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Re: globaloutlookdh-l Digest, Vol 5, Issue 5
by John Simpson 11 Jan '13

11 Jan '13

Hello Global DHers, I'd like to pursue an idea that came up in Havana that can be roughly summarized as "DH on a Stick". Roughly it would focus on the minimal tools and materials necessary to get started doing DH in environments that are less ideal. The core idea is to understand what software and materials could be loaded on a USB drive for distribution, taking into consideration space limitations, language constraints, processing power, end user needs/goals, etc. Building out from this are ideas having to do with new simple techs like Raspberry Pi. Beyond the practical value of linking the community together and enabling new members it would also have deep research value in creating discussions around what is essential. Various snapshots of stick flavours or versions taken over time would be valuable to analyze in the future. Here's a link to the summary that I wrote up after the INKE Havana Conference that is in my Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7tosulwfwwk5rgq/DH%20on%20a%20Stick%202012-12-14.… If the link doesn't work and you are interested then let me know and I'll send the file directly. -John On 2013-01-11, at 5:00 AM, globaloutlookdh-l-request(a)uleth.ca wrote: > Send globaloutlookdh-l mailing list submissions to > globaloutlookdh-l(a)uleth.ca > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/globaloutlookdh-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > globaloutlookdh-l-request(a)uleth.ca > > You can reach the person managing the list at > globaloutlookdh-l-owner(a)uleth.ca > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of globaloutlookdh-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Executive and Chair Nominations/Volunteers (Daniel O'Donnell) > 2. Infrastructure discussion (Daniel O'Donnell) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:44:11 -0700 > From: Daniel O'Donnell <daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca> > Subject: [globaloutlookDH-l] Executive and Chair > Nominations/Volunteers > To: A list for participants in the ADHO DH Global Outlook Community > <globaloutlookdh-l(a)uleth.ca> > Message-ID: <50EEFDEB.6080009(a)uleth.ca> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed > > Hi all, > > As many of you will know, we received approval from the ADHO steering > Committee last week to be recognised as a formal Special Interest Group > (SIG). > > This brings with it some organisational and reporting responsibilities. > We must elect a chair and establish an executive that includes (in > addition to other volunteers or elected members) ex officio > representation from the various constituent organisations that make up ADHO. > > In order to set up our initial administrative structure, we ask you to > > a) Nominate or volunteer to be a candidate for chair. > > b) Nominate somebody or volunteer to be a member of our first year's > executive committee. This will be a group of 6-10 people that will help > with general administrative tasks, which include coordinating different > activities and regional efforts, administering and raising funds, > managing our web presence and outreach. The chair and executive will > also work this year on drafting bylaws for approval by the SIG and on > helping establish regional and project-oriented workgroups. We'd > especially like to ensure that we have a diversity of views, > experiences, languages, etc. on this, so if you have any interest at all > in the committee, please consider volunteering. > > If you would like to nominate or volunteer for either chair or executive > you can do so by writing to Alex Gil (colibri.alex(a)gmail.com) with the > subject line GO::DH Exec Council. Alex will coordinate the election of > the chair if required. If he receives a larger or smaller number of > volunteers for the executive than is manageable, he will return to the > list for advice. > > We'd like to have the executive and chair in place by the end of next > week, so nominations/self-nominations should be submitted to Alex no > later than next Thursday (January 17, 2013). > > In addition to the core council, we will be supporting working groups. > I've been discussing with Neil Fraistat, the ADHO chair, Alex Gil, and > Marcus Bingenheimer, who have been acting with me as (self-appointed) > co-chairs of the initial proposal, and we think that it might also be > useful to follow the following principles in structuring and staffing > these working groups: > > 1) That our core activities are Discovery, Community-building, and Research. > 2) That we seek always to ensure that perspectives from different > regions, types of economies, languages, ranks, and types of employment > are represented in our leadership, activities, and working groups > 3) That we support the use of multiple languages in our activities and > leadership as much as possible. > > We are also working hard on our web presence > (http://www.globaloutlookDH.org/) and we will have some news about that > shortly, including a list of current activities that fall under our purview. > > All the best, > > =dan > -- > Daniel Paul O'Donnell > Professor of English > University of Lethbridge > Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 > Canada > > +1 403 393-2539 > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:05:10 -0700 > From: Daniel O'Donnell <daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca> > Subject: [globaloutlookDH-l] Infrastructure discussion > To: A list for participants in the ADHO DH Global Outlook Community > <globaloutlookdh-l(a)uleth.ca> > Message-ID: <50EF10E6.7090205(a)uleth.ca> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed > > Hi all, > > One of the many exciting things that have been going on in the last week > is a discussion among a number of the Canadians who were at the INKE > meeting in Cuba last month picking up the question of computing > infrastructure, and working with minimal resources (this is a discussion > that was started in the Cuban meeting). > > Not everybody in the discussion was on the globaloutlook list at the > time, so it was happening off list. But since this is a topic on which > different perspectives are absolutely constructive, it would make a lot > of sense to move it here, at least initially, so that others who are > interested can get to know each other. > > We don't really have a model for conducting such discussions. Should > people work things out on this list, for example, or instead invite > people to participate off list and report back so as not to flood > people's inboxes? > > It seems to me that once the executive is established, we may find that > we want to set up working groups on specific projects and regions who > could initiate projects and report back periodically. Maybe this is one > of those. > > Anyway: I'll had the floor over to John Simpson at Alberta and Jentery > Sayers at UVic to explain more about the discussions they've all been > having on this topic. > > -dan > -- > Daniel Paul O'Donnell > Professor of English > University of Lethbridge > Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 > Canada > > +1 403 393-2539 > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > globaloutlookdh-l mailing list > globaloutlookdh-l(a)uleth.ca > http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/globaloutlookdh-l > > > End of globaloutlookdh-l Digest, Vol 5, Issue 5 > *********************************************** >

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Infrastructure discussion
by Daniel O'Donnell 10 Jan '13

10 Jan '13

Hi all, One of the many exciting things that have been going on in the last week is a discussion among a number of the Canadians who were at the INKE meeting in Cuba last month picking up the question of computing infrastructure, and working with minimal resources (this is a discussion that was started in the Cuban meeting). Not everybody in the discussion was on the globaloutlook list at the time, so it was happening off list. But since this is a topic on which different perspectives are absolutely constructive, it would make a lot of sense to move it here, at least initially, so that others who are interested can get to know each other. We don't really have a model for conducting such discussions. Should people work things out on this list, for example, or instead invite people to participate off list and report back so as not to flood people's inboxes? It seems to me that once the executive is established, we may find that we want to set up working groups on specific projects and regions who could initiate projects and report back periodically. Maybe this is one of those. Anyway: I'll had the floor over to John Simpson at Alberta and Jentery Sayers at UVic to explain more about the discussions they've all been having on this topic. -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada +1 403 393-2539

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Executive and Chair Nominations/Volunteers
by Daniel O'Donnell 10 Jan '13

10 Jan '13

Hi all, As many of you will know, we received approval from the ADHO steering Committee last week to be recognised as a formal Special Interest Group (SIG). This brings with it some organisational and reporting responsibilities. We must elect a chair and establish an executive that includes (in addition to other volunteers or elected members) ex officio representation from the various constituent organisations that make up ADHO. In order to set up our initial administrative structure, we ask you to a) Nominate or volunteer to be a candidate for chair. b) Nominate somebody or volunteer to be a member of our first year's executive committee. This will be a group of 6-10 people that will help with general administrative tasks, which include coordinating different activities and regional efforts, administering and raising funds, managing our web presence and outreach. The chair and executive will also work this year on drafting bylaws for approval by the SIG and on helping establish regional and project-oriented workgroups. We'd especially like to ensure that we have a diversity of views, experiences, languages, etc. on this, so if you have any interest at all in the committee, please consider volunteering. If you would like to nominate or volunteer for either chair or executive you can do so by writing to Alex Gil (colibri.alex(a)gmail.com) with the subject line GO::DH Exec Council. Alex will coordinate the election of the chair if required. If he receives a larger or smaller number of volunteers for the executive than is manageable, he will return to the list for advice. We'd like to have the executive and chair in place by the end of next week, so nominations/self-nominations should be submitted to Alex no later than next Thursday (January 17, 2013). In addition to the core council, we will be supporting working groups. I've been discussing with Neil Fraistat, the ADHO chair, Alex Gil, and Marcus Bingenheimer, who have been acting with me as (self-appointed) co-chairs of the initial proposal, and we think that it might also be useful to follow the following principles in structuring and staffing these working groups: 1) That our core activities are Discovery, Community-building, and Research. 2) That we seek always to ensure that perspectives from different regions, types of economies, languages, ranks, and types of employment are represented in our leadership, activities, and working groups 3) That we support the use of multiple languages in our activities and leadership as much as possible. We are also working hard on our web presence (http://www.globaloutlookDH.org/) and we will have some news about that shortly, including a list of current activities that fall under our purview. All the best, =dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada +1 403 393-2539

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Anybody worked with Sloan before?
by Daniel O'Donnell 08 Jan '13

08 Jan '13

Hi all, Looking into funding and the I saw the Sloan foundation have a programme aimed at STEM Higher Education initiatives (STEM = Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine). The description really seems to focus on technology and is particular interested in promoting access. > STEM Higher Education > The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is unique among foundations in its > focus on science and technology. We believe that the scholars and > practicioners in scientific and technical fields are chief drivers of > the nation's prosperity. Grants in the STEM Higher Education program > area promote access to the scientific enterprise, provide information > about scientific and technical careers, and encourage innovation to > the structure of scientific training. Anybody have any experience with them? I wonder if a DH application could make the case that we fit their interests. -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada +1 403 393-2539

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MLA Report
by Alex Gil 08 Jan '13

08 Jan '13

Dear all, I just came back from a very exciting MLA <http://www.mla.org/> meeting. The MLA, for those of you who are not familiar with the organization is the largest professional organization in the United States for scholars working in modern languages, including English, Spanish and French. This year was particularly exhilarating because of a confluence of factors. This year's president, Michael Berubé<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_B%C3%A9rub%C3%A9>, received a standing ovation for his impassioned presidential adress in defense of adjunct faculty. DH continued to be on the rise, showcasing now active detractors<http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2013/01/05/on-the-dark-side-of-the-…>. Finally, the world of digital scholarship is opening up to the idea of a true internationalization as a cadre of bright minds<http://www.nitle.org/live/events/151-race-and-the-digital-humanities-an-int…>debates race, gender, sexuality and the digital archive bravely and productively. As you can imagine, I was quite busy myself. I offered two talks that touch on our shared goals and made many new friends who share them. My first talk was about us directly and the need to get involved this year. The second was about the possibility of distributing DH archives "through other means," especially when those archives can meet needs outside of the rich countries that produce them. The purpose of these talks was to open the conversation, of course. I was happy to learn that Cathy Davidson<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy_Davidson>and HASTAC <http://hastac.org/> have already begun plans to host their annual conference in Peru, with the collaboration of digital scholars from South America. We are planning to meet virtually in February to see where our efforts overlap, and hopefully begin a collaboration with them with graduate students as the main focus. I also had a chance to have a long cup of coffee with Geoffrey Rockwell<http://www.geoffreyrockwell.com/>, of DH fame. We talked about possible collaborations with 4Humanities<http://humanistica.ualberta.ca/>, who as some of you may remember, started a 'correspondent' program in 2011 to learn more about digital scholarship from around the world. We will continue those conversations with Geoffrey and Alan Liu in the days to come. Hopefully we will have some good news to report back to you. In the meantime, I created a couple of *early *drafts for the Around DH in 80 Days<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Km_LuypvHyWacct24KAsOKjLzWKQo2kwMgPL7x9…>project, which will eventually highlight projects and teams from around the world. I invite you to become a contributor to the GoogleDoc<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F3cHJpo4lN0xUYVnTLHuOLWdFGEgEWLy5W-b8Yc…>as soon as you can. In order for us to keep track of who edits what, you should request permission to edit if you haven't done so already. Just shoot me a line if you're interested. I look forward to working with all of you this year! All the best from New York, -- Alex Gil Digital Scholarship Coordinator Humanities and History Columbia University Libraries

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Posting to the list
by Daniel O'Donnell 08 Jan '13

08 Jan '13

Hi all, For some reason, all new subscriptions are being set to "moderation" by the list server software. This means that you are initially being prevented from posting. I apologise for this: I've been trying to stop it doing this, but haven't yet found the right setting apparently. All members of the list are of course free to post to it! If for some reason you find you cannot post, please contact me to let me know and I will manually reset your account (I have just done this, so everybody should be able to post at the moment). Until I find the correct setting, I will check every couple of days as well to make sure that everybody is able to post. Apologies for the inconvenience! -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada +1 403 393-2539

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RE: globaloutlookdh-l Digest, Vol 5, Issue 2
by Sara Sikes 07 Jan '13

07 Jan '13

I'd be willing to assist with the committee. Thanks for putting GO::DH in motion! Sara -----Original Message----- From: globaloutlookdh-l-bounces(a)uleth.ca [mailto:globaloutlookdh-l-bounces@uleth.ca] On Behalf Of globaloutlookdh-l-request(a)uleth.ca Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2013 5:00 AM To: globaloutlookdh-l(a)uleth.ca Subject: globaloutlookdh-l Digest, Vol 5, Issue 2 Send globaloutlookdh-l mailing list submissions to globaloutlookdh-l(a)uleth.ca To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/globaloutlookdh-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to globaloutlookdh-l-request(a)uleth.ca You can reach the person managing the list at globaloutlookdh-l-owner(a)uleth.ca When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of globaloutlookdh-l digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: ADHO SIG approval (Alex Gil) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 17:38:51 -0500 From: Alex Gil <colibri.alex(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [globaloutlookDH-l] ADHO SIG approval To: "Daniel O'Donnell" <daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca>, A list for participants in the ADHO DH Global Outlook Community <globaloutlookdh-l(a)uleth.ca> Message-ID: <CAJpR9mE7P31dB-WKZbf1qJuu-Re4xbMfThpqObbna1G5P_u4Rg(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Naturally, you can count on me for the Exec. Committee. On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Daniel O'Donnell <daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca>wrote: > Hi all, > > A quick word... The ADHO Steering Committee has approved GO::DH as a > Special Interest Group. > > We will be getting webspace from ADHO in the very near future (the > communications officer is currently determining the best place to put > us in the new website). We should also form a more formal executive to > oversee and support our various projects. > > I'd like to return to the question of the executive next week, however: > many people are still returning to work and I'll be resending an > invitation to participants at the Havana Birds of a Feather meeting > from this past December on the weekend. > > -dan > > -- > Daniel Paul O'Donnell > Professor of English > University of Lethbridge > Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 > Canada > > +1 403 393-2539 > > ______________________________**_________________ > globaloutlookdh-l mailing list > globaloutlookdh-l(a)uleth.ca > http://listserv.uleth.ca/**mailman/listinfo/**globaloutlookdh-l<http:/ > /listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/globaloutlookdh-l> > -- Alex Gil Digital Scholarship Coordinator Humanities and History Columbia University Libraries

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ADHO SIG approval
by Daniel O'Donnell 05 Jan '13

05 Jan '13

Hi all, A quick word... The ADHO Steering Committee has approved GO::DH as a Special Interest Group. We will be getting webspace from ADHO in the very near future (the communications officer is currently determining the best place to put us in the new website). We should also form a more formal executive to oversee and support our various projects. I'd like to return to the question of the executive next week, however: many people are still returning to work and I'll be resending an invitation to participants at the Havana Birds of a Feather meeting from this past December on the weekend. -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada +1 403 393-2539

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Rudimentary site up
by Daniel O'Donnell 21 Dec '12

21 Dec '12

Hi all, The DNS is beginning to spread. I've added a rudimentary posting to a WP blog at http://www.globaloutlookdh.org/ -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada +1 403 393-2539

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Update
by Daniel O'Donnell 21 Dec '12

21 Dec '12

Hi all, I sent out an update on the exciting times we had in Cuba, but it looks like it didn't work properly. I was at the end of my internet hour in the hotel, so it may be that it didn't make it out before I was cut off. Several members of this group were in Cuba at a meeting organised by INKE in Havana (Neil Fraistat, Alex Gil, Ray Siemens, and me... I hope I'm not forgetting anybody). On the "unconference" day, the group (including many others from North America, Europe, Cuba, and Latin America more generally) ended up devoting the lion's share of the meeting to discussing the Global Outlook initiative, issues in collaboration among researchers in High, Mid, and Low income countries, and similar topics. We also had meetings with people from the Ministry of Culture, the Casa de los Americas, and the National library about various initiatives. The time was extremely exciting and very productive. Among the outcomes are a nascent proposal for a THaT camp in Cuba next November focussing on Latin America and the Caribbean, discussions about establishing a national DH organisation in Cuba that might initially join ADHO in an observer function, participation in the Havana book fair this coming February and an additional event in March, and some ideas about ways in which specific researchers in Cuba might collaborate with various projects elsewhere in the Caribbean and farther afield. About 30 new people have also asked to join the list, about 1/2 from Cuba and the rest largely from North America. Emails inviting them to confirm their membership have just been sent out. We also developed what looks like it might be a very exciting idea for the money the University of Lethbridge is donating to the initiative: establishing small research grants and bursaries for students and/or early career researchers to propose and carry out research projects looking at digital humanities capacity, infrastructure, and (for want of a better term) "bibliography" in different regions and countries around the world. I have a meeting scheduled with our VPR for early in January to discuss the idea and make sure that it fits within the parameters of the donation. This programme might produce a very useful body of knowledge, I think. Administratively, we are waiting for final ADHO approval of our proposal (the latest version can be found here: http://ubuntuone.com/187LiVZpJKwFNaRV0lZJeD). This should be finished by Monday. Once this is approved, we probably should move on to establishing officers and working We have also bought the domain name globaloutlookdh.org for use for the project and set up a twitter account @globaloutlookdh. We are waiting for the DNS to propagate and then we will have a rudimentary webpage set up early in the new year. Finally, with regard to the conferences we were looking at: *African DH*: I've received confirmation that the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities is holding a slot for us for a session on Africa and DH for the meeting in Victoria this June. Ray, Neil, and I were discussing how we might integrate this with the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) which follows immediately afterwards, though I don't think we've reached any conclusions yet. *DH in China*: We'll know more about this after the DH 2013 sessions are finalised and we've been approved by ADHO's Steering Committee. We should be still planning on it, however, I believe. As you can see, busy and fun times. -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada +1 403 393-2539

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