Digital_Humanities
Digital Humanities
Burdick centers her book on what is digital humanities? Digital humanities is a vague term. As an emerging field, Burdick takes on the challenge in uncovering a more specific definition of what it is. But she also mentions how people use this field through projects. She has a section at the end of the book where she provides various examples of the structure and methodology digital humanities project takes on. Her goal is to give more insight on how this field works within academia and outside as well. It is the duty of the humanists to make something out of this emerging field and sustain its existence. Without taking the time to know what this field consists and contains, then the field will lose its meaning and purpose.
Burdick, Anne
MIT Press
Ortiz, Samuel
Book
ISBN: 0262018470, 9780262018470
The Canadian Disease: The Ethics of Library, Archives, and Museum Convergence
Curation
The convergence of libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs) into monolithic organizations has been framed as a retreat from isolated, hierarchical institutions that are increasingly irrelevant in a networked age. The emerging prevalence of digital technology and mass digitization are also identified as primary motivators behind convergence. However, much of the literature on convergence is couched in business terminology that favors top-down management approaches and works to create nondemocratic structures with more power in fewer hands, with many of the pro-convergence arguments having little to no evidential support. This paper looks at LAM convergence from the perspective of working librarians, archivists, curators, and related staff and offers a reevaluation and critique of convergence practices in Canada and abroad.
Cannon, Braden
McFarland & Company
2013-09-01
Vieira, Lisa
Journal Article
TEI: Text Encoding Initiative.
Digital humanities
The Text Encoding Initiative website gives straightforward instruction and detailed documentation on TEI, a subset of the XML markup language. The site provides a downloadable version of the TEI P5 Guidelines that gives a comprehensive overview of how to use markup language to encode primary sources within archives to make them accessible on the Web. The website also contains customized variations of TEI markups based on the needs of various disciplines that can be downloaded or adapted for particular projects. By adopting this standard language, users can harness the power of search engines by encoding “machine-readable texts.”
The website also includes training resources, examples of how other institutions have implemented projects, and a wide variety of technical documentation. The TEI website is a valuable resource for learning and understanding the basics as well as the advanced application of text encoding and the broader XML language. Any digital practitioner developing their skill should make this one of their first studies.
TEI Consortium
Text Encoding Initiative
2015
Robert Clarke
Website
Digital Archive Technology
Archives
Digital Archive converts paper, microfiche and film to a digital format. We use state of the art hardware and software in our document scanning process.
Antoine, Anshare
DigitalArchiveTechnology.com/
2009
Dejesus, Angela M.
© 2009 Digital Archive Technology, all rights reserved
Website
Thousands of Images, Now What: Painlessly Organize, Save, and Back Up Your Digital Photos
Personal archives
Tackle the challenges of digital photo file management!
If you find yourself with more digital photos than you know what to do with or at a loss as to how to begin organizing them all, then Digital Asset Management (DAM) is your solution. This incredibly helpful book answers such common questions as: how should I manage the sheer volume of images? How can I make sure my pictures are safely backed-up? How can I efficiently categorize my images so that I can quickly find the one I'm seeking?
Professional photographer and author Mike Hagen shows you how to organize, save, and back-up your digital photos by creating a filing and back-up system that are both efficient and effective. He walks you through the steps necessary to successfully maintain an orderly archiving system so that you can quickly store, save, and retrieve your images.
Digital Asset Management (DAM) helps you organize, save, and back-up your digital photos
Explains how to efficiently and effectively create an intuitive filing system that is right for you
Answers frequently asked questions regarding storing, saving, and retrieving images
Encourages you to create a successful digital photo archive that, once created, will be easy to maintain and use
Say "so long" to your days of being a digital photo pack rat when you put this easy-to-understand, helpful book to use!
Hagen, Mike
John Wiley & Sons Inc.
2012
Tripson, Charlotte
Copyright © 2000-2015 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. or related companies. All rights reserved.
Book
ISBN-13: 978-0470582084
ISBN-10: 0470582081
Hacking the Academy: New Approaches to Scholarship and Teaching from Digital Humanities
Digital humanities
Higher-Education gets a make-over.
Cohen, Daniel J. and Dr. Joseph Thomas Scheinfeldt PhD
University of Michigan Press
May 13, 2013
Webb, Kimberly
©2012, Regents of the University of Michigan.
Book.
ISBN-13: 978-0472051984
Dossier: Materiality and the Archive
Archives
Kit Hughes and Heather Heckman solicited several film and media archivists to describe critical challenges facing both media scholars and preservationists of analog and digital media. Each essay in this journal addresses the technical necessity for digitizing analog media and illuminate scholarly areas of study that investigate the cultural and aesthetic differences between the digital and the analog. In addition to discussing the technical aspects of migrating analog to digital, the archivists suggest economic factors need to be balanced against the ethics and aesthetics of preserving celluloid and tape. Preservation of media requires the collaborative input and expertise of technicians, historians and scholars, scientists and archivists. As each essay proposes, media scholars need a greater understanding of the technical challenges and costs of preserving analog media, while archivists must balance the need for long-term preservation and access against the potential loss of “affect” and “presence” when digitizing analog media. In the concluding essay, the author proposes using the traditions of art restoration and curation as models for digital media archives.
Hughes, Kit
Heckman, Heather
Velvet Light Trap
2012
Polk, Victoria
2012 University of Texas Press
Journal Article
Digitizing Collections: Strategic Issues for the Information Manager
Curation
This book presents information managers with all the strategic and practical issues to consider when making the decision to digitize their collections. It runs through the digitization process step by step, outlines the different techniques available to deal with a wide range of library resources, and explores the opportunities offered by a collaborative approach to digitization. Fully case-and evidence-based, the text is supported by examples of digitization projects carried out in various types of libraries around the world, and by an extensive list of sources of further information. This key international text offers information managers the benefit of a fully strategic approach to digitization and substantial experience drawn for leading digitization projects. It is also essential reading for managers in heritage institutions such as museums, galleries and local archives, and for students of information science.
Hughes, Lorna M.
Facet Publishing
2004
Polk, Victoria
© CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals 2009-2015
Book
9781856044660
Acquiring Copyright Permission to Digitize and Provide Open Access to Books
Copyright
Scholarly communications librarian Denise Troll Covey elaborates the difficulties and challenges of digitizing and providing access to books. Reporting on three separate studies sponsored wholly or in part by the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, Covey cites the labor and time intensive work behind securing publisher and author permissions for not merely digitizing, but also providing access to previously printed works. Despite the open access initiatives by scholars and international consortium, such as the Budapest Open Access Initiative in 2002,she reports fewer than half of the targeted collections become available to the public. While continuing to encourage and promote efforts to secure copyright permissions for digitizing and publishing books, Covey acknowledges current U.S. copyright laws must be changed and advocates lobbying legislative officials to develop both laws and technologies that do not impinge upon the public's right to know. Notwithstanding recent measures to curtail "copyright misuse" (overly restrictive practices by copyright holders), Covey notes that legal protection for creative expression and doctrines such as Fair Use and library copying privileges have weakened in response to aggressive publisher and author tactics to secure and restrict access to digitized books.
One solution for scholarly institutions countering restricted access has been to create institutional repositories. Although these measures facilitate research and scholarly exchange, they do not meet the larger public's rights to information and creative expression. As each of the Carnegie Mellon studies reveal, the status of copyright permission for digitizing individual books is often unknown or unattainable, erring on the conservative side and therefore, rendering such books unavailable. Covey provides sources for locating copyright status and suggests diplomatic means for requesting and securing rights to digitize and make available previously printed books.
Covey, Denise Troll
Council on Library and Information Resources
2005
Polk, Victoria
©2014 Council on Library and Information Resources. All rights reserved.
E-Book
ISBN 1-932326-22-7
ISBN 978-1-932326-22-2
Acts of Translation: Digital Humanities and the Archive Interface
Web archiving
Elish and Trettien argue the interface of digital collections transfers meaning through its design and acts as a metonym for the sponsoring web site. They scrutinize the visual interface and usability of three web sites housing large digitized collections and focus on the ideologies associated with the representation and mission of each site. By applying what they refer to as “visual epistemology,” Elish and Trettien identify the tools and visual markers that facilitate access to and navigation through three digital archives: NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-century Electronic Scholarship), “Objects of History” (George Mason University), and SFMOMA Art Scope (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art). Both presentation of the items and navigation through the site work in tandem to produce meaning, with the preferred result being a minimizing of the interface and a maximizing of the content. In this article, the authors underscore the “expressive potential of digital form” and offer a method for designing and critiquing digital archives.
Elish, Madeleine Claire
Trettien, Whitney
MIT 6 Conference
April 2009
Polk, Victoria
Document
http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit6/papers/Elish.pdf