Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities

Dziś na całym świecie bibliotekarze, programiści, specjaliści informacji, pracownicy naukowi brali udział w projekcie Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities. Ideą tej internetowej inicjatywy jest zebranie doświadczeń osób zajmujących się humanistyką w kontekście nowych technologii oraz promocja tej stosunkowo nowej przecież dyscypliny.

Jakie są poszczególne etapy realizacji projektu?

1. Gathering Participation. Gathering the community. Through invitations and an open call the Day of DH project will gather a community of participants. This community will, through discussion, identify the configuration of technology we want to use and the guidelines for the project.

2. The Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities. On March 18th, 2009 all the participants will use a digital camera to take photographs of their activities. They will upload the images, add a description, and tag them.

3. Communal Editing. After March 18th everyone will be asked to look at the contributions of others and comment on them. This will give us a chance to edit a coherent site and to develop interfaces to the materials.

4. Open Research Sharing. The digital humanities community will then be invited to study the record of the Day, whether as a data source for academic analysis of various kinds, or as a resource for those interested in knowing what it means to self-identify as a digital humanist.

Lista uczestników inicjatywy dostępna jest na wiki. Bezpośredni kanał RSS z informacjami o wpisach opublikowanych w ramach akcjii znajduje się pod tym adresem.

W ramach akcji uczestnicy opublikowali także wypracowane przez siebie definicje digital humanities:

• Digital Humanities is any attempt to incorporate digital understandings or culture into scholarship, pedagogy and service. (Katherine D. Harris, San Jose State University)
• Digital humanities attempts to bring humanistic inquiry and the artifacts of human experience into useful dialogue with digital technology. (Stephen Ramsay, University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
• Humanist Computing is the application of computational methods and associated tools to address specific humanities research problems. (Craig Bellamy, King’s College London)
• Digital Humanities: the creation and preservation of extensible digital archives to document, and tools to interact with, material culture (Robert Whalen, Northern Michigan University)
• I broadly define Humanities Computing/Digital Humanities as a field in which scholars within the humanities use or study computers or a digital environment (e.g. the WWW, video games, etc.) in their research. (Susan Hesemeier, University of Toronto)
• Digital Humanities, from my perspective as an educator, has to do with helping students use the skills they have (and are learning) as writers and critical thinkers to compose and critique multi-media works in both academia and their daily lives. (Amanda Cash, College of Lake County)

Organizatorem inicjatywy są pracownicy University of Alberta.

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Tagi: digital humanities, wiki

Kategorie: Internet