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Spencer D. C. KeralisDirector for Digital Scholarship, Research Associate ProfessorDigital Scholarship Co-OperativeUniversity of North Texas@hauntologistspencer.keralis@unt.edu
Scholarly Communication in the
Digital
Humanities Slide2Slide3
Consider the RadarangeELECTRONICS AGAINBroadcasting, Telecasting (Archive: 1945-1957)31. 16 (Oct 21, 1946): 198Slide4
Consider the RadarangeRADIATION LEAK LAID TO 6 HOSPITAL OVENSSpecial to The New York Times. New York Times (1923-Current file); May 24, 1969; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2009) with Index (1851-1993) pg. 33Slide5
The 1950’sLaura Shapiro. Something From the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America. (New York: Viking, 2004), xviii-xix[After] World War II … the food industry [took] aim at home cooking per se, rapturously envisioning a day when all contact between the cook and the raw makings of dinner would be obsolete.”Slide6
The 2010’sFast forward and switch fields……the Digital Humanities take aim at literary study per se, rapturously envisioning a day when all contact between the
scholar
and the
text
would be obsolete.Slide7
Boom.
The Mark-21 Nuclear
Bomb, 1955Slide8
Show Me the Money“institutional support for digital humanities by administrators, foundations, and legislators can work to conceal or compensate for reduced support given to the traditional humanities, and as such can contribute to the undermining of the liberal arts in higher education.”Richard Grusin
“The Dark Side of the Digital Humanities – Part 2”
http://www.c21uwm.com/2013/01/09/dark-side-of-the-digital-humanities-part-2/Slide9
The Dark Side of DHDigital Humanities is: insufficiently diverse.suffers from “techno-utopianism” and “claims to be the solution for every problem.”
“
a blind and vapid embrace of the
digital”
insists
upon coding and
gamification
to the exclusion of more humanistic practices.
detache
[d] from
the rest of the humanities (regarding itself as not just “the next big thing,” but “the only thing”).
complicit
with the neoliberal transformation of higher education; it “capitulates to bureaucratic and technocratic logic”;
support[
ed
by]
comes
administrators
who see
DH’ers
as successful fundraisers and allies in the “creative destruction” of humanities education.
On ‘The Dark Side of the Digital Humanities
’ January
5, 2013, 11:14
am,
Chronicle of Higher Education
By
William
PannapackerSlide10
The ChallengesMonograph remains the gold standard for Humanities ScholarshipSuspicion of Open AccessPrimacy of Citation Analysis for understanding impactCollaboration Devalued/DiscouragedHow to Support Unfunded ProjectsThe Humanities Payoff?Slide11
Make it work.
http://academictimgunn.tumblr.com/Slide12
InterventionsOutreach for Repository ServicesEvangelize Open Accesse-Journal SupportCitations and ReadershipLarger “Publics” for ScholarshipEvangelize Altmetrics
Networks of Scholarship
Influence and Impact beyond Citation
Collaboration on DH Projects beyond mass digitization & special collectionsSlide13
The Domain of Information Sciences:MetadataControlled Vocabularies
Long-term preservation
Infrastructure
Discoverability
Accessibility
Reuse
Sustainability
Centrality/NeutralitySlide14
Digital Humanatees
http://manateestrategy.tumblr.com/Slide15
UNT’sDigital ScholarshipCo-Operatifve(DiSCo)
http://disco.unt.edu
@
UNTDiSCo
disco@unt.edu