
These are notes and links for a talk I’m giving on digital humanities and sharing your work at the University of California, San Diego, on November 5, 2012.
DH projects I discuss
- The Real Face of White Australia, by Kate Bagnall and Tim Sherratt. For more on this project, see Tim Sherratt, “It’s All about the Stuff: Collections, Interfaces, Power, and People.”
- “A Report Has Come Here”: Social Network Analysis in the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, by Lauren Klein.
- Mukurtu, directed by Kimberly Christen.
- Mining the Dispatch, by Rob Nelson. (For more on topic modeling, see this post and the related resources.)
- Complex Television, by Jason Mittell.
- The Nicest Kids in Town, by Matthew Delmont, and the Scalar platform.
Introductions to and resources on scholarly communication
- Open Peer Review: A Study of Contexts and Practices
- New-Model Scholarly Communication: Road Map for Change (PDF)
- Fight Club Soap, by Bethany Nowviskie
- SHERPA ROMEO (for learning about different publishers’ and journals’ copyright policies)
- Using the SPARC Author Addendum to Secure Your Rights as the Author of a Journal Article
Some guidelines for your online persona
- Be generous!
- You needn’t sanitize yourself, but think carefully about your boundaries.
- Never speak ill of an employer.
- Be consistent.
- Learn the conventions of online communities.
Online communities to explore
- Academia.edu
- Tumblr
Ways to share your work
- WordPress (my instructions for getting started)
- Omeka
- Zotero
- SlideShare
- Internet Archive
Making your work compelling
- Images
- Avoid jargon
- Edit!
- Cross-post
- Consider a less-restrictive license
- Engage with others’ work
Resources on developing a professional online academic persona
- Creating and Maintaining a Professional Presence Online, by Ryan Cordell
- Do You Need Your Own Website While on the Job Market?, by Jentery Sayers
- Creating Your Web Presence: A Primer for Academics, by Miriam Posner, Brian Croxall, and Stewart Varner
On where to start in DH, see Lisa Spiro, Getting Started in the Digital Humanities
Thank you very much! Yesterday’s talk was very interesting, to say the least!
I was wondering if you know about punctumbooks.com. I wanted to ask you about it, but some others had a louder voice perhaps. (I am who asked about the blogger vs. wordpress platforms).
Hi Ana! Nice to hear from you! Unfortunately, I don’t know a ton about Punctum Books, except that they seem to be well-respected among people who care about open access. Sorry I don’t have more information for you!
Miriam