Digital humanities — International perspectives

Posted by wragge on March 16, 2011 0 comments

The Australian Academy of the Humanities together with the Australian National University is presenting two public lectures on the digital humanities.

Professor Ray Siemens, ‘Enacting a Vision for the Future of Digital Humanities’
Ray Siemens is Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Professor of English at the University of Victoria with cross appointment in Computer Science. Editor of several renaissance texts and founding editor of the journal Early Modern Literary Studies, he has written numerous articles on computational methods and literary studies and is co-editor of Blackwell’s Companion to Digital Humanities and Companion to Digital Literary Studies. Chair, Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations’ Steering Committee, he is also incoming Vice President of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Dr Patrik Svensson, ‘The Digital Humanities as a Trading Zone’
Patrik Svensson is Director of HUMlab at Umeå University, Sweden, where he is Senior Lecturer in humanities and information technology. He is author and editor of books in English and Swedish including on language education, linguistics and digital technology. Svensson has a long-term interest in the intersections between technology, learning, collaboration, innovation and creativity in the humanities. His recent articles in Digital Humanities Quarterly, ‘Humanities Computing as Digital Humanities’ and ‘The Landscape of Digital Humanities’ survey the international field.

Tuesday 22 March, 11.30am–1.00pm, Hedley Bull Lecture Theatre, ANU. No bookings required.

Contact: paul.arthur@anu.edu.au or kylie.brass@humanities.org.au

‘Expressive archives’ – Bethany Nowviskie

Posted by wragge on December 10, 2010 2 comments

Bethany Nowviskie, ‘Expressive archives’
University of Canberra, 8 December 2010
> Download (54mins, 25mb, mp3)

Dr Bethany Nowviskie

Dr. Bethany Nowviskie describes support for and experimentation in the spatial humanities at the University of Virginia Library’s “Scholars’ Lab.”  This work includes Neatline, a set of Omeka plugins designed to allow scholars to build on archival metadata to produce rich, evocative – and explicitly theoretical – geospatial and temporal visualizations of the content or context of catalogued documents and artifacts.  Neatline therefore provides a framework for fruitful interchange among scholars and the stewards of primary resources, and is offered as a “contribution to interpretive humanities scholarship in the visual vernacular.” Nowviskie frames her discussion in terms of graphesis (or knowledge-making through iterative graphical expression), constraint, and play.

Presented by the Digital Design + Media Arts Research Cluster, Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra

Bethany Nowviskie in Canberra

Posted by wragge on November 28, 2010 2 comments

Dr Bethany Nowviskie

Dr Bethany Nowviskie, Director of Digital Research & Scholarship at the University of Virginia Library and Associate Director of the Scholarly Communication Institute, will be visiting Canberra on 8 December 2010.

Bethany will be in Canberra as part of a whirlwind tour of Australia and New Zealand. She has kindly agreed to give two presentations while she’s here. This is a wonderful opportunity for anyone with an interest in the digital humanities or the issues surrounding digital scholarship in general. Don’t miss out!

Bethany’s visit to Canberra is proudly presented by the Digital Design + Media Arts Research Cluster, Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra.

“Monopolies of Invention:” Collaboration Across Class Lines in the Digital Humanities

11.00am–12.00pm at the Ann Harding Conference Centre, Building 24, University of Canberra
Join us for coffee from 10.30am

Digital humanities communities – on local, national, and international scales – are rightly characterized as welcoming, collaborative, and interdisciplinary.  Nonetheless, they operate within institutional structures that reify distinctions between service and research, staff and faculty. Dr. Bethany Nowviskie of the UVa Library Scholars’ Lab will discuss issues of labor, intellectual property, and the emergence of alternate academic career paths in the context of the digital revolution.

> Event details on Google calendar
> Please RSVP online by 3 December

Expressive Archives

6.00–7.00pm at the Ann Harding Conference Centre, Building 24, University of Canberra
Join us for drinks and nibbles from 5.30pm

Dr. Bethany Nowviskie will describe support for and experimentation in the spatial humanities at the University of Virginia Library’s “Scholars’ Lab.”  This work includes Neatline, a set of Omeka plugins designed to allow scholars to build on archival metadata to produce rich, evocative – and explicitly theoretical – geospatial and temporal visualizations of the content or context of catalogued documents and artifacts.  Neatline therefore provides a framework for fruitful interchange among scholars and the stewards of primary resources, and is offered as a “contribution to interpretive humanities scholarship in the visual vernacular.” Nowviskie will frame her discussion in terms of graphesis (or knowledge-making through iterative graphical expression), constraint, and play.

> Event details on Google Calendar
> Please RSVP online by 3 December

More about Bethany

Dr Bethany Nowviskie is Director of Digital Research & Scholarship at the University of Virginia Library and Associate Director of the Scholarly Communication Institute.

The Scholarly Communication Institute is a Mellon-funded initiative that brings together leaders in higher education, cultural heritage institutions, and academic publishing to explore new possibilities for scholarly communication in the digital age.

Bethany’s work at the University of Virginia Library addresses similar issues, and includes direction of the Scholars’ Lab, which combines the services and resources of UVA’s former Etext, GeoStat, and Research Computing Support Centers. The Scholars’ Lab hosts public programs on the impact of new media and methods on humanities and social science research, and also sponsors a fantastic Graduate Fellowship in Digital Humanities. Bethany additionally manages a “Digital Scholarship R&D” department, providing consultation, programming support, and infrastructure for innovative work in the humanities and social sciences.

Bethany’s own research interests lie in the intersection of algorithmic or procedural method and traditional humanities interpretation. She directs two NEH-funded projects, the Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship and Neatline: Facilitating Geospatial and Temporal Interpretation of Archival Collections.

> Visit Bethany’s website

More about the DD+MA Research Cluster at the University of Canberra

The Digital Design and Media Arts (DD+MA) cluster builds on the University of Canberra’s existing research strengths in digital design and media – defined broadly as the theory, practice and application of digital media and computational techniques in art, design and culture.

DD+MA supports theoretical, critical, applied, and practice-led modes of research, and takes a trans-disciplinary approach to research in this field, combining theory with practice and drawing on fields including design, art practice, cultural and critical theory, and human-computer interaction. Its aims are to develop new understandings of practice in digital design and media, both through analysis and experimentation; and to pursue applications of digital media that enrich public life and culture.

The cluster’s theme for 2010 is Cultural Interfaces – both interfaces to digital culture and interface as culture. Our work in this area includes Hinton and Whitelaw’s commonsExplorer, a dynamic visualisation of the Flickr Commons, and Hinchcliffe’s Twitter Modern Classics, which transforms tweets into vintage paperbacks. In August, DD+MA hosted Australia’s first THATCamp, a humanities and technology unconference.