Notes from a talk I gave at 'Digital Literacies: Building Learning Communities in the Humanities', HEA event at Liverpool John Moores, 2 April 2014.
Notes: https://gist.github.com/drjwbaker/9889496
A Critique of the Proposed National Education Policy Reform
Outreach and learning communities at British Library Digital Research: what we’ve done and what we can do for you and your students
1. Outreach and learning
communities at British
Library Digital Research
…what we‘ve done and what we can
do for you and your students
Dr James Baker
Curator, Digital Research
@j_w_baker
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More than resource discovery
―The emergence of the new digital
humanities isn‘t an isolated
academic phenomenon. The
institutional and disciplinary
changes are part of a larger
cultural shift, inside and
outside the academy, a rapid
cycle of emergence and
convergence in
technology and culture‖
Steven E Jones, Emergence of the
Digital Humanities (2013)
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‗Literary scholars and historians have in the past been limited in their
analyses of print culture by the constraints of physical archives and human
capacity. A lone scholar cannot read, much less
make sense of, millions of newspaper pages. With
the aid of computational linguistics tools and digitized corpora, however, we
are working toward a large-scale, systemic understanding of how texts
were valued and transmitted during this period‘
David A. Smith, Ryan Cordell, and Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, ‗Infectious
Texts: Modeling Text Reuse in Nineteenth-Century Newspapers‘ (2013)
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dasmith/infect-bighum-2013.pdf
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―Library based skunkworks - or
semi-independent, research-oriented
software prototyping and makerspace
labs—are an uncommon, yet
uncommonly potent, response to
opportunities that open up when we pay
increased organizational attention to
digital tools, methods, and
cultures across the humanities
[…] We might therefore consider a
digital humanities skunkworks operation
not only as a site for research
innovation, but as an organizational
experiment in breaking away
from shop-worn service
relationships.‖
Bethany Nowviskie, ‗Skunks in the Library: A Path
to Production for Scholarly R&D‘, Journal of Library
Administration 53:1 (2013), 53-59.