MALS 78100 – The Digital Humanities in Research and Teaching | building CUNY Communities since 2009. Digital.humanities@Oxford Summer School 2012. Thanks to a bursary from the John Fell OUP fund, this summer I had the opportunity to join researchers from across the humanities - and from across the world - at the Digital.humanities@Oxford Summer School. This intensive week-long course held at Merton College, OUCS, and OERC was split into several strands: you could gain a general introduction to digital humanities, focus on digital editing, or learn about linked data.
“Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch. Because we're interested in exploring ways that the DMI project might link up with other, comparable projects, the summer school seemed a great opportunity to find out more about linked data and how our project might make use of the semantic web - a way of constructing and presenting data that makes it machine-readable and enables it to be shared and reused. Digital humanities. The Digital Humanities are an area of research, teaching, and creation concerned with the intersection of computing and the disciplines of the humanities. Developing from the fields of humanities computing, humanistic computing,[2] and digital humanities praxis (dh praxis[3]) digital humanities embrace a variety of topics, from curating online collections to data mining large cultural data sets. Digital humanities (often abbreviated DH) currently incorporate both digitized and born-digital materials and combine the methodologies from traditional humanities disciplines (such as history, philosophy, linguistics, literature, art, archaeology, music, and cultural studies) and social sciences [4] with tools provided by computing (such as data visualisation, information retrieval, data mining, statistics, text mining) and digital publishing.
Objectives[edit] A growing number of researchers in digital humanities are using computational methods for the analysis of large cultural data sets. Digital_humanities_map1.jpg (1920×1200) Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants. The Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program awards relatively small grants to support the planning stages of innovative projects that promise to benefit the humanities. Proposals should be for the planning or initial stages of digital initiatives in any area of the humanities. Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants may involve Program Statistics In its last five competitions the Digital Humanities Start-up Grants program received an average of 151 applications per competition.
The program made an average of 26 awards per competition, for a funding ratio of 17 percent. The number of applications to an NEH grant program can vary widely year to year, as can the funding ratio. Information about the average number of applications and awards in recent competitions is meant only to provide historical context for the current competition. Questions? Contact the NEH Office of Digital Humanities via e‑mail at odh@neh.gov. The DM Project. The DM project is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a Digital Humanities Implementation Grant for 2013-14 by the National Endowment for the Humanities. This grant will fund our current developmental goals (listed below), help continue our work with our partner projects, and launch the Virtual Mappa project with the British Library.
Overview DM is an environment for the study and annotation of images and texts. It is a suite of tools, enabling scholars to gather and organize the evidence necessary to support arguments based in digitized resources. DM enables users to mark fragments of interest in manuscripts, print materials, photographs, etc. and provide commentary on these resources and the relationships among them. A principle objective in this project is to continue to develop our understanding of scholarly work processes in order to effectively support research as it is practiced now, while opening the door for new methods of scholarship to emerge. Use Cases Funding History. Mining a Year of Speech. <<Previous Case Study | Next Case Study>> Jump to: Project Participants | Project Outcomes Two of the inaugural Digging into Data projects were based in the field of computational linguistics, a discipline with well established methodologies honed over decades by theorists and practitioners from multiple academic and corporate research environments.
However, gathering the audio data to support research in this domain has, until recently, been performed more often in laboratory settings than in real life. Audio recordings collected in the laboratory suffer from obvious limitations: the artificiality of the laboratory setting, the framing of data collection around the specific interests of the researcher, and the “observer effect” being just a few. The 10 million-word spoken part of the BNC includes 4.2 million words BNC of everyday speech recorded by volunteers throughout the United Kingdom during the 1990s. Relative size of "Big Science" and "Big Humanities" corpora, by John Coleman.4.
Abstract. Where’s the Beef? Does Digital Humanities Have to Answer Questions? The criticism most frequently leveled at digital humanities is what I like to call the “Where’s the beef?” Question, that is, what questions does digital humanities answer that can’t be answered without it? What humanities arguments does digital humanities make? Concern over the apparent lack of argument in digital humanities comes not only from outside our young discipline.
Many practicing digital humanists are concerned about it as well. Rob Nelson of the University of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab, an accomplished digital humanist, recently ruminated in his THATCamp session proposal, “While there have been some projects that have been developed to present arguments, they are few, and for the most part I sense that they haven’t had a substantial impact among academics, at least in the field of history.” These concerns are justified. But this suggests another, more difficult, more nuanced question: When? There’s a moral to this story. . * For more on Hooke, see J.A. Humanities Scholars Embrace Digital Technology.