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Plenary speaker at Granada new directions in humanities. Digital Humanities
1. Digital Humanities as a
Cooperative Enterprise
in Network Society [email protected]
@alvarezuned
Thisis a workingprocessdocument. Please use and quote as tentative
and cooperative ideas. Tkankyouforyourobservations
2. Digital Humanities (Mind)
Cooperative Enterprise (Body)
Network Society (World)
Hilary Putnam: Thethreefoldcord:mind, body, and world
(Spanishtranslation J. F. lvarez: La cuerda de tres
cabos).
3. Network Society as a ThreefoldEnvironment
4. CYBERCITIZENS, CULTURE AND PUBLIC GOODS,
Network society is provoking dramatic changes in several aspects of
our daily life as cultural traits, business and the more disparages
spheres of privacy and social life. We must attend both to freedom
of access and to new service generation because of the peculiar
form public goods are rising in the Net. To supersede individual
capability limitations and to diffuse digital and cultural gaps,
electronic government could be a cultural decisive tool in this
phase of cibersociety enhancement. Technologies enhanced the human
capabilities, as well as with the social actions and its framework,
including cultural production and management. Technologies are also
transforming the generation, reproduction and transmission of
(social) knowledge. (J. Francisco lvarez, Arbor, 2009)
5. A recurrent ideaMano Marks Blog
Thursday, June 2, 2011
WorkingwithPeople
TheHumanities are traditionally a lonelyprofession. While in
thehardsciencesit'snotuncommontosee a longlist of namesonpapers, in
Humanitiesprofessionsthere'slittlerewardformultiplepeopleworkingon
a project. Tenurewasbasedonarticlesyouwrote, soleprojectwork. One
of thereasons I love digital humanitiesworkisthatpeople are
comingtogether, breakingtherestrictivebonds of solitarywork
Mano Marks, Geo DeveloperAdvocate at Google
http://randommarkers.blogspot.com/2011/06/working-with-people.html
6. The social turn in humanitiesisknocking at thedoor and
itwillremainhereforever!
@thatcampMadrid
21-22th november 2011
Good News forHumanities, if .
8. Monitoringtrends, promoting and
strengtheningcooperativeresearch
Networks and open systems of knowledge management.
Best traditions of archival and documentary practices.
Future research model is based on cooperation and build on networks
and open systems of knowledge management.
DIGITAL HUMANITIES MANIFESTO
9. DIGITAL HUMANITIES MANIFESTO
http://tcp.hypotheses.org/411
10. LetsseeanexampleGranada 150 yearsago
Notonly new directions in humanities,
notonlysomeparadigmaticchange. We are living in a more radical
change.
A new era in humanitiesresearchiscoming, butwhatdoesit mean?
New tools, new collections, new data: a huge and enormous set of
data anybodyneverthoughtbeforeare now at ourfingertips.
The online accessibilityto a largenumber of documents in real time
isdramaticallychangingourresearchexperience. Thus, letssee a simple
butnot trivial example:
Whilst I waspreparingthislecture I asked me: Whathadhappened at
theUniversity of Granada 150 yearsago? Whatdocumentscould I
obtainfrommydeskwork?
11. new capabilities
Open access
Publicgoods
150 yearsago at theUniversity of Granada
Nowitspossiblewiththe
support of Google, UCM and
HathiTrustcollection
12. A Survey of Digital Humanities Centersin theUnitedStates.
2008
Digital humanitiesimplieshumanities-basedresearch, teaching, and
intellectualengagementconductedwith digital technologies and
resources. The use of thesetechnologiesmay be prosaic (e.g.,
usingnew media toconducthumanitiesresearchorenhanceteaching)
ortransformative (e.g., developingwholly new products and
processesthattransformexistingknowledge and createnew
scholarship).
Diane M. Zorich. November2008
A veryusefulworkbutthecooperationperspectivemust be
reforced
13. SOME OBSTACLES TO INNOVATION IN HUMANITIES
COPYRIGHT: A universitythatgoestoofarcouldend up facing a
copyright-infringementlawsuit.
The8.7-million-volume library pools digital copies of textsthat
Google scannedfromuniversities. John P. Wilkin, itsexecutive
director, estimatesthatHathiTrustmaycontain 2.5 millionorphanworks.
HathiTrustpublishesthe full text of works in thepublicdomain,
butnot of thosethat are orphaned. May 29, 2011
Out of Fear, CollegesLockBooks and ImagesAwayFromScholars
Marc ParryChronicle of HigherEducation"
14. Whatrevolution?Technologicalisover
Usinginformationtechnologytoilluminatethe human record, and
bringinganunderstanding of the human record tobearonthedevelopment
and use of informationtechnology. SusanSchreibman, Ray Siemens, and
John UnsworthIntroductionto Digital Humanities p.16
Today, onehearsless and less of it, perhapsbecause (as Ess notes)
therevolutionhas succeeded: in almostalltheirpotential, no
longerseemrevolutionary at all p.17
15. Sociotecnicalrevolutionis happening
Mythesisisthatnowadaysotherrevolutionishappening: the socio
technicalrevolution in humanities, facilitatedbythepresence of ICT.
Its no a material orphysicaltool. Instead, itis at theverysocial
structurethatisrising as a basicturn in humanities' practices and
in e-science in general.
Openness, accessibility, howinformationisusedand selected: a new
curator, notonlynew software forsemanticwebs, nowtheSOCIAL WEB and
its uses are transformingthepracticeof humanities.
16. WelcometotheShared Digital FutureHathiTrustis a bold idea
withbigplansTOOLS and RESOURCES for a new era in
humanitiesHathiTrustis a partnership of majorresearchinstitutions
and librariesworkingtoensurethatthecultural record ispreserved and
accessiblelongintothefuture. There are more thanfifty partners in
HathiTrust, and membershipis open toinstitutionsworldwide.
http://www.hathitrust.org/about
CurrentlyDigitized
8,771,712 total volumes; 4, 789,293 booktitles, 212,672 serial
titles3,070,099,200 pages 393 terabytes 2,382,779 volumes (~27% of
total) in thepublicdomain
View visualizations of
HathiTrust:http://www.hathitrust.org/print/220
17. GoodnewsYale UniversityMay 11, 2011
http://opac.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=8544
New Haven, Conn. Scholars, artists and
otherindividualsaroundtheworldwillenjoy free accessto online images
of millions of objectshoused in Yalesmuseums, archives, and
librariesthanksto a new Open Access
policythattheUniversityannouncedtoday. Yale isthefirstIvy League
universitytomakeitscollectionsaccessible in thisfashion.Jon
ButlerActingUniversityLibrarianYale University
18. Network Society: new capabilities
As works in thesecollectionsbecomedigitized, themuseums and
librarieswillmakethoseimagesthat are in
thepublicdomainfreelyaccessible. In a
departurefromestablishedconvention, no licensewill be
requiredforthetransmission of theimages and no limitationswill be
imposedontheir use. Theresultisthatscholars, artists, students, and
citizenstheworldoverwill be ableto use thesecollectionsforstudy,
publication, teaching and inspiration.
(Yale, 10 May 2011)
19. Globalization and scholarshipcooperation
"Sharingourartisticresources more fullyacross Yale and
wellbeyondits campus is a top priority," assertsJock Reynolds, the
Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Yale University Art
Gallery.
"Throughthis new universitypolicy, scholars, artists, teachers, and
studentsworldwidewillnow be ableto more
fullyengageourcollectionsfor active learning and use in
publications, classrooms, and
creativeprojectswithoutincurringanyfeeswhatsoever, eliminatingwhat
has previouslybeenformany a dauntingfinancialhurdle."
"High costs of reproductionrightshavetraditionallylimitedtheability
of scholars, especiallyonesearly in theircareers,
topublishrichlyillustratedbooks and articles in thehistory of art,
architecture, and material and visual culture,
accordingtoMaritWestermann, vice president of the Andrew W.
MellonFoundation. "Yale's new
policyprovidesanimportantmodeltofollow."
20. UNESCO 1st June 2011
21. ExecutiveSummaryA
reportpreparedforUNESCOsDivisionforFreedom of Expression,Democracy
and Peace
--- itismore apparenthowfreedom can be erodedunintentionally as
variousactorsstrategicallypursuetheirowndiversearray of objectives.
Thefindingsreinforcethesignificanceof concernsoverfreedom of
expression and connection,
whileacknowledgingcountervailingtrendsand the open future of
technology, policy and practice. Freedom of
expressionisnotaninevitable outcome of technologicalinnovation. It
can be diminishedorreinforcedbythedesignof technologies, policies
and practices sometimesfar removed fromfreedomof expression.
Thissynthesispointsouttheneedtofocussystematicresearchonthiswiderecologyshapingthefuture
of expression in the digital age.
22. In front of theresearch in solitudeorthearchivist in
TheName of the Rose
Theco-building.
23. Thewe-generation.Furtherthan nerds ortechies
A peculiar experiencetoreflectonnative digital.
Thereusedto be a time whenwewould be called nerds or techies.
Strangepeoplewith a near-obsessivecompulsionto embrace new
technology, and whodrathercommunicatewiththeirfriends online than
offline. Peopleforwhomthe Internet itselfwastheultimatesource of
informationforsolvinganykind of problemwhatsoever.However,
societyisnowslowlycomingtotermswiththefactthat a
wholegenerationisgrowing up that has onlyeverknownthe digital age,
and has thereforeentirelyacceptedthe digital way of doingthings.
WecallourselvestheDigital Native generation.
we: DIGITAL_NATIVES byJonathan Imme 2008
Cooperativeenterprise Stephen Downes
Art MindKiss and we-generation
24. HYBRID DAYS
hybrid |hbrid|
a thingmadebycombiningtwodifferentelements; a mixture:the final
textis a hybrid of thestageplay and the film.
Biologytheoffspring of twoplantsoranimals of
differentspeciesorvarieties, such as a mule (a hybrid of a donkey
and a horse) ora hybrid of wheat and rye.
This open eventisaboutHybridEnvironmentswherescience, society and
technologyenhancing human capabilitiesbecausethe digital
ismeltingwiththephysicalworld as a new
layerthatincreasesthephysicalworldpossibilities. The digital
isnotisolatedfromthephysicalenvironment.
25. Koppi, Bogle y Lavitt (2003) conclude their work by noting
the importance of rewarding the production work of teachers. In
their opinion, to develop a formal reward system that includes the
production and use of open-content could be the biggest political
issue to develop a large scale open education movement in the field
of the learning process.
Quotedby: Impacto del Open CourseWare (OCW) en los docentes
universitarios (Universidad de Valencia, 2010) p.42
26. Further e-learningFurtherLearningmanagementsystems
(LMS)
MOOC (Massive open online course) v.g. is a new trend in learning
that could transform the process of transmission of knowledge but
also the building of new knowledge. The cooperative enterprise or,
at least, a collective enterprise is in the nucleus of this kind of
activities.
How information is used and selected? This is the role of new
curators. The humanist researchers could be who play this new
role.We need not only some disruptivesoftware to build well
semantic webs. It is a priority to attend tothe SOCIAL WEBand the
way the very practice of humanities has been
transformed.
27. Twoissues are nuclear in this new line: openness
andaccessibility
In additiontochartingareas in whichpastadvanceshavebeenmade, and in
whichinnovationiscurrentlytaking place, thisvolumerevealsthat
digital humanitiesisaddressingmany of themostbasicresearchparadigms
and methods in the disciplines,
tofocusourattentiononimportantquestionsto be asked and answered, in
additiontoimportant new ways of asking and answeringthatare
enabledbyourinteractionwiththecomputer. p. 19
Theprocessthatonegoesthrough in ordertodevelop, apply, and compute
theseknowledgerepresentationsisunlikeanythingthathumanitiesscholars,
outsideof philosophy, haveeverbeenrequiredto do. Thismethod,
orperhapsweshouldcallita heuristic, discovers a new
horizonforhumanitiesscholarship, a paradigm as powerfulas anythat
has arisen in anyhumanities discipline in thepast and, indeed,
maybemore powerful, becausethe rigor
itrequireswillbringtoourattentionundocumentedfeatures of
ourownideation. Coupledwithenormousstoragecapacity and
computationalpower, thisheuristicpresentsuswithpatterns and
connections in the human record
thatwewouldneverotherwisehavefoundorexamined. p. 19
28. All of thismeansthatitisnowpossibletostore and
tomanipulatelargequantities of data stored in many places and
accessiblefromremotesites, todaytypically at
theresearchersdesk.
Thisnewfoundcapacityisopening up what I oftenreferto as e-research,
a new brand of research. Whetheritismanipulating and managing
material in electronicjournalsorin large data bases such as
StatsCanor in archives or in textmaterials,
thereistodaytheopportunitytoaskquestionsthatwerenotpreviouslypossibletoanswer.
Indeed, thequestionspossibletoaddresstoday are so far removed
fromearlierpossibilitiesthatitwasntevenpossibletoconceive of
completelynew questions.
title MindTechnologies as itconveys a messagethatresearchers are
nowchallengedtodo thingsthattheyneverimaginedbefore,
whilehumanitiescomputingdoesnotfully capture thespirit of the new
frontiersthat are nowopening up. David Stangway p. x
29. AlternativeWor(l)ds: TheHumanities in 2010, Report of
theWorkingGroupontheFutureof the Humanities (SSHRC, 2001) ( YES BUT
THE OLD IDEAS SE RESISTEN A MORIR)
(Technologies) presentanexcitingopportunityforscholars, teachers
and studentstobecomeinformedpartners and innovators. In particular,
new technologiesprovideaccessto non-linear, visual methods of
conveyinginformation. Judicious use of thesemethodscan
enhancetheintegration() leadingtocollaborationbetweenseveral
disciplines and technicalfields and bringingtogetheracademics,
artists, multimedia experts, informationtechnologyspecialists,
librarians and students.
Thehumanitiesmustcontinuetoseeklargerstructures of sense in
ordertocreatecohesivenessand thetypes of intellectualfilters that
are necessarytosortoutknowledgefrom[mere] information: thispart of
itsmissionremainsthesame.. Guidedby a larger plan, they
(technologies) can howeverworktocreatesense.
ConferenceDelegate
Anotherconcernisthatwhilethe new technologies can provide a
verywideaudiencewithaccessto a vastvariety and quantityof sources,
data and documents, this universal readyaccess
alsoraisesquestionsabouttheauthenticity and accuracyof textsand
data. Thelinguistic and textual skills of
thehumanistwillcontinuetoplay as essential a role in theage of
electronictextsas theydid in the eras of handcopiedmanuscripts and
moveable lead type.
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