On the dangers of thinking you are indispensible: English professors’ edition
Posted: August 28, 2013 Filed under: Digital Humanities, Digital pedagogy, General, Projects and Societies, Research, Teaching, Unessay | Tags: english studies, grammar, status, Unessay, universities 3 Comments »Apparently in 1917 people had a different view of the centrality of English professors…
When we consider our educational position, we teachers of English composition are in a fair way to become conceited. In view of certain featuresof our daily experiencethe dangerof becoming conceited may not seem imminent. But the outstanding feature of our position among pedagogues surely spells danger in that very direction. The practically universal assumption that our work is educationally indispensable is truly ominous (William Hawley Davis. 1917. “The Teaching of English Composition: Its Present Status.” The English Journal 6 (5) (May 1): 285–294. doi:10.2307/801590).
If you ever need an argument on why it is harmful to focus on mechanics in student writing…
Posted: August 28, 2013 Filed under: Classroom practice, Digital Humanities, Digital pedagogy, General, Projects and Societies, Research, Teaching, Unessay | Tags: english 2810, grammar, history, Unessay 9 Comments »Based on a review of “500 quasi-experimental studies of writing instruction between 1963 and 1983” concentrating on those with strong research design.
Those who can’t, teach…
Posted: June 8, 2013 Filed under: Projects and Societies Leave a comment »“One thing that higher education institutions do as they work to establish a niche is emphasize different aspects of the professorial role. This is not simply a matter of lower-tier schools emphasizing teaching…”
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Global Outlook :: Digital Humanities and International Partnerships
Posted: November 12, 2012 Filed under: ADHO, Digital Humanities, GO::DH, News, Research | Tags: Development, digital humanities, disciplinary development, funding, Global Digital Humanities, IDRC, SSHRC Leave a comment »My post last week on Digital Humanities in a global context (In a Rich Man’s World) was derived from a proposal to the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations for a new Special Interest Group devoted to global development issues as they are associated with the Digital Humanities: Global Outlook :: Digital Humanities (GO::DH). I’ve had enough requests from people for the actual proposal, that I thought I’d link to it here (PDF). I’m also pleased (and very grateful) to say that the initiative has also just received funding from the University of Lethbridge through its International Initiatives programme to help get it set up and running. We hope to be arranging our first events very soon.
This is going to be an important area of activity, both within and without the proposed SIG. THaT Camp Caribe is being held this week at the University of Puerto Rico. INKE will be holding its 2012 meeting in Havana, partially out of an interest in these same ideas (Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age: E/Merging Reading, Writing, and Research Practices).
In a rich man’s world: Global DH?
Posted: November 2, 2012 Filed under: Digital Humanities, Economics, Essays, General, Projects and Societies, Research, Universities | Tags: digital humanities, economics, Global Outlook 5 Comments »The following map is from Melissa Terras’s infographic, Quantifying the Digital Humanities.
The map shows the distribution of physical centres in the Digital Humanities (as this is defined by members of ADHO communities) across the globe. As Domenico Fiormonte has argued, it can also serve as a proxy for other types of activity in the field, including, broadly speaking, the residency of members of ADHO affiliated Digital Humanities societies (see Fiormonte, fig. 1).But as Fiormonte also points out, the “blank” areas on Terras’s map can serve as an inverse proxy for other data. Linguistic diversity, for example, or Gross National Income as mapped by UNEP. Read the rest of this entry »
Linked data, open data: Towards a semantic web of Anglo-Saxon England
Posted: August 20, 2012 Filed under: Anglo-Saxon Studies, Digital Humanities, General, News, Projects and Societies, Research, Visionary Cross | Tags: call for papers, cultural heritage, digital humanities, linked data, open data Leave a comment »International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (ISAS), July 29th-August 2, 2013, Dublin
The Visionary Cross would like to propose a roundtable or three paper panel on linked and open data in Anglo-Saxon studies for ISAS 2013. The goal of this panel would be to assess the current state of practice in the development of linked and open datasets and to explore future directions. This topic should be of interest to textual editors, cultural heritage curators, art historians, researchers working on dictionaries and other reference works.
If you would like to explore this topic contact, please contact Daniel O’Donnell (daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca) as soon as possible to discuss approaches. Session and paper proposals are due at the ISAS programme committee by September 13.
Call for Papers: Cultural, Textual, and Material Heritage in the Digital Age: Projects and Practices
Posted: August 20, 2012 Filed under: Anglo-Saxon Studies, Digital Humanities, News, Projects and Societies, Research, Visionary Cross | Tags: call for papers, cultural heritage, digital humanities, medieval studies Leave a comment »The twentieth International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 1-4 July 2013
The rise of the Digital Humanities as an international, cross-disciplinary approach to humanistic scholarship presents exciting new challenges and opportunities.
Perhaps one of the most exciting of these is the convergence of interest among textual editors, art historians, archaeologists, museum and library curatorial staff, government agencies, and commercial entities in what can be broadly described as issues in the representation and research of Cultural, Textual, and Material Heritage.
This call is for papers addressing current and future practices and opportunities in this area. What are the interesting projects? What are the interesting technologies, methodologies, and business models? How will this convergence play out in the short and medium term?
Been there, done that: Art history as a model for the effect of technology on disciplinary development
Posted: July 29, 2012 Filed under: Essays, History, Notes, Reading, Reviews, Universities, Visionary Cross | Tags: 3D scanning, anglo-saxon studies, art history, digital humanities, disciplinary development, photography, technology, Visualisation Leave a comment »Evidence of why it is useful to read outside your main areas of disciplinary interest…
I’ve been reading my way through Revisualizing visual culture (Ashgate 2010), on a number of titles I bought from the Ashgate stand at the the recent DH 2012 conference in Hamburg. Most of the chapter thus far have been relevant to work we are doing with the Visionary Cross project, especially now that we are starting to get usable 3D meshes (as time allows, I hope to post some other small posts about the various chapters in this and my other recent reading). Read the rest of this entry »
Does Project Muse help or harm scholarship by refusing to list freely available journals? On the role of the aggregator
Posted: June 13, 2012 Filed under: Essays, Journal Incubator, Projects and Societies, Research, Scholarly publishing | Tags: digital humanities, economics, internet, open access, project muse, scholarly publishing 2 Comments »Yesterday, I posted an essay reflecting on the stratification of content development and delivery processes in the music, commercial publishing, and scholarly and scientific publishing industries (Won’t Get Fooled Again).
At the end of the piece, I discussed the developing role of aggregators at the distribution and marketing end of the process, so if you’re interested in doing marketing online, learning How to run paid traffic for clients is important for this. While there is no equivalent to iTunes in the scholarly publishing world, the aggregators fill a similar function to a certain extent with the institutional customers (particularly libraries) that are responsible for most of the purchases in this area.
Won’t get fooled again? Why is there no iTunes for scholarly and scientific publishing?
Posted: June 12, 2012 Filed under: Essays, Journal Incubator, News, Research, Scholarly publishing, Universities | Tags: economics, music industry, peer review, pete townshend, publishing industry, scholarly publishing, self-publishing 1 Comment »In the inaugural BBC John Peel Lecture, The Who‘s Pete Townshend described the music publishing business as being historically like “a form of banking in many ways”:
In cooperation with record labels – active artists have always received from the music industry banking system more than banking. They’ve gotten…
1. editorial guidance
2. financial support
3. creative nurture
4. manufacturing
5. publishing
6. marketing
7. distribution
8. payment of royalties (the banking)
(A full transcript can be found here; video here (full) and here (excerpt))
Mutatis mutandis, much the same can be said for other forms of publishing as well: scientific/scholarly and commercial book publication, even film development and distribution. In each case, historically, the distributors of the content also generally have been responsible to a greater or lesser extent for nurturing and supporting its development. Individual segments of the market have dropped or added to Townshend’s list of functions (adding peer review, for example, in addition to editorial functions, or focus-group testing final product before distribution). But on the whole, Townshend’s list is pretty complete. In the pre-Internet era, publishing was generally the province of highly vertically integrated organisations: the same group tended to oversee the production process from the submission of the original manuscript, idea, or prospectus to the final distribution of sales income.
Incubator talk, Canadian Association of Learned Journals, Waterloo May 27, 2012
Posted: June 6, 2012 Filed under: Journal Incubator, Lectures, Projects and Societies, Research | Tags: digital humanities, journal incubator, journals, lectures, Research, scholarly publishing Leave a comment »Here’s a (slightly modified for coherence’s sake) deck from the talk prepared by Gillian Ayers and me for the Canadian Association of Learned Journals meeting in Waterloo ON on May 27, 2012.
Journal Incubator Poster (Digital Humanities 2013)
Posted: July 18, 2013 | Author: dpod | Filed under: Digital Humanities, General, Journal Incubator, Projects and Societies, Research, Scholarly publishing | Tags: Computers, Research-and-comment | Leave a comment »There was a lot of interest in the Lethbridge Journal Incubator project poster yesterday at the Digital Humanities 2013 conference poster session at the University of Nebraska.
A thumbnail image of the poster comes below (there is also a letter-sized version). You can get the original PDF here
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