This document summarizes discussions from several presentations at the DH2016 conference on defining digital humanities. It notes that digital humanities projects require interdisciplinary collaboration across competencies like history, public history, and technology skills. Effective projects are organized like Renaissance workshops, with students and scholars exchanging skills under a shared vision. The document argues for a unified, systemic vision of digital humanities that sees relationships between fields rather than rigid boundaries, reflecting how digital tools have changed research practices. This "unifying vision" represents an opportunity for digital humanities to define its social purpose.
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(21 October, 4 and 9 November 2016)
A Block-Seminar of the Department of History and Civilization organized together with the EUI Library and the Historical Archives of the European Union
Conveners: Prof. Alexander Etkind and Dr. Serge Noiret
The Social Digitization Workshop of the Silesian Digital Library at the Siles...Śląska Biblioteka Cyfrowa
Presentation given at the third European Congress on E-Inclusion ‘Transforming Access to Digital Europe in Public Libraries’ (ECEI11), European Parliament, Brussels
Digital History: Methods and Perspectives
(21 October, 4 and 9 November 2016)
A Block-Seminar of the Department of History and Civilization organized together with the EUI Library and the Historical Archives of the European Union
Conveners: Prof. Alexander Etkind and Dr. Serge Noiret
The Social Digitization Workshop of the Silesian Digital Library at the Siles...Śląska Biblioteka Cyfrowa
Presentation given at the third European Congress on E-Inclusion ‘Transforming Access to Digital Europe in Public Libraries’ (ECEI11), European Parliament, Brussels
The Agora project is a collaboration between the History and Computer Science departments at the VU University Amsterdam, the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and the Dutch national audiovisual archive Beeld en Geluid. The aim of Agora is to develop a social platform in which museum objects can be placed into an explicit (art)historic context. Through the (art)historic context, objects from highly diverse museum collections can be related, resulting in a more complete and illustrated description of historical events. End-users will also be allowed to create their own personal narratives which will lead to theoretical reflection on the meaning of digitally mediated public history in contemporary society.
Check out our website http://agora.cs.vu.nl/ and our twitter feed @agora_project
Présentation par Anne Réach-Ngô du projet EVEille (Exploration et Valorisation Electroniques de corpus en SHS) porté par Anne Réach-Ngô, Marine Parra et Régine Battiston.
The World of Digital Humanities : Digital Humanities in the WorldEdward Vanhoutte
Keynote lecture on the Cross Country/Faculty Workshop on Digital Humanities: Prospects and Proposals, North-West University Potchefstroomkampus, South-Africa, 13 November 2013
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The Agora project is a collaboration between the History and Computer Science departments at the VU University Amsterdam, the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and the Dutch national audiovisual archive Beeld en Geluid. The aim of Agora is to develop a social platform in which museum objects can be placed into an explicit (art)historic context. Through the (art)historic context, objects from highly diverse museum collections can be related, resulting in a more complete and illustrated description of historical events. End-users will also be allowed to create their own personal narratives which will lead to theoretical reflection on the meaning of digitally mediated public history in contemporary society.
Check out our website http://agora.cs.vu.nl/ and our twitter feed @agora_project
Présentation par Anne Réach-Ngô du projet EVEille (Exploration et Valorisation Electroniques de corpus en SHS) porté par Anne Réach-Ngô, Marine Parra et Régine Battiston.
The World of Digital Humanities : Digital Humanities in the WorldEdward Vanhoutte
Keynote lecture on the Cross Country/Faculty Workshop on Digital Humanities: Prospects and Proposals, North-West University Potchefstroomkampus, South-Africa, 13 November 2013
The network reconfigures the library: people and places, collections and serv...lisld
Libraries used to be vertically integrated around their collections. Buildings housed them; expertise was devoted to arranging and interpreting them; and services managed them and made them available. In a network environment place, expertise, collections and services come apart in various ways. They influence one another but have their own trajectory in relation to diversifying user behaviors and expections.
The MA in Digital Humanities at King's College London looks at how we create and disseminate knowledge in an age where so much of what we do is mobile, networked and mediated by digital culture and technology
It gives a critical perspective on digital theory and practice in studying human culture, from the perspectives of academic scholarship, cultural heritage and the commercial world
We study the history and current state of the digital humanities, and their role in modelling, curating, analysing and interpreting digital representations of human culture in all its forms.
For more information: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/study/pgt/madh/index.aspx
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Digicraft and 'Systemic' Thinking in Digital Humanities
1. 13 - 7 - 2016 Krakow
Digicraft and 'Systemic'Thinking
in Digital Humanities
Enrica Salvatori - LabCD - Università di Pisa (DH2016)
2. ManfredThaller
2014 - Bologna
Are the Humanities an endangered or
dominant species in the digital ecosystem?
Yes if
1. conceive of themselves as researchers
and not as conversationalists
2. strive for a vision
3. change the epistemology of the
Humanities
4. drive technology and not be driven by it
3. Serge Noiret
2015 - International
Federation of Public
History (IFPH)
Definition of Digital History, Public History,
Digital Public History
✤ Digital History and Digital Public History
are areas of research and not merely new
forms of communication of old
disciplines (Thaller’s point 1)
✤ He answered to Thaller’s items 2 and 3
by proposing a more accurate taxonomy
of DH.
✤ The answer is a more strict definition of
what we are and we do
4. Do we really need to tell
what’s DH are?
✤ Each taxonomy of knowledge unavoidably builds
walls and fences that encase the knowledge itself in a
series of sterile boxes
✤ It’s better to focus our attention on what could be our
own vision and on defining DH in terms of the
emerging changes of method in our daily research
and work
5. What: a partly driven and partly spontaneous reading of the
epigraphic messages left over time in a city
Competences: history, public history, epigraphy, paleography,
writing, dramatize, processing images, audio and video, web design
Who: scholars, DH graduated, MA DH students, BA DH students
Focus: Digital Public History
6. ✤ What: a complex project aimed to enhance the cultural
heritage of an Italian rural valley through the active
participation of residents. Invented archives of video
interviews and pictures; webGIS of cultural heritage,
traditional study
7. ✤ Focus: Digital Public History
✤ Competences: history & archaeology, public history & archaeology,
digital libraries, education, writing, dramatize, GIS, digital images
and videos, collaborative tools, web design, management
✤ Who: scholars, PhD, DH graduated, BA DH students, MA DH
students, HS students
8. ✤ What: a research & education project about
collaborative learning in Canadian and Senegal classic
humanities classes to transcribe and to read Roman
lead tags, using a Digital Autoptic Process (DAP) in a
Web environment
9. TSS
✤ Focus: Digital Epigraphy
✤ Competences: history, education, e-learning,
epigraphy, paleography, writing, digital images and
video, collaborative tools
✤ Who: Phd, DH graduated, MA DH students
✤ in DH2016, A15 Scholarly editions 5, Thursday 14:30 -
MADB
10. ✤ What: critical digital
edition of a medieval
manuscript (XIII
century) that invites
readers to actively
participate
✤ Focus: Digital Philology
✤ Competences: history & public history, text encoding, philology,
paleography, codicology, writing, digital images, collaborative tools,
web design, management
✤ Who: scholars, DH graduated, MA DH students, BA DH students
11. What have they in common?
✤ they are digital
✤ they embrace necessarily more subjects and
disciplines
✤ they are open
✤ they were built in a sort of “new Renaissance
workshop” i.e. a digital craft (DIGICRAFT).
4.
12. They are digital
This may seem trivial but it is not
✤ these are projects “born digital”
✤ they could not exist outside the incredible interaction between real
and digital world that it is now our life
13. Interdisciplinarity is compulsory
✤ DH is an unavoidably and profoundly interdisciplinary field
✤ each project is a complex set of activities and skills that crosses, by its
true nature, several fields, each one with is “new” methodology
✤ this change of practice and approach implies a sort of
methodological revolution, because it requires an organization of
work similar to a Renaissance workshop (a DIGICRAFT) with an
articulated division of labor in relation to several levels of skills
✤ education and training could be provided by the same learners
coordinated by a strong and mature central idea
14. Openess
✤ A multidisciplinary team has to use
different tools and sustainability requires
using open source tools
✤ A DH project means sharing data not only
among researches but also thinking how to
share the content with the general public
✤ Openness is then a natural result, even it is
also an ethical, political and philosophical
choice as the Digital Manifesto 2.0 says:
✤ “the digital is the realm of the open, open
source, open resources"
15. The RenaissanceWorkshop
In a Renaissance workshop different
objects were produced: statues, paintings,
goldsmith etc. Each handwork was a
“project” that asked:
✤ a strong artistic and cultural vision
(message, style, function, purpose, style)
✤ a complex set of different techniques
mastered by different workers with different skills
✤ the owner (or the head-artist) had not to be an expert in each technique, but his
employees could in many ways be more skilled then him, all members of the
workshop could learn from each others.
✤ The owner had to keep the team together with a clear idea of the work itself
16. DIGICRAFT, a new renaissance lab
✤ each project is taken over as an interdisciplinary complex object that requires specific
skills, different but related competences
✤ students of the Bachelor and Master's degree in DH work as interns or undergraduates
✤ whe work is mastered by one “manager” (a Digital Humanist) but followed by experts
(graduated, PhDs), who assign specific tasks ensuring an active connection among
everyone in the team (collaborative tools)
✤ it often happens that some student acquire, in a particular technique, a greater skill:
he/she becomes able to propose substantial changes in the work chain and also to
teach
✤ The manager is not required to know everything in depth. He/she must be able:
*) to see always clearly the aim and the nature of the work
*) to communicate effectively with everyone in the team
17. TraMonti DIGICRAFT
Manager
Web Site
History
Video interviews Archaeology
Server
Administration
Digital Public Historian
DH MA graduated
Web GIS
Scholars
PhD
Scholars
Humanities Students
Univ. staff
town Hall staff
PdH
MA graduated
MA students
MA students
HS students
18. Codice Pelavicino DIGICRAFT
Manager
Web Site
History
server
Text coding
Digital Public Historian
Scholar
DH MA graduated
EVT Software
Collaborative tools
MA students
Scholars
Local historians
Univ. staff
Scholar
MA DH students
BA DH students
Edition
Paleographers
Historians
19. A DIGICRAFT is anywhere on a DH project teachers and
students exchange knowledge and leverage this interaction
to offer innovative and effective solutions, combining the
theoretical reasoning with practices and skills
This is possible only if the manager and the team share a
common strong vision of what a DH project is, embracing a
"systemic" or “organic” or “holistic” thinking of DH itself
20. DH build machines
that help man to
think
(F.Varanini)
If Humanities helps mankind to understand the human world, DH helps
mankind to partecipate, to share, to understand, to use knowledge in a
more democratic and systemic way, in a word TO THINK
The core of DH is unitary and lies in the conviction that the digital turn
has permeated every aspect of our lives as people and scholars,
modifying them deeply. We have to deal with them as a whole.
21. Science & Humanities
✤ since XVIII century hard sciences grounded their epistemology on
reductionism
✤ reductionism believes that studying in depth a feature of a phenomenon
it is the only way to understand it completely by progressive addition
of discoveries
✤ the reductionist approach has been the basis for the scientific revolution
of the modern age, but it also led to an exasperated fragmentation of the
fields of scientific research and to the disjunction between Science and
Humanities
✤ humanities were affected as well and created absurd barriers and hyper-
specialized languages, that closed researches in a lot of walled gardens
22. HC DH
✤ 70s of XXth century: a vision of Humanities Computing that kept almost
unchanged the traditional disciplines within their rigid internal divisions and
distinguished the humanist from the expert in information technology
✤ today this position is no longer sustainable. The web in first place and the
web 2.0 in the second (but also the Big Data field as well as the Data
Visualization tools) have changed the research landscape and demolish the
barrier between tools, methods and ways of sharing
✤ we are obviously still in a transitional phase. Highly specialized sub-areas
remain and several scholars strive to better define the old / new digital
disciplines (digital history, digital philology and so on), but there is also a
complementary phenomenon pointing to an inclusive and unitary vision of
DH
23. A UnifyingVision
✤ For thirty years a different vision has made
its way, a new epistemological approach
in several field of research
✤ the systemic thinking (Unifying Vision)
reasons in terms of relationships, networks,
patterns of organizations and processes
✤ it proposes a change of paradigms: from
the vision of the world as a machine to the
world as a network
✤ it takes account of the fundamental
interdependence of all phenomena
24. A change of paradigm
This change of paradigm could and should affect the DH
as well because:
✤ this is in the nature of our work
✤ this is where our practice leads
✤ this is a unique opportunity for DH to find a unitary
vision and to ground its social utility again