This strikes me as one of the more politically regressive parts of their argument and it is foundational. One of the key interventions of DH, broadly defined, is to turn a bright light on the conditions of academic labor and production. Anyone who has written a monograph—even an essay—knows that it was not done by individual scholarship. It is almost always the product of the labor and institutional support of a large number of people. There is a fantasy, a destructive fantasy, of the sole scholar working silently at a desk needing nothing more than a stack of books or papers and time to produce a work of scholarship. In fact, every author depends on a greater or lesser support network that includes librarians and archivists, peers and grad students, editors and (yes) tech support, to give an incomplete list (often the very most important support is given by life partners who labor to free time for the writer). The individually-credited monograph hides all of that labor or pretends that labor was merely incidental and unconnected to the intellectual work that appears in print. The "project-based learning" in DH (as described by the authors below) tend to make that labor visible and, in the best of cases, credited. This phrase encourages me to think that the authors' "progressive politics" is abstract, divorced from material conditions of production and reproduction. People without the ability to mobilize the requisite networks of support labor—parenting scholars, adjuncts, non-professionals—are demonstrably damaged by the fetish for "painstaking individual scholarship." The burden is especially borne heavily by women. It is not what I recognize as progressive, but is rather deeply conservative.

If this was in a peer-reviewed journal, the reviewers would hit this very first sentence with a demand for extensive citation. In the spirit of generosity, I assume the authors have references. But the problem with starting this piece, in this venue, this way is that now everyone who thinks of themselves as having a stake in this DH thing is invited to see themselves as this "advocate" they invoke. In the vast majority of cases, they will not recognize the second half of the sentence as something that they have ever, or would ever, advocate. This may be intended as a polemic that will spark serious conversation, but with the very first words a lot of the audience that would be interested in engaging this piece sees a straw man and a misrepresentation. With that, the essay only reaches those who are inclined to agree with it in the first place. That now makes me wonder, in a less generous spirit, is this an effort to engage in a debate, or is this clickbait?

I'm sure it feels unparalleled to the authors. But this is precisely the kind of claim that even a humanist shouldn't make without providing data. It may be true, but they aren't giving me any reason to not read the phrase in this edited form: "the unparalleled level of material support that it feels like Digital Humanities has received." Without doubt, when a student makes a statement like this in a paper written for my history classes, I lower their grade if they fail to provide evidence. Why should I make an exception for these experienced professionals?

I just view the DH movement as fundamentally different:

...pushing the tech industry toward a more interpretative, suspicious, less technocratic, conservative, managerial, <del>lab-based</del> practice.

Is it?

I'd be more interested in an article that began with observing this possible lacuna in DH and explored ways that DH has or might address questions of "identity and politics."

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Seems like a pretty big difference.

Really? There's not research to be done here? I find that hard to believe. Why not simply ask Don Waters or Brett Bobley?

Et tu?

Lots of dependence on "implications" in this argument. I've never heard a DH scholar even vaguely make a statement like this. In fact, it's converse is probably most often used to signal that such work is necessary beyond whatever project or tool is being showcased.

And why not? The authors present such a narrow and traditional notion of the humanities that work against their claim to be returning politics to literary study.

That was a lot of background/build-up on UVA literary critical history for such a vague association.

Interesting, but I'd like to see a citation here.

Also, not sure it's fair to say that the Common Core was/is favored by the Right.

Okay, maybe I'm just a neoliberal by this definition.

This framework is repeated throughout: because of the success of B, A no longer has value. I don't see how that's true in terms of the structure of English departments/university priorities or digital humanities rhetoric.

So the problem is that someone besides a traditional independent academic researchers is getting paid to do "humanities" work? Expanding the definition of scholarly labor to include such positions seems far more radical, both politically and economically, than anything outlined here.

Got a better idea?

What Amber explained was exactly what I’d feared: through the Apple Music subscription, which I had, Apple now deletes files from its users’ computers. When I signed up for Apple Music, iTunes evaluated my massive collection of Mp3s and WAV files, scanned Apple’s database for what it considered matches, then removed the original files from my internal hard drive. REMOVED them. Deleted.

Collapsing all of the humanities onto literary studies is just one example of the conservative moves this article makes

It’s “The Digital” but it’s not about that, you understand? It’s something special… by being normal, human communication.

Wonder without magic. It’s not special, though it’s kinda special when we make it so.

information management

Videos as well as digitised versions of the poets' manuscripts are available at the Irish Poetry Reading Collection on the UCD Digital Library, at https://digital.ucd.ie/view/ucdlib:38488. See also coverage at the UCD Library Blog, https://ucdlib.wordpress.com/2015/12/02/irish-poetry-reading-archive-launches/.

See the Irish Times coverage of the launch of the Irish Poetry Reading Archive: http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/poetry-for-posterity-the-irish-poetry-reading-archive-launches-1.2450480

Access the collection, Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi) 19th Century Historical Maps, at https://digital.ucd.ie/view/ucdlib:40377

See "View large scale 19th century Irish town and city maps," at RootsIreland.ie 2016-03-09.

See the article by Audrey Drohan covering the Kevin Barry Collection launch and exhibition, at UCD Library Blog.

Dairmaid Ferriter's talk from the launch of the Kevin Barry Colleciton is on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/history-hub/diarmaid-ferriter-kevin-barry-and-his-legacy. .

perlegi

What are the "Six Big Questions" regarding digital literacy and digital citizenship? (See http://azwaldo.com/wordpress/the-interface-layer/ )

Reference to GO::DH

co-creators

While form experience I know they are both erroneous assumptions I can't remember who started it and whether it was based on any research.

anyone has references?

Note to self : Check for background.

an expression that never matched my experiences and still doesn't and therefore has always baffled and annoyed me, but I thought may be it was a cultural thing

https://www.eff.org/document/library-congress-2015-dmca-1201-rules

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/10/lowering-your-standards

Originally intended as upholding the virtues of the humanities in opposition to science and technology, I'd like to co-opt the argument for the humanities within, mainly, technology. We need more humanists in tech!

The chat will lead into a backchannel discussion of a “Disrupting DH” presentation at the 2016 Modern Language Association conference in Austin, TX.

Guidelines for publishing GLAM data (galleries, libraries, archives, museums) on GitHub. It applies to publishing any kind of data anywhere.

• Document the schema of the data.
• Make the usage terms and conditions clear.
• Tell people how to report issues.<br> Or, tell them that they're on their own.
• Tell people whether you accept pull requests (user-contributed edits and additions), and how.
• Tell people how often the data will be updated, even if the answer is "sporadically" or "maybe never".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Knowledge<br> http://openglam.org/faq/

Wonder if something could be done with MIDI. Actually, maybe there are new standards to replace MIDI in those situations (OSC doesn’t sound like it’d fit).

Wow. This is the most interesting statement that I've read in a while. Wish I could pin an annotation...

Really helps me justify my career arc, turning from literary criticism as a career to software "development."

I think like we're working with a very limited (even if acknowledged) definition of commentary/annotation. We're really just talking about expert analysis laid over a text, which is nothing new, though as pointed out below this tradition can achieve a new dynamism in the online environment.

What I think is more interesting about annotation and the digital humanities is the potential for readers themselves to become truly active contributors to the knowledge surrounding the texts--not simply served explanation for their relatively passive comprehension.

Great line. What does this mean for the state of the humanities?...

anew vs recover

Good line.

Good quote re false binary of new and old technologies of interpretation, etc.

A binary worthy of breaking down...

Computer assisted practices never completely divorced from the human.

Demystifying (and conflating) "technology" by applying it to the most humanist of practices.

Nothing against this, but it's not the game I'm in.

Question is, though, can the same tool be used to do both distant reading and close reading?

Emulation and Virtualization as Preservation Strategies, David Rosenthal

Omidyar Network, established in 2004 by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, is funding a company called eCurrency Mint, eCM, for a technology that will allow central banks to issue digital currency called cryptocomplex cash. They have been working with 30 central banks, and two of them are about to announce deployment.

The TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) is a trade deal that was negotiated in secret -- under the constant influence of corporations. Guess who it benefits.

This page lists ways the TPP harms various individuals, in terms of digital rights. (I'm sure there are other drawbacks, to workers, the economy, and the environment.)

Old Continent oldfashioned structures are the best example of that issue, new writters try to innovate in contents and structure but never see digital as a quality guarraty. I think is the commitment with the paper, kind of literary marriage that implies all the traditions and conventions during centuries.

With their incompatible formats and digital locks… Funny Apple’s iBookstore isn’t mentioned.

What is your favorite phrase to describe what this process is (e.t. digital identity, open learning, digital literacy, etc.)?

ECDS: 2016 Digital Scholarship Residency

Hyper and Deep Attention: The Generational Divide in Cognitive Modes

This page and all the links are critical resources for this project.

As a "virtual attendee" or "lurker" or "scoper," it was difficult to follow and frustrating at times, but super helpful and fun too, especially as resources (images, links, quotes) were shared out. Communicating the context of those resources is still a pretty tricky thing to do well.

this is important

So glad we are talking about labor here, and the costs of digital labor. This ties into such a robust body of work by Gina Neff and others. And the connection to education can definitely be distilled into OLPC - see Anita Chan and forthcoming work by Morgan Ames

An artifact of transition?

see Burdens of Proof for a technological history of digital signatures.

So this should happen this year (2015) if it hasn't already

A lot of my research involves digital library/digital repository assessment, and the assessment literature in that area also relies heavily on quantitative measurements of assessment. I'm very interested in seeing the cataloging + social justice bibliography and if it can help my digital library assessment research.

Lankes, R. David. The Atlas of New Librarianship. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2012.

statistics from this ALA special report

Suber, Peter. Open Access. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2013. 47.

Moving Museum Catalogues Online: An Interim Report from the Getty Foundation"The Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative *2012 interim report from the Getty Foundation regarding their activities moving towards digital publishing

• does this deal with issues of fair use, permissions, and copyright?

UCD Sculpture Trail

The creation of campus heritage can help to promote, strengthen, and support community and public engagement. Cognisant that the most successful and sustainable communities contain a wide variety of things to do, see, and enjoy, the University will shortly reveal UCD Sculpture Trail to focus on the rich collection displayed across the Belfield Campus.

These public works of art are an integral part of the urban fabric of University College Dublin, enriching the sense of place and the physical beauty of the natural environment.Varying in style and material, the collection is representative of national and internationally renowned artists including John Burke, Jason Ellis, Thomas Glendon, James Hogan, Kevin O’Dwyer, Bob Quinn and Giorgio Zennaro.

One of the earliest works in the sculpture collection is 'Hibernia with the Bust of Lord Cloncurry' by James Hogan. This marble statue made in Rome is an important work by the Irish born artist dating to the mid 19th century. Other pieces include 'Figurehead' By Jason Ellis as one of the largest free standing stone sculptures in the country and commissioned by UCD in 2007.

The University recognises that the truly inclusive design of it’s amenities should consider creation of places that can be enjoyed by people from all walks of life.

Running along the core of the Campus, UCD Sculpture Trail will link to existing pedestrian routes, and will be a positive addition to the identity of the University as an interesting, attractive, and culturally rich community.

Pruebas sobre los casos de anotación de W3C

Dundalk market day, Co. Louth

The Dundalk Market Square web site offers the following history of the Dundalk market:

In the 17th century, Lord Limerick (later James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Clanbrassil) created the modern town we know today. He was responsible for the construction of streets leading to the town centre; his ideas came from many visits to Europe. In addition to the demolition of the old walls and castles, he had new roads laid out eastwards of the principal streets. The most important of these new roads connected a newly laid down Market Square, which still survives, with a linen and cambric factory at its eastern end, adjacent to what was once an army cavalry and artillery barracks (now Aiken Military Barracks).

In the 19th century, the town grew in importance and many industries were set up in the local area. This development was helped considerably by the opening of railways, the expansion of the docks area or 'Quay' and the setting up of a board of commissioners to run the town.

The present photograph was captured by the Coimisiún Béaloideasa Éireann (CBÉ) / Irish Folklore Commission (1935).

Interacting with digital resources.

Might this not be a kind of test of "digital citizenship": the ability to negotiate the barriers posed by such unintentional, perhaps even illusionary, cliques and groups in order to substantially participate in these open spaces?

Need source for that.

Web annotation engages students where they already are: on the Internet. And gives them a powerful tool for being thoughtful, engaged citizens therein.

I really like the argument of this article. But I have some issues with the analogy between the online world and what are mostly public physical spaces.

Unlike, rives and sidewalks, online space has little to no regulation, whether from the government or NGOs.

Also, most of our public interactions online take place in private spaces, that is, places owned and operated by private corporations.

Or the Net itself...

Yeah, if the memory is maintained. I can't even keep my iTunes library from disintegrating. If your hard drive crashes, you lose it all, unless it's backed up, in which case you're creating copies that too will differ and degrade.

Fabulous tool and practice. Good for discussion in the DHSI Digital Indigeneity course in June. Reminds me of early work First Nations groups did with Google Maps in support of Treaty Land Entitlement claims.

Must look this up.

Selected images from the Desmond FitzGerald Photographs collection in UCD Archives were used to illustrate Conor Mulvagh's video presentation, "The Destruction of Dublin, 1916," issued as part of the UCD Decade of Centenaries web site; it is also available on youtube.

The Fr. Francis A. Gleeson Papers digital collection was officially launched on Monday April 27 by the Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin at a reception in Holy Cross Diocesan Centre, in Clonliffe. The event was attended by members of Fr Gleeson’s family as well as the British and French Ambassadors to Ireland and Archbishop Michael Jackson.

For press commentaries on this collection see:

1. Decade of Centenaries http://www.decadeofcentenaries.com/27-april-2015-fr-gleeson-digital-archive-launch/
2. HistoryHub.ie http://historyhub.ie/fr-francis-gleeson-papers
3. The Irish Times http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/war-diaries-of-fr-francis-gleeson-go-online-1.2191271
4. The Irish Examiner http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/features/fr-francis-gleeson--the-irish-saint-of-the-trenches-283785.html
5. theJournal.ie http://www.thejournal.ie/diary-priest-world-war-one-2073121-May2015/
6. Dublin News http://www.dublinnews.com/index.php/sid/232377229
7. The Irish Catholic http://www.irishcatholic.ie/article/dublin-diocese-putting-wwi-chaplain%E2%80%99s-diary-online

What efforts have been made to help students better interact with digital content?

Another useful (and cool) definition

Always like seeing acknowledgement that scholarly primitives haven't changed, just our means for doing them. Stephen Ramsay's Reading Machines is a good, quick read about this in terms of digital humanities algorithmic criticism.

The ability to fluently read/react with a text at a given level of address be treated as a literacy.

Definition for manifestations of the text. Maybe useful in discussing interface as the encountered work?

Might be useful in thinking about what an “edition” is—must it include all items most editions currently include, or are those conventions or manifestations of values, and not necessary values themselves?

I like this idea of defining a level of text and than comparing across texts—would like to see more of this at the level of code and interface design and tool design decisions (e.g. how do different digital archives deal with making sure visitors see more than the alphabetically or chronologically first few items in the collection? how do different DH sites allow people to comment? what is the difference among moderation or voting systems?).

I think this is my favorite definition of “text” (as humanities scholars use the term) that I’ve encountered.

This is a great example of the type of critical thinking involved in scholarly digital building—often such projects include hard thinking about the exact nature of scholarly objects. Patrick Murray-John has a fantastic article that further discusses “where the theory is” when scholars design and build (Theory, Digital Humanities, and Noticing). The penultimate paragraph in particular lists some of the critical questions that arise out of designing for an “item” in a digital archives platform.

And even if we don’t yet have a way to run and experiment and/or gather results, we can use “speculative experiments” to learn about digital objects (such as a digital edition) by imagining and designing for a hypothetical and/or future circumstance.

Es wäre an dieser Stelle zu klären, wie sich die Idee der looped research zum Gedanken einer 'looped scholarship' (vgl. Über Digital Humanities, Human Computing und Looped Scholarship. Eine Notiz./ LIBREAS.Tumblr) verhält.

Eine Zusammenfassung zu diesem Aufsatz unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Verhältnisses der Wissenspraxis Bricolage zu den Digital Humanities gibt es auch im Redaktions-Tumblr von LIBREAS.

Claudia Müller-Birn unterscheidet drei Annotationsebenen:

• concept level
• identification level
• external knowledge level

mit zunehmender Vernetzungskomplexität.

Other articles on fanfiction and publishing by Anna von Veh

von Veh, Anna. 12 June 2012. What Can Trade Publishers Learn from Fanfiction?. Publishing Perspectives. von Veh, Anna. 12 October 2012. Why Fanfics are Like Startups. Publishing Perspectives. von Veh, Anna. 25 June 2013. Kindle Worlds: Bringing Fanfiction Into Line But Not Online?.

Interviews

Lenz, Daniel. 31 May 2013. Anna von Veh über Perspektiven der „Kindle Worlds“. buchreport. Molinari, E, Draghi E. 11 February 2014. Anna von Veh: «Ecco perchè le fanfiction sono il prossimo business model per l'editoria»Giornale della Libreria. Frossard, Flavia. 29 January 2014. Digital Publishing Market and FanFiction – An Interview with Anna Von Veh. Widbook blog. Webb, Jen. 3 October 2011. The agile upside of XML. Interview with Anna von Veh and Mike McNamara. O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing.

Articles and posts on tech/art in publishing

von Veh, Anna. 10 May 2012. Let’s Improvise! Jazz as a Metaphor for Publishing Progress. Publishing Perspectives. von Veh, Anna. Musings on Digital: a collection of blog posts

http://www.one-tab.com/page/Nx--r0sKQNir8QoKxnU-0g

https://www.google.com/search?q=mla+2011+ramsay+defining+digital+humanities&oq=mla+2011+ramsay+defining+digital+humanities&aqs=chrome..69i57.13899j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=106&ie=UTF-8 http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates http://stephenramsay.us/text/2011/01/08/whos-in-and-whos-out/ http://www.briancroxall.net/buildingDH/ http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/blog/lines-sand-or-growing-pains-stephen-ramsay-and-digital-humanities-2011-mla http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-1/introduction-theory-and-the-virtues-of-digital-humanities-by-natalia-cecire/ http://sites.library.northwestern.edu/dh/ https://www.google.com/search?q=stephen+ramsay+humanities&oq=stephen+ramsay+humanities&aqs=chrome..69i57j0.4522j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=106&ie=UTF-8 http://cdrh.unl.edu/about/faculty/ramsay.php https://twitter.com/CDRH_UNL http://www.amazon.com/Reading-Machines-Algorithmic-Criticism-Humanities/dp/0252078209 http://www.unl.edu/english/faculty/profs/sramsay.html http://stephenramsay.us/ http://stephenramsay.us/2013/09/25/dh-job/ http://stephenramsay.us/2013/09/12/why_im_in_it/

Digital Humanities can look at authors and publishers and the relationships they have with one another.

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