Wednesdays, 1.00-3.00PM, RRCHNM Conference Room

March 19: RRCHNM and the digital humanities center

READINGS:

• Diane Zorich, “Digital Humanities Centers: Loci for Digital Scholarship,” Working Together or Apart: Promoting the Next Generation of Digital Scholarship (Council on Library & Information Resources, 2009)
  • FYI: Full study: Diane Zorich, A Survey of Digital Humanities Centers in the United States (CLIR, 2008)
• Mark Sample, “On the Death of the Digital Humanities Center” (March 26, 2010)
• Stephen Ramsay, “Centers of Attention” (April 27, 2010)
• Stephen Ramsay, “Centers are People” (April 25, 2012)
• Bethany Nowviskie, “too small to fail” (October 13, 2012)
• Neil Fraistat, “The Function of Digital Humanities Centers at the Present Time,” Debates in the Digital Humanities (2012)
• Bethany Nowviskie, “asking for it” (February 8, 2014)
• Elijah Meeks, “Digital Humanities Curio Cabinet” (February 9, 2014)
• Trevor Owens, “Redefining the “Life of the Mind” & the Infrastructure of Knowledge in the Digital Humanities Center” (February 12, 2014)
• RRCHNM Oral Histories:
  • Dan Cohen [Stephen]
  • Tom Scheinfeldt [Amanda]
  • Kelly Schrum [Anne]
  • Mills Kelly [Janelle]

March 26:

READINGS

• Full study: Diane Zorich, A Survey of Digital Humanities Centers in the United States (CLIR, 2008)

Survey Digital Humanities Centers in the US

• Use the list on Centernet: http://digitalhumanities.org/centernet/centers — Jannelle takes the 1st 30, Anne the next 30, Amanda the rest
• Do they fit Zorich’s definition – pp 4-5 of the full Survey?
• Where are they located within their institutional home (library, department etc)?
• What is their history – founding date, development? (Look at their web sites, search for anything written about them, run the site through the Wayback Machine)
• Who are the people – have they changed over time?
• What are the  projects produced by each Center?
• Enter what you find on this Google Sheet – I haven’t defined any fields yet

Centers past? By my count, 18 of the Centers that Zorich surveyed (p. 48) are not listed on Centernet — do they still exist? Janelle take the first 6, Anne the next six, Amanda the last 6

• If they still exist, add them to the sheet above
• If they no longer exist, put them on a second Google Sheet

Meet with Debra Kathman about records of RRCHNM projects

April 2: Build RRCHNM Collecting Site in Omeka (Sheila)

April 9: RRCHNM project case studies

• Amanda: Zotero
• Anne: Teaching History
• Janelle: ECHO

April 16: RRCHNM Project Case Studies

April 23: RRCHNM Project Case Studies

April 30: RRCHNM Project Case Studies

May 7: Presentation to Center