Digital Humanities in Museums
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Digital humanities combines traditional humanistic study with digital tools and methods. It values collaboration and sharing through open data. Museums and other cultural institutions are digitizing their collections, making vast amounts of data and resources available online. This allows new types of research, projects, and tools to develop. Digital humanities practitioners encourage opening data with permissive licenses to maximize reuse and partnerships.
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- 1. Digital humanities and the museum Dr Elycia Wallis Professional Historians Association Historically speaking July 2012 http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/items/1721448/stereograph-federation-celebrations- illuminated-exhibition-buildings-h-myers-melbourne-victoria-1901
- 2. Introduction @elyw Digital humanities â values, tools, trends Museums, Libraries, Archives â resources Projects http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/items/245425/window -stained-glass-ferguson-urie-circa-1872
- 3. Digital humanities values, tools and trends #Musethanks to: @jamesinealing @erodley @mia_out @leoba @rahtz @jamescummings @annettestr @CriticalSteph @bestqualitycrab @ericdmj @jenguiliano @wragge http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/items/1216698/quilt-martha-bergin-1843
- 4. What are the digital humanities and what does it value? Digital humanities is about the use of technology to advance research in the humanities. Itâs about connectivity, commmunity and collaboration. Lisa Murray, AHA2012 in Stumbling Through the Past 3 parts to digital humanities: ï Digital tools that give us new ways to answer traditional questions: new tools to examine traditional texts and images ï The traditional questions of the humanities, applied to help us understand the contemporary digital world ï Public digital humanities which are new forms of outreach using the web and other digital tools. Steven Lubar, 1 July 2012 in Steven Lubar on public humanities
- 5. What are the digital humanities and what does it value? They are traditional humanities combined with IT; making them both history and future orientated. The things historians care about, such as archives, interpretation, meaning and historiography donât disappear just because youâre using technology. The technology is used as the mechanism for discovery. Digital humanities emphasises collaboration as a virtue. The âlone wolfâ scholar is less the norm. Sharing ideas, resources, community allows practitioners to go further and learn more than they would working alone.
- 6. Is digital humanities just for geeks? Digital humanities is something all researchers can be part of; itâs not just for large institutions and IT geeks. You donât have to learn coding but a bit of scripting can be useful. Itâs also a way of thinking â working with getting messy data into a structure, or trying some scripting, helps develop computational thinking
- 7. Digital humanities means *open* data! Digital humanities researchers value collaboration and partnerships â and to make the most of these they promote publishing data with unrestrictive licenses for reuse, and utilising linked open data principles. Plan, from day one, to publish the data as well as the book. Make that data linked and open, even if the synthesis comes much later. If research is funded by public money it must be open, no excuses.
- 8. Digital humanities means *open* data! Digital humanities researchers value collaboration and partnerships â and to make the most of these they promote publishing data with unrestrictive licenses for reuse, and utilising linked open data principles. Plan, from day one, to publish the data as well as the book. Make that data linked and open, even if the synthesis comes much later. If research is funded by public money it must be open, no excuses.
- 9. One thing to say about digital humanities at http://elyw.tumblr.com/
- 10. Collections + digitisation = data Volunteers scanning literature at Museum Victoriaâs library, photograph by Joe Coleman
- 11. Open licensing http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/collectie/ http://www.cooperhewitt.org/collectio ns/data http://rpmcollections.wordpress.com/ 2012/07/20/open-data-from-our- collections/
- 12. Masses of data online
- 13. And over the ditch http://www.digitalnz.org/
- 14. Broadcast http://www.abc.net.au/archives/80days/
- 15. In Victoria http://prov.vic.gov.au/research http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/our-collections/
- 16. Data from many sources http://victoriancollections.net.au/ http://www.historypin.com/
- 17. But how to find it all? http://museumex.org/
- 18. Once youâve got the data, what do you do with it? http://invisibleaustralians.org/
- 19. Making tools available to others http://wraggelabs.com/ http://wraggelabs.com/shed/querypic/
- 20. Making tools available to others http://neatline.org/
- 21. Finally a word about Museum Victoria http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/items/405695/stripper-harvester-model-h-v- mckay-sunshine-harvester-ballarat-victoria-1899
- 22. Our questions to you What do you want to see on a Collections Online site? What data, what media, what images? What do you want to do with Collections Online? Compile a collection of your own, provide more information or commentary, talk to others who share your interests? What do you want to take away from Collections Online? Data, images, an embeddable link, a citation?
- 26. Thanks Dr Ely Wallis Museum Victoria ewallis@museum.vic.gov.au @elyw http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/items/747432/stereograph-by-r- harvie-studio-circa-1920s-1940s
- 27. Resources - blogs Discontents by Tim Sherratt, (@wragge on Twitter) at http://discontents.com.au/ Historyonics by Tim Hitchcock at http://historyonics.blogspot.com.au/ In the Library with the Lead Pipe http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/dhandthelib/ Ivry Twr by Ryan Hunt (@Ryan_Hunt on Twitter) http://ivrytwr.com/category/digital-humanities-2/ Miriam Posner: Blog at http://miriamposner.com/blog/ Miriam is the coordinator of the Digital Humanities Program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Open Objects by Mia Ridge (@mia_out on Twitter) at http://openobjects.blogspot.com.au/ Steven Lubar on Public Humanities (1 July 2012) In response to a state humanities council question: What are the digital humanities, and what should we do about them? Blogged on Steven Lubar on Public Humanities http://stevenlubar.wordpress.com/2012/07/01/in-response-to-a-state-humanities-council- question-what-are-the-digital-humanities-and-what-should-we-do-about-them/ Stumbling Through the Future. Blog written by Yvonne Perkins but directed towards digital humanities. Has some really good links and posts. http://stumblingfuture.wordpress.com/ Stumbling Through the Past. Blog started by Yvonne Perkins in 2012 (@perkinsy on Twitter). A recent post of interest is about the Australian Historical Association Conference 2012. See http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/reaching-out-to-the-public-australian-historical- association-conference-2012/
- 28. Resources â links, associations, conferences Australasian Association for Digital Humanities website is at http://aa-dh.org/ Digital Humanities 2012 conference has just been held in Hamburg. See http://www.dh2012.uni- hamburg.de/ (Twitter hashtag #dh2012) Cuny Academic Commons. The CUNY Digital Humanities Resource Guide â lots of good links http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/wiki/index.php/The_CUNY_Digital_Humanities_Resource_Guide Excellent summary of links about Digital Humanities from the US National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Digital Humanities. Brett Bobley (November 18, 2010) New York Times on the Digital Humanities at http://www.neh.gov/divisions/odh/new-york-times-the-digital-humanities Johnathon Shaw (May-June 2012) The Humanities, Digitised. Reconceiving the study of culture. Harvard Magazine at http://harvardmagazine.com/2012/05/the-humanities-digitized Suzanne Fischer (July 13, 2012) Once Upon a Place: Telling Stories with Maps. The Atlantic at http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/once-upon-a-place-telling-stories-with- maps/259787/
Hinweis der Redaktion
- For anyone who is on Twitter, hereâs my twitter tag. A bit about myself â and a confession. Iâm not a digital humanities practitioner, and not even a historian. Iâm originally trained as a zoologist, here at Uni Melb. Since coming to work at the Museum, Iâve moved through working in one of the research collections, to managing the collection management database, to my current role in IT which is to put the museumâs collections online. Museum Victoria has a collection of some 16 million items, covering humanities and sciences. Breaking humanities down, we have anthropology collections through to social history collections; collections of historic photographs through to aeroplanes. So in order to undertake my role, I need to keep up with research and thinking across disciplines. And, hence my interest in digital humanities â not as a practitioner of the discipline but as someone trying to provide practitioners with useful tools and services that will allow them to make most use of the museumâs collections for their own research. Tonight Iâll talk about 3 things.
- So first Iâll talk a little about what are the values, tools and trends in digital humanities. But I must start by thanking a generous group of people â most of whom Iâve never met. put the question out to TwitterWhat I will say are the answers I got back. Want to acknowledge their generosity as it exemplifies what they then said about digital humanities.
- So the conclusion is contained in this wordle. Itâs open, collaborative, sees primary sources as âdataâ, uses technology. However, just a note about the dangers of digital. This was also brought up by Lisa Murray when she said that there is a risk of dropping into the thinking of âif itâs not digital it doesnât existâ. So in amongst the technological tools, and the mass of digitised resources the real object, text or resource is still very important.
- Now moving on to projects providing raw access to data. Organisations all around the world are busy trying to provide data in digitised form that digital humanities scholars require and thrive on. This is a small scanning operation run at Museum Victoria, there are certainly many much bigger operations, scanning literature, archives, letters, scrapbooks, photographs, trade literature. And photographing artworks, collections objects etc.
- And once itâs digitised, itâs only useful online. I canât talk about many projects today as thereâs so many out there, but will mention a few and leave you with the links to go away and explore. Pick pretty much any library, museum or archive these days and there will be some sort of representation of their collections online.Earlier I mentioned the word âopenâ â in respect to access and licensing. Increasingly museums, libraries and archives are making their resources so open that they donât even require attribution when you reuse the dataset. They apply a creative commons license called Cczero. Examples: Rijksmuseum, Brighton museums, Cooper Hewitt
- Closer to home, the standout project is run by the National Library in Canberra â called Trove. Is there anyone who is *not* familiar with Trove?Digitised newspapers are the go to project, but there are also huge aggregated collections from right around the country of images, music scores, biographical data, diaries etc and traditional library style book catalogues. They have also released an API, which allows people to programatically come and grab data in order (rather than copying and pasting individual records) in order to remix and reuse it. Iâll come back to that in a few minutes.
- Closer to home, the SLV provides extensive access to collections, as does the Public Records Office.
- Itâs also not just large organisations that provide digitised resources. Smaller community organisations are also doing it â though some now very large.Examples are Victorian Collections which is a project that provides a place for small organisations around Victoria to publish their collections. Being run by Museums Australia Victoria branch. and HistoryPin. Global project that provides a place for organisations and individuals to upload historic photos, pinpoint them on a map and in time and add their own story. Excellent resource if youâre researching a particular place.
- Resource discovery aggregators. Museums put up this project last year to aggregate information about collections held in Museums.
- So once youâve got the data, what do you do with it? As I said at the start, digital humanities is at its core no different from traditional history in its aims, just in the tools and methods. So you can get the data and do what you always did in the past. There are some particular projects that Iâd like to show you, though, where people are using the data theyâve mined to tell new stories or add new perspectives. One fantastic project is called Invisible Australians and is run by Kate Bagnall and Tim Sherratt up in Canberra. They utilise the data provided in Trove and by the National Archives to pull out images and information about people living under the White Australia policy. Their project paints an evocative picture of just who were these âwhiteâ Australians? What were their lives, the history and their families.
- Tim has gone further though, and writes all sorts of interesting little tools, that he makes freely available for others to use through Wragge Labs. QueryPic is one example â which gives a graph of the frequency of words used in newspapers over time.
- And unfortunately donât have time to go into the whole field of work that takes historical data and reinterprets it or represents it using mapping, visualisations and timelines. Neatline from the Scholars Lab at the University of Virginia Library has just ben released and is a set of tools that allows you to plot events or other data against digitised historical maps.
- Museum Victoria puts nearly 74,000 of its collection objects online, on our own website and to other places. We have 9800 images in HistoryPin, and 36,000 images in Trove, for example. We wish to share our collections information openly and freely. We publish an API so that you can come and grab our data. Weâve also studied our audience pretty extensively. We know that people who visit MVâs collections describe themselves as âresearchersâ often for a hobby or interest, but also for professional reasons. Weâre redoing the site right now, and are interested in making it a better resource.
- We donât want to work against you, but with you
- That takes you to places you havenât been to before.
- Iâve compiled some resources and information that I will leave you with
- There are lots of places to go for more resources about digital humanities.