March, 2012
Ruminations from a DH Conference
Mar. 31, 2012—I am very proud of our little group of budding Digital Humanists. I am not too sure if you all realize how far you have gone and what you know, at this point. I am presently at a DH “That Camp” in a large community of highly qualified scholars and techies. I have to tell...
Departmental written guidelines
Mar. 21, 2012—I had a lot of questions after reading the following sentence from the MLA website, “Guidelines for Evaluating Work with Digital Media in the Modern Languages”: “Institutions and, when appropriate, departments should develop their own written guidelines so that faculty members engaged in research and teaching with digital media can be adequately and fairly evaluated and rewarded.”...
Evaluating Digital Work
Mar. 21, 2012—While most of the suggestions in our readings for this week on how to evaluate digital work are eminently practical, there are a couple suggestions that I did question, particularly in the current economic situation. I am not questioning their usefulness, as I feel that they are in general all good ideas, but whether departments will actually...
Reflections on Martin Foys’ Visit
Mar. 21, 2012—After reading Martin Foys’ Virtually Anglo-Saxon and then listening to his lecture, I have done a lot of reflecting on our discussions on remediation. In particular, Foy’s discussion of digital media as a new form of media, similar to the advent of printed texts in the middle ages has really gotten me thinking. In my own simplified...
Mediating historical texts through print
Mar. 15, 2012—I found Foy’s discussion of the mediating and remediating effect of print. Two quotes in prticular struck me. First: “The brief historical and critical survey of the effect of print on Anglo-Saxon writing presented above extends Mitchell’s question and ponders how well the medium of print as a whole suits the early medieval form, function...
Map Accuracy
Mar. 15, 2012—While reading over the excerpts from Foys’s book, especially Ch 4, I kept thinking of our attempts to map the medieval map onto a modern map while using ArcGIS. I know that we all spent much time connecting green x to blue x in order to align the edges of the maps (April takes the...