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Jim McGrath deposited Mapping Violence Syllabus (Brown University Undergraduate Course; Taught by Monica Muñoz Martinez, Jim McGrath, and Edwin Rodriguez; Spring 2020) in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoPDF copy of the syllabus for “Mapping Violence,” an undergraduate course co-taught by Profs. Monica Muñoz Martinez and Jim McGrath with Teaching Assistant Edwin Rodriguez. The course draws on and contributes to work from Mapping Violence, a digital restorative justice initiative focused on acts of state-sanctioned racial violence in Texas and…[Read more]
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Johann-Mattis List deposited The multiple benefits of making predictions in linguistics in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoThrough an experiment on a Western Kho-Bwa linguistic dataset, Timotheus A. Bodt and Johann-Mattis List provide evidence for the regularity of sound change.
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Micah Vandegrift posted an update in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoPondering what it would look like to use HCommons as a documentation hub for a project published/displayed elsewhere…
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Froilán Ramos R. deposited Ideología e HIstorIografía. reflexIones sobre el comunIsmo en el sIglo xx. in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoThis essay analyzes from the perspective of historical revisionism the Communism during the first half of the twentieth century, based on the specialized historiography. It is part of the analysis of Communism as an ideology, system and use of political violence and it is compared with Nazism. In both, Nazism and Communism, similar features are…[Read more]
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Samantha Blickhan replied to the topic Getting started with crowdsourcing in GLAMS and academia: your questions sought in the discussion
Crowdsourcing on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoThis question of commonly-seen tasks is one of the hardest ones for me, as a practitioner, to wrap my head around in terms of how to convey information in a useful way. For example, it’s *so* helpful to be able to point to a project using a similar type of data, with a similar goal, and say, “Here’s how this team did it, here’s what their output…[Read more]
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Mia Ridge replied to the topic Getting started with crowdsourcing in GLAMS and academia: your questions sought in the discussion
Crowdsourcing on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoThinking about it, one of the challenges for people thinking about crowdsourcing ideas for the first time is understanding whether their idea is similar to established patterns, or if it’s novel.
Platforms tend to cater to projects that match common patterns of tasks, though each has variations in how they approach it. Entirely new or novel tasks…[Read more]
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Eric Sirota started the topic Streaming version of Off-Broadway musical based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in the discussion
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoMy musical based on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has been playing Off-Broadway in NYC for over 2-1/2 years (up until the pause caused by the health crisis). It has had a great deal of interest from college and high school classes studying the novel, with groups attending the performances.
TheFrankensteinMusical.comEven before covid, we had…[Read more]
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Augustine Farinola replied to the topic JOB: Digital Media (DH) Specialist, University of Kansas in the discussion
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoError please
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Brian Rosenblum started the topic JOB: Digital Media (DH) Specialist, University of Kansas in the discussion
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoApplication deadline July 1
More info: employment.ku.edu/staff/17177BRDigital Media Specialist
Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities
University of KansasPosition Overview
The Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities supports, creates, and disseminates digital research in the humanities. It provides an intellectual hub for…[Read more]
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Ernesto Priego deposited Call for Papers: Special Collection: Translation, Remediation, Spread: The Global Circulation of Comics in Digital Distribution – The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThe Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship shares its Call for Papers for the Special Collection: Translation, Remediation, Spread: The Global Circulation of Comics in Digital Distribution. This Special Collection of The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship will focus on the global circulation of comics in digital forms, from webcomics…[Read more]
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Juan Antonio Fernandez Rivero deposited Charles Monney, un fotógrafo singular in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoGathering all this news about Charles Monney (París 1830-Madrid 1875) and delving into the details of his professional life have made us consider his contribution to Spanish photography in its first decades. A photographer whose beginnings are linked to the legendary group of passer-by pioneers, somewhat later but who reminds us of photographers…[Read more]
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James Elkins started the topic Online summer reading group on Joyce and Schmidt in the discussion
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoAnnouncing a reading group on the limits of the novel
June 6 – August 29
I’d like to invite everyone to an online reading group on Finnegans Wake and Arno Schmidt’s novel Bottom’s Dream. We’ll be focusing on the way both books threaten the narrative of the traditional novel by privileging language, scholarly apparatus, and other material. This p…[Read more]
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Helen Bones deposited Linked digital archives and the historical publishing world: An Australasian perspective in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThe ARCHIVER project (Angus & Robertson Collection for Humanities and Education Research), based at Western Sydney University, is developing a model for curating digitally accessible versions of print‐based manuscript collections that has the potential to transform humanities research. Using structured, linked metadata concepts, “Linked Arc…[Read more]
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Jenny Grant Rankin deposited Increasing the Impact of Your Research: A Practical Guide to Sharing Your Findings and Widening Your Reach in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThis guide helps researchers in all fields share their findings, knowledge, and ideas effectively and beyond typical silos. By pursuing the
recommendations in this book, researchers can increase the exposure of their work to increase impact. Chapters cover the most effective ways to share readers’ research, such as:
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Mia Ridge replied to the topic Getting started with crowdsourcing in GLAMS and academia: your questions sought in the discussion
Crowdsourcing on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoCommon platforms include:
- The Zooniverse Project Builder
- FromThePage
- Scripto + Omeka
- Pybossa
This is only a starting point and doesn’t begin to address the strengths and affordances of each platform, or consider the other systems you’ll need around the platform to manage data going in and out.
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Mia Ridge replied to the topic Getting started with crowdsourcing in GLAMS and academia: your questions sought in the discussion
Crowdsourcing on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThe following is a bit of a brain dump of things I tend to say in conversations about crowdsourcing projects, based on my academic research and practical experience. I should really just dig out my teaching slides as they’re designed to anticipate common questions, but in the spirit of ‘the perfect being the enemy of the good’ I’m going to start…[Read more]
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Mia Ridge replied to the topic Getting started with crowdsourcing in GLAMS and academia: your questions sought in the discussion
Crowdsourcing on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThinking back over previous conversations and unpicking some of the assumptions people bring to them, I’ve kick-started with some questions I’ve heard a few times. I’d love to know which ones resonate, and more importantly, what questions you’d add:
- How do I manage data quality?
- Is the overhead of picking and figuring out a platform worth it?…
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Mia Ridge started the topic Getting started with crowdsourcing in GLAMS and academia: your questions sought in the discussion
Crowdsourcing on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoWith much of the world being asked to stay in and prevent the spread of the coronavirus and many people unable to do their usual activities, there’s a surge of interest in crowdsourcing from folk in museums, libraries, archives, galleries, academics and others.
This is the moment many of us already working in crowdsourcing have dreamed of, but it…[Read more]
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Helen Bones deposited Accident or Desire? Linked Archives and the Trans-Tasman Literary Scene in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThe early twentieth-century Tasman world (Australia and New Zealand) was a site of literary collaboration and cross-pollination, which has been under-appreciated. As well as there being little scholarship on the subject, histories of publishing and the book trade have largely been written within national frameworks, and even the documentary…[Read more]
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Katherine D. Harris deposited Final Progress Report California Open Educational Resources Council in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoFinal progress report about the California Open Educational Resources Council’s work with 3 representatives from each of the California State University, University of California, and California Community Colleges, to investigate the efficacy of implementing adoption of OER textbooks and to create a repository of OER textbooks for use in all 3 systems.
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