As a librarian/archivist, I’d be interested in a discussion of how libraries/archives can collaborate and communicate with humanities scholars to create digital content from collections in support of scholarly research needs. I am also interested in how to better work together as content is digitized to create dynamic/interactive sites to showcase the intersection of scholarship, curriculum, and digital collections. Is it just material that needs to be identified? Do we need to/how do we work together to design training, digitization centers, effective communication strategies to support and enhance such work.
In some ways, those questions/ideas touch on my other interest as I teach “Digital History” to graduate students – what kind of campus collaborations & facilities need to be in place to engage faculty and students with an interest in technology but little to no experience/background with broader theories, possibilities, and the hands on work of digital humanities?
#1 by adellefrank on February 24, 2011 - 4:42 pm
Interesting, it’s true that communication strategies are KEY in getting this kind of work done.
#2 by dudleyg on February 24, 2011 - 9:09 pm
I think that you have proposed an interesting session idea. This type of collaborative opportunity between faculty and students is something that is constantly on my mind. I think this is a great place to start on how students and the scholarship that they (we) produce can be integrated into the digital humanities. I think it is essential to have librarians and archivists in this discussion of collaboration–afterall, they are usually the ones bringing all this great research to a wider audience.
#3 by Leah Rosenberg on February 26, 2011 - 7:18 pm
I agree with these comments and am interested in both the intellectual and pragmatic challenges you raise– how to engage faculty and students with little experience– and whose institutions may not provide support for extending their skills in this way.
#4 by Brian Croxall on March 1, 2011 - 9:06 pm
I think that this could prove a fruitful discussion and is similar to one that I know an Emory librarian is thinking about proposing to help brainstorm the sort of tools and interfaces that would be necessary for a collection we’re in the process of opening up.
But I think it’s also important to have the dialog go both ways. You librarians have a lot to share with scholars about how digital collections are created that could help us/them understand how we can be using the materials more fully.
#5 by Lauren Pressley on March 2, 2011 - 9:34 pm
Absolutely. We’re thinking about how to structure things at my institution, and this session would go a long way towards helping that discussion.