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Digital Humanities-Library Partnerships: Research Collaborations for Innovative Scholarship

Digital Humanities-Library Partnerships: Research Collaborations for Innovative Scholarship. Jennifer Guiliano.

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Digital Humanities-Library Partnerships: Research Collaborations for Innovative Scholarship

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  1. Digital Humanities-Library Partnerships: Research Collaborations for Innovative Scholarship Jennifer Guiliano

  2. The Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) at the University of South Carolina explores innovative and experimental approaches to research, education, preservation, and public programs for the interdisciplinary field of digital humanities. Reaching across institutions, colleges, disciplines, and departments, CDH initiates, nurtures, and assists in the development and deployment of computational resources, collaborative tools, and educational programming.

  3. Defining Digital Humanities Digital Humanities (DH) scholarship uses critical thinking skills that blend humanistic inquiry and problem solving with an understanding of digital technologies to explore complex research issues in humanities and computer science disciplines.

  4. DH encompasses: • understanding basic tool-based development and design • executing text analysis on large-scale data sets • establishing image comparison analytics • advanced visualization including simulation and modeling • the ability to execute mapping through Geographic Information Systems (GIS) visualizations • launching and analyzing social networks • completing new media/ web 2.0 digital materials including research environments • structuring projects for high performance computing • data digitization, collection, and management • digital repositories • semantic knowledge and collaborative software.

  5. Challenges to DH-Library Partnerships • Competing Platforms • The “Silo” Effort: replication • Disciplinary Thinking: Replicating traditional methods of research and learning within the digital environment (Doing what you know rather than what you could know)

  6. The organization of collections is inherent in the way that research is framed; that such organization of knowledge bounds the way that research is then undertaken, and that challenges to conceptual boundaries begin with the organization of source material. Caroline Levander, Rice University Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)

  7. Strategies for Digital Humanities-Library Partnerships

  8. Strategy #1: Identify Collection Strengths • What are our most visited collections? • Surveying Researchers: What questions are they asking? How are they asking them? • Digital Cyber-environments for Research or why API’s are our friends

  9. Strategy #2: Communicating Effectively • Public profiles: reports, presentations, and conversations • Leverage local, national, and international resources • Document your work and PROMOTE IT!

  10. Strategy #3: Building Community • Networking within your discipline and across others (professional and cultural organizations) • Moving beyond the local by thinking nationally and internationally • Virtual Organizations as research communities • Pick a Random Conference and Attend it.

  11. How does CDH work with others? • Project Development • Technology Research Expertise • Education and Training • Collaborative Engagement (Dating for DH) • Computational Resources

  12. Contact Us • http://cdh.sc.edu • @cdhusc on twitter • Center for Digital Humanities at the University of South Carolina on facebook jenguiliano@gmail.com

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