Misc.

Quick Tools for Data Visualization info

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On September 5, I gave my “Quick Tools for Data Visualization” workshop as part of our workshop series. I wanted to share resources from that workshop. Due to various constraints, we are unable to provide workshops through video, web event, etc. at this point, but I can share the fairly detailed document I distributed. In the workshop, we talked about why people use data visualization as both part of and a primary methodology in research and teaching projects, and looked at three tools (very quickly): Voyant Tools, Google Fusion Tables, and Viewshare.

Here’s my data visualization workshop handout for anyone who missed the workshop and is interested in reading more. We hope to put up similar documents for use from future workshops.

Resources for Promotion & Tenure guidelines discussion

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Links courtesy of David Ainsworth:

University of Nebraska-Lincoln P&T assessment criteria
http://cdrh.unl.edu/articles/promotion_and_tenure.php

Comments on P&T assessment written for Texas A&M’s English department
http://idhmc.tamu.edu/commentpress/promotion-and-tenure/

NINES/NEH Summer Institute whitepaper/Guidelines
http://institutes.nines.org/docs/2011-documents/guidelines-for-promotion-and-tenure-committees-in-judging-digital-work/

A reminder of what’s at stake from a participant in Project Bamboo
http://www.quinndombrowski.com/dh/analysis/promotion-tenure-and-digital-humanities

Invisible Gorillas Are Everywhere: Interesting, perhaps controversial, piece

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Academe Today, January 24, 2012, Invisible Gorillas Are Everywhere.

William Pannapacker reviews the 2011 HASTAC meeting (see keynotes here) and comments on technology and the digital humanities debate.

There is also mention of the MLA and AHA guidelines for evaluating digital projects. I’m guessing that would be the following:

Since we have touched on how to evaluate projects previously, perhaps this would be a good discussion item.

Proposal for Change in Graduate Education in the Humanities

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I came across this post from Bethany Nowviskie of UVa that was highlighted in the Chronicle Academe Today.  I include both links as they have different comments associated with them.

I’m interested in a local discussion of these matters in terms of what we are offering graduate students as we inculcate them into a discipline and prepare them to use today’s tools of scholarship.  Your thoughts?

Recent MLA and AHA Meetings

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The Chronicle of Higher Education has reported some details on these two meetings, e.g.,

I know that some of you attended these meetings. Any observations, thoughts, summaries, concerns, lessons you would like to share?

Welcome!

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…to what I hope is a productive and fruitful forum for digital humanities ideas, questions, needs, etc.  This blog is an outgrowth of the Alabama Digital Humanities Initiative, a collaborative effort among arts and humanities scholars and the University of Alabama Libraries.