UODS Roundtable 4/1 1pm: UO graduate certificate in New Media

Digital Scholars Roundtable:
UO Graduate Certificate in New Media
Friday April 1 1:00-2:30
McKenzie Collaboration Center
175 McKenzie

The worlds in which scholars now live and work are undergoing rapid and dramatic changes. In the humanities and social sciences, scholarship on new media and culture continues to proliferate, myriad efforts to digitize texts and artifacts are underway, and researchers across disciplines are learning how to develop and use digital tools. All these changes affect and alter how we do research, how we publish it, and how we think about the products of scholarly research; indeed, they alter what it means to know anything at all.

As our graduate students – MA and PhD alike – enter an ever more competitive job market, their experience and proficiency with new media will also contribute to their success as scholars and potential employees. UO Digital Scholars have been organizing an effort to create a graduate certificate program in new media and culture. We hope you (faculty, students, administrators) will join us for a roundtable discussion about the possibility of such a certificate program.

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Next UODS Works-in-Progress event: Friday 4/15 noon – 1:30
Ed Madison (SOJC)
Tween TV
Engaging 5th Graders in Critical Thinking
with Digital Video Production and Mobile Media

Video Version of Digital Scholars Symposium

http://quickstream.uoregon.edu/DIGSCHOL/digital_scholars_intro_hi.mp4

Introductory Remarks: Deb Carver, Dean of UO Libraries
Introduction of UO HASTAC Scholars: Andrew Bonamici, Associate UO Librarian
Keynote: “Modulated Subjects: MP3, Telephony, and the Imagined Auditor,” Jonathan Sterne

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http://quickstream.uoregon.edu/DIGSCHOL/digital_scholars_1_hi.mp4

Digital Studies at UO
• Moderator: Kate Mondloch, Art History
• Allison Carruth, English
• Alisa Freedman, East Asian Languages and Literatures
• Colin Koopman, Philosophy
• Bish Sen, Journalism

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http://quickstream.uoregon.edu/DIGSCHOL/digital_scholars_3_hi.mp4

Graduate Research in Digital Studies
• Moderator: Carol Stabile
• Ashley Gibson, Art History
• Bryce Peake, Anthropology
• Whitney Phillips, Folklore
• Staci Tucker, School of Journalism and Communications
• Mara Williams, School of Journalism and Communications

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http://quickstream.uoregon.edu/DIGSCHOL/digital_scholars_2_hi.mp4

UO Digital Projects: Introduction by Don Harris, Vice Provost, Information Services
• Moderator: Douglas Blandy, Arts & Administration
• ChinaVine: Doug Blandy and John Fenn, Arts & Administration
•  Open Access journals at UO: JQ Johnson, UO Libraries
• Fembot: Carol Stabile, SOJC/English, and Karen Estlund, Digital Collections Coordinator, UO Libraries
• Nolli Map of Rome/Giuseppe Vasi’s Rome: James Tice, Architecture, and Erik Steiner, InfoGraphics

(Owing to illness Massimo Lollini was unable to present on the Oregon Petrarch Open Book project. Instead, JQ Johnson discussed OPOB’s forthcoming  OA journal, Petrarch and Digital Humanism.)

Read a related UODS Symposium story in the Information Technology newsletter here: http://it.uoregon.edu/node/1518.

Many thanks to Lynnette Boone and Ward Biaggne of UO Libraries for their videography.

Making digital learning environments / technologies accessible for all students?

I found this week’s story in the Chronicle of Higher Education on blind students who are advocating for improvements in the accessibility of digital websites, forums, and programs worth sharing with the Digital Scholars group. The story made me newly attentive to how I design course blogs, integrate multimedia learning modules, make use of PowerPoint and streaming video in class, and the list goes on. Perhaps we could put together a list of best practices as well as practical tips on this and related issues?

Article link

List of best and worst University websites for blind students

Digital Humanities: Finally Fit to Print in NYT

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/arts/17digital.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

Today the  New York Times decided that digital humanities deserved a write-up. Appropriately, you can get the most from this wide-ranging article by Patricia Coen in its online incarnation, which is full of links to sources and resources named in the article. If you’re a latecomer to the notion of digital humanities,  how it proposes to ‘dig into data’ differently than in a  world of paper archives, and what fresh interpretations it proposes via data visualization and similar tools, Coen’s introductory survey is a good place to start.

But please read it online–and follow its links, and their subsequent links. That’s the point the media itself makes: in such “links”  (a mechanistic term some of us dislike, preferring an expansive, living metaphor like tree / branch /root /twig /leaf /seed /fruit), the story itself branches out and roots around in the active reader’s intelligence long after the paper version of the article has been recycled.

UO Open Access Week 10/15-22

Open Access Week 2010

Join the University of Oregon Libraries as we participate in an international celebration of Open Access, Oct 14-22, 2010. We’re highlighting a series of new services provided by the UO Libraries that support Open Access.  For more details of UO initiatives to support Open Access see http://libweb.uoregon.edu/scis/sc/uoopenaccess.html.

Week at a Glance

Friday Oct 15 3:30pm-5pm	Keynote speaker:  Kevin L. Smith, Duke University: “Why Open Access Works and Copyright Doesn’t” Friday, Oct 15, 3:30pm Knight Library Browsing Room
Monday Oct 18 1pm-1:30pm	OA Week kickoff videocast Harold Varmus (director, National Cancer Institute) and Cameron Neylon (author of “Science in the Open”) are featured speakers in this short video highlighting the benefits of open access. Screening in the Knight Library Collaboration Center
Tuesday Oct 19 1pm-2:30pm	Electronic Theses and Dissertations at the UO 1:00pm ETDs at UO, an Overview, Ann Miller 1:30pm How to Prepare and Submit an ETD, Nargas Oskui Knight Library Collaboration Center
Wednesday Oct 20 1pm-2:30pm	New Library Services Supporting Open Access at UO 1:00pm Open Access Repositories, Karen Estlund 1:30pm OA Publishing Grants from the UO Libraries, Dean Walton 2:00pm UO Libraries as OA Journal Publisher, JQ Johnson Knight Library Collaboration Center
Friday Oct 22 1pm-2:00pm	Retaining Your Rights: Negotiating Publisher Copyright Transfer Agreements, JQ Johnson Knight Library Collaboration Center

A useful screencast from H. Rheingold on ‘tuning’ resources for research

Thanks again, Howard Rheingold! Take advantage of some of the tools that Howard discusses in this short screencast:

http://screenr.com/Content/assets/screenr_1116090935.swf

Oregon Petrarch Open Book earns a Digital Humanities Start-up grant

Romance Languages Professor Massimo Lollini’s labor of love and scholarship, the Oregon Petrarch Open Book (OPOB), has won a Digital Humanities Start-up grant from the Office of Digital Humanities.  The Level II grant of $49,978 will support development of a more interactive database-driven website for OPOB.

OPOB is built around Petrarch’s 14th century collection, the Canzoniere.  The ODH award will fund an open-sourceware rebuild of OPOB’s digital assets and tools, and strengthen the groundwork for international collaboration among scholars and institutions around this central work of world literature. In OPOB, a scholar may read a poem in the original, examine a Renaissance commentary, compare a series of different translations, analyze contemporary rewritings, and finally, explore multimedia assets associated with the poem.

Lollin writes, “We call OPOB the ‘open-book’ initiative, partly in homage to the open source software movement whose tools we will be using (Drupal, PHP, MySQL), and partly in reference to the way computer-mediated communication (CMC) technology and online professional networking has opened up new ways of building academic communities. But mostly we call it ‘open’ because our approach articulates new interdisciplinary paths for teaching and learning in Romance Languages and Literatures, Comparative Literature, Linguistics, and Translation Studies.

“In designing a system around the idea of the open book, the Canzoniere is the perfect text. Not only is it the most influential collection of poetry in the European tradition, but it is constructively and profitably read as a work-in-progress and as an unfinished text; Petrarch continued to produce different versions of his collection and shift the order of the poems until his death in 1374. The last version of the manuscript, as  printed today, merely reflects the last of his edits and ignores the fragmentary nature of the different versions emphasized by its original Latin title, Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, or Collection of Fragments in the Vernacular.“

Lollini argues that the idea of a text as an ongoing and emerging project is muffled by the very nature of a printed book. To view and understand a text’s development and its many possible iterations, it is necessary to see the parts in different orders, see the connections between the parts, the drafts, and the future incarnations of the text. This is only possible through the use of digital technology thanks to hypertext and its ability to make the relationships between textual components visible and explicit.

New Tools: OpenScholar & Anthologize

Two new tools to help  faculty digitally manage  and present assorted  research/teaching tasks  were announced this week in the Chronicle.

OpenScholar (Chronicle 8/1), developed in 2009 for Harvard faculty as a user-friendly WYSWYG website builder, is now freely available  to rest of the scholarly community. DRUPAL-based, it’s designed to be installed by institutional IT, after which individual faculty can log in to customize personal websites and research-project websites.

In their words, OpenScholar is “enormously scalable, easy to set up and administer with a minimum of resources required. Scholars create and then manage content their own sites.” “Scholars” is the key word: OpenScholar’s plug-ins are designed entirely for research professors and instructors, unlike, say WordPress. Plugins include course calendars, course announcements, blog, CV, publications, research projects and image galleries; the developers made OpenScholar accessible even to techphobes.

OpenScholar is interested in working with institutional partners. This could be a solution for UO to pull its 20th century faculty (reluctant to do any digital teaching, course management or research) into the 21st century where UO’s digital natives (students, graduate students, and many junior faculty) get most of their their work done.

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Anthologize (Chronicle 8/4) was crowd-hacked during the  One Week, One Tool project at the Center for History and New Media the last week of July. Anthologize is a free, open-source plugin designed to turn your WordPress 3.0 blog and other feeds into platform for publishing electronic texts. Online student research projects can be harvested, ordered, and edited into an anthology, for instance, and exported as PDF,  TEI or ePUB.

Anthologize cannot be installed on WordPress.com, however–your WordPress 3.0 has to be running on another server. Should UO decide to adopt WPMU, this will not be an issue. But here at UODS, we can’t run Anthologize.

Still under development–and admittedly buggy–, Anthologize has a user forum where you can see the kinks worked out. You can also follow its development on Twitter @Anthologize.

Research and Instructional Technology blog

UO Research Technologist and UODS member Sean Sharp has commenced a blog, Research and Instructional Technology (http://ufolio.uoregon.edu/rit/). Have a look. We’re adding it to our links and encourage our readers to do the same.

Why Do History Digitally?

courtesy of U-Richmond

Edward Ayers, historian and president of the University of Richmond does a podcast , “The Case for Digital History,”  for the Chronicle’s Tech Therapy. Plenty of high-tech teaching materials are now available, but the use of digital tools in scholarship has been slow to take off, says Ayers.

You can also subscribe to Tech Therapy on iTunes.