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Advocacy Guide Outline
What's At Stake
Describes the funding and support issues prevalent in the Humanities
Brief History of the Humanities
Describes the historical 'splitting' of the Arts and Sciences
Arguments FOR and AGAINST
Covers the arguments both in support of the Humanities as well as those with a negative view
Preparing for Advocacy
Describes the important factors to consider when undergoing an advocacy campaign for the Humanities
Tactics
How-to advocate: tactics and strategies
A Methodology for Archiving Digital Humanities
Presents a synopsis towards bringing together and archiving the history of Digital Humanities
A Methodology for Archiving Digital Humanities - A Research Synopsis for Dr. Geoffrey Rockwell
Jared Bielby, University Of Alberta, MA/MLIS Candidate
The following proposal, A Methodology for Archiving Digital
Humanities, explores a hierarchical model towards the development
of an online global centralized
archiving</tt>community for Humanities
Computing and Digital Humanities documents. In a similar fashion to
projects such as NINES, the online scholarly organization that
brings together, coordinates and digitizes nineteenth century
material archives, A Methodology for Archiving Digital Humanities
proposes a model for a central archive that provides a location for
archiving Humanities Computing digitized peer reviewed scholarship
and related literature, including newsletters, reports, conference
proceeding and minutes. The project, being two tiered, will first
prioritize the building of an archive of the history of Digital
Humanities, including key players in the field and foundational
materials. The second priority will be towards maintaining an
ongoing online center for the collection of Digital Humanities
archives. Using a system interface along the lines of archive
projectssimilar to NINES??? open source Collex interface and
Archive-It, the project in question will evolve by networking
outwards towards a centralized global initiative in archiving the
Digital Humanities.
While the goal of the project is to incorporate an open source and
widely distributed forum for archiving peer reviewed Digital
Humanities, it will be necessary for the initial key players to
moderate the project towards addressing two main logistical
concerns. Firstly, the development of a necessary process
determining what types of materials should be archived, opposed to
the limits of materials not archived, will be applied. Secondly, a
methodology will be proposed that allows for a consensus among the
wider community of scholars in the Digital Humanities field on how
to collaborate in evolving the project towards its successful
completion.
Initiated through the University of Alberta???s Humanities
Computing department, an archive for Digital Humanities will stem
from an initial collective of key players working out of the
University of Alberta that through networking their contacts,
reaches outward via a three stage process towards personal
interaction with the Digital Humanities global-wide community.
Through meetings within the scholarly community, the model will
allow these key players to endeavor to bring together their
colleagues, and through online and in-person meetings, work towards
encompassing the entirety of scholarship within the field of
Digital Humanities. By collectively communicating and sharing the
disparate initiatives of various departments and scholars within
the global community of Digital Humanities, the process will bring
together a central collection of materials using a
Collex/Archive-It based interface. In doing so, this evolving
collective will gather the heterogeneous elements of the field into
one accessible open source location online.
The process involves three stages, the first stage being local, the
second stage being national, and the third stage being global. At
each stage, a meeting will be called to determine best practices
towards a centralized archiving forum. Preceding each meeting, the
initial key players of the project will distribute an agenda
pertaining to the development of a centralized archive that
includes the topics to be discussed. The agenda will be comprised
of topics that explore best practices of metadata, protocols, and
typology or ontology necessary in the development of a globalized
Digital Humanities online location. After the meeting, upon
agreement, the minutes of the agreement will be written up and
distributed via personal networking towards the next level of the
wider Digital Humanities community. The process will be repeated at
each stage towards the eventual activation of an archive for
Digital Humanities.
Upon completion of both the second stage (national) and the third
stage (global) meetings, a conference will be organized by the
initial key players, of which speakers will be invited to present
papers on the project in its initial and evolving process. Upon
activation of the archive, scholars will be invited to organize
local conferences and international symposiums to promote and
educate the expanded scholarly community about the project.
While maintaining an open source model through either Collex or
Archive-It, the project will endeavor to outline necessary
limitations of the types of materials desired in the archive. The
archive will be moderated by an editorial board of which will be
initially developed by the key players of the project and
maintained through annual election from within the Digital
Humanities scholarly community. The ongoing mission of the
editorial board will be to maintain the initial consensus on the
types of material archived. As such, the board will present and
maintain the following guidelines for document inclusion:
1. All scholarly material must be peer reviewed, with the exception
of historical documents that may not be peer reviewed, such as
newsletters, reports, and conference proceedings.
2. All material must be approved upon submission by the editorial board before being permanently archived. As such, members of the editorial board will process the official archiving after submission and approval.
The archive will incorporate an open forum for discussion of
related topics and inquiries arising within the Digital Humanities
community. The forum will not be limited to participating scholars
but will in fact encourage participation from outside the
peer-reviewed community. As such, an ongoing conversation can take
place between both scholars and non-scholars as to the best
practices and emerging trends within the field.
References:
NINES: Nineteenth Century Scholarship Online. Website. Accessed March 21, 2012. http://www.nines.org/about/what-is-nines/
Cathy Davidson, Humanities 2.0: Promise, Perils, Predictions. Ed. Gold, Matthew K. Debates In the Digital Humanities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. Website. Accessed March 24, 2012. http://fredgibbs.net/courses/digital-history/readings/Davidson-Humanities2.pdf
Appendix
Other organizations and venues for support of the Humanities
CSDH/SCHN
On Tuesday June 4, 2013 the History and Archives group will be presenting the paper "Digital Activism and the Digital Humanities at Congress in Victoria, Canada
Introduction to Digital Activism
Humanist Listserve in Response to Funding Cuts to the Humanities and the Call to Action
4Humanities Advocacy Guide
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