the digital liberal arts: problems and possibilities in the digital humanities

THE DIGITAL LIBERAL ARTS: PROBLEMS AND POSSIBILITIES IN THE DIGITAL HUMANITIESMichael Roy, Middlebury Collegemdroy@middlebury.edu

Research Computing

Digital Humanities

Curricular Computing

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A little about Middlebury College….

A little about my organization

Research Computing

Digital Humanities

What is research?

Supporting digital humanities as a form of research computing

Communication and collaboration

Audio interaction (asynchronous)Audio-visual interaction (synchronous)Graphical interaction (asynchronous)Graphical interaction (synchronous)Resource sharingTextual interaction (asynchronous)Textual interaction (synchronous)Video-based interaction (asynchronous)

Data Analysis CollatingCollocatingContent analysisContent-based image retrievalContent-based sound retrievalData miningImage feature measurementImage segmentation

IndexingMotion analysisOverlayingParsingRecord linkagesSearching and queryingSound analysisSpatial data analysisStatistical analysisStemmaticsStylometricsText miningTopic Detection and TrackingVisualisation

Data Capture2d scanning and photography3d scanningGeophysical surveyGPS and total station surveysHeads-up digitising and interactive tracingManual input and transcriptionMotion captureMoving image captureMusic recognitionRemote sensingSound generationSound recordingSpeech recognitionText recognitionUse of existing digital data

Data publishing and dissemination:Collaborative publishingDesktop publishing and pre-pressDisk publishingGeneral website developmentInterface designResource sharingServer scriptingStreaming mediaUser contributed contentWeb browser scripting

Data structuring and enhancement2d modelling - raster2d modelling - vector3d modelling - interactive3d modelling - vectorAnimationCataloguing and indexingCoding and standardisationData modellingGeo-referencing and projectionGraphical rendering

Image enhancementImage restorationLemmatisationPhotogrammetryRecord linkagesSound compressionSound editingSound encodingSound encoding - MIDIText encoding - descriptiveText encoding - presentationalText encoding - referentialVideo and moving image compressionVideo editingVirtual world modelling

Strategy and project management

Accessibility analysisCurationDocumentationGeneral project managementHuman factors analysisIterative designPreservationPrototypingRisk managementSecurity planningSystem quality assurance and code testingUsability analysisVersion control

Research Computing

Digital Humanities

Curricular Computing

Tool Building

preservation

new modes of publication

new evaluative structures

questions to discuss http://bit.ly/1lhBx6h

1. What platforms and systems are common to these activities?2. What staffing resources are unique to each enterprise and which can be

shared across these three areas?3. What possibilities exist for shared services across institutions, modelled

perhaps after super computing centers? What can be ‘outsourced’ as a commodity?

4. What are the specific facilities needs for digital humanities (the equivalent of the biology lab?) ?

5. What sorts of policy changes will be needed to foster innovation in this area (tenure and promotion, IP, etc?)

6. How does this story play out on different campuses of different type and scale?

7. And of course the perrenial problem, how do you pay for all of this?8. How does this impact the student experience?

Thank you!