Comments on: DH Commons http://texas2011.thatcamp.org/04/12/dh-commons/ The Humanities and Technology Camp Mon, 09 May 2011 23:57:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 By: Ben Brumfield http://texas2011.thatcamp.org/04/12/dh-commons/#comment-86 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:50:32 +0000 http://texas2011.thatcamp.org/?p=372#comment-86 It seems to me that there might be a lot of value in a community concentrating on the lone DHers within academia, even if such a community would exclude folks like me who are outside it. Issues regarding tenure and promotion–even pedagogy–might well be central to such a community while being irrelevant to the rest of us.

So I wouldn’t say that DHCommons should necessarily attempt to include the entire DH big tent — especially if it’s not trying to supplant the other places (DHAnswers, Twitter) where that conversation takes place.

]]> By: Jasmine Mulliken http://texas2011.thatcamp.org/04/12/dh-commons/#comment-84 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 04:07:40 +0000 http://texas2011.thatcamp.org/?p=372#comment-84 I like this proposal very much. I’m about to graduate from the University of Texas at Austin, which has a fantastic infrastructure and potential for the digital humanities. I feel I’ve had a lot of great opportunities there to work with new technologies and talented people, but I’m worried that the job I end up getting will be quite limiting in comparison. I’d be very interested in ways to keep up with the DH community even if the institution I work at does not provide as much support as larger universities like UT.

]]> By: rebeccadavis http://texas2011.thatcamp.org/04/12/dh-commons/#comment-80 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:42:01 +0000 http://texas2011.thatcamp.org/?p=372#comment-80 Ben, you pose a good question. I work primarily with small liberal arts colleges, but so we’ve been thinking of faculty, librarians and technologists in academia. But, I think it would be helpful to think of institutions outside of academia, as well. In addition, liberal arts colleges value community-based learning, so I could imagine some interesting partnerships developing that might allow students to work with museums, archives, etc.

For example, in 2010 a student from Hamilton College who interns in their Digital Humanities initiative (DHi) had two summer internships in NYC, including the chance to select material to preserve and showcase from a large collection called Homovisiones, from a cable news program dedicated to queer Puerto Ricans and Latinos in NYC. She also worked in public programming for a museum in Spanish Harlem.

]]> By: Ben Brumfield http://texas2011.thatcamp.org/04/12/dh-commons/#comment-77 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:59:46 +0000 http://texas2011.thatcamp.org/?p=372#comment-77 It would be useful to know more about the community you hope to serve. Will DHCommons be restricted to academia, or will it be open to similarly isolated digital humanists at museums, archives, libraries, or other/no institutional types?

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