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News Story on UNC’s new Digital Innovation Lab
This is exciting news, as are all stories on digital humanities, digital scholarship, and digital innovation centers, labs, institutes and the like because these entities provide a conceptual space (and sometimes this is located in an incredibly useful physical space) to support new forms of scholarship and new ways to increase impact with existing forms of scholarship. These entities are critical to connecting research with the public and public good. Congrats to UNC!
The news story copied below is from here.
| UNC to launch Digital Innovation Lab |
| Wednesday, September 14, 2011 | |
| The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will launch a new virtual lab that will encourage collaborative, interdisciplinary and innovative digital humanities projects.Brett Bobley, director of the Office of Digital Humanities at the National Endowment for the Humanities, will give a free public talk Oct. 10 to celebrate the kickoff of the Digital Innovation Lab, which will be affiliated with the American studies department in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences. Bobley will speak at 2 p.m. in the University Room of Hyde Hall, home of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, located off East Franklin Street.The Digital Innovation Lab will encourage the production of digital “public goods”: projects and tools that are of social and cultural value; can be made publicly available; are scalable and reusable; and/or serve multiple audiences. One immediate focus will be the use of large-scale data sources – maps, newspapers, city directories, public records – by scholars and the public in understanding the history of communities. The lab, accessed at http://digitalinnovation.unc.edu, was created with a startup grant from the college. “Digital technologies have the potential to transform how our faculty in the humanities ask questions about the world, engage with local communities, create learning environments for our students and collaborate with partners within and beyond the University,” said William L. Andrews, Ph.D., senior associate dean for the fine arts and humanities in the College. The lab will build on the nationally funded digital humanities work of its UNC co-directors and co-founders — Robert Allen, Ph.D, and Richard Marciano, Ph.D. Allen is the James Logan Godfrey Distinguished Professor of American studies, history and communication studies. Marciano is a professor in the School of Information and Library Science and affiliated professor in American studies and director of Sustainable Archives and Leveraging Technologies (SALT). This year the lab will expand two ongoing projects:
With another grant from the college, the lab will begin work this year on a project called “Connecting People, Past and Place,” a tool kit for extracting, organizing and representing data from widely available sources documenting everyday life in early 20th-century America. The lab’s work reaches into the classroom as well, involving graduate and undergraduate students. Through Allen’s graduate course on digital history, students from across the University work in project teams with cultural heritage organizations to develop and implement Main Street, Carolina projects. This year, they will team with undergraduate students in his “Main Street, Carolina” course to document Durham’s Hayti neighborhood and trace Lebanese immigration to North Carolina in the early 1900s. The Digital Innovation Lab supports the Innovate@Carolina Roadmap, UNC’s plan to help Carolina become a world leader in launching university-born ideas for the good of society. Web site: http://digitalinnovation.unc.edu College of Arts and Sciences contact: Kim Spurr, (919) 962-4093, spurrk@email.unc.edu |
News: Computational Culture a journal of software studies
Computational Culture: a Journal of Software Studies is a new journal with the first issue expected this fall. I’m late in announcing this, but it’s an important journal and worth repeating earlier announcements on it.
From the homepage of Computational Culture:
Computational Culture is an online open-access peer-reviewed journal of inter-disciplinary enquiry into the nature of the culture of computational objects, practices, processes and structures.
The journal’s primary aim is to examine the ways in which software undergirds and formulates contemporary life. Computational processes and systems not only enable contemporary forms of work and play and the management of emotional life but also drive the unfolding of new events that constitute political, social and ontological domains. In order to understand digital objects such as corporate software, search engines, medical databases or to enquire into the use of mobile phones, social networks, dating, games, financial systems or political crises, a detailed analysis of software cannot be avoided.
A developing form of literacy is required that matches an understanding of computational processes with those traditionally bound within the arts, humanities, and social sciences but also in more informal or practical modes of knowledge such as hacking and art.
The journal welcomes contributions that address such topics and many others that may derive and mix methodologies from cultural studies, science and technology studies, philosophy of computing, metamathematics, computer science, critical theory, media art, human computer interaction, media theory, design, philosophy.
Computational Culture publishes peer-reviewed articles, special projects, interviews, and reviews of books, projects, events and software. The journal is also involved in developing a series of events and projects to generate special issues.
Call for applications: Reviews Editor, Digital Humanities Quarterly
The full call is below. This is a fabulous opportunity because Digital Humanities Quarterly (http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq) is such an excellent publication. It’s open access, which is critical to dissemination of scholarship. Most importantly, it’s woven into the full spectrum of the dynamic digital humanities community (speculative computing, how to do traditional humanities with computing, new humanities questions made possible through technology and posed by technology, technologies and tools, data mining, etc). The call below came out over the CenterNet list, which is another amazing resource worth subscribing to by anyone interested in digital humanities.
Call for applications: Reviews Editor, Digital Humanities Quarterly
DHQ is seeking one or more new Reviews Editors to recruit and oversee reviews of all forms of digital humanities publication. The Reviews Editors work as a team to solicit and edit reviews of books, software tools, digital publications, and other appropriate reviewable content. The goal is to cultivate an active, international group of reviewers who can cover the full range of DH-related topics and publications in multiple languages.
You are: a wide reader, passionate about some area of digital humanities, interested in helping to shape the field, able to work as part of a geographically distributed team.
We are: an open-access online journal of digital humanities, published by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations at http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/. We publish a wide range of material on all areas of digital humanities research and practice. Although the journal is currently published almost entirely in English, we are interested in reviewing DH publications from all languages.
To apply, please send email to DHQ@brown.edu with the following information:
1. Background: who are you and what do you do?
2. What do you think makes for a good book, site, or software review?
3. In what geographic or linguistic areas could you cultivate a pool of reviewers? How would you go about cultivating such a pool?
4. With what research domain(s) within the DH research community are you most closely connected?
5. What is the realistic time commitment you could make to this role? How would it fit in with your other activities?
Sent by:
Julia Flanders
Editor-in-chief, DHQ
Brown University Center for Digital Scholarship
Sent via:
Centernet mailing list
Centernet@lists.digitalhumanities.org
http://lists.digitalhumanities.org/mailman/listinfo/centernet
CFP: New Deadline for 2011 HASTAC Conference Proposals!
Due to enthusiastic response to our 2011 HASTAC Conference CFP, and due to conflicts with summer travels and holidays, HASTAC has decided to reschedule the deadline to September 15, 2011.
The University of Michigan will be hosting the 2011 annual HASTAC Conference face-to-face on its Ann Arbor campus December 2 and 3. We invite proposals for presentations on the general theme of Digital Scholarly Communication.
Deadline for submission is September 15, 2011. Proposals can be submitted here: http://tinyurl.com/HASTAC2011-Proposal
They seek topics which may range over but need not be restricted to, the role of digital technologies in:
- Reformulating scholarly projects and products. (This might include questions of narration and argumentation, evidence and epistemology, interactivity, and/or text/visual presentation.)
- Re-mapping the routes through which scholarly products circulate.
- Expanding the digital arts to include the humanities and vice versa.
- Reshaping the global system of knowledge production in the humanities in terms of access, circulation, exchange and equity within the global north and between the global north and south.
- Generating new kinds of research and teaching partnerships.
Topics may also include:
- Copyright challenges and strategies for digital scholarly communication.
- Web design and digitization of archives for multiple and different constituencies (local communities, global peers).
- New forms of research, digitally based, in the humanities.
The middle part of the day on both December 2 and 3 will be given over to concurrent sessions. People may present in any of three formats:
- An individual five-minute “lightening” talk or ten-minute lecture-style presentation, with or without technology (e.g., PPT, Prezi)
- A panel on a common theme with short presentations to allow for discussion time, with or without technology
- A poster project or demo for conversation in a digital display area (e.g., YouTube or other presentation format uploaded to conference website; laptop-based video on a continuous loop, slidecast, interactive website; print poster board)
Presenters will have the option of pre-circulating materials on the website before and during the conference. Information on an Unconference event for December 1 forthcoming).
Deadline for submission is September 15, 2011. Proposals can be submitted here: http://tinyurl.com/HASTAC2011-Proposal
New: The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy is a new journal with a first issue expected in September 2011. The journal is open access and, according to the website:
The mission of The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy is to promote open scholarly discourse around critical and creative uses of digital technology in teaching, learning, and research. Educational institutions have often embraced instrumentalist conceptions and market-driven implementations of technology that overdetermine its uses in academic environments. Such approaches underestimate the need for critical engagement with the integration of technological tools into pedagogical practice. The JITP will endeavor to counter these trends by recentering questions of pedagogy in our discussions of technology in higher education. The journal will also work to change what counts as scholarship — and how it is presented, disseminated, and reviewed — by allowing contributors to develop their ideas, publish their work, and engage their readers using multiple formats. JITP will be published in an open-access digital format beginning in September 2011. We invite submissions for the premiere and future issues.
Check out the journal website for more information and to submit an article: http://ojs.gc.cuny.edu/index.php/itcp/index
THATCamp in Orlando, Florida
A THATCamp is being held in Orlando, Florida on February 19-20, 2011. See the website for more information: http://florida2011.thatcamp.org/
Registration is being accepted now through February 5, and this will certainly be an exciting event and well worth attending!
Description from the website:
Announcing THATCamp Florida! The University of Central Florida will be hosting a regional THATCamp on the weekend of February 19-20, 2011 in sunny Orlando. The gathering will involve about 75 people drawn broadly from the Humanities and will include Professors, Librarians, Graduate Students and interested parties (writers, musicians, etc.) who are engaged in sorting through the many and varied ways that our broadly shared disciplines intersect with emerging technologies. It is our hope that the two-day affair at The University of Central Florida will offer a stimulating and energizing atmosphere which will foster a fruitful exchange of ideas as well as foster collaborative work among attendees.
Victoria University of Wellington PhD Scholarship: Digital Preservation & Cultural Heritage
Victoria University of Wellington has announced the establishment of a targeted PhD scholarship in the broad area of digital preservation:
Future Memory at Risk: Digital Preservation and Cultural Heritage
The creation of a national digital memory poses fundamental challenges for cultural heritage institutions. Our libraries, archives and museums are searching for new ways to demonstrate their relevance in the digital world, but they are uncertain of the boundaries of their responsibilities which were established in a pre-digital age. Our
future access to a trustworthy and meaningful national memory requires these institutions to identify, preserve and make accessible significant digital artefacts of society and also to capture the relationships of these artefacts to the contexts within which they were created and curated. People, institutions, places, events, cultural artefacts and resources are all important constituents.
This project’s purpose is to investigate the varying responsibilities, as well as the potential contextual frameworks that govern this community’s diverse constituents. Outcomes will include relevant strategies for a collaborative digital preservation programme to provide the foundation for our digital national memory.
The deadline for applications is 15 May, 2009. Further information is available at http://www.victoria.ac.nz/home/admisenrol/payments/scholarships/stratresschol.aspx
Queries about the research topic should be addressed to:
Dr Gillian Oliver
School of information Management
Victoria University of Wellington
PO Box 600 Wellington
New Zealand
Email: Gillian.Oliver@vuw.ac.nz