Digital Humanities

Speaker Series Announcement: Harun Maye

The Dig­i­tal Human­i­ties Ini­tia­tive Presents:

Harun Maye

In Defense of Speed: A Non-Hermeneutical Approach to Fast For­ward Media Techniques

Tues­day, April 23 — 4:30pm, McCormick 106
Recep­tion to Fol­low in McCormick Lobby

Harun Maye, Researcher and Lec­turer in the Inter­na­tionales Kol­leg für Kul­turtech­nikforschung und Medi­en­philoso­phie (IKKM) at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, has joined the Depart­ment of Ger­man as a Vis­it­ing Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sional Spe­cial­ist for the spring of 2013. After grad­u­at­ing in Ger­man Philol­ogy, Phi­los­o­phy and Polit­i­cal Sci­ence, he received his intel­lec­tual train­ing in the DFG-Graduate School on Cod­i­fi­ca­tion of Vio­lence in Medial Trans­for­ma­tions at the Berlin Humboldt-University. Focus­ing on the inter­sec­tion of media and cul­tural com­mu­ni­ca­tion, he was Researcher at the DFG-Collaborative Research Cen­tre Media and Cul­tural Com­mu­ni­ca­tion, jointly orga­nized by the Uni­ver­si­ties of Cologne, Bonn and Aachen. His research and teach­ing focuses on ger­man lit­er­ary his­tory, the his­tory of terms and metaphors, cul­tural tech­nolo­gies and the his­tory of read­ing. He is cur­rently com­plet­ing a book on the his­tory of “skip­ping” and “zap­ping” as modes of read­ing. Recent pub­li­ca­tions are: “Ein­führung in die Kul­tur­wis­senschaft” (München 2011, Coed­i­tor: Lean­der Scholz); “Die Hyäne. Lesarten eines poli­tis­chen Tiers” (Zürich/Berlin 2010, Coed­i­tor: Markus Kra­jew­ski); “Meta­pher Inter­net. Lit­er­arische Bil­dung und Sur­fen” (Berlin 2009, Coau­thor: Matthias Bickenbach).

11. April 2013 by Maryam Patton
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Intellectual History and the Digital Humanities

Dan Edel­stein, Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor in the depart­ment of French and Ital­ian at Stan­ford Uni­ver­sity, gave a talk on April 2nd at noon in Dick­in­son 210. Pro­fes­sor Edel­stein is a prin­ci­pal inves­ti­ga­tor for a project called “Map­ping the Repub­lic of Let­ters,” which received a three-year Pres­i­den­tial Fund for Inno­va­tion in the Human­i­ties grant, and a “Dig­ging into Data” grant from the NEH (read more about the project).

02. April 2013 by Ben Johnston
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Save the Date: Free Beer & Pizza on March 26th

The Prince­ton Dig­i­tal Human­i­ties Ini­tia­tive presents:

The Spring 2013 Grad­u­ate Stu­dent DH Outreach

Tues­day March 26th, 4.30–6.00 pm

Frist Mul­ti­pur­pose Room C (level below the eatery)

Free beer and pizza

- Learn about the dig­i­tal human­i­ties, and what the DHI is doing in Princeton.

- Find out why so many uni­ver­si­ties are hir­ing peo­ple with expe­ri­ence in dig­i­tal humanities.

- Tell the DHI what you are doing and how it can help improve your research.

- Meet schol­ars doing excit­ing work with dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies and human­i­ties research.

Mered­ith Mar­tin (Eng­lish), Rebecca Fiebrink (Com­puter Sci­ence), Henry Cowles (His­tory), Grant Wythoff (Prince­ton, Media and Moder­nity), and Ben Schmidt (Prince­ton, HIs­tory; Vis­it­ing Fel­low at the Har­vard Cul­tural Observatory).

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Ten­ta­tive Schedule:

4:30–4:50
Dig­i­tal Human­i­ties At Large
Dig­i­tal Human­i­ties at Princeton

4:50–5:30
Pan­els: DH in Prac­tice
Rebecca Fiebrink (CS, Mul­ti­me­dia Medieval Man­u­script)
Alli­son Chaney (CS, Topic Mod­els of Wikipedia)
Grant Wythoff and Mered­ith Mar­tin (Eng­lish, Prosody Archive)
Ben Schmidt (His­tory, Cul­tur­omics)
Henry Cowles (His­tory, Ver­sion­ing and William James)

5:30–6:00
Open Q and A
Grad Stu­dent DH needs on cam­pus
What work­shops would you like to see?

6:00
Beer and Pizza!

15. March 2013 by Maryam Patton
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Reminder: DigHum Summer Course Stipend Deadline

A reminder that the dead­line to apply for the Dig­i­tal Human­i­ties Course Devel­op­ment Sum­mer Stipend is fast approach­ing. Pro­pos­als due March 15, 2013.
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Dig­i­tal Human­i­ties Course Devel­op­ment Sum­mer Stipend

The Dig­i­tal Human­i­ties Ini­tia­tive at Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity invites appli­ca­tions for a sum­mer stipend in the amount of $4500.00 ded­i­cated to course devel­op­ment with a clearly defined Dig­i­tal Human­i­ties com­po­nent for the 2013–2014 aca­d­e­mic year, sub­ject to the approval of the depart­ment and the Dean of the Col­lege. Pro­pos­als may be sub­mit­ted by indi­vid­ual fac­ulty mem­bers, by pro­gram direc­tors, or by depart­ment chairs, but all pro­pos­als should come for­ward with the impri­matur and sup­port of the depart­ment or program.

This ini­tia­tive seeks to open new avenues for engage­ment with tech­nol­ogy for teach­ing in Human­i­ties dis­ci­plines. Pro­pos­als should reflect a crit­i­cal engage­ment with the emerg­ing con­cepts and tech­nolo­gies inher­ent in the dig­i­tal human­i­ties. Some of these include the following:

Text Encod­ing
Man­u­script tran­scrip­tion and analysis

Knowl­edge mod­el­ing and data visu­al­iza­tion
Spa­tial analy­sis / GIS
Visu­al­iza­tion of text analysis

Work­ing with cor­pora and cul­tural data sets
Styl­is­tic and author­ship analy­sis
Dis­tant read­ing
Lin­guis­tic analysis

Com­put­ers and Writ­ing
Hyper­text
Crit­i­cal code studies

Com­put­ers and the Arts
Analy­sis of audio or visual arts
Inter­ac­tive exhibits

We encour­age active col­lab­o­ra­tion with OIT and/or the Library dur­ing the sum­mer in the devel­op­ment of the course. Pref­er­ence will be given to courses that are co-taught, col­lab­o­ra­tive, and interdisciplinary.

These funds will be made avail­able to the suc­cess­ful appli­cant at the start of the sum­mer and may not be used for hardware/equipment or for travel.

A one-page pro­posal out­lin­ing the antic­i­pated goals of the course should be sub­mit­ted via e-mail to the Dig­i­tal Human­i­ties Advi­sory Com­mit­tee at dhi@princeton.edu by March 15th, 2013. Pro­pos­als should spec­ify the fac­ulty mem­bers who will be teach­ing the course devel­oped dur­ing the stipend period.

Ques­tions regard­ing the suit­abil­ity of a par­tic­u­lar pro­posal should be directed to Mered­ith Mar­tin, mm4@princeton.edu. Ques­tions about exist­ing IT sup­port and facil­i­ties in sup­port of teach­ing can be directed to Ben John­ston of the Edu­ca­tional Tech­nolo­gies Cen­ter at benj@princeton.edu.

05. March 2013 by Maryam Patton
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First Digital Humanities Mixer

Tues­day, Feb­ru­ary 26 4:30pm in Frist Mul­ti­pur­pose Room A (one floor below the eatery)

Join us for the first of the monthly Dig­i­tal Human­i­ties Mix­ers! Sim­i­lar to the Meet & Greet we held in Octo­ber, the Mix­ers will be an infor­mal oppor­tu­nity to chat and get acquainted with your col­leagues inter­ested in the Dig­i­tal Human­i­ties. All are wel­come, and wine and cheese will be served.

Reg­is­tra­tion is not needed, but fill­ing out the form below helps us approx­i­mate the num­ber of atten­dees. Future dates will be announced shortly.

22. February 2013 by Maryam Patton
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Introducing Digital Humanities

15. February 2013 by Ben Johnston
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Digital Humanities Initiative Featured in Daily Prince

“In a new ini­tia­tive, Uni­ver­sity fac­ulty and staff are work­ing together to encour­age the devel­op­ment of dig­i­tal tools in the study of the human­i­ties. The Dig­i­tal Human­i­ties Ini­tia­tive at Prince­ton is a project to bring together mem­bers of the Uni­ver­sity com­mu­nity who are work­ing to explore how dig­i­tal tools may be used to aid human­is­tic scholars.

The ini­tia­tive was cre­ated to address an orga­ni­za­tional obsta­cle that Eng­lish pro­fes­sor Mered­ith Mar­tin encoun­tered while work­ing on a per­sonal project — the Prince­ton Prosody Archive, a data­base of dig­i­tized records of poetry that pre­serves var­i­ous unique typogra­phies and characters…”

Ini­tia­tive seeks to use dig­i­tal tools in human­i­ties disciplines

08. February 2013 by Maryam Patton
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Speaker Series Announcement: February 5, 2013

08. February 2013 by Ben Johnston
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Starting Points for the Digital Humanities

In response to a “Ses­sion on the Pro­fes­sion” we held in the Depart­ment of Eng­lish ear­lier this month, I’ve received a few requests to cir­cu­late the resources pre­sented.  The fol­low­ing jour­nals, tools, and com­mu­ni­ties pro­vide some good start­ing points for any­one look­ing to exper­i­ment with their research or just learn a lit­tle bit more about cur­rent debates in the field.  While many of these links are geared toward lit­er­ary stud­ies, I’d love to hear from oth­ers about the fun­da­men­tals of dig­i­tal research in his­tory, musi­col­ogy, soci­ol­ogy, etc.  This list is in no way meant to be exhaus­tive — just to pro­vide some points of entry for those look­ing to get started.

For a more thor­ough intro­duc­tion to dig­i­tal human­i­ties, check out Todd Presner’s fan­tas­tic grad­u­ate syl­labus at UCLA.

Jour­nals

• Dig­i­tal Human­i­ties Quarterly
• Jour­nal of Dig­i­tal Humanities
• Lit­er­ary and Lin­guis­tic Computing
• Vec­tors
• Dig­i­tal Human­i­ties Now

Com­mu­ni­ties

• HASTAC (Human­i­ties, Arts, Sci­ence, and Tech­nol­ogy Advanced Collaboratory)
• Dig­i­tal Human­i­ties Ques­tions and Answers from Asso­ci­a­tion for Com­put­ers and the Human­i­ties (ACM)

Data­base Man­age­ment and Web Publishing

• Omeka – Fast, open source web-publishing plat­form for the dis­play of “library, museum, archives, and schol­arly col­lec­tions and exhibitions.”
• Dru­pal – Highly exten­si­ble, use­ful for a vari­ety of pur­poses. Not quite as user friendly as Omeka.
• Word­Press – Use­ful for course blogs and per­sonal sites.
• Scalar — The “free, open source author­ing and pub­lish­ing plat­form that’s designed to make it easy for authors to write long-form, born-digital schol­ar­ship online. Scalar enables users to assem­ble media from mul­ti­ple sources and jux­ta­pose them with their own writ­ing in a vari­ety of ways, with min­i­mal tech­ni­cal exper­tise required.”

Text Min­ing

• Voy­ant — word fre­quen­cies and distributions.
• Cor­pus of His­tor­i­cal / Con­tem­po­rary Amer­i­can English
• The Open Library — “One web page for every book ever pub­lished. It’s a lofty but achiev­able goal.”
• Tapor (text analy­sis por­tal) — clear­ing­house for a large vari­ety of text analy­sis tools
• Juxta — track shifts between mul­ti­ple edi­tions of a text or document
• Google Ngram Viewer — graph the fre­quency of words or phrases across all of Google’s books data

Spa­tial Humanities

• Hyper­ci­ties – tog­gle between lay­ers of his­tor­i­cal maps in 27 cities around the world
• Phi­laPlace – Philadel­phia project
• Euclid Cor­ri­dor His­tory Project – Cleve­land project

16. December 2012 by Grant Wythoff
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Digital Humanities Winter Institute at MITH

The Dig­i­tal Human­i­ties Win­ter Insti­tute at the Mary­land Insti­tute for Tech­nol­ogy in the Human­i­ties (MITH) is an exten­sion of the highly-successful Dig­i­tal Human­i­ties Sum­mer Insti­tute (DHSI) at the Uni­ver­sity of Vic­to­ria. DHWI pro­vides an oppor­tu­nity for schol­ars to learn new skills rel­e­vant to dig­i­tal schol­ar­ship and min­gle with like-minded col­leagues through course­work, social events, and lec­tures dur­ing an inten­sive, week-long event. Mon­day Jan­u­ary 7, 2013– Fri­day, Jan­u­ary 11, 2013

16. May 2012 by Ben Johnston
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