How Art History is Failing at the Internet
An article by James Cuno, President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, from November 19th: How Art History is Failing at the Internet From the article: …we aren’t conducting art historical research...
View ArticleTransitioning to a Digital World: Art History, Its Research Centers, and...
From a report sponsored by the Kress Foundation in partnership with the Roy Rosenweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, by Diane Zorich. Many factors account for the current...
View ArticleLiving in a Digital World: Rethinking Peer Review, Collaboration, and Open...
“It’s no secret that times are tough for scholars in the humanities. Jobs are scarce, resources are stretched, and institutions of tertiary education are facing untold challenges. Those of us fortunate...
View ArticleText-Mining and Visualization
Digital Humanities Now editors highlight recent posts by Lev Manovich, Elijah Meeks, Michael Simeone, and Jason Mittell. “I don’t know if my arguments will help us when we are criticized by people who...
View ArticleMuseum and Library Image Policies
Conference organizers and Smarthistory founders Beth Harris and Steven Zucker ask “Is the discipline of art history (together with museums and libraries) squandering the digital revolution?” Read full...
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Digital Art History Symposium at the Institute of Fine Arts
Under the heading Mellon Research Initiative: Digital Art History, the Institute of Fine Arts has made available recordings from their Digital Art history conference that took took place November 30 –...
View ArticleImagePlot video tutorials: learn how to visualize image collections
ImagePlot allows you to explore image and video collections of any size by creating visualizations which show images in a collection – or keyframes in a video – sorted in different ways. Both metadata...
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Digital Humanities – free e-book from MIT Press (November 2012)
Authors: Peter Lunenfeld / Anne Burdick / Johanna Drucker / Todd Presner / Jeffrey Schnapp. Free download here.
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Digital Humanities: Pedagogy Practices Principles and Politics (Open Book...
Edited by Brett D. Hirsch. Full resource available here.
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Project highlight: Mapping the Republic of Letters
One of the most compelling projects out there, active since 2010, focusing on the early modern period: republicofletters.stanford.edu “Mapping the Republic of Letters is a collaborative,...
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Source: Debates in the Digital Humanities, open-access
Released January 3rd 2013, the open-access edition of Debates in the Digital Humanities. Edited by Matthew K. Gold, who writes in his introduction “The Digital Humanities Moment” “At stake in the rise...
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Closer to Van Eyck
The incredible detail revealed by the “Closer to Van Eyck: Rediscovering the Ghent Altarpiece” project. Presents a range of scientific photography. The website was created by Lasting Support, an...
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Workshop #1: Viewshare
Viewshare.org is a free web application for generating and customizing unique, dynamic views through which users can experience cultural heritage digital collections. The intended users of Viewshare...
View ArticleWorkshop #2: Scalar
Scalar Platform — Trailer from IML @ USC on Vimeo. Scalar is a free, open source authoring and publishing platform that’s designed to make it easy for authors to write long-form, born-digital...
View Article#Alt-Academy
#Alt-Academy – a Media Commons project takes a grass-roots, bottom-up, publish-then-filter approach to community-building and networked scholarly communication around the theme of unconventional or...
View ArticleMuseums: Essential Elements in the New World of Education – by Steven Lubar
[…] museums will have to change to take advantage of the turmoil roiling our colleagues in education. We’ll need to be open and available. We need to let our collections be used by others for their...
View ArticleWorkshop #3: OMEKA
What Is Omeka from Omeka on Vimeo. Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. Omeka is...
View ArticleThe Future of Art Book Publishing
Mark your calendars: Free Panel Discussion Tuesday, February 12, 2013, 6 – 8 p.m. at the New York Public Library Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, South Court Auditorium (Map and directions) The Future...
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Project highlight: Ukiyo-e Search
The Japanese Woodblock Print Search ukiyo-e.org/ A web project created by John Resig, THATCamp CAA participant, computer programmer and avid enthusiast of Japanese woodblock prints. The site allows...
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Lightning talks, Monday 1:45-2:15PM – Open Education & Art History, Beth...
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View ArticleLightning talk, Monday 3:30-4PM – Four Dimensions of 3D Technology in Art...
The Digital Hadrian’s Villa Project
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Lightning talk, Tuesday 9-9:30AM, Digital Visualizations as Art Historical...
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Lightning talk, Tuesday 1:45-2:15PM, Challenges in Building a Collaborative...
The Digital Mellini a collaboration between the Getty Research Institute and the Department of Art History of the University of Málaga, Spain, takes an unpublished 17th-century manuscript—Pietro...
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Lightning talk, Tuesday 3:45-4:15PM – Art history and Big Data: Visualizing...
lab.softwarestudies.com/p/research_14.html The projects done at Software Studies Initiative are explorations in the growing field of digital humanities. The lab is developing theory and methods for the...
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How long would it have taken to travel from Rome to Alexandria in January...
ORBIS The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World, “allows us to express Roman communication costs in terms of both time and expense. By simulating movement along the principal routes of...
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In the news: Two Major Museums Push the Boundaries of Multimedia
A recent article about Getty Voices and the Metropolitan Museum’s new multimedia site 82nd and Fifth published by New York based art and art history blog http://hyperallergic.com/ Kyle Chaya writes:...
View Article“The Commons and Digital Humanities in Museums” Lecture: Will Noel
On Wednesday, November 28, “The Commons and Digital Humanities in Museums” was hosted at the Graduate Center, CUNY by the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative and cosponsored by the Graduate Center’s...
View Article“The Commons and Digital Humanities in Museums” Lecture: Neal Stimler
On Wednesday, November 28, “The Commons and Digital Humanities in Museums” was hosted at the Graduate Center, CUNY by the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative and cosponsored by the Graduate Center’s...
View ArticleYour Massively Open Offline College Is Broken – Clay Shirky (Feb 7, 2013)
Current debates on the subject of massive open online courses (MOOC) “For all our good will, college in the U.S. has gotten worse for nearly everyone who relies on us. For some students—millions of...
View ArticleThe Internet will not ruin college – Andrew Leonard (Feb 8, 2013)
“I am not arguing that we shouldn’t be looking long and hard at exactly how online courses are “disrupting” education, with special attention devoted to who plans to profit from new delivery models and...
View ArticleLocal/Global: Mapping Nineteenth-Century London’s Art Market – Pamela...
“In this article, we explore the dialogue between the local and the global art markets that established a distinctive dynamic for the British art world as experienced in London. Our analysis derives...
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Project highlight: Visualizing Venice
visualizingvenice.org/beta/ Visualizing Venice, a project initiated by “a group of Faculty and graduate students in Architecture, Architectural and Urban History, and Engineering who seek to show how...
View ArticleLightning talk, Monday 3:30-4PM: Mediathread, Mark Phillipson and Adrienne...
Mediathread is CCNMTL’s innovative, open-source platform for exploration, analysis, and organization of web-based multimedia content. Mediathread connects to a variety of image and video collections...
View ArticleA Few Digital Humanities Links and Resources
During the first day of THATCamp CAA 2013 several resources for Digital Humanities and Art History information and projects were mentioned in Lightening Talks and discussion sessions. Some represent...
View ArticleTwo Tracks for Digital Humanities Projects – the graduate perspective
Two types of digital humanities projects seem to have been identified during discussion sessions at today’s THATCamp CAA 2013. In the session “The Digital Art History Portal” there was a call for a way...
View ArticleCoding as a Foreign Language
In the session “Digital Skills for Art History Students,” learning computer coding was compared to learning a foreign language. One participant went so far as to suggest that perhaps traditional art...
View ArticleOpening session: “The Tidal Wave is Here”
As we emphasized in the opening session, the digital revolution in art historical teaching and scholarship is already here. In the past few years, we have seen tremendous upheavals in the way we as...
View ArticleDigital Publishing Working Session
This session focused on the way that changing technology has the tendency to work against the grain of established cultural habits, both within and outside the academy. The rise of the digital seems...
View ArticleMedia Thread and Digital Pedagogy
I wanted to do a combined post on these two topics because they productively addressed many of the same issues. The pedagogy working group addressed a number of fundamental questions about how...
View ArticleTHATCamp CAA Day 2: Digital Platforms and Tools Usher In New “Ways of Seeing”...
Yesterday’s talks and workshops all emphasized how digital tools can enable new and exciting approaches to data comparison and scholarly collaboration, phenomena that have, historically, been powerful...
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