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Presentation on "Digital Humanities: where should we be going?", School of Advanced Study, October 22nd 2014TRANSCRIPT
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Digital Humanities: Where should we be going?
Prof. Lorna M. HughesUniversity of Wales Chair in Digital Collections
National Library of Wales@lornamhughes
School of Advanced Study, University of London, October 22nd 2014
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Digital Humanities™
Computers for the Humanities?A Record of the Conference
Sponsored by Yale University on a Grant from IBMJanuary 22-23, 1965
The Digital Humanities Manifesto, 2.0
2009http://
manifesto.humanities.ucla.edu/
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NLW Research Programme in Digital Collections
• Develop new digital content that addresses specific research needs, in partnership with academics and other key stakeholders
• Enhancing digital content for research, teaching or community engagement
• Understand use of existing digital content
• http://llgc.org.uk/research
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NeDiMAH: Network for Digital Methods in the Arts and HumanitiesESF Research Network, 2011-15 Lorna Hughes, UK
(Chair)
Researching the digital methods in arts & humanities
A collaborative forum of communities of practice
Outcome: a formal ontology for Digital Humanities, including classification and a shared vocabulary
Contributed to ESF Report, Research Infrastructures in the Arts and Humanities www.nedimah.eu
NeDiMAH activities and participants
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From digital humanities to scholarly ecosystem
• Challenge 1: create and sustain better digital content as a process of co-production with libraries, archives and museums
• Challenge 2: create environments for better use, re-use and linking of digital content
• Challenge 3: understand the opportunities of the new funding landscape
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Challenge 1: create and sustain better digital content as a process of co-production with libraries, archives and museums
http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk
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Challenge 1: create and sustain better digital content as a process of co-production with libraries, archives and museums
•Cymru1914.org The Welsh Experience of the First World War•Consolidated Archive: newspapers, images, audio, photographs•Content from six HEI special collections, four local archives and BBC Wales archive•Developed in collaboration with academic researchers of the First World War•Retains archival hierarchy of content
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‘The snows of yesteryear: narrating extreme weather’eira.llgc.org.uk
Welsh wills onlinewww.llgc.org.uk
Challenge 1: create and sustain better digital content as a process of co-production with libraries, archives and museums
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Variants on “Belgian refugees”In Welsh and English, 1914-19cymru1914.org
1914 1915 1916 19171918 1919
Challenge 2: create environments for better use, re-use and linking of digital content
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Challenge 2: create environments for better use, re-use and linking of digital content
“We hoped to be able to send send all these people to Glasgow at Easter…”
19th April, 1916: War Refugees Committeecymru1914.org
W.D. Roberts manuscripts, NLW MS 9982E
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Challenge 3: understand the opportunities of the new funding landscape
Watson, W., Huth, H., & Bromhead, A. C. 1., 1642. The resolution of the women of London to the Parliament... [London]: printed for William Watson
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Addressing the challenges
• Better collaborations with the cultural heritage sector
• Better partnerships around data creation and management
• Develop creative approaches to funding, inward investment and capacity building