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Around DH in 80 Days
by Alex Gil 03 Feb '13

03 Feb '13

Hello all, [Versión en español viene de camino] It is my pleasure to introduce to you one of our first pilot projects at GO::DH, Around DH in 80 Days! AroundDH hopes to be a fun way to introduce the work of colleagues around the world to those who are just starting out. Everyday for 80 days we will visit a group or projects across the globe. An editorial board will select a total of 80 groups or projects, one for each day. Groups in the list will be approached to describe themselves and highlight their work in 200 words or less. We will do our best to bring attention to digital scholarship outside of Canada, Europe, the US and Japan. In that sense, we are departing from a broad and inclusive vision of DH. Besides the audience of new comers, the global scope of the tour should also attract some of the more seasoned DH’ers. The greatest challenge of the editorial board is to balance the geographical margins with the greatest-hits of the northern mainstream. The greatest hope of the project is to paint enough of a broad picture of digital humanities to redefine it in the process. Thus, AroundDH can be read not only as a tour of the globe, but also as a dance around the periphery of DH. The project began as an email experiment. One email was sent daily from my outbox to all the librarians in the H&H division at Columbia with the subject “The DH Daily.” Everyday, our librarians, who are in the middle of a 2-year professional development program to become the consultation arm of our Digital Humanities Center at Columbia, would visit a different DH center or project. Others outside of Columbia heard about the experiment and wanted to be included in the email list. The appeal was the small dosages. Like the librarians, the rise of DH across the land has brought crowds of DH-curious academic professionals and students to our doors asking where do I begin?’ At the same time that the emails were going out, I was slowly but surely becoming part of the conversations around Global Outlook DH. There we were trying to discover as much as we could about the world outside the fields of vision of the member-nations of the ADHO. Eventually these two sets of concerns blend into one, and thus was born the idea for Around DH in 80 days. The project is currently being developed by Ryan Cordell’s Doing Digital Humanities graduate class (#s13dh). You are still welcome to contribute to our global list. After Ryan’s class develops the first stage of the project, the project will be passed around the world for refinement. Around DH indeed!

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DH and Social Sciences?
by Domenico Fiormonte 03 Feb '13

03 Feb '13

Dear all, two weeks ago I was invited by the University of Lausanne to give a talk on the relationship between social sciences and DH. This wonderful opportunity was offered to me by the launch of Lausanne's new Digital Humanities and Cultures Lab at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences: http://dhlausanne.ch/2013/01/31/universite-de-lausanne-un-labo-dh-est-cree-… Thanks to Claire Clivaz you can read here a short French translation of my talk: http://claireclivaz.hypotheses.org/249 An Italian expanded version could be find here: http://infolet.it/files/2013/02/Digital-Humanities-e-scienze-sociali.pdf All the best Domenico

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Derrida and American Attitude
by Marcus Bingenheimer 01 Feb '13

01 Feb '13

Dear John, Thanks for the Derrida snippet. I will use it in class as a example for the sort of cleverly faulty argumentation that one encounters in the Humanities so often. It is wrong in content ("Cinema is American"), in structure (the ad-hoc, nonsensical definition of 'American' in "deux choses" - one more and one less abusive), and in the artful admission and consequent concealment of his own prejudice "Perhaps my usage of the word 'American' is a little abusive, bien-sur". I hope it will remind the students (and myself) how neither cleverness nor philosophical training protects you from rationalizing your prejudices - and bullshitting about them. What does? marcus -- Dr. Marcus Bingenheimer 馬德偉 Department of Religion, Temple University http://mbingenheimer.net

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DH and Digital Culture Conference in Sao Paolo
by Alex Gil 01 Feb '13

01 Feb '13

de interesse, via @AfrolatinProjec: http://www.geledes.org.br/areas-de-atuacao/direitos-humanos/260-noticias-di… Best, A.

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(no subject)
by Elie Dannaoui 30 Jan '13

30 Jan '13

Dear colleagues, My name is Elie Dannaoui, Assistant Professor at the University of Balamand - Lebanon. I would like to thank you for facilitating these types of communications and reflections. Just few words about my research interests and activities. Few years ago, it was not easy for us to defend being at the same time involved in both Humanities and "Sciences". I say "defend" or maybe "justify" to describe a spontaneous attitude when questioned about having a multidisciplinary profile like cases similar to mine (doctorates in History and in Computer sciences). It seems that some implicit attitudes tend to become more explicit, and what we feel as Digital Humanists homogeneous has the chance to be seen as it is or at least not stereotyped and judged a priori as heterogeneous. I fully agree with Claire when she talks about recovering identities. Well, regarding my research interests, they are maybe a little bit far from the interests of the list members, I concentrate mainly on Arabic. My activities are oriented towards two objectives: 1) Arabic digital publishing mainly of the Arabic heritage. This field remains neglected and less studied. Huge efforts still to be paid on this level to follow the efforts of standardisation and scholarly editing. 2) Arabic corpus building and analysis. Currently I work on building a corpus of the Arabic Gospels translated since the 8th century. New technologies are being used in this project and many levels of analysis are being integrated. I am sure that this community will be very helpful in supporting our efforts in promoting Digital Humanities in Arabic studies and among Arabists and Arabic scholars. Best regards, Elie -- Elie DANNAOUI, *PhD* University of Balamand, LEBANON Tel.: +961-6-930250 ext. 4179 Mobile: +961-3-500690 Email: elie.dannaoui(a)balamand.edu.lb http://balamand.academia.edu/ElieDannaoui

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Re: globaloutlookdh-l Digest, Vol 18, Issue 2
by Pablo Rigal Collado 30 Jan '13

30 Jan '13

> > Mi nombre es Pablo Rigal soy directior de la editoriaol Cubaliteraria, nuetro protal promueve la Literatura y el libro cubanos, editamos libros digitales, multimedias, audiolibros y somos una institucio'n en crecimiento atentaa todos los cambios y proyectos del mundo digital. Dentro de los limites del desarrollo tecnolo'gico que tenmos en Cuba por el bloqueo coordinamos durante la Feria del Lbro de la Habana un espacio de encuentro de proyetos digitales que nos permite intercambiar experiencias, adjunto el programa de este an~o y dejo abierta la invitacio'n para aquellos que quieran participar en la Feria del An~o 2014 con alguna de sus experiencias. >> Un saludo Cordial: Pablo Rigal My name is Paul Rigal am directior of editoriaol Cubaliteraria, nuetra protal promotes Cuban literature and books, edit digital books, multimedia, and audio books are a growing institution attentive to all changes and digital world projects. Within the limits of technological development we have in Cuba by the blockade coordinate during the Fair of Havana Lbro a meeting of Projects digital allows us to exchange experiences, herewith the program this year and left open the invitation for those who want to participate in the Fair of 2014 with some of their experiences. Cordial greetings Paul Rigal

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Half-automatized translation: a try
by Claire Clivaz 30 Jan '13

30 Jan '13

Dear all, Here is a try to find a way to deal fast and with efficiency with the question of a bilingual scholarly production (French and English). I produced a French blog article on «Comment éviter le retour des travers de l'Age Classique dans les DH?» (http://claireclivaz.hypotheses.org/235) I did an automatized English translation with this tool (thank you to Elisabeth Blurr and the ADHO-MLMC committee for the link): http://www.bing.com/translator/ Then I ask to an academic native speaker to check the automatized translation (many thanks to Jim Wilcox). And I have got this result: «How to avoid the return of the Classical Age in the Digital Humanities?»; http://claireclivaz.hypotheses.org/242 Efficient? Reactions? Opinions? In any case, it was easy, fast, not expansive. All the best, Claire Clivaz (Lausanne, CH)

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Introduction: Neven Jovanovic, Zagreb, Hrvatska / Croatia
by Neven Jovanović 28 Jan '13

28 Jan '13

Drage kolegice, dragi kolege, I have recently joined the GO:DH mailing list, so I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Neven Jovanovic, I work at the University of Zagreb, Croatia (at the Department of Classical Philology), and my primary interest in digital humanities is exploring texts, especially in Latin. To this purpose we have built a digital collection Croatiae auctores Latini (CroALa, www.ffzg.unizg.hr/klafil/croala, using ARTFL's PhiloLogic and TEI XML standard), containing Latin texts written by people connected with Croatia, and currently we're trying to see what can we learn from this collection that could not have been learned otherwise. Croatia, with population of 4.5 million, is a small country, and its DH community is small enough that we all know each other. It has its advantages and disadvantages, of course. The country is also heavily hit by an economic crisis and uses a small language, so its resources in language technology and digitisation of cultural heritage are relatively limited (and not always coherent). That is why I'm interested to see what will arise from GO:DH discussions and exchange of ideas. And I'll circulate the news about GO:DH to people I know. Srdačno, Neven Neven Jovanović Odsjek za klasičnu filologiju Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu Hrvatska

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Presentation and concrete propositions
by Marin Dacos 27 Jan '13

27 Jan '13

Dear everyone, I am Marin Dacos, director of the Center for open electronic publishing. As Claire Clivaz, I am happy to see that people don't forget their discipline. In my case, I was an historian, but now I am fully a digital humanist, as my job is 100% to facilitate the open access publications in arts, humanities and social sciences. I am the founder of Revues.org, Calenda, Hypotheses and the soon to be released OpenEdition Books. The OpenEdition team is located in Marseilles, but also in Paris and Lisbon, and we plan more partnerships in other countries and towns. OpenEdition aim is to improve visibility of humanities online, and to foster innovations in digital publishing. Our main project, in this concern, is Hypotheses, which is a multilingual platform for academic blogging. We already have a german version, thanks to a partnership with the Max Weber Fundation, and a spanish version, thanks to a partnership with Uned (Madrid). We have other partnerships in preparation. OpenEdition is involved in promoting bibliodiversity and open access. The concept of bibliodiversity includes : - diversity of languages - diversity of publishing places - diversity of publishing players We are convinced that globalization does not mean that we will have domination of only one culture, one player, one paradigm and one language. This would be a global failure and lead research and culture to a sad poverty. We think that globalization means mixing, hybridation and exchanges. And strong linguistic areas. As far as I know, the brilliant german philosophical tradition owes a lot to german language, and it is probably the case for a lot of paradigms and innovations. Saying that, I don't think that we have to fight English a common language. But I would defend Globish as a common language, because there are few non English native speakers that are able to speak/write with a very elegant and subtlety language in English. For this reason, I would recommand to revamp the organization of our DH international events. They should be held in Globish, with a lot of respect for non-native speakers. Some propositions : - when an English native speaker is speaking, all non native would have a "green card" that they could rise at any time during the conference. This would be used to say "I don't understand, you speak to fast, or you are making references to cultural anglo-american knowledge" - international conferences should take care of the quality of the sound in the rooms used for conferences. For example, the quality of the sound during the introducing conference of Claudine Moulin in Hambourg was not good, and it was difficult to understand 100% of her talk, which was very interesting. - during the expertise process of DH conferences, we have to encourage non native speakers by any possible ways. The goal should be to reach parity. We should consider that perfection of the English language SHOULD NOT BE ANYMORE a criteria of selection. That will take time. We should consider that this change won't occur in less than 5 or 10 years. But we should involve in this process. Affirmative action could be one way. Other ways could be to put money in translation processes. We could also ask to English native speakers to submit their article in Spanish or in French... They would discover how difficult it is for us, and that they should become more indulgent in the selection process. Or both. I am against the idea of making different language-based sessions in international DH events. We should use only English, in order to be sure to reach a full audience, and avoid language-based ghettos. Last, but not least, I would be very happy if English native speakers could support non natives in enhancing their English. I would suggest that one US/UK searcher support one non US/UK searcher. Who want to support me in improving my written/oral English? Best regards, Marin -- Marin Dacos Director - Centre for Open Electronic Publishing ** OpenEdition lauréat des Équipements d’excellence (Equipex) ** ** New email : marin.dacos(a)openedition.org ** CNRS - EHESS - Aix-Marseille Université - Université d'Avignon 3, place Victor Hugo, Case n°86, 13331 Marseille Cedex 3 - France Tél : 04 13 55 03 40 Tél. direct : 04 13 55 03 39 Fax : 04 13 55 03 41 Skype : marin.dacos - Google hangout : marin.dacos(a)gmail.com Twitter : http://twitter.com/#!/marindacos

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about the cyberpunk ethic in the cuban digital revolution
by Yasmín S. Portales Machado 26 Jan '13

26 Jan '13

Un estudiante de Estdos Unidos en Cuba ha escrito una excelente crónica, a propósito de la ética ciberpunk que preside la revolución digital mi país. Disfruten y comenten el texto de Graham Sowa "Cómo se utilizan las nuevas tecnologías en Cuba": http://www.havanatimes.org/sp/?p=78728 (español) An USA student in Havana just post a cronic about the cyberpunk ethic in the cuban digital revolution. Read and coment the Graham Sowa´s point of view: http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=86275 (english) Yasmín S. Portales Machado -------------------------------------- Marxista, Feminista y Bloguera Facebook http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=663817529 Mi blog: http://yasminsilvia.blogspot.com/ Parte de Proyecto Arcoiris Colectivo LGBT de Cuba, anticapitalista e independiente http://proyectoarcoiris.wordpress.com/ Parte de Observatorio Crítico de Cuba ¡A la izquierda, pero por la izquierda! http://observatoriocriticodesdecuba.wordpress.com/ "Debemos recordar que... Si la gente se reúne para una causa común, cualquiera que sea su nombre y cualquiera que sea su razón, pronto se convertirán en un grupo político" Carta del Emperador Trajano a Plinio el Joven, s. II

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