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Humanities Quarterly</div><div id="toc"> <h1>2008 2.1</h1> <h2>Editorials</h2> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/2/1/000020/000020.html">Something Called “Digital Humanities” </a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Wendell Piez, Mulberry Technologies, Inc.</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000020en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000020en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000020en"> Are the Digital Humanities only a concession to fashion, and as such a sign of decline? A professor of English, off the cuff and online, suggests as much, but there is reason to wonder. </span></span><span class="Z3988" title="url_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Something%20Called%20Digital%20Humanities&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2008-06-21&rft.volume=002&rft.issue=1&rft.aulast=Piez&rft.aufirst=Wendell&rft.au=Wendell%20Piez"> </span></div> <h2>Articles</h2> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/2/1/000015/000015.html">The Technical Evolution of Vannevar Bush’s Memex </a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Belinda Barnet, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000015en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000015en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000015en"> This article describes the evolution of the design of Vannevar Bush's Memex, tracing its roots in Bush's earlier work with analog computing machines, and his understanding of the technique of associative memory. It argues that Memex was the product of a particular engineering culture, and that the machines that preceded Memex — the Differential Analyzer and the Selector in particular — helped engender this culture, and the discourse of analogue computing itself. </span></span><span class="Z3988" title="url_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=The%20Technical%20Evolution%20of%20Vannevar%20Bush%E2%80%99s%20Memex&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2008-06-21&rft.volume=002&rft.issue=1&rft.aulast=Barnet&rft.aufirst=Belinda&rft.au=Belinda%20Barnet"> </span></div> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/2/1/000016/000016.html">The Humanities HyperMedia Centre @ Acadia University: An Invitation to Think About Higher Education</a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Richard Cunningham, Acadia University; David Duke, Acadia University; John Eustace, Acadia University; Anna Galway; Erin Patterson, Acadia University</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000016en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000016en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000016en"> With Humanities Computing and New Media identified as emerging fields of significant strength, it is time for well-funded and fully supported programs in Digital Humanities to be described, developed, and implemented in the university. This article is a description of an attempt to build such a program from the ground up, rather than from the top down. That is, the authors and others created a series of courses, both multi-disciplinary and disciplinary, a database, and a core course designed to make digital humanities a reality, even without having it certified as a program by the governing bodies of their faculty and university. In this article, the database and core course are described in some detail in order to offer what the authors believe to be worthwhile ideas to others who would advance the cause of digital humanities. The article concludes with some concrete suggestions on how to ensure support, to make faculty participation possible, to measure success, and to motivate students. </span></span><span class="Z3988" title="url_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=The%20Humanities%20HyperMedia%20Centre%20@%20Acadia%20University%3A%20An%20Invitation%20to%20Think%20About%20Higher%20Education&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2008-06-21&rft.volume=002&rft.issue=1&rft.aulast=Cunningham&rft.aufirst=Richard&rft.au=Richard%20Cunningham&rft.au=David%20Duke&rft.au=John%20Eustace&rft.au=Anna%20Galway&rft.au=Erin%20Patterson"> </span></div> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/2/1/000019/000019.html">As You Can See: Applying Visual Collaborative Filtering to Works of Art</a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Gerhard Jan Nauta, Leiden University</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000019en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000019en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000019en"> Art historically relevant visual knowledge can be deconstructed and the resulting components of this visual knowledge — visual discernments — lend themselves to be socially negotiated. Individual visual experts (like connoisseurs) do not share some grand and undividable cognitive cataloguing system; they are attentive to piecemeal visual discernments and the patterns in which these occur in reality. In conventional scholarly communication sophisticated tools to discuss perceptual patterns are lacking. This paper not only proposes a theoretical model of visual knowledge accumulation, but also describes a practical implementation, <cite class="italic">Art.Similarities</cite>, which is designed as a prototype of such a sophisticated tool. Using a custom-made interface it records visual behavior: the non-verbally expressed visual similarity judgments of distributed individuals. Users can be assigned to groups according to the qualities of their judgments. These qualities may be distilled from emerging similarity patterns. The implications of individual judgments in different user groups may vary considerably. Emerging patterns can be assessed both according to human analysis and statistical procedures. Most studies on art evaluation are attentive to either the characteristics of works, or the characteristics of observers. In this study both are considered as interdependent entities consistently. </span></span><span class="Z3988" title="url_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=As%20You%20Can%20See%3A%20Applying%20Visual%20Collaborative%20Filtering%20to%20Works%20of%20Art&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2008-06-21&rft.volume=002&rft.issue=1&rft.aulast=Nauta&rft.aufirst=Gerhard Jan&rft.au=Gerhard Jan%20Nauta"> </span></div> <h2>Reviews</h2> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/2/1/000017/000017.html">Review: <cite class="italic">The Electronic Literature Collection Volume I: A New Media Primer</cite> </a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Mark C. Marino, University of Southern California</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000017en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000017en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000017en"> This is a review of <cite class="italic">The Electronic Literature Collection Volume I: A New Media Primer</cite>. </span></span><span class="Z3988" title="url_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Review%3A%20The%20Electronic%20Literature%20Collection%20Volume%20I%3A%20A%20New%20Media%20Primer&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2008-06-21&rft.volume=002&rft.issue=1&rft.aulast=Marino&rft.aufirst=Mark C.&rft.au=Mark C.%20Marino"> </span></div> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/2/1/000018/000018.html">Conference Review: <cite class="italic">Reading Digital Literature</cite> at Brown University, October 4-7, 2007.</a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Patricia Tomaszek, Siegen University</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000018en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000018en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000018en"> This is a review of the conference, <cite class="italic">Reading Digital Literature</cite> at Brown University, organized by Roberto Simanowski (Brown University and <cite class="italic">Dichtung Digital</cite>) October 4-7, 2007. </span></span><span class="Z3988" title="url_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Conference%20Review%3A%20Reading%20Digital%20Literature%20at%20Brown%20University,%20October%204-7,%202007.&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2008-06-21&rft.volume=002&rft.issue=1&rft.aulast=Tomaszek&rft.aufirst=Patricia&rft.au=Patricia%20Tomaszek"> </span></div> <h2><a href="/dhq/vol/2/1/bios.html">Author Biographies</a></h2></div><div id="footer"><div style="float:left; max-width:70%;"> URL: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/2/1/index.html<br/> Comments: <a href="mailto:dhqinfo@digitalhumanities.org" class="footer">dhqinfo@digitalhumanities.org</a><br/> Published by: <a href="http://www.digitalhumanities.org" class="footer">The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations</a> and <a href="http://www.ach.org" class="footer">The Association for Computers and the Humanities</a><br/>Affiliated with: <a href="https://academic.oup.com/dsh">Digital Scholarship in the Humanities</a><br/> DHQ has been made possible in part by the <a href="https://www.neh.gov/">National Endowment for the Humanities</a>.<br/>Copyright © 2005 - <script type="text/javascript"> var currentDate = new Date(); document.write(currentDate.getFullYear());</script><br/><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nd/4.0/80x15.png"/></a><br/>Unless otherwise noted, the DHQ web site and all DHQ published content are published under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>. 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