Three days into One Week | One Tool, I’m beginning to see that one of the nice things about running an NEH Summer Institute as a practicum rather than a classroom is that the organizers learn as much as the participants. For me, this week has reinforced and clarified an important set of related lessonsContinue reading “Lessons from One Week | One Tool – Part 1, Project Management”
OAH, AHA, NCPH Approve Recommendations on Evaluating Public History for Tenure and Promotion
The boards of the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the National Council on Public History have approved a single set of best practices for evaluating public history scholarship in history departments. The advice is outlined in a new report [.pdf] entitled Tenure, Promotion, and the Publicly Engaged Academic Historian. Acknowledging thatContinue reading “OAH, AHA, NCPH Approve Recommendations on Evaluating Public History for Tenure and Promotion”
New Wine in Old Skins: Why the CV needs hacking
Likewise, no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the skins are ruined. Rather, new wine is poured into fresh wineskins. – Mark 2:22 Since the time of my first foray into digital humanities as a newly minted graduate working on a projectContinue reading “New Wine in Old Skins: Why the CV needs hacking”
Why Digital Humanities is “Nice”
One of the things that people often notice when they enter the field of digital humanities is how nice everybody is. This can be in stark contrast to other (unnamed) disciplines where suspicion, envy, and territoriality sometimes seem to rule. By contrast, our most commonly used bywords are “collegiality,” “openness,” and “collaboration.” We welcome newContinue reading “Why Digital Humanities is “Nice””
THATCamp Groundrules
After giving my “groundrules” speech for a third THATCamp on Saturday, I realized I hadn’t published it anywhere for broader dissemination and possible reuse by the THATCamp community. So here they are, THATCamp’s three groundrules:
One Week, One Book: Hacking the Academy
Dan Cohen and I have been brewing a proposal for an edited book entitled Hacking the Academy. Let’s write it together, starting at THATCamp. And let’s do it in one week. Can an algorithm edit a journal? Can a library exist without books? Can students build and manage their own learning management platforms? Can aContinue reading “One Week, One Book: Hacking the Academy”
Briefly Noted for May 13, 2010
Yet more evidence big associations have lost the plot: watch nine sessions of AAM online for only … $300?!? — The American Association of Museums (AAM) has announced that it will host its first “virtual conference” during this year’s annual meeting in Los Angeles. I understand AAM’s motivation here. They’re surely hoping to recover someContinue reading “Briefly Noted for May 13, 2010”
Where's the Beef? Does Digital Humanities Have to Answer Questions?
The criticism most frequently leveled at digital humanities is what I like to call the “Where’s the beef?” question, that is, what questions does digital humanities answer that can’t be answered without it? What humanities arguments does digital humanities make? Concern over the apparent lack of argument in digital humanities comes not only from outsideContinue reading “Where's the Beef? Does Digital Humanities Have to Answer Questions?”
Briefly Noted for May 6, 2010
Two Reviews of NARA Civil War Exhibit — Last week The Washington Post and The New York Times each reviewed the National Archives’ new Civil War Sesquicentennial exhibit, Discovering the Civil War. I haven’t seen the exhibit yet myself, but I’d characterize both reviews as “mixed.” Hat tip: Lee White of the National Coalition forContinue reading “Briefly Noted for May 6, 2010”
Briefly Noted for April 29, 2010
IMLS UpNext Wrapping Up with Discussions about the Workforce and What’s Next — The IMLS UpNext project has entered its final two weeks with open forums on two new topics. In the first, Joanne Marshall of UNC leads a discussion of the shape of 21st century library and museum workforce. In the second, Larry JohnsonContinue reading “Briefly Noted for April 29, 2010”
