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CLIR/NEH Digital Humanities Papers
Available
I had the privilege of serving on an planning committee for and
attending a September 15, 2008 joint Council on Library and
Information Resources/National Endowment for the Humanities Symposium
on opportunities for information technology to enhance scholarship in
the humanities and social sciences. In preparation for the Symposium,
a number of really superb background papers were commissioned; the
authors later had the opportunity to revise them based on discussion
at the Symposium. These papers are now available, and I strongly
recommend them to CNI-announce readers as broad and thoughtful surveys
of key developments and opportunities.
The general page for the symposium is here, and includes links to
the individual papers:
http://www.clir.org/activities/digitalscholar2/index.html
Here is the list of papers:
Tools for thinking: ePhilology and
Cyberinfrastructure by Gregory Crane, Alison Babeu, David
Bamman, Lisa Cerrato, and Rashmi Singhal
Social Attention in the Age of the
Web by Bernardo A. Huberman
The Changing Landscape of American
Studies in a Global Era by Caroline Levander
Art History and the New Media;
Representation and the Production of Humanistic Knowledge by
Stephen Murray
A Whirlwind Tour of Automated
Language Processing for the Humanities and Social Sciences by
Douglas W. Oard
Information Visualization: Challenge
for the Humanities by Maureen Stone
In addition to these papers, Andreas
Paepcke of Stanford University also contributed an insightful
reflection on the difficulties of collaborations between compter
scientists and humanists (or indeed, disciplinary specialists in
general) which can be found here:
http://infoblog.stanford.edu/2008/11/often-ignored-collaboration-pitfall.html
There will be a final summary report of the Symposium available,
probably early 2009, and I will share the pointer to this report here
when it's available.
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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