This year saw some positive developments in open access and scholarly communications, such as the implementation of the NIH mandate, Harvard’s Faculty of Arts & Science’s decision to go open access (followed by Harvard Law), and the launch of the Open Humanities Press. But there were also some worrisome developments (the Conyers Bill’s attempt to rescind the NIH mandate, EndNote’s lawsuit against Zotero) and some confusing ones (the Google Books settlement). In the second part of my summary on the year in digital humanities, I’ll look broadly at the scholarly communication landscape, discussing open access to educational materials, new publication models, the Google Books settlement, and cultural obstacles to digital publication.
Digital Humanities Now is a real-time, crowdsourced publication. It takes the pulse of the digital humanities community and tries to discern what articles, blog posts, projects, tools, collections, and announcements are worthy of greater attention.
Das EDV-System FuD ist als integrierte Arbeits-, Publikations- und Informationsplattform für die Geisteswissenschaften konzipiert.
Es unterstützt die Zusammenarbeit in räumlich verteilten Arbeitsgruppen während der verschiedenen Phasen des Forschungsprozesses von der Inventarisierung und Erfassung der Primärdaten über ihre Erschließung und Analyse bis hin zur Ergebnispublikation und Datenarchivierung.
Bamboo is a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary, and inter-organizational effort that brings together researchers in arts and humanities, computer scientists, information scientists, librarians, and campus information technologists to tackle the question:
How can we advance arts and humanities research through the development of shared technology services?
DIGITAL HUMANITIES is already a vast and multi-faceted field, and during our week in Taos we will only be scratching the surface of the surface. Our primary orientation will not be procedural in nature, that is how to use specific software or complete particular tasks, but rather directed toward gaining a broad overview of the many different kinds of methods, practices, and scholarly and creative work currently being conducted under this aegis.
A Report on the Workshop of 22-24 October, 2008 Turf Valley Resort, Ellicott City, Maryland by Dan Cohen, Neil Fraistat, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Tom Scheinfeldt
The NEW MEDIA WORKING GROUP invites graduate students and faculty from multiple departments to collaborate around a shared interest in the social, political, aesthetic, and philosophical implications of digital media.
Analyze collaborative projects and practice in the digital humanities. Includes social networking, wikis, collaborative software development, peer-to-peer review, open content, and more.
S. Schreibman, R. Siemens, and J. Unsworth (Eds.) Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture Blackwell Publishing Professional, Oxford, Hardcover edition, (December 2004)
L. Opas-Hänninen, M. Jokelainen, I. Juuso, and T. Seppänen (Eds.) English Philology @ University of Oulu, Oulu, (2008)The 20th Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, and the Association for Computers and the Humanities and The 1st Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, the Association for Computers and the Humanities, and the Society for Digital Humanities — Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs
University of Oulu, Finland
24 – 29 June, 2008.