The aim of this group is to critically discuss and share thoughts about the use of social software applications, techniques, and principles within the Digital Humanities.
The Digital Humanities
For the purpose of this group, the Digital Humanities is defied as the application of computational methods and associated tools to address specific humanities research problems. Distinct from general computing approaches, the banner term 'Digital Humanities' is an 'attitude towards computing' that is embedded within the research concerns of the disciplines and sub-fields that make up the humanities. The methods employed in the field may be used to uncover new knowledge about corpora or to visualise research data in such a way as to uncover additional insights and meaning. Succinctly the Digital Humanities (or Humanities Computing) is about structuring, analysing and communicating humanistic knowledge in a critical way using computing technology.
Social Software
And as in many fields, the social and participatory architectural frameworks associated with 'social software' is increasing a part of the Digital Humanities. Social software is usually web-based and is a way for researchers to share data and research-labour that comprises of a series of debates about tool, socio-technical design, and concept choice. Social software may be one way to open up new styles of collaboration in the Digital Humanities between software developers, humanists, and audiences. Join in the conversation!
Suggested topics may include
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*Collaborative labour arrangements for researchers (collaborative work functions)
*Maintaining on-line communities
*APIs, web services, and mash-ups
*Trends in the blogosphere
*New Social Software Applications
*Community annotation and tagging
*Computer mediated communication
*Service oriented architecture
*Governance (bottom-up or top Down)
*Work-flow analysis
*Designing Research Deliberation
event: IHR Seminar in Digital History: Magnus Huber (Giessen) 'The Old Bailey Corpus: Spoken English in the 18th and 19th Centuries'
Submitted by Richard on Mon, 20/02/2012 - 17:31 20/02/2012 17:12
21/02/2012 21:00
Venue: ST276 (Stewart House, second floor) and streamed live on the web at historyspot.org.uk
Time: Tuesday, 21 February, 5.15 pm GMT
Magnus Huber (Giessen)
'The Old Bailey Corpus: Spoken English in the 18th and 19th Centuries'
Magnus Huber will be discussing the use of historical court records in the investigation of langauge change. A full abstract can be found below.
Abstract:
The 'Proceedings of the Old Bailey', London's central criminal court, were
published between 1674 and 1913 and constitute a large body of texts from [read more...]
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event: The Collaborations Workshop 2012
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Mon, 23/01/2012 - 17:33 21/03/2012
22/03/2012
The Collaborations Workshop 2012 (CW12) gets researchers and software developers working together to solve research problems. If you’re a researcher who wants to make more of software, or a developer who wants to work with researchers, the workshop is the perfect opportunity to meet new collaborators.
Registration
To register for the Collaborations Workshop, visit the registration website:
http://www.epay.ed.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modi... [read more...]
Location
Queen's College, University of Oxford
United Kingdom
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CfP: The Connected Past: people, networks and complexity in archaeology and history
Closing Date:
20/11/2011
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Connected Past: people, networks and complexity in archaeology and history
University of Southampton 24-25 March 2012
http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/
Organisers: Tom Brughmans, Anna Collar, Fiona Coward
Confirmed keynote speakers: Professor Carl Knappett and Professor Alex Bentley [read more...]
event: The Connected Past
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Fri, 16/09/2011 - 12:19 24/03/2012
25/03/2012
The Connected Past: people, networks and complexity in archaeology and history
A two-day collaborative, multi-disciplinary symposium
The University of Southampton
24-25 March 2012 [read more...]
Location
The University of Southampton
Southampton
United Kingdom
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Thousands of pounds available for researchers who want to travel
If you use software in your research and you have a good understanding of what’s happening in your field (and an idea about what will be happening soon) then the Software Sustainability Institute want to hear from you. The institute will pay researchers from any discipline up to £3000 a year to attend conferences and report on the latest developments in their field.
Interested? Visit www.software.ac.uk/agents to find out how to apply.
Closing date: 8 August 2011 [read more...]
event: CONVIVIUM | Pathways to Impact
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Thu, 19/05/2011 - 16:11 14/06/2011 09:00
15/06/2011 17:00
a Major 2-day Residential Event and Special Interest Network (SIN, June 14th-15th 2011)
APEX CITY QUAY HOTEL Dundee
http://djcadresearch.tumblr.com/Convivium [read more...]
Location
Dundee
United Kingdom
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Launch of Transcribe Bentham Transcription Desk
The Bentham Project at UCL seeks the assistance of willing participants in an initiative to transcribe the manuscripts of philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832).
Today sees the launch of the Transcribe Bentham Transcription Desk, an online tool designed to harness the effort of all Bentham fans – whether schoolchildren, history enthusiasts, academics or armchair philosophers – to bring his work into the digital age and the world at large. [read more...]
Widgets for teachers, Educators and Students
There is a very large community of teachers who use Twitter as their PLN (Professional Learning Network). The following widget has been created to view the conversations that teachers are having in real-time. It is also a great way to display fresh teaching information on blogs or websites.
If you are interested, just copy the code from right below the widget and paste it onto your website.
For more information plase visit:
http://www.guidetoonlineschools.com/online-teaching/widgets
event: Social media for the Scottish cultural heritage sector
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Thu, 26/08/2010 - 13:43 21/10/2010 10:00
21/10/2010 16:45
You are warmly invited to an open seminar which will explore the place of social media in Scottish museums, galleries and cultural heritage organisations. This event will offer a snapshot of current social media engagement in Scotland and will explore other exciting developments with user-generated content and digital media across the sector. It will also establish a focus for future workshops and an emerging research agenda for social media and cultural heritage. [read more...]
Location
Hawthornden Lecture Theatre, National Galleries of Scotland
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
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biblio: Citizens as Voluntary Sensors: Spatial Data Infrastructures in the World of Web 2.0
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Fri, 04/06/2010 - 15:29
"Citizens as Voluntary Sensors: Spatial Data Infrastructures in the World of Web 2.0",
Journal of Spatial data Infrastructures Research, vol. 2, pp. 8, 2007.
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Social Software and Science
The Social of Social Media in Science
In the last few years discussions in the Digital Humanities and eScience community are more and more focusing on the concepts developed in discussions about Social Web or Web 2.0. This means the “discovery” of not only the modelling, structuring and processing of scientific content but the area of interaction and communication in which this content is generated for the question how the digital spaces can affect and serve in the scientific field.
http://www.arts-humanities.net/blog/firestarter/social_socia... [read more...]
event: Museum Computer Network 2010
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Mon, 08/03/2010 - 15:34 27/10/2010
30/10/2010
The Museum Computer Network 2010 Conference Program Committee is delighted to announce the call for proposals for MCN's upcoming conference in Austin, Texas, Oct 27-30, 2010.
Proposals will be accepted from April 5 - May 3.
This year's innovative program will include not just a great line-up of papers and panels on the theme of I/O: The Museum Inside-Out/Outside-In
http://mcn2010.pbworks.com/Conference-Sessions
but also a "slow un-conference" - Seizing the Tiger by the Longtail
http://mcn2010.pbworks.com/Slow+Un-conference
Check out the conference planning wiki for more details: [read more...]
Location
Austin, Texas
United States
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2cultures blog
Hi all,
If anyone has any interesting Digital Humanities feeds, then please send them my way. I am feeding them through a Wordpress installation using a nifty feed plug in as well as filtering through Yahoo Pipes. The site primarily has an Australian focus, but any feed is welcome.
2cultures.net
Craig
event: An Introduction to Web 2.0 and the Social Web
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Mon, 01/02/2010 - 14:13 17/03/2010 10:00
17/03/2010 16:00
Web 2.0 and the Social Web are terms which are now being used widely. But what do these terms mean? And what, if anything, can Web 2.0 and the Social Web offer to museums, libraries and archives, especially small organisations with limited budgets and technical expertise?
This workshop will attempt to answer these questions. As well as demystifying the terms and the technologies, the workshop will also address the challenges which institutions may face in seeking to make use of Web 2.0 to support the needs of their users.
Learning Objectives [read more...]
Location
Summerwood Lane e-Learning Centre
CliftonUnited Kingdom
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event: An Introduction to Web 2.0 and the Social Web
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Thu, 21/01/2010 - 15:21 08/03/2010 10:00
08/03/2010 16:00
Web 2.0 and the Social Web are terms which are now being used widely. But what do these terms mean? And what, if anything, can Web 2.0 and the Social Web offer to museums, libraries and archives, especially small organisations with limited budgets and technical expertise?
This workshop will attempt to answer these questions. As well as demystifying the terms and the technologies, the workshop will also address the challenges which institutions may face in seeking to make use of Web 2.0 to support the needs of their users. [read more...]
Location
Stall Street Bath's Historic Buildings Bath & North East Somerset Council
Bath BA1 1LZUnited Kingdom
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event: Authentic Assessment in the era of Social Media: ideas and applications from Internet Communications
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Wed, 20/01/2010 - 11:20 10/05/2010 16:30
10/05/2010 18:00
Authentic assessment refers both to the alignment of assessment with the actual outcomes of students' learning, and to the utilisation in assessment of approximations of real-world situations within which knowledgeable activity might take place. In both cases, student learning is assumed to be intimately connected with the manner in which they are assessed, and that students will be more highly motivated to learn if their assessment is authentic. [read more...]
Location
1 St Giles Oxford Internet Institute
Oxford OX1 3JSUnited Kingdom
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Mobile Technology and Libraries
A New Book that has Broad Application To A Variety Of Museum Programs and Services
Jason Griffey / Neal-Schuman / 2010 / "Mobile Technology and Libraries" / ISBN: 9781555707118 / 6x9 /
125 pp. / $55.00
Mobile technology is fast becoming the preferred method for connecting to
the Internet, especially for people on the go. Librarians must keep pace
with this trend and integrate themselves into the mobile realm if they wish
to deliver enhanced user services. Mobile Technology and Libraries is a
practical, easy-to-follow new resource that will walk you through the [read more...]
event: An Introduction to Web 2.0 and the Social Web (Leicester)
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Wed, 21/10/2009 - 15:03 18/12/2009 10:00
18/12/2009 16:00
Web 2.0 and the Social Web are terms which are now being used widely. But what do these terms mean? And what, if anything, can Web 2.0 and the Social Web offer to museums, libraries and archives, especially small organisations with limited budgets and technical expertise?
This workshop will attempt to answer these questions. As well as demystifying the terms and the technologies, the workshop will also address the challenges which institutions may face in seeking to make use of Web 2.0 to support the needs of their users.
Learning Objectives [read more...]
Location
19 University Road School of Museum Studies University of Leicester
Leicester LE1 7RF United Kingdom
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event: An Introduction to Web 2.0 and the Social Web (Leeds)
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Wed, 21/10/2009 - 14:57 09/12/2009 10:00
09/12/2009 16:00
Web 2.0 and the Social Web are terms which are now being used widely. But what do these terms mean? And what, if anything, can Web 2.0 and the Social Web offer to museums, libraries and archives, especially small organisations with limited budgets and technical expertise?
This workshop will attempt to answer these questions. As well as demystifying the terms and the technologies, the workshop will also address the challenges which institutions may face in seeking to make use of Web 2.0 to support the needs of their users.
Learning Objectives [read more...]
Location
Carlisle Road Leeds Museum Discovery Centre
Leeds LS10 1LB United Kingdom
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event: An Introduction to Web 2.0 and the Social Web (London)
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Wed, 21/10/2009 - 14:54 03/12/2009 10:00
03/12/2009 16:00
Web 2.0 and the Social Web are terms which are now being used widely. But what do these terms mean? And what, if anything, can Web 2.0 and the Social Web offer to museums, libraries and archives, especially small organisations with limited budgets and technical expertise?
This workshop will attempt to answer these questions. As well as demystifying the terms and the technologies, the workshop will also address the challenges which institutions may face in seeking to make use of Web 2.0 to support the needs of their users.
Learning Objectives [read more...]
Location
150 London Wall Museum of London
London EC2Y 5HNUnited Kingdom
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