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In the fall of 2016, Carrie Robbins, the Curator at Bryn Mawr College, approached me about finding better ways to showcase student curated exhibitions of our over 50,000 artifacts and art objects. Students curate several exhibitions each year in temporary and borrowed spaces, but the labor that goes into these exhibitions often disappears with the objects when they’re returned to storage. Carrie wanted to find better ways to document and promote the work the students were… Introducing the Scalar Exhibition Template
This piece was originally published in EDUCAUSE review vol. 50, no. 6 (November/December 2015) Read e-content | PDF In 2011, the New York Public Library (NYPL) released 9,000 digitized restaurant menus with “delicious data” that had been “frozen as pixels,” making the menus difficult to search, index, and discover online. Along with the menus, the NYPL launched an interface that asked the public to help transcribe the thousands of menus and the hundreds of thousands… Crowdsourcing and Community Engagement
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
