View Monday (DHOxSS 2013)
[live notes, so excuse the errors, omissions and personal perspective] | |
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#DHOxSS Michael Pidd, What is the value of Digital Humanities | |
Humanities Research Institute at the University of Sheffield established in 1992: support innovative use of technology to support humanities research. | |
Entirely project based and externally funded, with no teaching or faculty support. | |
Digital Humanities is an essentially practice based activity, not a theoretical one. | |
Oxford’s practice based approach makes it ideally suited to hosting this workshop. | |
Skills gained from practice required for DH. |
View Tuesday (DHOxSS 2013)
[live notes, so excuse the errors, omissions and personal perspective] | |
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Shared zotero group: http://www.zotero.org/groups/dhoxss_2013 | |
#DHOxSS Rowan Wilson (OSS Watch), Varieties of Openness | |
OSS Watch a JISC funded project. Advisory service on free and open source software. | |
Talk about the openness component of why JISC are no longer funding OSS. Not critical of JISC. | |
Rather undercurrent of discussion of openness led to, and the problem Rowan sees within that. |
View Wednesday (DHOxSS 2013)
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[live blog] #DHOxSS Kate Lindsay, Re-imaging the First World War, Academic IT Services. How can digital humanities move us beyond the trenches? | |
@KTdigital. Manager for Engagement | Education Enhancement Academic IT. | |
Standard narratives of the war have a long history. But, global impact of the war often underplayed, as is gender. | |
Anniversary provides an opportunity to tell new stories: so not just war poetry! | |
And yet, Oxford started digitisation in late-90s with Wilfred Owen poems, and then added more |
View Thursday (DHOxSS 2013)
[live notes, so excuse the errors, omissions and personal perspective] | |
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[live blog] #DHOxSS, Christine Madsen and Matthew McGrattan, Digital Library Technologies and Best Practice | |
Christine Madsen, Part 1: Deconstructing Digital Libraries (or: why you should work with your library!) | |
Bodleian Digital Library Systems & Services | |
Talk about what we are doing but also libraries, and how work in libraries slightly different to the academic perspective on digital projects. | |
Bodleian Digital Library Systems and Sercices provide electronic core to all Oxford libraries. | |
15 years of experience digitising collections; 15-20 ongoing projects at present. |
View Friday (DHOxSS 2013)
[live notes, so excuse the errors, omissions and personal perspective] | |
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[live blog] Lorna Hughes, Digital collections as research infrastructure | |
University of Wales Chair in Digital Collections, National Library of Wales | |
Ghosts of the diigtal humanities past. | |
Early 1990s dissemination of DH... Floppy, CD-roms, software, hypertext, huge chunks of hardware, roadshows. And then the WWWW was invented. | |
Warnings over humanists needing to engage themselves in 'computer assisted learning' to ensure nuance captured since the 1970s. |
View Future Digital (July 2013)
Future Digital | |
Notes from Going Digital closing conference 'Future Digital', held on 31 July 2013 at The Open University, Camden Town campus, London. | |
Roundtable discussion | |
Questions to consider | |
In the course of this programme what resources or techniques have you found interesting and helpful? | |
In terms of the design of the programme for next year, what would have like to have had this year? |
View 116 Metadata for Electronic Resources notes
<h>What is Metadata?</h> | |
Data about data. | |
But not a very helpful definition. | |
Better: data that describes content, format or atributes of an information resource. Structured data has metadata. | |
Metadata can refer to a standard, such as Dublin Core, or a data element (Author/Creator) or the data contained in a specific field. | |
Metadata describes in information object, not a can of soup. |
View 110 Managing Personal Digital Research Information
Zotero about managing processes. | |
[Do one before asking them to do one] | |
[More granularity with task schedule (so we all know where we are)] | |
[Pace dropped a little after lunch > maybe slides + live demo] | |
[Might also need to reiterate why this fits into this course (not a datavis course)] | |
View The Scholarly Use of Web Archives
The Scholarly Use of Web Archives | |
David Gauntlet | |
What is the UK web? | |
How do you capture a living space? | |
Helen Hockx-Yu |
View Hitchcock & Shoemaker, London Lives: Crime, Poverty and the Making of the Metropolis
Bob and Tim, 'London Lives: Crime, Poverty and the Making of the Metropolis' | |
Work based on ten years of research, building of digital archive for analysis of plebiean lives. | |
Transformations... | |
Increase in beaucracy around the law | |
Increase in sense of need for procedure around criminal justice proceedings | |
Poor relief increased 8 fold (even accounting of popn increase and inflation) | |
Change in policing, justice, poor relief shaped by those whose used it: |
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