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The following is excerpted from a talk I gave at Middlebury College on February 24th, 2016 as part of the Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture Series. It’s a literature talk which means major spoiler alerts! The data & code for many of the visualizations below are available here. This is very much a work-in-progress talk, and I welcome feedback, questions, suggestions, and collaborations! Introduction Early last year, the award-winning writer and scholar Robert Macfarlane published an… Digital Readings & “Ferny, Mossy Discoveries”
This post was originally published as part of the Council on Library and Information Resource’s (CLIR) blog Re:Thinking. ⌘+ S. We save almost without thinking about it. With the widespread adoption of word processing software, we’ve become thoroughly conditioned to save as we create. Not so with digital projects. There’s no easy equivalent to the ubiquitous “⌘ + S” that would automagically provide long-term preservation of digital objects and projects. As such, the urgent problems of… The Challenges of Preservation in the Prospects for the Digital Humanities and the Arts
Few would consider the digital humanities an underground movement. And yet, much of what digital humanists do is perceived as inaccessible, buried beneath layers of technical expertise and politics. Riffing on the theme of the 2015 conference, this panel seeks both to “unearth” and to “earth” digital humanities practices in the context of environmental criticism. That is, we aim to bring to the surface existing environmentally-informed approaches to digital scholarship and to ground digital humanities… CFP – Un/Earthing Digital Humanities panel proposed for ASLE, June 23-27, University of Idaho
This post is about my experiences at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) held at the University of Victoria, June 5-10 2013. Last month I attended my first DHSI on UVic’s idyllic campus. In just five days I became proficient in the notoriously difficult ArcGIS; moved my research several, big steps forward; and met some wonderful folks working on amazing projects. The course I was enrolled in, “Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in the Digital… 6 Things to Consider when Building a Dataset from Scratch
