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Digital Arts and Humanities
By Digital Arts and Humanities Working Group of the Humanities InstituteEducation
Digital Arts and Humanities episodes
- Digital Publishing in the Arts and Humanities Q&AA portion of the Q&A session following the presentations of the panel for Digital Publishing in the Arts and Humanities records audience insights into digital publishing issues and how we might develop support mechanisms for it at The Ohio State University.18 min
- Reading Big Data as a Humanist: The Humanities Visualization StudioThis presentation explores the concept of a Humanities Visualization Studio for The Ohio State University and its potential role in leveraging “Big Data” to bring new insights and knowledge building in the humanities. Staley offers analysis of the unique approaches humanists might bring to working with large data sets and developing patterns of interpretive insight. He presents the concept of distant reading or macro-level reading as a methodology that is growing in relevance, initiating radical transformation of texts and enabled by emergent technologies. Staley further suggest the important role a Humanities Visualization Studio would have in bringing people together to collaborate, pool resources and move forward in concert.20 min
- Stanford’s Digital Humanities LabsLabov shares her experience with Stanford’s Humanities Lab (http://humanitieslab.stanford.edu/admin/directory.html), Beyond Search (https://beyondsearch.stanford.edu/) and Stanford Literary Lab (http://litlab.stanford.edu/) as examples of how digital humanities labs can address issues involved in working with humanities big data. These initiatives are explored as examples of how such efforts to bring a humanities community together can work (or not). Labov suggests three lessons to be learned from Stanford’s experience: there is a risk in developing digital humanities spaces and equipment stores which are not solidly based in viable research projects, that more successful efforts are built around researchers and their existing work and interests and that an institution needs to let these environments evolve as communities and community centers.11 min
- Thinking Metaphorically about DataUlman offers examples of different humanities visualization projects as way of examining the concept of “big data” and how we might set an agenda for a visualization studio. Interrogating the concepts of “close,” “distant,” “wide," and "deep" reading, he suggests that it is not the size of the data set but the broadness of the opportunities for investigation that should determine the kind of projects to be addressed by the humanities visualization studio. Ulman demonstrates how applying visualization techniques that provide a "wide" view of the data found in the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives can offer new insights and conclusions. Similarly, investigating single words in Louisa A. Doane’s Journal of Two Ocean Voyages (1850-52) against the "wide" canvas of the Google Books database increased students understanding of historical context and meaning. He suggests that archival finding aids can be made more understandable and facilitate research more effectively by employing visualization tools. Finally, by exploring the process of transforming "deep" text-encoding markup into reading or "surface" versions of texts, Ulman shows how electronic textual editions in themselves are visualizations of complex or "big" data. In these ways, data sets that seem small in size can have larger meaning through data visualization.23 min
- Visualization Q&A sessionA portion of the Q&A session following the presentations of the panel for Visualizing "Big Data" in the Arts and Humanities records audience insights into the meaning behind the term “big data” and how we might develop initiatives at The Ohio State University.7 min
About Digital Arts and Humanities
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This podcast presents events hosted by The Ohio State University’s Humanities Institute’s Digital Arts and Humanities Working Group (DAH WG). DAH WG provides a venue for building a sustained digital…
arts and humanities network on campus. Ohio State supports ground-breaking work in the digital arts and humanities, but the University’s success in this area depends on building support systems that include a more robust infrastructure for developing and hosting digital humanities projects and a richer culture of collaboration and curation for that work. That culture must bring together librarians, IT professionals, and faculty, who, on such a large campus, often are simply unaware of potential resources and collaborators. As one of the OSU Humanities Institute's Working Groups, we sponsor workshops, panel discussions by members of the OSU community, and presentations by guest speakers. Programming organized by the working group focuses on areas in which there is already interest or expertise on campus, including mapping/visualization, digitally-enhanced pedagogy, digital archives, electronic textual editing, and game-based learning. The Working Group also functions as an 'incubator' for an ongoing digital arts and humanities community or network at OSU. This community will facilitate collaboration and sharing of expertise, and may have a role in recommending infrastructure for supporting research and teaching. For more information about the Digital Arts and Humanities Working Group, please visit our website: go.osu.edu/dah.