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| Hammer and nails by Hans Godo Frabel |
Although I’ll be starting my day with an administrative meeting and hopefully spending the remainder wrapping up a very traditional sort of paper as part of my experiment in writing in public, I’m also juggling various tasks for the digital projects on this Day of Digital Humanities.
1.
Arranging receipt of 3 boxes of archival
materials for the first digital archives project I’ll do start to finish with
my students
2.
Corresponding with co-author of digital history
of history of woman suffrage
3.
Keeping an eye on the open review of a digital
project that went live recently
4.
Preparing to teach Intro to DH tomorrow, making
the most of the remaining few weeks we have
5.
Thinking about digital project advice recently
requested by new scholarly acquaintance
It occurs to me in the three years since I wrote my first Day of DH post that digital work has seeped into every crevice of my professional
life. I made the contact for the
archival project via a Skype meeting of my College’s consortium.
I have as many digital research projects in the works as I do
traditional projects, and I now teach aspects of digital humanities in all of
my classes.
I sometimes wonder if I’ve reached my digital saturation
point though. While the more I work digitally, the more digital opportunities I see, I have also noticed the prevalence of
pen and paper at digital conferences and I feel that pull of the analog myself,
the expensive pen, the leather-bound journal, the more digital work I do.
To what extent does the digital humanities lead to that old saw about everything looking like a nail if you are holding a hammer?
I still insist my students work in a paper archive at least once in four years, and encourage them to map out projects that old fashioned way on post-its or index cards if that works for them. I also stress the need to work physically together at times, as well as collaborate remotely, not because of any ascription to digital dualism, but simply to acknowledge that personal interaction occurs in differ fora and they need to get used to them all.
addenda, like more than one other person, I ended up with familial duties on this Day Of DH. Faced with images on Twitter of the fabulous work spaces others I posted this
To what extent does the digital humanities lead to that old saw about everything looking like a nail if you are holding a hammer?
I still insist my students work in a paper archive at least once in four years, and encourage them to map out projects that old fashioned way on post-its or index cards if that works for them. I also stress the need to work physically together at times, as well as collaborate remotely, not because of any ascription to digital dualism, but simply to acknowledge that personal interaction occurs in differ fora and they need to get used to them all.
addenda, like more than one other person, I ended up with familial duties on this Day Of DH. Faced with images on Twitter of the fabulous work spaces others I posted this
where the #DH magic happens #slac not a @SLACker here there & everywhere #DayofDH at home, by chance w/sick kid pic.twitter.com/QBSiOsHg4f
— M.M. (@ProfessMoravec) April 8, 2014
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