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Models for Supporting DigitalHumanities at Liberal Arts CollegesLisa Spirolspiro@nitle.org26 April 2012

Supporting DH: Some DH Centers in theUS• Cleveland State U,Center forPublic and DigitalHumanities• Emory, Digital ScholarshipCommons• George Mason U,Center forHistory and New Media• Michigan State, MATRIX• MIT, HyperStudio• Stanford Literary Lab• Texas A&M, Initiative forDigital Humanities, Media,and Culture• U of Illinois, I-CHASS• U of Maryland, MITH• U of Nebraska-Lincoln,Centerfor Digital Research in theHumanities (CDRH)• UVA: Scholars’ Lab & IATH

Connecting DH Centers: CenterNethttp://digitalhumanities.org/centernet/

Networking Digital Humanities: HASTAC

Early DH Center: IATH, UVAhttp://www.iath.virginia.edu/

Challenges to Doing DH at Liberal Arts• Lack of resources:– staffColleges– funding (start-up and sustaining)– infrastructure• Acquiring technical skills• Most lack a DH Center to provide technical support,assistance with grants, and ready collaborators• Isolation of DH practitioners• Lack of visibilitySee Rebecca Frost Davis and Bryan Alexander, “Should Liberal ArtsCampuses Do Digital Humanities?”

Digital Humanities Initiative(DHi) at Hamilton Collegehttp://www.dhinitiative.org/

DHi Support Modelhttp://www.dhinitiative.org/projects/support/

Occidental Center for Digital Learning +Researchhttps://college.oxy.edu/cdlr/

University of Richmond DigitalScholarship Labhttp://dsl.richmond.edu/

TriCo Digital Humanitieshttp://www.brynmawr.edu/tdh/

Cross-Institutional Collaborations• Five Colleges (Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke,and Smith colleges and the University ofMassachusetts Amherst)– CFP to support collaborative projects, travel, trainingfor faculty, staff & students, course (re-)development,residencies, postdocs• Occidental– UCLA: HyperCities– USC: Scalar/ Sophie• Swarthmore & Penn– Early Novels Database

Cross Institutional Collaboration:TAPAS & TEIhttp://tapasproject.org/

Library/ IT Based Support• Lewis & Clark– acccessCeramics– NYC Graffiti and Street Art Project– Oregon Poetic Voices– Spiders of Lewis & Clark– William Stafford Archives– Archive of Jewish Morocco• Willamette– Collaboration with Hallie Ford Museum of Art

Integration with (Co-) Curriculum• University of Puget Sound– Humanities 250• Wheaton College– Wheaton College Digital History Project– Lexomics• Holy Cross• Homer Multitext Project• Holy Cross Manuscripts, Inscriptions & DocumentsClub

Connect with Projects & Collaborators:DHCommonshttp://www.dhcommons.org/

Providing Credit for Collaborative Work:Collaborators’ Bill of Rightshttp://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/offthetracks/

Confronting Challenges to Doing DH at• Choose a clear focus• Build on existing structuresLiberal Arts Colleges• Collaborate with other institutions• Develop collaborative infrastructure• Use existing platforms and tools– Omeka, WordPress, HyperCities, Scalar, Viewshare,etc.• Integrate with the (co-)curriculum• Integrate into university

NITLE’s Support for Digital Humanities• Hosts Digital Scholarship seminar series• Assists in development of DHCommons to facilitatecollaborations• Co-teaches workshop on integrating DH intoundergrad curriculum (Davis & Tomasek)• Supports information sharing & community building:blog posts, Twitter, etc.• Monitors DH developments, e.g. DH education

Readings• Bryan Alexander and Rebecca Frost Davis. “Should Liberal ArtsCampuses Do Digital Humanities? Process and Products in theSmall College World.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities, ed.Matthew K. Gold. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,2012.• Alison Byerly, “Everything Old is New Again: The Digital Pastand the Humanistic Future,” MLA 2012.http://www.duke.edu/~ves4/mla2012/Byerly-DigitalPast-HumanisticFuture.pdf• Rebecca Frost Davis, “Digital Humanities and LiberalEducation.” Techne, March 2,2011http://blogs.nitle.org/2011/03/02/digital-humanitiesand-liberal-education/.

More Readings• Rebecca Frost Davis, Digital Humanities at Small Liberal ArtsColleges, 2010• ----“A Snapshot of Digital Scholarship at Liberal Arts Colleges.”Techne, November 15, 2011.http://blogs.nitle.org/2011/11/15/a- snapshot-of-digitalscholarship-at-liberal-arts-colleges/.• ---- & Quinn Dombrowski, “Divided and Conquered: HowMultivarious Isolation is Suppressing Digital HumanitiesResearch,” Spring 2011 (PDF)• David Green & Michael Roy, “Things to Do While Waiting forthe Future to Happen: Building Cyberinfrastructure for theLiberal Arts,” EDUCAUSE Review, July/August 2008.