Welcome
The DH Café, so called for its informality and the opportunity for the short (or longer) visit welcomes you, with an invitation to discover, encounter, discuss and reflect.
Created to respond to graduate students' increasing interest in exploring the field, this site highlights selected current and historical resources related to digital humanities and new forms of scholarly communication, broadly defined.
While the format is similar to that of a library guide, readers are invited to write for the site. Your thoughts and suggestions are most welcome, at any time!
The site was conceived, built, and edited (until summer 2012) by Mary Beth Clack, a former Research Librarian in Services for Academic Programs in Widener Library.
--Hugh
Hugh Truslow
Librarian for the Fung Library
Librarian for the Davis Center Collection
Fung Library, Harvard University
truslow@fas.harvard.edu
Conferences, Workshops, Seminars
- Chicago Colloquium on on Digital Humanities and Computer ScienceCall for papers 2011
- E-reading: An Interdisciplinary Symposium (Simpson Center for the Humanities"collaboration between the University of Toronto graduate program in Book History and Print Culture, and a new, online publication, The Toronto Review of Books, invites papers that consider the practice of e-reading, both as an activity and an idea."
- CurateGear: Enabling the Curation of Digital CollectionsDigCurr Public Symposium (January 6, 2012 at the
Friday Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) - The Future is Here: Digital Methods in Research and Teaching in History (AHA)The 126th meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, January 5–8, 2012. Theme: Communities and Networks.
- Future Theory, Present Praxis: Humanities as Digital Discipline (U of Guelph)Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference.
3rd Future Theory Conference: Future Theory, Present Praxis: Humanities as Digital Discipline will be held on
November 25th at the TransCanada Institute, University of Guelph, Guelph ON. Hosted by the SETS department of U of Guelph. - MLA Workshop: Getting Started in Digital Humanities with DHCommonsThursday, 5 January 2012, 8:30-11:30 am
co-sponsored by the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) and the Texas A&M Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture. - D-Lib Magazine Meetings, Conferences and Workshops pageAnnual listings.
- Digital Humanities 2011: Big Tent Digital HumanitiesAnnual international conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO). The ADHO's three ‘constituent organisations’: the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs (SDH-SEMI).
- DigCCurr Professional Institute 2011Subtitled: Curation Practices for the Digital Object Lifecycle
- Scholarly Communication Institute Conference 2011University of Virginia
- Philology in the Digital Age 2011 Annual Conference and Members’ Meeting of the TEI ConsortiumTEI (Text Encoding Initiative) Consortium University of Würzburg, Germany
Quick Reads
Past Conferences
- Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science 2010Aims "to examine the current state of digital humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research."
- Balisage: The Markup Conference (August 7 — 10, 2012, Montréal, Canada"an annual conference devoted to the theory and practice of descriptive markup and related technologies for structuring and managing information." Balisage=markup. Sessions in English.
- Past Digital Humanities conferences (links)Annual conferences sponsored by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO).
Twitter #digitalhumanities
DHNow Editors' Choice and News (RSS)
Quick Links
- Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations"an umbrella organisation whose goals are to promote and support digital research and teaching across arts and humanities disciplines, drawing together humanists engaged in digital and computer-assisted research, teaching, creation, dissemination, and beyond, in all areas reflected by its diverse membership."
- HASTACHumanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Collaboratory
- HASTAC Scholars ProgramAvows the "dual goal of recognizing graduate and undergraduate students working across the areas of technology, the arts, the humanities, and the social sciences, while also using their expertise and collaborative energy to develop HASTAC into a more dynamic and interactive virtual institution."
- JISC"JISC inspires UK colleges and universities in the innovative use of digital technologies..."
- National Initiative for a Networked National Heritage"a diverse coalition of organizations created to assure leadership from the cultural community in the evolution of the digital environment."
- Postdoctoral Fellowship in Academic Libraries 2011 (Council on Library Resources)"This program prepares a new generation of librarians and scholars for work at the intersections of scholarship, teaching and librarianship in the emerging research environment...
CLIR Postdoctoral Library Fellows work on projects that forge, renovate, and strengthen connections between academic library collections and their users. The program offers scholars the chance to develop new research models, collaborate with information specialists, and explore new career opportunities...(See link) - Wiki of the Association of Computational LinguisticsBlogs, events, conferences, awards, research, teaching and more...
Events in New England
- Boston DH Consortium"The Boston Digital Humanities Consortium is an informal association of educational and cultural institutions in New England committed to the collaborative development of teaching, learning, and scholarship in the digital humanities and computational social sciences."
- metaLAB(at)HarvardBased at the Berkman Center, a cluster of experiments metaLAB (at) Harvard, was launched in Fenruary 2011 and described as an "institutional home for Harvard’s digital art, design, and humanities communities."
- THATCamp New England 2013"Look what is in Storrs for you! There’s a new THATCamp New England being planned for 18-19 October 2013!"
- Digital Humanities at Yale"This working group of the Whitney Humanities Center focuses on the digital humanities, an umbrella term covering a wide range of activities, from data mining to online preservation and digital mapping and the use of geographic information systems, data visualization, and digital publishing. This still-emerging practice applies methods offered by technology to the traditional questions and objects of study in humanities disciplines."
- Women Writers Project Seminars and WorkshopsAt Brown University.
metaLAB@Harvard
metalab(at)harvard, "a new institutional home for Harvard’s digital art, design, and humanities communities," was launched on February 10, 2011. Jeffrey Schnapp, founder and faculty director, and his staff are launching the lab with partners from Harvard and beyond. More on the LAB... and Harvard University Gazette article.