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Situated Research Practices in Digital Humanities</h2> <div class="cluster"><h3>Editors: Mila Oiva and Urszula Pawlicka-Deger</h3></div> <div class="cluster"><h3>Front Matter</h3> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/14/3/000485/000485.html">Lab and Slack. Situated Research Practices in Digital Humanities - Introduction to the DHQ Special Issue.</a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Mila Oiva, University of Turku (Finland); Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, Aalto University</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000485en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000485en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000485en"> Although the concept of digital comes with an assumption of placelessness and detachment from physical space and geographical location, these matters still play a significant role in the way the digital humanities research is practiced today, and also in the future. The location, the surroundings and infrastructure open the questions of accessibility and equality: space shapes the opportunities for doing digital humanities research, both enables and hinders collaboration, and both unifies and divides scholars. The purpose of this special issue is to examine the different aspects of situated research practices of the digital humanities covering two perspectives: physical and virtual. The physical places of research refer to the various digital humanities sites (laboratories, centers, departments) all over the world and more widely to the surroundings a location in a particular city, country, cultural sphere or continent affecting research practices. As virtual environments of digital humanities scholarship, we define the digital internet-based platforms, services, and tools that enable research and scholarly collaboration. The aspects that determine digital humanities research in both physical and virtual places are infrastructure (material and non-material), social interaction (communication and collaboration), and context (social, cultural, and political situatedness). The aspects influence each other and changes in one of them can affect the others. They have also impact on what is studied, the ways research can be done, and, in the end the results of our knowledge, what kind of knowledge digital humanities research can provide. </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=Lab%20and%20Slack.%20Situated%20Research%20Practices%20in%20Digital%20Humanities%20-%20Introduction%20to%20the%20DHQ%20Special%20Issue.&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2020-09-25&rft.volume=014&rft.issue=3&rft.aulast=Oiva&rft.aufirst=Mila&rft.au=Mila%20Oiva&rft.au=Urszula%20Pawlicka-Deger"> </span></div> </div> <div class="cluster"> <h3>Cluster 1: Physical Situatedness, Digital/Humanities Labs, and Infrastructure</h3> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/14/3/000463/000463.html">Scholarly Infrastructure as Critical Argument: Nine principles in a preliminary survey of the bibliographic and critical values expressed by scholarly web-portals for visualizing data</a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Jo Guldi, Southern Methodist University</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000463en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000463en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000463en"> What values does infrastructure-building represent? This article begins by situating scholarly practices around infrastructure within a broader transformation of twenty-first century life and indeed scholarship and learning by infrastructures, and distinguishing “scholarly” infrastructure from other kinds of infrastructure designed to share information that nevertheless lack scholarly engagement with analysis. This article compares the role of scholar-builders in crystallizing a set of theoretical concerns, data, and analyses to that of the architects of opera houses during the golden age of European opera, who structured, illuminated, and constrained possible future creations of art. The article next attempts to excavate a set of implicit values, while making room for the possibility that the list of values put forward here is only incomplete, and that the list of values itself is the subject of potential debate, critique, or dissent, some of which may take the form of building infrastructures differently than the patterns laid out here. A first section outlines a set of bibliographic values; while the article’s second half turns to the power dynamics of infrastructure and a set of critical values encompassed by particular projects, before turning to the issue of why understanding these values is so essential to understanding infrastructure projects as a form of scholarly production that merit support and recognition by the community at large. </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=Scholarly%20Infrastructure%20as%20Critical%20Argument%3A%20Nine%20principles%20in%20a%20preliminary%20survey%20of%20the%20bibliographic%20and%20critical%20values%20expressed%20by%20scholarly%20web-portals%20for%20visualizing%20data&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2020-09-01&rft.volume=014&rft.issue=3&rft.aulast=Guldi&rft.aufirst=Jo&rft.au=Jo%20Guldi"> </span></div> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/14/3/000466/000466.html">The Laboratory Turn: Exploring Discourses, Landscapes, and Models of Humanities Labs </a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, Aalto University</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000466en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000466en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000466en"> The goal of this paper is to track the path of the formation of the laboratory turn in the humanities and understand the conditions, meanings, and functions of humanities labs. The first section investigates three discourses that gave rise to the emergence of a laboratory in the humanities: the transformation of the humanities infrastructure within the university, paradigm shifts in the social sciences, and the expansion of cultural categories of innovation, the maker movement (the proliferation of makerspaces), and the idea of community. Next, the author presents a history of the laboratory in the humanities and determines the shift from a laboratory as a physical place to conceptual laboratory. The last section analyses five models for humanities labs based on laboratories’ statements and operations: the center-type lab, the techno-science lab, the work station-type lab, the social challenges-centric lab, and virtual lab. The research shows that the laboratory turn has emerged in the humanities as a part of a wider process of the laboratorization of social life, which has been occurring since the 1980s. Next, the study indicates the role of digital humanities as the driving force behind building a laboratory space, which supports situated practices, the collaborative, and technology-based projects. The paper shows that the humanities lab does not simply imitate the science lab but adapts this new infrastructure for its own purposes and needs. </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%20Laboratory%20Turn%3A%20Exploring%20Discourses,%20Landscapes,%20and%20Models%20of%20Humanities%20Labs&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2020-09-25&rft.volume=014&rft.issue=3&rft.aulast=Pawlicka-Deger&rft.aufirst=Urszula&rft.au=Urszula%20Pawlicka-Deger"> </span></div> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/14/3/000465/000465.html">Digital Humanities as Epistemic Cultures: How DH Labs Make Knowledge, Objects, and Subjects</a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">James W. Malazita, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Ezra J. Teboul, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Hined Rafeh, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000465en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000465en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000465en"> This essay develops a conceptual framework for examining and practicing digital humanities (DH) and DH labs from the perspective of science and technology studies and laboratory studies. We argue that the “situatedness” of DH labs extends beyond physical/institutional space and includes also epistemic, political, sociological, and disciplinary issues. To explore this, we first outline the constructivist model of laboratory knowledge practices developed through feminist laboratory studies, and how that model’s focus on the laboratory as a producer of research subjects, rather than a container for them, runs counter to narratives about laboratories in DH. We then show how DH labs produce research objects, research subjects, epistemic context, and disciplinary legitimacy. Finally, we present the case of the Tactical Humanities Lab (THL) at Rensselaer, a DH lab situated through Science & Technology Studies and housed within an engineering-centered institute. Through the highlighting of two student-led projects, we show how THL knowledge workers navigate issues of our own identity, the boundaries of STS and DH, the practice of social justice through DH, and the social construction of the boundaries of laboratory work. </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=Digital%20Humanities%20as%20Epistemic%20Cultures%3A%20How%20DH%20Labs%20Make%20Knowledge,%20Objects,%20and%20Subjects&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2020-09-25&rft.volume=014&rft.issue=3&rft.aulast=Malazita&rft.aufirst=James W.&rft.au=James W.%20Malazita&rft.au=Ezra J.%20Teboul&rft.au=Hined%20Rafeh"> </span></div> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/14/3/000464/000464.html">The Chili and Honey of Digital Humanities Research:The Facilitation of the Interdisciplinary Transfer of Knowledge in Digital Humanities Centers</a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Mila Oiva, University of Turku (Finland)</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000464en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000464en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000464en"> This article examines digital humanities (DH) centers as focal points of the interdisciplinary transfer of knowledge. It is based on the assumption that the manner in which the knowledge-transfer activities of DH communities are facilitated affects the knowledge they produce. Following an analysis of eight semi-structured interviews of directors, researchers, and administrators, the article considers how DH professionals describe the facilitation of the interdisciplinary transfer of knowledge in DH centers. It demonstrates that the transfer of knowledge in DH centers is based on overlapping layers of organic networks and stable organizational structures that support various kinds of knowledge-sharing practices. The transfer of knowledge in DH centers combines the exchange of ideas in the same physical space with online communication at various levels, ranging from outside academia to the internal communication of a research group. Further, the factors that enable information flow also have the capability to restrict potentially meaningful information from entering into the field. As a result, this article suggests that it is important to continue the discussion on the boundaries for the transfer of knowledge in DH. </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%20Chili%20and%20Honey%20of%20Digital%20Humanities%20Research%3AThe%20Facilitation%20of%20the%20Interdisciplinary%20Transfer%20of%20Knowledge%20in%20Digital%20Humanities%20Centers&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2020-09-25&rft.volume=014&rft.issue=3&rft.aulast=Oiva&rft.aufirst=Mila&rft.au=Mila%20Oiva"> </span></div> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/14/3/000468/000468.html">Excavating Infrastructure in the Analog Humanities’ Lab: An Analysis of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale</a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Aleksandra Kil, University of Wrocław (Poland)</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000468en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000468en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000468en"> In this paper I present Claude Lévi-Strauss’s <cite class="italic">Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale</cite> (LAS), established in 1960, as a case study of the archaeology of the humanities infrastructure. Building on media archaeology and critical infrastructure studies, I stress the significance of the research infrastructure in the analog humanities and I show how the LAS was organized around the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF), a vast ethnographical pre-electronic repository produced at Yale. The paper looks into how the <cite class="italic">Files</cite> were mobilized to secure funding and space for Lévi-Strauss’s lab and gain infrastructural advantage (boosted by the <cite class="italic">Files</cite>’ paper-ness), helping it then to establish its position as “richly endowed.” As I suggest, it might be due to these pragmatic considerations – not recognized as epistemically valid – that the Laboratory has not had any important place in the readings of Lévi-Strauss’s work. The paper also highlights “care work” – taking care of resources and relocations – undertaken by Lévi-Strauss and his collaborators. Finally, examining the rationale and history of the HRAF and looking at its use at the LAS, I demonstrate how the tool was refitted to serve the particular needs and ambitions of the Parisian lab. </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=Excavating%20Infrastructure%20in%20the%20Analog%20Humanities%E2%80%99%20Lab%3A%20An%20Analysis%20of%20Claude%20Lévi-Strauss%E2%80%99s%20Laboratoire%20d%E2%80%99anthropologie%20sociale&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2020-09-25&rft.volume=014&rft.issue=3&rft.aulast=Kil&rft.aufirst=Aleksandra&rft.au=Aleksandra%20Kil"> </span></div> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/14/3/000471/000471.html">Infrastructure and Social Interaction: Situated Research Practices in Digital Humanities in India</a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Shanmugapriya T, Indian Institute of Technology; Nirmala Menon, Indian Institute of Technology</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000471en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000471en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000471en"> The computational tradition in India goes back to the two historic archival projects Project Madurai, a digitised collection of ancient Tamil classics and Bichitra, a digital variorum of Rabindranath Tagore’s works which remarked the genesis of Digital Humanities in India. Subsequently, few public and private universities, non-academic organisations and individual scholars are actively involved in digital humanities projects: digital library, digital archive and digital databases. Though these digital establishments underpin Indian humanities scholars to engage in digital humanities research practices, the challenges in infrastructure impede them from leveraging the computational techniques and resources. In this paper, we will study the specific challenges of physical infrastructure such as digital humanities lab, digital humanities pedagogy, digital tools and software, and institution and government support. We will also discuss the brief survey report and few interviews which we conducted from the Indian DH community to reinforce our arguments. </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=Infrastructure%20and%20Social%20Interaction%3A%20Situated%20Research%20Practices%20in%20Digital%20Humanities%20in%20India&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2020-09-25&rft.volume=014&rft.issue=3&rft.aulast=T&rft.aufirst=Shanmugapriya&rft.au=Shanmugapriya%20T&rft.au=Nirmala%20Menon"> </span></div> </div> <div class="cluster"> <h3>Digital Humanities Lab: Case Studies</h3> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/14/3/000479/000479.html">Digital Humanities on Reserve: From Reading Room to Laboratory at Yale University Library</a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Catherine DeRose, Yale University; Peter Leonard, Yale University</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000479en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000479en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000479en"> A 1930s reading room at Yale University Library is the site of an architectural transformation that seeks to make DH praxis visible in a collaborative, open setting. What design and policy interventions lead to the best use of this central and symbolic space? Ethnographic study, user-centered design and a focus on the materiality of both physical and digital collections combine to suggest one pathway for research libraries to support collaborative digital work in the humanities. In this article, two digital humanities staff at Yale Library discuss the relationship between inclusion v. separation, security v. transparency, and historicizing v. “modern” design in the context of a space for Digital Humanities. </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=Digital%20Humanities%20on%20Reserve%3A%20From%20Reading%20Room%20to%20Laboratory%20at%20Yale%20University%20Library&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2020-09-25&rft.volume=014&rft.issue=3&rft.aulast=DeRose&rft.aufirst=Catherine&rft.au=Catherine%20DeRose&rft.au=Peter%20Leonard"> </span></div> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/14/3/000470/000470.html">Organic and Locally Sourced: Growing a Digital Humanities Lab with an Eye Towards Sustainability</a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Rebekah Cummings, University of Utah; David S. Roh, University of Utah; Elizabeth Callaway, University of Utah</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000470en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000470en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000470en"> In 2016, the Digital Matters Lab at the University of Utah launched a temporary “pop-up” space in the Marriott Library, the culmination of eighteen months of discussions between the College of Humanities, the College of Fine Arts, the College of Architecture+Planning, and the Marriott Library. After a previously unsuccessful attempt at creating a digital scholarship center in the late 2000s, our second attempt was rooted in skepticism. Why would this version be any more successful than the last? This paper chronicles how, learning from our mistakes, the Digital Matters Lab negotiated between a loose community of scholars and administrative stakeholders to navigate complex institutional legacies and bear a formal center with a cross-campus partnership, mission, and identity. The Lab’s focus on environmental, financial, and technological sustainability emerged in response to the situated environment of Utah where water rights, public lands, and air quality are critical concerns. As a second iteration digital humanities/scholarship center, the Digital Matters Lab’s emphasis on sustainability also reflects awareness of its vulnerability to the vicissitudes of administrative temperament or shifts in budgetary priorities. This case study concludes by looking to the future of the Digital Matters Lab in terms of scalability and permanence. </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=Organic%20and%20Locally%20Sourced%3A%20Growing%20a%20Digital%20Humanities%20Lab%20with%20an%20Eye%20Towards%20Sustainability&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2020-09-25&rft.volume=014&rft.issue=3&rft.aulast=Cummings&rft.aufirst=Rebekah&rft.au=Rebekah%20Cummings&rft.au=David S.%20Roh&rft.au=Elizabeth%20Callaway"> </span></div> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/14/3/000472/000472.html">Inside the Trading Zone: Thinkering in a Digital History Lab</a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Andreas Fickers, University of Luxembourg; Tim van der Heijden, University of Luxembourg</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000472en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000472en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000472en"> The goal of this article is to critically reflect on the practical and epistemological challenges of doing historical research in the digital age. The analysis is based on a case study of the Doctoral Training Unit (DTU) “Digital History and Hermeneutics”, an interdisciplinary research and training programme that was established at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) of the University of Luxembourg. The DTU is designed as interdisciplinary trading zone that applies the method of “thinkering” – the tinkering with technology combined with the critical reflection on the practice of doing digital history. Based on this case study, the article addresses the question of how to constitute an interdisciplinary trading zone in practice and how to situate this trading zone in physical working environments, like a Digital History Lab and shared office space. </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=Inside%20the%20Trading%20Zone%3A%20Thinkering%20in%20a%20Digital%20History%20Lab&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2020-09-01&rft.volume=014&rft.issue=3&rft.aulast=Fickers&rft.aufirst=Andreas&rft.au=Andreas%20Fickers&rft.au=Tim van der%20Heijden"> </span></div> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/14/3/000478/000478.html">Creating Spaces for Interdisciplinary Research across Literature, Neuroscience, and DH: A Case Study of The Digital Humanities and Literary Cognition Lab (DHLC)</a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Natalie Philips, Michigan State University; Alexander Babbitt, Michigan State University; Soohyun Cho, Michigan State University; Jessica Kane, Albion College; Cody Mejeur, University at Buffalo; Craig Pearson, Michigan State University</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000478en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000478en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000478en"> The Digital Humanities and Literary Cognition (DHLC) lab at Michigan State University was founded in 2012 with the mission of bringing together scholars from disciplines including literature, neuroscience, education, computer science, and digital humanities to investigate the cognitive processes involved in reading texts of all kinds. The real story is much more complicated: emerging through a combination of institutional risk-taking and serendipitous accident, the lab was — and remains — an example of how conventional definitions of a “laboratory,” and particularly the rather fraught label of “humanities lab,” often come short of capturing the true cross-disciplinary nature of this type of work. More than any academic or methodological template, the DHLC lab emerged through the curiosity and enthusiasm of the students who inhabit it. For that reason, this case study — a brief history of the DHLC’s development, cultural practices, and ongoing work — has been written collaboratively with multiple voices, including the lab director (Natalie Phillips) and the student researchers. Together, we describe the challenges and opportunities created by embarking on a radically interdisciplinary research effort. We report the elements that enabled the DHLC lab to find success through a willingness to abandon expectations and adapt to rapidly evolving research practices, while maintaining our core focus on the humanities. We hope this case study proves useful for those who, like us, seek to explore the vast potential of interdisciplinary lab space for DH practice, the pedagogical benefits of collaborative research, and how to prioritize humanities in a STEM-focused world. </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=Creating%20Spaces%20for%20Interdisciplinary%20Research%20across%20Literature,%20Neuroscience,%20and%20DH%3A%20A%20Case%20Study%20of%20The%20Digital%20Humanities%20and%20Literary%20Cognition%20Lab%20(DHLC)&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2020-09-25&rft.volume=014&rft.issue=3&rft.aulast=Philips&rft.aufirst=Natalie&rft.au=Natalie%20Philips&rft.au=Alexander%20Babbitt&rft.au=Soohyun%20Cho&rft.au=Jessica%20Kane&rft.au=Cody%20Mejeur&rft.au=Craig%20Pearson"> </span></div> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/14/3/000473/000473.html">Ooligan Press: Building and Sustaining a Feminist Digital Humanities Lab at a R-2</a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Kathi Inman Berens, Portland State University; Abbey Gaterud, Chemeketa Community College; Rachel Noorda, Portland State University</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000473en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000473en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000473en"> How can practitioners outside of R-1s afford to build a DH lab? How to connect a lab’s output to the communities it serves? This essay is a case study of Ooligan Press, a student-run trade press housed within a R-2, teaching-intensive university. Two elements make Ooligan Press distinctive as a DH lab. First, Ooligan is a not-for-profit business folded into a Master’s program in Book Publishing. Profits from sale of Ooligan Press books sustain the lab, which would collapse if its books were steadily unprofitable. Second, the essay uses the DH feminism “M.E.A.L.S.” framework to explain how Ooligan's horizontal management structure and student ownership of the press manifest in an ethic of care. Unlike most R-1 DH labs, where priorities are set by senior scholars and directors, graduate students decide which projects the lab will develop, and which skills they want to master in exchange for their labor. Because Ooligan is self-sustaining, it can also be self-directing. </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=Ooligan%20Press%3A%20Building%20and%20Sustaining%20a%20Feminist%20Digital%20Humanities%20Lab%20at%20a%20R-2&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2020-09-25&rft.volume=014&rft.issue=3&rft.aulast=Berens&rft.aufirst=Kathi Inman&rft.au=Kathi Inman%20Berens&rft.au=Abbey%20Gaterud&rft.au=Rachel%20Noorda"> </span></div> </div> <div class="cluster"> <h3>Cluster 2: Virtual Situatedness, Digital Practices, and Collaboration</h3> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/14/3/000480/000480.html">An “Open Lab?” The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab in the Evolving Digital Humanities Landscape</a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Randa El Khatib, University of Victoria; Alyssa Arbuckle, University of Victoria; Lynne Siemens, University of Victoria; Ray Siemens, University of Victoria; Caroline Winter, University of Victoria; ETCL Research Group, University of Victoria</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000480en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000480en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000480en"> As the scholarly landscape evolves into a more “open” plain, so do the shapes of institutions, labs, centres, and other places and spaces of research, including those of the digital humanities (DH). The continuing success of such research largely depends on a commitment to open access and open source philosophies that broaden opportunities for a more efficient, productive, and universal design and use of knowledge. The Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory (ETCL; etcl.uvic.ca) is a collaborative centre for digital and open scholarly practices at the University of Victoria, Canada, that engages with these transformations in knowledge creation through its umbrella organization, the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute (C-SKI), that coordinates and supports open social scholarship activities across three major initiatives: the ETCL itself, the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI; dhsi.org), and the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE; inke.ca) Partnership, including sub-projects associated with each. Open social scholarship is the practice of creating and disseminating public-facing scholarship through accessible means. Working through C-SKI, we seek ways to engage communities more widely with publicly funded humanities scholarship, such as through research creation and dissemination, mentorship, and skills training. </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=An%20Open%20Lab%3F%20The%20Electronic%20Textual%20Cultures%20Lab%20in%20the%20Evolving%20Digital%20Humanities%20Landscape&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2020-09-25&rft.volume=014&rft.issue=3&rft.aulast=El Khatib&rft.aufirst=Randa&rft.au=Randa%20El Khatib&rft.au=Alyssa%20Arbuckle&rft.au=Lynne%20Siemens&rft.au=Ray%20Siemens&rft.au=Caroline%20Winter&rft.au=ETCL Research Group%20"> </span></div> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/14/3/000474/000474.html">One Loveheart at a Time: The Language of Emoji and the Building of Affective Community in the Digital Medieval Studies Environment</a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Lawrence Evalyn, University of Toronto; C. E. M. Henderson, University of Toronto’s Centre for Medieval Studies; Julia King, University of Bergen, Norway; Jessica Lockhart, University of Toronto, Mississauga; Laura Mitchell, St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan; Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Institute for Advanced Study</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000474en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000474en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000474en"> The Old Books, New Science (OBNS) Lab began using Slack in May 2016 to facilitate the work of a diverse research group at the University of Toronto. Yet the OBNS Slack does not simply facilitate scholarly communication: it also serves as a powerful affective network, bringing together scholars in new and sometimes unexpected configurations. The affective language of emoji is fundamental to the growth of this community. Lab members coin new emoji that are taken up by the community eagerly, many of which are meaningful only within the OBNS environment. It is common to reference Slack emoji in in-person conversation; equally, the OBNS Slack is often home to advising sessions or meetings that in another workplace would take place face-to-face. In this way, the online environment of Slack and the in-person environment of the lab are mutually constitutive. Such usage of Slack may, however, also have a dark side: by celebrating affective community in the workspace, what happens to the distinction between home and office, and consequent erosion of leisure time? We consider whether the affective practices of the OBNS Slack might allow personal and professional boundaries to be blurred in such a way as to prioritize the personal. </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=One%20Loveheart%20at%20a%20Time%3A%20The%20Language%20of%20Emoji%20and%20the%20Building%20of%20Affective%20Community%20in%20the%20Digital%20Medieval%20Studies%20Environment&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2020-09-25&rft.volume=014&rft.issue=3&rft.aulast=Evalyn&rft.aufirst=Lawrence&rft.au=Lawrence%20Evalyn&rft.au=C. E. M.%20Henderson&rft.au=Julia%20King&rft.au=Jessica%20Lockhart&rft.au=Laura%20Mitchell&rft.au=Suzanne Conklin%20Akbari"> </span></div> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/14/3/000476/000476.html">Theatre analytics: developing software for theatre research</a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Clarisse Bardiot, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000476en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000476en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000476en"> How can digital traces of the performing arts be interpreted? What methodologies can be proposed to “make them talk”? The specificity of these traces leads to specific methodological responses, especially as the aim here is to interpret the traces in both directions of understanding and replayability. It is as much a question of advancing a reflection on the conditions for the recovery of work, as it is of analyzing an artistic approach based on its digital traces. Starting from these epistemological issues, I present the development of two softwares, Rekall and MemoRekall. These tools are part of a larger trend which I call “theatre analytics”. Theatre analytics is based on data from the traces of the performing arts. Unlike the general approach of “big data in the social sciences and humanities,” where we seek to determine general, average, profile categories or repeatable (or even predictable) patterns, our primary concern remains to capture the singular, the detail, the difference, the anomaly, in a constant round trip between the micro and the macro dimensions. The ambition of theatre analytics is to offer a different way of looking at big data, more oriented towards complexity than the quantity of data. </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=Theatre%20analytics%3A%20developing%20software%20for%20theatre%20research&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2020-09-25&rft.volume=014&rft.issue=3&rft.aulast=Bardiot&rft.aufirst=Clarisse&rft.au=Clarisse%20Bardiot"> </span></div> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/14/3/000477/000477.html">A Case Study Protocol for Meta-Research into Digital Practices in the Humanities</a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Maciej Maryl, Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland; Costis Dallas, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto; Digital Curation Unit, IMSI-Athena Research Centre; Jennifer Edmond, School of Languages Literatures and Cultural Studies, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; DARIAH -EU; Jessie Labov, Center for Media, Data, and Society, Central European University, Hungary; Ingrida Kelpšienė, Vilnius University Faculty of Communication; Michelle Doran, Trinity College Dublin; Marta Kołodziejska, Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland; Klaudia Grabowska, Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000477en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000477en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000477en"> This paper presents a multicase study protocol for meta-research in Digital Humanities, prepared by Digital Methods and Practices Observatory (DiMPO) Working Group of the Digital Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities in Europe (DARIAH). The protocol is intended to help researchers in conducting meta-research and adopting this methodology for different purposes, disciplines and approaches. As many of the issues raised here are already covered in manuals for social research, our focus is the specificity of meta-research in the DH environment. The specificity of DH in this respect relies on an intrinsic challenge of bringing together generally undertheorised approaches of the humanities with very formal and process-driven ICT approaches. The main assumption behind this research is that a meaningful change in scholarly practices is taking place and is worth investigating. Moreover, a full assessment of this transformation should not focus exclusively on pioneering research, but rather on the selective uptake of digital practices and methods by researchers in the humanities: those who do not necessarily affiliate themselves with DH but simply use digital tools to explore particular problems. Hence, this paper should be of interest not only to researchers willing to conduct meta analysis, but to all DH practitioners willing to gain critical perspective on their work, as well as for those working on funding, evaluation and research policy. Three pilot studies are discussed in this paper, as they served as a basis for the protocol. They focused on different “units of inquiry” (individual researchers, projects, research communities) and varied in methodological directions: (a) individual interviews with Polish DH researchers; (b) mixed-methods analysis of digital practice in E-CURATORS, a multicase SSHRC Insight project focusing on archaeological research sites or projects, integrating individual interviews, document analysis and naturalistic observation; and, (c) group interviews with historians and literary scholars conducted within the framework of NEP4DISSENT COST Action. The resulting protocol is discussed in detail and some directions for further research are suggested. </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=A%20Case%20Study%20Protocol%20for%20Meta-Research%20into%20Digital%20Practices%20in%20the%20Humanities&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2020-09-25&rft.volume=014&rft.issue=3&rft.aulast=Maryl&rft.aufirst=Maciej&rft.au=Maciej%20Maryl&rft.au=Costis%20Dallas&rft.au=Jennifer%20Edmond&rft.au=Jessie%20Labov&rft.au=Ingrida%20Kelpšienė&rft.au=Michelle%20Doran&rft.au=Marta%20Kołodziejska&rft.au=Klaudia%20Grabowska"> </span></div> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/14/3/000481/000481.html">The Role of Critical Thinking in Humanities Infrastructure: The Pipeline Concept with a Study of HaToRI (Hansard Topic Relevance Identifier)</a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Ashley S. Lee, Brown University; Poom Chiarawongse, Brown University; Jo Guldi, Southern Methodist University; Andras Zsom, Brown University</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000481en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000481en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000481en"> This article proposes the concept of the pipeline as a category of tool that organizes a series of algorithms for users. The pipeline concept, adopted with limitations by the humanities, documents how a suite of algorithms produces a particular research result, with the goal of enabling interoperability, transparency, and iteration by future scholars who may switch out particular algorithms within the pipeline with different results. A pipeline-based application amplifies the concepts of interoperability and transparency for users by allowing the researcher to toggle on and off particular options, for example selecting and deselecting particular topics of interest from a program of visualizations based on a topic model of a large body of text. Pipelines support modular, interoperable, transparent, and documented processes of research that lend themselves to Prof. Guldi's Theory of Critical Search — the argument that critical thinking increasingly takes place at the design and research stage of digital processes. The article presents the case of how the pipeline concept influenced the development of <cite class="italic">HaToRI</cite> (Hansard Topic Relevance Identifier), an open-source pipeline-based tool for identifying a cohort of thematically-linked passages in the nineteenth-century debates of Britain's parliament. In our pipeline, a series of algorithms move through the steps of cleaning a corpus, organizing them into topics, and selecting particular topics that are used to extract a sub-corpus that matches the user’s interests. Users have the option of searching based on multiple topics rather than merely keywords or a single topic at a time, allowing iterative searches to build upon each other. As an example of the Critical Search process in action, we follow an inquiry based on matching parliamentary reports with material from the Hansard British Parliamentary Debates. Using the pipeline, the user is able to identify multiple common topics of interest, and from these topics, extract a sub-corpus specific to land use and rent in the 19th century British Empire. </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%20Role%20of%20Critical%20Thinking%20in%20Humanities%20Infrastructure%3A%20The%20Pipeline%20Concept%20with%20a%20Study%20of%20HaToRI%20(Hansard%20Topic%20Relevance%20Identifier)&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2020-09-25&rft.volume=014&rft.issue=3&rft.aulast=Lee&rft.aufirst=Ashley S.&rft.au=Ashley S.%20Lee&rft.au=Poom%20Chiarawongse&rft.au=Jo%20Guldi&rft.au=Andras%20Zsom"> </span></div> </div> <h2>Articles</h2> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/14/3/000483/000483.html">Lost Spaces, Lost Technologies, and Lost People: Online History Projects Seek to Recover LGBTQ+ Spatial Histories</a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Alex D. Ketchum, McGill University</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000483en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000483en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000483en"> This article looks at online history projects focused on “lost” spaces, with an emphasis on lost LGBTQ+ spaces. In documenting lost spaces, these projects also highlight lost or marginalized historical actors. I position these projects at the center of debates surrounding how to recover “lost” peoples who have been left out or erased from mainstream histories. This article will discuss the various techniques used by digital humanities projects, focusing particularly on Jan Kurth’s “Lost Womyn’s Space”, Greggor Mattson’s “Mapping Lost Lesbian Bars”, and my own project, “The Feminist Restaurant Project”. This article discusses the various techniques used and the value these open access history websites serve for scholars and non-scholars alike. The article finishes by exploring how lost space projects preserve what was not previously preserved, while these websites are simultaneously vulnerable to similar preservation issues that plague digital humanities projects and community archives more broadly, especially those separate from large institutions. These challenges raise the questions: is lost space doomed to be lost? Can the history of LGBTQ+ space be recuperated? What role do digital humanities have in this work? And what does it mean to be found? </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=Lost%20Spaces,%20Lost%20Technologies,%20and%20Lost%20People%3A%20Online%20History%20Projects%20Seek%20to%20Recover%20LGBTQ%2B%20Spatial%20Histories&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2020-09-25&rft.volume=014&rft.issue=3&rft.aulast=Ketchum&rft.aufirst=Alex D.&rft.au=Alex D.%20Ketchum"> </span></div> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/14/3/000484/000484.html">Fading Away... The challenge of sustainability in digital studies</a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Christine Barats, Cerlis, University of Paris Descartes; Valérie Schafer, C²DH, University of Luxembourg; Andreas Fickers, C²DH, University of Luxembourg</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000484en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000484en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000484en"> This paper emphasizes the need to think about sustainability as a key element of digital studies and digital hermeneutics. It addresses the inherent tensions between the long-term needs of data preservation and maintenance on the one side, and the short life cycles of the data formats, platforms and infrastructures on the other side. Challenges are not limited to the technical maintenance of software, tools and data, but also apply to the wider institutional contexts, epistemic traditions and social practices in which the doing of research in social sciences and humanities are embedded. We explore these tensions at several levels, temporalities and key stages in research – namely data access and building a corpus, establishing a research framework and analysis, and finally the use/dissemination of results. </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=Fading%20Away...%20The%20challenge%20of%20sustainability%20in%20digital%20studies&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2020-09-25&rft.volume=014&rft.issue=3&rft.aulast=Barats&rft.aufirst=Christine&rft.au=Christine%20Barats&rft.au=Valérie%20Schafer&rft.au=Andreas%20Fickers"> </span></div> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/14/3/000456/000456.html">Tremendous Mechanical Labor: Father Busa’s Algorithm</a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Geoffrey Rockwell, University of Alberta; Stéfan Sinclair, McGill University</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000456en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000456en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000456en"> This paper looks at innovations in Busa’s <cite class="italic">Index Thomisticus</cite> project through the tension between mechanical and human labour. We propose that Busa and the IBM engineer Paul Tasman introduced two major innovations that allowed computers to process unstructured text. The first innovation was figuring out how represent unstructured text on punched cards, the way data was encoded and handled at that time. The second innovation was figuring out how to tokenize unstructured phrases on cards into words for further counting, sorting and concording. We think-through these innovations using replication as a form of media archaeology practice that can help us understand the innovations as they were thought through at the time. All this is framed by a letter found in the Busa archives criticizing the project as a “tremendous mechanical labour ... of no great utility.” We use this criticism to draw attention to the very different meshing of human and mechanical labour developed at Busa’s concording factory. </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=Tremendous%20Mechanical%20Labor%3A%20Father%20Busa%E2%80%99s%20Algorithm&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2020-09-25&rft.volume=014&rft.issue=3&rft.aulast=Rockwell&rft.aufirst=Geoffrey&rft.au=Geoffrey%20Rockwell&rft.au=Stéfan%20Sinclair"> </span></div> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/14/3/000487/000487.html">The Fold: Rethinking Interactivity in Data Visualization</a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Viktoria Brüggemann, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam; Mark-Jan Bludau, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam; Marian Dörk, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000487en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000487en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000487en"> We propose the philosophical notion of the fold as an evocative vocabulary for the design and critique of interactive data visualizations. An expanding range of application areas, such as digital art history and literary studies, illustrates the potential of data visualization for research and education in the humanities. Coinciding with the increasing currency of data as evidence in the humanities, this research addresses a growing interest in data visualization for visual analysis and argumentation. For example, cultural collection visualizations promise a range of possibilities for visual and interactive representations of digital cultural heritage, used both for free exploration and focused research. Based on the concept of the fold, prominently advanced by Gilles Deleuze, this paper outlines a critical framework that draws attention towards the complexity of the underlying data. The fold offers a way to analyze and conceptualize visualizations through the lens of three integrated operations: explication, implication, and complication. It is an opportunity to think of interactive visualizations as portals into coherent, elastic, and ultimately infinite information spaces. Accordingly, it rejects the separation between interactivity and visual encoding and draws attention to the transitions between multiple states of a visualization. We identify design patterns of the fold in data visualizations, devise a framework for the critical interpretation of interactivity in data visualization, and demonstrate the implications for the digital humanities. </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%20Fold%3A%20Rethinking%20Interactivity%20in%20Data%20Visualization&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2020-09-25&rft.volume=014&rft.issue=3&rft.aulast=Brüggemann&rft.aufirst=Viktoria&rft.au=Viktoria%20Brüggemann&rft.au=Mark-Jan%20Bludau&rft.au=Marian%20Dörk"> </span></div> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/14/3/000489/000489.html">Reassessing the locus of normalization in machine-assisted collation</a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">David J. Birnbaum, University of Pittsburgh; Elena Spadini, Université de Lausanne</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000489en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000489en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000489en"> In this essay we explore the process of textual normalization in the context of machine-assisted collation, which is a common operation in digital textual scholarship. The Gothenburg modular architecture for computer-assisted collation situates normalization as the second stage within a five-stage computational pipeline, where it contributes to improving the eventual alignment. In this essay we argue that normalization, in fact, contributes not only to the alignment, but also to the interpretation of the texts. Furthermore, it occurs at several moments between transcription and rendering, and should not be regarded as happening all at once and only in one location. </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=Reassessing%20the%20locus%20of%20normalization%20in%20machine-assisted%20collation&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2020-09-25&rft.volume=014&rft.issue=3&rft.aulast=Birnbaum&rft.aufirst=David J.&rft.au=David J.%20Birnbaum&rft.au=Elena%20Spadini"> </span></div> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/14/3/000486/000486.html">Playing with Playthroughs: Distance Visualization and Narrative Form in Video Games</a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Cody Mejeur, University at Buffalo, SUNY</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000486en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000486en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000486en"> Studies of video game narrative have long acknowledged that narrative in games is defined by interactivity — the player’s ability to make different choices and produce various story endings. Recent ludonarrative scholarship on games and interactive storytelling has started to account for what this interactivity means for narrative form, yet it remains difficult to assess how variable narrative is in different games, or how different players’ experiences with the same game can be. This article uses ImagePlot, software for visualizing large collections of images, to visualize playthroughs of a game and compare them. In doing so, it proposes a new method for analyzing narrative in games and digital media, and argues that games reveal how narrative form is shifting, emergent, and playful. By focusing on where and how narrative difference emerges, we can better understand how narrative constructs our current realities, and how it might contribute to different ones in the future. </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=Playing%20with%20Playthroughs%3A%20Distance%20Visualization%20and%20Narrative%20Form%20in%20Video%20Games&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2020-09-25&rft.volume=014&rft.issue=3&rft.aulast=Mejeur&rft.aufirst=Cody&rft.au=Cody%20Mejeur"> </span></div> <h2><a href="/dhq/vol/14/3/bios.html">Author Biographies</a></h2></div><div id="footer"><div style="float:left; max-width:70%;"> URL: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/14/3/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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