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The ever thoughtful Miriam Posner suggests a different way of conceiving of the infrastructure for digital humanities:
We’ve seen digital humanities in terms of “projects” since Roberto Busa indexed Thomas Aquinas. But lately it seems to me that the imperative to continuously produce something is getting in the way of how people actually think and […]
Bethany Nowviskie responds to OCLC Research’s report, “Does every research library need a digital humanities center?” with the aptly sharp retort, “The answer, of course, is of course not.” She continues:
[T]he chief value of the report is in its clear reinforcement of the notion that a one-size-fits-all approach to digital scholarship support never fits […]
This essay is intended to prepare research library directors and other decision-makers to respond to questions from deans or provosts who may ask what the library is doing about the digital humanities. It discusses specific concerns of digital humanists and ties these to decisions that might be made by directors, in hopes of bridging the […]
“how does a degree in the humanities prepare students for digital jobs in ways that learning only technical skills does not?”
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Alan Liu presents: “The Meaning of the Digital Humanities” | HASTAC.
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“With shallower administrative hierarchies and less institutional inertia, liberal-arts colleges can innovate relatively rapidly and at lower cost. They usually have more collegiality across disciplines and divisions, and between faculty and staff members. It’s easier to build coalitions and to organize project teams at small colleges.”
People new to text mining are often disillusioned when they figure out how it’s actually done — which is still, in large part, by counting words. They’re willing to believe that computers have developed some clever strategy for finding patterns in language — but think “surely it’s something better than that?“
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