Digital Humanities

03
Aug

Lessons from One Week | One Tool – Part 3, Serendipity

Over the past few months, several people—including several participants themselves—have asked me how we chose the One Week
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02
Aug

Lessons from One Week | One Tool – Part 2, Use

For all the emphasis on the tool itself, the primary aim of One Week | One Tool is not tool building,
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28
Jul

Lessons from One Week | One Tool – Part 1, Project Management

Three days into One Week | One Tool, I’m beginning to see that one of the nice things about running
2 min read
16
Jun

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
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27
May

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
4 min read
26
May
Why Digital Humanities is “Nice”

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
1 min read
24
May
THATCamp Groundrules

THATCamp Groundrules

After giving my "groundrules" speech for a third THATCamp on Saturday, I realized I hadn't published
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21
May

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
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12
May
Where's the Beef? Does Digital Humanities Have to Answer Questions?

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,
4 min read
27
Apr

Open Source Community and the Omeka Controlled Vocabulary Plugin

I love open source. Why? Here's a fairly representative example. Following Patrick Murray-John's excellent post and
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