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The Digital Humanities as a Day

Today is the 3rd Annual Day of the Digital Humanities, where DH practitioners describe a typical day in the community. Along with myself, Matt Jockers, Glen Worthey, Ben Albritton and Jon Christensen and Susan Rojo are all representing Stanford.

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The Digital Humanities as the Golden Age of Software

It seems Thursdays are database days in the digital humanities, as along with Ben Schmidt’s excellent look at building performant databases for humanities research, Sean Takats of Zotero has just posted an extremely informative exploration of Zotero’s migration to Amazon … Continue reading

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The Digital Humanities as Topic Network

With the help of MALLET and Gephi, I walked through the process of creating topic networks and dealt a bit with their possible uses.  For my corpus, I focused on papers, chapters, blog posts and collaborative works that grapple with … Continue reading

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DH11 Tweeterpation

#dh11isntverydh is currently trending as my favorite Twitter hashtag.

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Digital Humanities as Bi-Partisan Bogeyman

I find it depressing that so many responding to this article, despite apparently believing that they were the last people to receive real exposure to humanistic knowledge, have such a sour, parsimonious and uncharitable view of the proper character and … Continue reading

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The Digital Humanities as Ecosystem

I had the opportunity to present the DH@Stanford graph to my colleagues, yesterday, during our monthly Digital Humanities roundtable, where along with spirited discussion I met Katja Zelljadt, the incoming director of the Stanford Humanities Center, as well as Jake … Continue reading

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The Digital Humanities as the Upgrade Path

It’s the end of the year, and it’s time to cycle out the old, staid DHS background for a new, hip background image.  Old 2010 was represented by this image: New and improved 2011 (at least the first part of … Continue reading

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Cathy Davidson Nominated to sit on the National Council of the Humanities

In a press release yesterday, the White House announced the nomination of Cathy Davidson as member of the National Council of the Humanities, which advises the NEH Chair.  At Duke, Cathy has long been a proponent of integrating digital methods, … Continue reading

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The Digital Humanities as a Network Map

To facilitate discussion of metrics, definition and suitability, I’ve added a new page focused on visualizing and analyzing the Digital Humanities network at Stanford.  I found at THATCamp and here at Stanford that this can cause agitation and consternation and … Continue reading

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Digital Humanities as XKCD Community Map

Something tells me that Glen Worthey’s desired map of the Digital Humanities would look more like this: While enjoyable and probably not deserving of too critical a gaze, it illustrates the problem of metrics and visualization in dealing with large … Continue reading

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