Comments for THATCamp London 2010

Comment on Critical Mass in Social DH Applications by Oyun Aski

Oyun Aski — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:58:18 +0000

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Comment on Critical Mass in Social DH Applications by donepezil picture

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Comment on The French Digital Humanities Manifesto by Ennius

Ennius — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 11:05:13 +0000

I don’t think you’ve read the documents on the Paris ThatCamp site. This is a typical anglo-american misunderstanding / understatement. The Paris DH Manifesto was conceived by people from different countries. So it is not just a “French” contribution, it’s an international Manifesto. Actually, as opposed to the Stanford Manifesto, this is the first document to be translated in several languages, including Russian and Arabic. I think that many people are deeply unsatisfied with the way things have been managed (and imagined) by the self-called “international” DH community. The old same faces have been around for a long time. Just as in the international financial and world market scenario, decisions have been always been taken in the same old places: London, the US, and a handful of Canadian centres. Nothing personal, but the world, if you didn’t notice it, has changed. Never heard, for example, about BRICS? Even if some people don’t like it, the world is becoming multipolar. ALLC has been nepotistic and familistic for a long time, and now we have ADHO, which does not seem to be very different. Five out of seven people of its Steering Committee voting members come from anglo-american countries. At least five of these have been seating on ACH and ALLC boards for ages. One of the two only non-anglo-american has been an ALLC representative or board member for at least fifteen years. Can anyone really believe this is a “new” organization? Instead of waiting that these old organizations become really democratic and genuinely multicultural, I think it is better to create alternative associations. May be they will be less visible, but research and teaching quality has not much to do with visibility and political power. I remember that Stuart Hall, when he was offered a post in an American university, responded: “I prefer to speak from the margins than from the centre”.

Comment on The French Digital Humanities Manifesto by DH-Manifesto(s) | Franz Brümmer

DH-Manifesto(s) | Franz Brümmer — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 18:09:24 +0000

[...] Paris, in 2010 May, wrote a Manifesto as a French contribution to Centernet Summit, to THATCamp London and to DH2010. Is this Manifesto useful for the DH [...]

Comment on Digitise This: Comic Book Materiality in the Digital Age by Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:49:10 +0000

Hello Ernesto -

I’m a MA student at New School in New York currently writing a thesis that sounds disturbingly similar to the one described on your Tumblr site. I’m mostly interested in the interplay between comics form and comics culture, which can be seen by looking closely at the digital comics translation. I’m drawing heavily form Benjamin, who I can see you also have a thing for. I would very much like to get in contact with you. You can reach me at andrew(dot)nealon(at)gmail. Would you be so kind as to drop me a line?

thanks

Comment on Developers’ Challenge by Digital Humanities 2010: A Travelogue « Infomotions Mini-Musings

Digital Humanities 2010: A Travelogue « Infomotions Mini-Musings — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:52:17 +0000

[...] camp” for scholarly conferences. As a part of the ‘Camp I elected to participate in the Developer’s Challenge and submitted an entry called “How ‘great’ is this article?“. My hack [...]

Comment on Where is your text going? by tla

tla — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:34:26 +0000

Hi Jon,

I mentioned during your session that I am working on an article about digital text edition, and that I’d like to mention this forthcoming tool of yours. If that is okay, can you please send me a sentence or two about what it’s called, where people will be able to find it eventually, etc? Thanks!

Comment on Developers’ Challenge by How “great” is this article? « Infomotions Mini-Musings

How “great” is this article? « Infomotions Mini-Musings — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 07:33:40 +0000

[...] Digital Humanities 2010 I participated in the THATCamp London Developers’ Challenge and tried to answer the question, “How ‘great’ is this article?” This [...]

Comment on Digital history by Richard Light

Richard Light — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:00:34 +0000

I think one possible strategy is to use the Linked Data approach to publish, and thereby disseminte, historical data. For example, one project I have been involved with will be transcribing registers of births etc. as a TEI resource. We intend to encode each registered event so that it could be expressed as Linked Data RDF or a Topic Map fragment. These records are interesting at the micro level, as evidence of the history of individuals, and at the macro level as the raw data for population studies.

It might be worth seeing to what extent you can extract useful historical assertions from the sources offered to THATCamp. (Sorry I can’t be there, BTW.)

Comment on Participatory, Interdisciplinary and Digital by techczech

techczech — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:18:56 +0000

I think I may have a similar take on a similar issue. Let’s talk: http://thatcamplondon.org/2010/07/using-online-social-tools-to-bring-practitioners-and-researchers-closer-together