plan. And, lastly, continue meeting Alyssa McLeod and Shaun MacPherson, "Digital Humanities and the Alt-Ac 'Track': Views from the Grad School Trenches" Training for other jobs is not happening as it should. Tenure-track jobs in DH scarce. “Training for jobs that aren’t there.†Advocate re-vising and re-envisioning research methodology courses. “Where do we want to go?†One possibility listed is library. Quote reads “Not that we want to steal your jobs. We love you guys. Really.†E.g.’s King’s College (London), Ryerson University’s program in the Literature of Modernity, or Ooligan Press at Portland Press (http://ooligan.pdx.edu/) DH in Libraries – afternoon session • Reviews of apps and how faculty could use particular aps • Digital initiatives programs – to work with faculty on metadata • SUNY Geneseo. Communication with libraries for what DH can do. Projects include helping faculty find publishers for work • Librarian from ??. Built “digital toolkit†page on library website, including Omeka, creating templates for projects faculty might benefit from (e.g. web exhibits) • Digital libraries tech services divisions. • Project management initiatives in libraries. Consulting service. Working on relationship between IT and Library. • Brown-bag luncheons to educate faculty. KICK scanner, TEI discussions, library website has “DH Projects†page. • Digital scholarship brownbags. Also have annual “parties†celebrating faculty publications, DH projects • “Center for Humanist Inquiry†focuses on grants. • Database of project plans that failed as well as were successful. See Cornell University site, which has this. • “Digitization Days†– one-day conference on faculty projects, which included librarians participating. • Digital Librarians Initiative – group of librarians who came together. Became a strategic objective • University of British Columbia. “Digital Initiatives Unit†within library. • Annual award granted by library for digital humanities projects. Along with “Scholarly Publications Unit†to advocate the legitimacy of DH projects for tenure and review • Open-access issue. Many faculty resistant. Library did an exhibit on this, and attitudes changed. • Geneseo – publish with open journal systems. Peggy Pritchard came and gave a talk about this. Print-on-demand system. Amazon Create Space to buy. This is a way to get around the “open-access†stigma. • To start a digital humanities initiative in the library – how to do it. o Get those already on campus together to get process going (IT, librarians, etc.) o Take into account size of staff, funds, expertise o Criteria to present to faculty

Presentation is at: Introduction to Digital Humanities, Part 1 (PDF)

Presentations from The Humanities and Technology Camp, Columbus, OH (January 2010): 1. Big Brother? In MY Kindle? Faith Van Horne. The future of digital print rights print vs. electronic rights cyberlawcases.com/2009/08/31/the-copy-ownership-cases/ 2. Laura Mandell Chair, MLA division no Information Technology -- Open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions: http://processing.org/ -- Collation software for scholars: juxtasoftware -- T generate word clouds: wordle -- Visualization data analysis tool: many eyes -- Franco Moretti, The valve: a literary organ. 3. Cleveland Project: Teaching + Learning Cleveland. Using Omeka 120 exhibits exhibits unfinished (albeit they're cool) Euclid Corridor Project. Done by students. 4. wordpress multi-user: http://mu.wordpress.org/ http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/ 5. annotators workbench at Indiana University 6. Michigan State University, The Quilt Index cms: cora, developed at Matrix 7. Mapping DC 8. Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives, Ohio State University 9. Preserving Digital Humanities Melanie Schlosser and Lewis Ulman, OSU -- Evaluation of Digital Work: -- Samual Sullivan Cox project -- METS document to capture all the different parties involved with Cox project. Almost all done by hand, except for some scrpt for repetitive parts. DSpace has tech metadata, but it does not capture the relationships or details among assets. METS does this. They rely both on what DSpace captures and the METS document -- Open source curation tool (good for project workflow): media manager. Also used for manuscript projects -- library couldn't host this project -- DSpace used at OSU for institutional repository. -- article on institutional repositories, " inkeeper at the roach motel" -- See Knowledge Bank for archival version of Cox project -- Ask how XSLT was created for this project. Answer: Lewis Ulman did it, using Seaman's XSLT (formerly of UVa), and by attending his workshop -- See OSU Digital Humanities -- Fedora: delivery and preservation simultaneous (vs. DSpace) -- Article on digital preservation fallacies 10. DH Projects and Collaboration Columbus neighborhoods -- how users interact with media. Helene Blowers from Columbus Metro Library. Action words at top of site. "big concepts, keep it clean." Major contact: Phone: (614) 479-3029 Email: hblowers@columbuslibrary.org www.columbusneighborhoods.org -- users will be able to geotag, upload their stories, media. 2-6 minute video clips will be part of it. They can use flicker, etc., common tools most are familiar with. -- WOSU 10-member committee, subcommittees. -- Metadata supplied by users is loose, mostly free-forming. For example, if no date is supplied, so be it. However, users do have to register (no anonymous submissions), and there is a drop-down menu for users to pick the neighborhood. -- See: city of memory web site 11. Ohio Historical Society Angela O'Neal -- new audiences and partnerships via technology -- has audience changed as a result of technology? -- have organizations changed as a result of technology? how does a museum shift its shape to maintain connections to a virtual audience? Howard Stevens article on the evolution of the media -- Pew Internet & American Life Project -- use this for statistics; good for grant applications -- book: What Consumers Really Want by B.J. Pine and J. Gilmore, Harvard Business Review -- David Thelen: http://chnm.gmu.edu/survey/afterdave.html. He found that 39% of Americans have hobbies related to the past, for example. Also, U.S. Gov't and history profs are least trusted. -- collaboration, cms, branding. Collaboration: loaded term. Share link to your site, versus share your material to be part of coherent collection housed elsewhere