One step up: the importance of failure in a large-scale DH project at the crossroads of disciplines and institutions
Hughes, Lorna M; Alexander, Marc
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
HTML XMLIn this paper, we rerevisit John Unsworth’s idea of the effective communication of failure in large-scale DH projects, discussing challenges that are singularly and collectively infrastructural, technical, cultural, and epistemological in working between universities and large collection institutions.
Virtual teaching experience in DH. Teaching how to design, develop and manage research project: problems and future works.
Ferreira-Lopes, Patricia
Universidad de Sevilla, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja
HTML XMLThis paper presents the virtual teaching experience of the subject "Techniques for the design and development of research projects applied to Digital Humanities" taught during the last 3 years in the Master of Digital Humanities at the International University of La Rioja.
Responsible Remediation: Reflections on Feminist Approaches to LOD Data Authoring and its Outcomes with the AdArchive Project
Smith Elford, Jana (1); Meagher, Michelle (2)
1: Medicine Hat College, Canada; 2: University of Alberta
HTML XMLThis paper reflects on the impact that a feminist approach to linked data authoring has on the remediated data represented in the Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship (LINCS) instance of ResearchSpace. We ask: how does our feminist data authoring praxis play out in its representation on this generalized platform?
Postcolonial Digital Approaches to Mapping Soviet Repressions in Central Asia
Gagarina, Dinara
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
HTML XMLThis paper examines the intersection of postcolonial perspectives, digital humanities, and regional studies in surfacing concealed histories of state repression in 20th century Soviet Central Asia. It proposes frameworks and methods for documenting hidden narratives to decolonize historical knowledge production in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.
Linked data in the Cold War archive
Muth, Katie; Smith, James
Durham University, United Kingdom
HTML XMLWe describe the early stages of a substantive effort to link archival authority records documenting how British and American literary figures were implicated in covert propaganda networks during WWII and the Cold War era. A network graph centered on the novelist George Orwell grounds our proof-of-concept case study.