Dear GO::DH,
I'm consulting a faculty member at my U.S. institution who is in turn
working with several cultural heritage and activist organizations in
Colombia. They have conceived a project that would enable several (not
yet in existence) web archives to be browsed together. They're asking
about interoperability (before they build things, doing it right!) but
also seeking existing models for wrangling many players, generally small
organizations and local universities. They'd like to get the project off
the ground with agreement on a common vision and everyone's extent of
participation, while respecting local autonomy.
Do you know of existing models they/we might look at, for the
organizational part? There are many other questions, including who will
drive this thing and how it will be funded, and we'll address those
here, but first they're looking for best practices regarding how to
organize.
I know this is a big question, but if you know of an organizational
collective of this kind that is working effectively, I'd appreciate a
pointer.
Many thanks,
-Vika
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Dr. Vika Zafrin
Digital Scholarship Librarian
Boston University
+1 617.358.6370 | bu.edu/disc
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Centering Art History & Visual Culture in the Digital Humanities:
A Symposium Celebrating 10 Years of the Wired! Lab at Duke University
October 17-18, 2019
Nasher Museum of Art
Duke University
sites.duke.edu/centeringdh<https://sites.duke.edu/centeringdh/>
#centeringdh
October 17, 2019
Keynote: "Digital Architectural and Art History: A View from the Field"
Patricia Morton, University of California, Riverside
October 18, 2019
I. Morning Session: Spatial Problems Across Time
"No One of Us Is Them: Diverse Proxy Phenomenology in Pompeii"
David Fredrick, University of Arkansas
"Experiencing Temporalities: Space and Pace in Late Ottoman Istanbul"
Burcak Ozludil, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and Augustus Wendell, Duke University
"The Rules of Engagement: Thoughts about prolonged user interaction with virtual environments with a focus on UCLA’s reconstruction model of the World’s Columbian Exposition (Chicago, 1893)"
Lisa Snyder, University of California, Los Angeles
II. Afternoon Session: Digital Methods in the Early Modern Moment
"Mapping Social Context: The DECIMA as a Platform for Spatial Art History"
Colin Rose, Brock University
"The Mind of Michelangelo on Paper"
Mauro Mussolin, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, and Leonardo Pili, Graphic Designer
"Visualizing Lost Landscapes: Sources, Stratigraphy, and Close Reading in Mapping Qing Imperial Parks"
Stephen Whiteman, Courtauld Institute of Art
III. Roundtable: Past and Futures of the Spatial Humanities for Art History and Visual
Wired! Lab Faculty and Staff
Sponsored by the Wired! Lab for Art History & Visual Culture and the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies. Free and open to the public.
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Hannah L. Jacobs
Digital Humanities Specialist, Wired! Lab | she/her/hers
Art, Art History, & Visual Studies, Duke University
hannah.jacobs(a)duke.edu<mailto:hannah.jacobs@duke.edu>
919-660-6563
dukewired.org
@dukewired
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Global Digital Humanities Symposium
March 26-27, 2020
Michigan State University
msuglobaldh.org
Call for Proposals
Deadline: November 1
Proposal form<http://www.msuglobaldh.org/submit-a-proposal/>
Digital Humanities at Michigan State University is proud to extend its symposium series on Global DH (msuglobaldh.org<http://www.msuglobaldh.org/>) into its fifth year, on March 26-27, 2020. Digital humanities scholarship continues to be driven by work at the intersections of a range of distinct disciplines and an ethical commitment to preserve and broaden access to cultural materials. In celebration of the 10th anniversary of MSU's Cultural Heritage Informatics Program<http://chi.anthropology.msu.edu/>, we particularly encourage proposals along that theme, but as always we strive to showcase DH work in all its forms.
Alongside the expansion of digital humanities in under-resourced and underrepresented areas, a number of complex issues surface, including, among others, questions of ownership, cultural theft, virtual exploitation, digital rights, endangered data<http://endangereddataweek.org/>, and the digital divide. DH communities have raised and responded to these issues, pushing the field forward. This symposium is an opportunity to broaden the conversation about these issues. Scholarship that works across borders with foci on transnational partnerships and globally accessible data is especially welcome. Additionally, we define the term “humanities” rather broadly to incorporate the discussion of issues that encourage interdisciplinary understanding of the humanities.
Focused on these issues of social justice, we invite work at the intersections of critical DH; race and ethnicity; feminism, intersectionality, and gender; and anti-colonial and postcolonial frameworks to participate.
This symposium, which will include a mixture of presentation types, welcomes 300-word proposals related to any of these issues, and particularly on the following themes and topics by Friday, November 1, midnight in your timezone:
* Critical cultural studies and analytics
* Cultural heritage in a range of contexts, particularly non-Western
* DH as socially engaged humanities and/or as a social movement
* Open data, open access, and data preservation as resistance, especially in a postcolonial context
* How identity categories, and their intersections, shape digital humanities work
* Global research dialogues and collaborations within the digital humanities community
* Indigeneity – anywhere in the world – and the digital
* Digital humanities, postcolonialism, and neocolonialism
* Global digital pedagogies
* Borders, migration, and/or diaspora and their connection to the digital
* Digital and global languages and literatures
* Digital humanities, the environment, and climate change
* Innovative and emergent technologies across institutions, languages, and economies
* Scholarly communication and knowledge production in a global context
* Surveillance and/or data privacy issues in a global context
* Productive failure
Presentation Formats:
* 5-minute lightning talk
* 15-minute presentation
* 90-minute workshop
* 90-minute panel
* Poster presentation
* There will be a limited number of slots available for 15-minute virtual presentations
Please note that we conduct a double-blind review process, so please refrain from identifying your institution or identity in your proposal.
Submit a proposal here<http://www.msuglobaldh.org/submit-a-proposal/>
Notifications of acceptance will be given by December 9, 2019
Kristen Mapes
Assistant Director of Digital Humanities, College of Arts & Letters
Michigan State University
479 West Circle Drive, Linton Hall 308
East Lansing MI 48824
517-884-1712
kmapes(a)msu.edu | @kmapesy
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