We've been pretty good at getting things out in different languages, and have added our first, I believe, Tagalog speaker.

I'd say advertise in a number of different languages--the most common we've had are probably English, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, French, Italian, and I think Japanese (it is not only a function of number of speakers in the community--which is not the same thing as world wide, but also which communities see translation as desirable/welcoming, etc.). We could translate into Dutch or German, for example, but the value attached to translation among German and Dutch speakers seems to be low. English, on the other hand, places an extremely high value on translation.

I've been thinking more about the categories. I think the intractable issue is going to be volunteer effort, because any typology that won't create bottlenecks with the one year eligibility period is going to require more effort.

Your 2013 categories are Best DH contribution not in the English language; Best use of DH for fun; Best DH blog post, article, or short publication; Best DH visualization or infographic; Best DH project for public audiences.

As a typology, it is pretty good although the two weakest ones (taking the problems with "not English" as read) are presumably "for fun" and "for public audiences" since both of those refer to intention, while the others refer to type (meaning entries in "fun" and "for public audiences" might also be one of the other types).

I could see a couple of other approaches. One, really interesting (though complex and perhaps only good in theory, might be to take Unsworth's Primitives and ask people to nominate based on the primary activity/focus of the project:

That might be too abstract, however. Another list, taking the same approach but in a slightly more concrete way, might include:
I'm not sure you'd need an "other" in this case, but it is probably safest to have one and restrict to things that are not arguably one of the other categories. There will be overlap among the other fields, but you could ask people to nominate according to the primary purpose or function.

The only way I see of making something like this manageable is to go on a two year rotation: 5 categories a year, two year eligibility.



On 14-02-09 08:11 AM, James Cummings wrote:
Marin,

Merci! C'est aussi un bon point. Le plan était certainement pour cette année (2014) pour traduire l'appel à candidatures et l'appel à voter en plusieurs langues (et de vous approcher pour l'aide!). Mais puisque vous savez que mon français est terrible alors...

Thanks! Also a good point. The plan was definitely for this year to translate the call for nominations and call to vote into multiple languages (and will approach you guys to help!). I should probably target Mandarin, Spanish, Hindi, and Arabic if possible. (According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers) but I suppose that depends on volunteers.  I understand the difficulty of describing something by use of negation of the category you are starting from - very difficult not to. In the case of 'non-fiction', for example, this sometimes encompasses some material I wouldn't, in English, describe as 'factual'. I will try to endeavour to stress the positive 'any language' aspect even more going forward.

Many thanks,
-James

On 09/02/14 14:20, Marin Dacos wrote:
To my mind, the best way to open DH Awards to non English
contents, without creating a ghetto with a specific entry, is to
translate the call and the categories in 4-5 languages.
By principle, I refuse to use any negative denominations like
"non English". I am always disturbed by the "non-fiction"
category, in English, which is very weak and negative.
Best regards,
Marin



On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 2:12 PM, James Cummings
<James.Cummings@it.ox.ac.uk <mailto:James.Cummings@it.ox.ac.uk>>
wrote:


    Hi Alex and Ernesto,

    Thanks! That was my precisely my thought (especially that it
    would relate 'Other' with 'Non-English' which seemed a really
    really dangerous idea).

    I'll thank the person for the idea but explain how it may be
    construed as even more divisive and problematic.

    Thanks for your thoughts!

    -James


    On 07/02/14 13:09, Ernesto Priego wrote:

        Ditto to what Alex has just shared. Ditto.

        Best regards,

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        <mailto:colibri.alex@gmail.com>__>> wrote:

             Hi all,

             Sorry for not jumping in earlier. I've been ill and
        slower
             than usual.

             James, creating a category for Other that only has
             Non-English entries is NOT-A-Good-Idea. Take a moment to
             think about this equation, Other=Non-English, then think
             about the subjectivities following on the heels of
        Edward
             Said's Orientalism
             <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/__Orientalism_(book)
        <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism_(book)>>. I know

             this is difficult, but you are moving in the right
        direction!
             I salute your effort to create a space for 'positive
             discrimination,' or affirmative action as the USeans
        call it.

             Since the awards would lose what makes them unique
        unless
             voting was 100% volunteer, may I suggest simply
        continuing
             the work of advocacy and encouragement behind the
        scenes.
             Just do not make any distinction in the categories.
        Use the
             other category as Dan suggests, to make sure the
        community
             surprises us. We will help you here at GO:DH to
        reach larger
             audiences whose main vehicle of digital expression
        is not
             English.

             Let me be clear. If you make sure to advocate for a
             kaleidoscopic and babylonian ecosystem of digital
        humanities,
             and show awareness that English models on offer are NOT
             universal or representative of the rest of us, I'll
        be on
             your side if you receive any ill will.

             Your great admirer,
             Alex.


             On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 6:17 AM, James Cummings
             <James.Cummings@it.ox.ac.uk
        <mailto:James.Cummings@it.ox.ac.uk>
             <mailto:James.Cummings@it.ox.__ac.uk
        <mailto:James.Cummings@it.ox.ac.uk>>> wrote:


                 Hi GO::DH,

                 Me again! Sorry. After summarising the suggestions
                 received here I received a suggestion through
        other means
                 that I'd like to run by you since it does feed
        into the
                 desire to encourage non-anglo DH resources to
        nominate
                 themselves for DH Awards.

                 As you'll remember some didn't like the annual
        nature of
                 the awards without a catch-all category of
        'other' and
                 some didn't like the non-English category
        because of a
                 perceived ghettoisation of non-English resources. I
                 resisted the 'other' category for two reasons (1: a
                 *large* category for admin and voters; 2:
        difficulty of
                 comparison for voters).

                 The suggestion was made to me that there be an
        'Other'
                 category for anything that didn't fit into the other
                 categories, but that nominations in this category be
                 restricted to non-English resources (that didn't
        fit into
                 any of the other categories and the nominations
        committee
                 try to move things nominated here to other
        categories if
                 suitable). The idea behind this suggestion, I
        believe, is
                 that English resources don't get the benefit of the
                 'other' category and miss out as previously
        described,
                 but non-English resources do not. This would be
        a form of
                 so-called 'positive discrimination' based on the
                 assumption that anglo resources have more than
        enough
                 innate privileges.

                 For my part, I found the idea clever but I worry
        about
                 any form of discrimination (positive or not),
        and also
                 couldn't think of a way to name it which didn't
        seem to
                 repeat the perceived ghettoisation that people
        have seen
                 in this year's category. While I don't think
                 anglo-created resources would suffer unduly
        because of
                 this, it still seems a bit unfair.

                 -James

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