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What are the Humanities and NEH
Jim Noles at the Huffington Post: For what it is worth, I will share my own definition with you. The humanities are those fields of study that explain and celebrate what it means to be human and, in doing so, enrich and enhance our lives. Think of the fields of literature, history, the classics, jurisprudence,…
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More on the meaning of DH
From MITH: The following remarks are a slightly modified version of a presentation made by MITH Director, Neil Fraistat, for the TILTS Symposium Roundtable: “WHAT IS DIGITAL HUMANITIES?” In order to open conversation on this topic, Fraistat draws together quotations from some of the most recent statements on the subject and articulates a set of…
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Wikipedia Gender Gap Follow Up
Shane Landrum: After positive feedback on my earlier post about Wikipedia, including a nice post by Knitting Clio, I’ve just started a formal WikiProject to work on improving Wikipedia coverage of women’s history. It’s called WikiProject Women’s History, also accessible by the shortcut WP:WMNHIST. Anyone can participate, but I’d particularly love to see more professional…
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Programming Guides
The programming historian, William Turkel, provides a good list of resources (they appear to be various blog posts) for any humanities scholar interested in learning programming.
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Support the NEH
Don’t let the National Endowment for the Humanities become a casualty of political posturing. Tell your elected officials you support the NEH. http://www.congressweb.com/cweb2/index.cfm/siteid/NHA/action/TakeAction.Main
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What Grad Students Need
I applied to continue onto the Ph.D. program at UNL this semester and it got me thinking about what I would have know about grad school before beginning. I had lots of good advice, but most of it was from personal conversations. All that I could find online was either non-department specific or not that…
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What Makes a Good Digital History Project?
To me, there are three main elements, often working in tandem, that comprise a good digital history project: Analysis, Interactivity, Visualizations. Like any piece of history, digital history needs source-based, informed scholarly analysis. Analysis in print history takes on roughly the same form for any article or book, but in the digital medium, analysis can…
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Colleague in ProfHacker
Ryan Cordell at ProfHacker: Next—and more directly germane to digital humanities work—is “The Rubyist Historian.” Jason Heppler, a graduate student in the history department at the University of Nebraska, recently began using his blog “to write an accessible introduction to Ruby and demonstrate not only how to write small programs but also think about ways…
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Resource Management in the Digital Humanities
Andrew Piper: As part of its arrival — as part of the hum of digital humanities — I’d like to see some more reflection by those of us involved with digital humanities with the question of the appropriate use of resources in a world of increasingly scarce resources. Committing high levels of resources to one…
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