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Humanities Quarterly</div><div id="toc"> <h1>2013 7.2</h1> <h2>Articles</h2> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/7/2/000159/000159.html">Curating Digital Spaces, Making Visual Arguments: A Case Study in New Media Presentations of Ancient Objects</a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Daniel Price, University of Houston; Rex Koontz, University of Houston; Lauren Lovings, Independent scholar</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000159en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000159en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000159en"> Curating is often seen as a mediation between artist, work, and audience, with the curator firmly at the center. The central role of the curator has been further emphasized with the rise of the curator as artist and the institutional and physical limitations of museum spaces. We argue that there are important alternative spaces of meaning to be developed between object and audience. Digital curating, in particular, allows for greater audience participation, both by expanding the potential audience and by allowing visitors to navigate through the virtual galleries under their own direction. We contend that by facilitating the site visitors’ creation of their own visual arguments, a new level of audience participation in visual analysis — indeed, in a fundamental intellectual and intuitive aspect of curating — is made possible. We explore how digital resources can be modified to allow for that contextual sense of making a visual argument through arrangement. An installation at the University of Houston debuted a new tool for digital content management and allows us to make some preliminary observations about the process of visual analysis, its role in curatorial practice, and explore future directions for 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=Curating%20Digital%20Spaces,%20Making%20Visual%20Arguments%3A%20A%20Case%20Study%20in%20New%20Media%20Presentations%20of%20Ancient%20Objects&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2013-10-10&rft.volume=007&rft.issue=2&rft.aulast=Price&rft.aufirst=Daniel&rft.au=Daniel%20Price&rft.au=Rex%20Koontz&rft.au=Lauren%20Lovings"> </span></div> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/7/2/000116/000116.html">Traveling the Silk Road on a Virtual Globe: Pedagogy, Technology and Evaluation for Spatial History</a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Ruth Mostern, University of California Merced; Elana Gainor, University of California Merced</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000116en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000116en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000116en"> This article describes the authors’ experience teaching college students how to use Google Earth to create atlases of historical Silk Road journeys. It argues that a digital humanities classroom, with clearly defined assignments and extensive evaluation, is an exemplary setting for establishing and verifying genre conventions and review standards. Approaches that are developed for the classroom can be modified for professional settings. The authors introduce criteria for evaluating digital historical atlases as works of humanistic scholarship, and suggest that digital humanists do the same for other disciplines and genres as well. </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=Traveling%20the%20Silk%20Road%20on%20a%20Virtual%20Globe%3A%20Pedagogy,%20Technology%20and%20Evaluation%20for%20Spatial%20History&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2013-10-10&rft.volume=007&rft.issue=2&rft.aulast=Mostern&rft.aufirst=Ruth&rft.au=Ruth%20Mostern&rft.au=Elana%20Gainor"> </span></div> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/7/2/000163/000163.html">Now is the Future Now? The Urgency of Digital Curation in the Digital Humanities</a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Alex H. Poole, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000163en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000163en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000163en"> In their seminal report, <cite class="italic">Our Cultural Commonwealth</cite> (2006), the American Council of Learned Societies underscored the need for scholars engaged in digital humanities work to leverage their access to data both to expand their audience to the general public and to generate new research questions. “Now is the Future Now?” argues that the progress made in digital humanities toward these goals has depended and will depend not only on digital data, but also on their appropriate curation. The article defines digital humanities, data, so-called Big Data, and digital curation. Next it examines digital curation initiatives in the sciences and in the humanities that occurred before the release of <cite class="italic">Our Cultural Commonwealth</cite>. It then considers and evaluates the digital curation work undertaken in the sciences and in the humanities after the report’s publication. In theory and in practice digital curation has benefited substantially from practices developed and tested first in the natural sciences and subsequently adapted for and extended in the humanities. Finally, the piece explores the future work necessary to facilitate symbiosis between digital curation and digital humanities. Collaboration and cooperation, transcending geographical, disciplinary, and institutional boundaries, data sharing, policies and planning, education and training, sustainability — all remain pressing issues in 2013. </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=Now%20is%20the%20Future%20Now%3F%20The%20Urgency%20of%20Digital%20Curation%20in%20the%20Digital%20Humanities&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2013-10-10&rft.volume=007&rft.issue=2&rft.aulast=Poole&rft.aufirst=Alex H.&rft.au=Alex H.%20Poole"> </span></div> <h2>Reviews</h2> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/7/2/000158/000158.html">A Beautiful Look at Modern Digital Humanities: A review of Mark Goble, <cite class="italic">Beautiful Circuits: Modernism and the Mediated Life</cite> (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010)</a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Jimmy Butts, Clemson University</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000158en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000158en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000158en"> A review of Marke Goble’s <cite class="italic">Beautiful Circuits</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=A%20Beautiful%20Look%20at%20Modern%20Digital%20Humanities%3A%20A%20review%20of%20Mark%20Goble,%20Beautiful%20Circuits%3A%20Modernism%20and%20the%20Mediated%20Life%20(New%20York%3A%20Columbia%20University%20Press,%202010)&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2013-10-10&rft.volume=007&rft.issue=2&rft.aulast=Butts&rft.aufirst=Jimmy&rft.au=Jimmy%20Butts"> </span></div> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/7/2/000160/000160.html">A review of Nathan Ensmenger, <cite class="italic">The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise</cite> (Cambridge, MA, and London: MIT Press, 2010)</a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Trisha Campbell, University of Pittsburgh</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000160en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000160en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000160en"> This is a review of Nathan Ensmenger's <cite class="italic">The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise</cite> (Cambridge, MA, and London: MIT Press, 2010). </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%20review%20of%20Nathan%20Ensmenger,%20The%20Computer%20Boys%20Take%20Over%3A%20Computers,%20Programmers,%20and%20the%20Politics%20of%20Technical%20Expertise%20(Cambridge,%20MA,%20and%20London%3A%20MIT%20Press,%202010)&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2013-10-10&rft.volume=007&rft.issue=2&rft.aulast=Campbell&rft.aufirst=Trisha&rft.au=Trisha%20Campbell"> </span></div> <h2>Issues in Digital Humanities</h2> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/7/2/000164/000164.html">FairCite</a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Adam Crymble, Kings College London; Julia Flanders, Northeastern University</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000164en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000164en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000164en"> Within the digital humanities, there are many approaches to citation. Every discipline handles citation and authorship differently, and within the digital humanities there are wide divergences of practice in the ways that credit is assigned and made visible. However, there is also broad agreement that citation practices need scrutiny and perhaps rethinking. The issue arises with particular force when we consider how to cite digital humanities projects and tools. Standard citation practices do not provide good precedents for making visible the contributions of project personnel in these highly collaborative efforts. There has been significant informal discussion and debate in recent years concerning appropriate ways to credit this work, but no consensus has been reached. FairCite (http://faircite.wordpress.com) was founded to promote this discussion and encourage it towards practical, public outcomes. </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=FairCite&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2013-10-12&rft.volume=007&rft.issue=2&rft.aulast=Crymble&rft.aufirst=Adam&rft.au=Adam%20Crymble&rft.au=Julia%20Flanders"> </span></div> <h2><a href="/dhq/vol/7/2/bios.html">Author Biographies</a></h2></div><div id="footer"><div style="float:left; max-width:70%;"> URL: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/7/2/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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