I can’t help feeling like a Seinfeldian sidler. Prism is up. The code has been written, the pages designed, and the tests passed. Everyone is gathering together getting ready for the post-prism photo-op when out of nowhere some bearded weirdo who smells like tapas and olive oil rides into the frame on a tiny horse…. More.
Praxis: Doing is Thinking?
Speaking off the cuff to a group of prospective Praxis Program applicants in March, I found myself explaining how “aesthetic provocation” isn’t the same as argument, that Prism isn’t a tool that produces criticism as much as it is a tool that might prod us to see, read, or critique in new ways. I didn’t…. More.
On Complexity
When I wrote my first “real” code for a website, things were a lot simpler. I was taking SGML TEI files and running them through a DSSSL generator to create static HTML files. It was pretty straight-forward: I would tag a document, cross my fingers that it would validate, then run a script that would…. More.
Spatial In the Scholars’ Lab: Spring 2012
With classes over and finals behind us, let’s look back on the Spring 2012 semester with a spatial eye. Yes, January-May was a very mappy time in the Scholars’ Lab! Workshops From January through April twice every week my colleague Chris Gist and I welcomed faculty, staff, and students to our free “no experience required”…. More.
Wrapping it Up: TeiDisplay and Collaborative Mentoring with UT/UVa
I’m very excited to announce that my colleague Zane and I have completed our work on the TeiDisplay plugin for Omeka! It’s been a little while since I last posted, so if you’d like some background, check out our previous posts on this collaboration between the Scholars’ Lab and the University of Texas School of…. More.
Calling All #Alt-Academics!
I’m happy to announce that a census of alternate academics, the first public-facing component of my work with the Scholarly Communication Institute, is now open to contributions. If you have graduate training in the humanities and work outside of the tenure track, I’d like to warmly invite you to add your information to the growing database.…. More.
Got Prism?
Funny thing about collaborative projects in the (digital) humanities: No famous last words. A nun scholar lives and dies by her last words, but around here we’re just part of an incredibox. On the week when we release Prism, I could regale you with all the lessons I learned this year (right about doubled the…. More.
Future possibilities for Prism
It’s been incredibly exciting to watch Annie, Alex, Lindsay, Brooke, Sarah, and Ed work together over the course of the last two semesters to take Prism from idea to working software. Considering the fact that most of them hadn’t ever written a line of Ruby, Javascript, or CSS when they started last semester, the end…. More.
Kenneth Dean: Ritual Revolutions
Kenneth Dean Ritual Revolutions: Temple Networks Linking South China to Southeast Asia Dr. Kenneth Dean, Lee Chair in Chinese Cultural Studies in the Department of East Asian Studies at McGill University, spoke as part of the Digital Humanities Speaker Series on March 29. The Digital Humanities Speaker Series is co-sponsored by IATH, SHANTI, and the…. More.
On Collaboration
Before I started making and sharing stuff, I always thought it was the maker who had power and authority to dispense knowledge. After I started making and sharing stuff, I began to understand that readers and users, not makers, had far more power, to take in that knowledge, critique it, and use it in new…. More.