I’ve been called a “luddite” for over a decade, mostly by myself to pre-empt the comment from others. It’s for good reason—I do, after all, make books by hand. In fact, at the University of Iowa Center for the Book, in which I am an MFA candidate for Book Arts, I make them fromContinue reading “In Which The Luddite Makes A Podcast”
Category Archives: Digital Scholarship & Publishing
Making Data Fit: What Digital Repackaging Can Do for the Humanities
In recent years, digital humanists have been at the forefront of challenging data’s supposed neutrality. Lisa Gitelman and Virginia Jackson have suggested that the discourse of objectivity that often surrounds conversations about data-drive research is not only reductive, but also unlikely to encourage future scholarship and more rigorous debate. They suggest instead that data beContinue reading “Making Data Fit: What Digital Repackaging Can Do for the Humanities”
When Dance Making Goes Digital
Arianna here! I’m another one of the summer fellows working in the Digital Scholarship and Publishing Studio. I’m also a dancer! I’m currently working towards finishing my MFA in Dance Performance this spring. During my first couple weeks in the studio I’ve been exploring some digital media components to incorporate into my dance performance, includingContinue reading “When Dance Making Goes Digital”
As You Wish: An Honest Summary of My Summer Work So Far. . .
I have been tasked with writing an engaging and honest blog about my work as one of the Digital Scholarship and Publishing Studio fellows but I have a problem. I rarely use the adjective “engaging” to describe my writing. I have, I think, managed to find a creative solution to this particular conundrum. Using somethingContinue reading “As You Wish: An Honest Summary of My Summer Work So Far. . .”
The Journey through the Realm of Process
“Process is the new god…Digital Humanities mean iterative scholarship…It honors the quality of results; but it also honors the steps by mean of which results are obtained as a form of publication of comparable value. Untapped gold mines of knowledge are to be found in the realm of process” (The Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0, 5).Continue reading “The Journey through the Realm of Process”
Reflections on Machine Translation
Hello blog readers! I’m Andrea, one of the fellows in the UIowa Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio this summer. I’m in the middle of the MFA in Literary Translation Program at UIowa, and I translate from French to English. This summer I’m working on a website that includes some translations with digital features, inviting theContinue reading “Reflections on Machine Translation”
The Studio Pilots Summer Fellowship Program
This summer the Studio will pilot a new fellowship program with the help of the University of Iowa Graduate College and the Studio Steering Committee. Nine current graduate students have been named Summer Studio Fellows. The students will soon take part in an 8-week course that provides mentored digital scholarship experience, as well as training inContinue reading “The Studio Pilots Summer Fellowship Program”
Saving Endangered Data: What Can Digital Humanists and Libraries Do?
In a blog post last week, I addressed Endangered Data Week and the history of political parties hiding, removing, or altogether abolishing public access to government documents. However, my post wasn’t alone in trying to shed light on this serious issue. In schools, universities, libraries, and classrooms across the world, hundreds of concerned people came together to bring awareness to the issueContinue reading “Saving Endangered Data: What Can Digital Humanists and Libraries Do?”
Neural Network Poetry
As you may know, April is national poetry month, an annual series of events by the Academy of American Poets to help support the appreciation of American poetry. If you’re looking for great book-length collections of poems, you might be interested in the Iowa Poetry Prize winners. Many of the previous years’ winners are madeContinue reading “Neural Network Poetry”
Subreddit Algebra
Yesterday, FiveThirtyEight featured a fantastic article by Trevor Martin, a Ph.D student in Computational Biology at Stanford University. Martin’s piece, Dissecting Trump’s Most Rabid Online Following, looked at the toxic communities surrounding Donald Trump, notably r/The_Donald, by using a machine learning technique called latent semantic analysis. LSA uses words and concepts from two sets of documentsContinue reading “Subreddit Algebra”