What is DH?

Published on Nov 26, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Digital Humanities

What does it mean for Librarians?

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  • What is (are?) Digital Humanities
  • Who am I
  • A few projects
  • Programming (events not code)
  • Lessons

What is DH?

I refuse to answer. 

Who Am I?

Photo by mbell1975

Projects

Curricular

Digital Essays

Materiality and Spectacle in 19th C. U.S.

Troubled Waters

Tutorials

and office hours

Research

The Lone Scholar (plus librarians)
Photo by eschipul

Mapping Microfinance

Ticha

A Digital Text Explorer for Colonial Zapotec

Ticha

From the Collections

Who Killed Sarah Stout?

Cope Evans

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Programs

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Lessons

Haverford College

Liberal Arts

Digital scholarship, with its opportunity for multidisciplinarity, meaningful collaboration, and focus on productive experimentation and exploration can embody what is richest in the liberal arts environment.
http://www.dslac.org/manifesto

Traditional Library?

Curiosity

Technology

Photo by drubuntu

Technology

  • Proofs of concept
  • Lynda.com & Team Treehouse
  • Patience
  • Amazon EC2 (academic ami or bitnami)
  • Programming historian
Photo by David Masters

Collaboration

Project managment is the consistent application of common sense

Project Management

  • Consistently applying common sense is hard 
  • Asana
  • Trello
  • Scholarship is iterative
  • Discovery can't fully be managed

Start Small

And wherever you are

Be Public

And don't wait for perfection

Links

  • ds.haverford.edu
  • /borders14/neatline/fullscreen/writing-seminar-final-amira
  • /spectacle-14/exhibits/show/vantagepoints_1904wfphilippine
  • /delaware-14/neatline/fullscreen/oil
  • /omeka-starter/neatline/fullscreen/neatline-tutorial