Burdick, Anne, et al. 2012. “Humanities to Digital Humanities” in Digital_Humanities, MIT Press, pp. 1-26.
https://moodle.yorku.ca/moodle/pluginfile.php/1112102/mod_resource/content/4/Digital%20Humanities_Drucker_Open_Access_Edition.pdf
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1) First Wave of Digital Humanities 1940's late 1980's (page 8)
•Opened up archive databases to a wider audience
•Created a greater level of media fluidity by developing machine readable records and file formats
•In the 1980’s changed from traditional methods of editing and analysis to an automated digital format
2) Second Wave of Humanities 1990's + (page 9)
•Incorporating digital media specifically in the learning environment
•“Students are making things as they study and perform research generating not just text but images, interactions, cross media corpora, software and platforms”
•Problem: multum in parvo – the inability to use language effectively
•Problem #2: digital divide
•Opened up archive databases to a wider audience
•Created a greater level of media fluidity by developing machine readable records and file formats
•In the 1980’s changed from traditional methods of editing and analysis to an automated digital format
2) Second Wave of Humanities 1990's + (page 9)
•Incorporating digital media specifically in the learning environment
•“Students are making things as they study and perform research generating not just text but images, interactions, cross media corpora, software and platforms”
•Problem: multum in parvo – the inability to use language effectively
•Problem #2: digital divide
3) Computational Layer (page 16)
•Part of a structure at several levels that relies on principles that are at odds with humanistic methods (a step by step process that challenges humanistic thought)
•Relies on encoding and structuring of information (disambiguation)
•It is difficult to embody humanistic approaches of ambiguity, interpretation, contingency, and positionality within computational methods as they are so precise.
4) Processing Layer (page 17)
•Takes advantage of automation but subject to limitations of computational capacity
•Was initially task-based (basic functions): sorting, searching, calculating, and matching
•Developed into interpretive process that allows manipulation and to further creative process
5) Curation (page 17-18)
•The selection and organization of materials
•It is an interpretative framework, argument or an exhibit.
•It brings humanistic values and qualities into play.
6) Analysis (page 18)
•Processing of text or data
•Conjugated visualization (ex. Business Graphics/ Mapping)
•Gives analysis of complex social, cultural and historical dynamics
7) Editing (page 18)
•Is the creative, imaginative activity of making
•Revitalizes long-standing traditions of humanistic work and allow humanists to re-approach these traditions in innovative ways with new research questions and tools.
•Design is form of editing; it is how an argument takes shape and is given form
•Resource: the Web
8) Modelling (page 18-19)
•Highlights the notion of content models- shapes of argument expressed in information structures and their design
•More the process than the final product
•There are certain assumptions built in – play around with the assumptions
•Part of a structure at several levels that relies on principles that are at odds with humanistic methods (a step by step process that challenges humanistic thought)
•Relies on encoding and structuring of information (disambiguation)
•It is difficult to embody humanistic approaches of ambiguity, interpretation, contingency, and positionality within computational methods as they are so precise.
4) Processing Layer (page 17)
•Takes advantage of automation but subject to limitations of computational capacity
•Was initially task-based (basic functions): sorting, searching, calculating, and matching
•Developed into interpretive process that allows manipulation and to further creative process
5) Curation (page 17-18)
•The selection and organization of materials
•It is an interpretative framework, argument or an exhibit.
•It brings humanistic values and qualities into play.
6) Analysis (page 18)
•Processing of text or data
•Conjugated visualization (ex. Business Graphics/ Mapping)
•Gives analysis of complex social, cultural and historical dynamics
7) Editing (page 18)
•Is the creative, imaginative activity of making
•Revitalizes long-standing traditions of humanistic work and allow humanists to re-approach these traditions in innovative ways with new research questions and tools.
•Design is form of editing; it is how an argument takes shape and is given form
•Resource: the Web
8) Modelling (page 18-19)
•Highlights the notion of content models- shapes of argument expressed in information structures and their design
•More the process than the final product
•There are certain assumptions built in – play around with the assumptions
