The DLA will continue to host a bi-monthly faculty reading group to explore themes and issues in the digital liberal arts by discussing peer-reviewed articles, short books, blog posts, digital projects, and websites. This spring, we will examine the complex, contentious landscapes of the digital and spatial humanities. Led by Alicia Peaker and Anne Knowles, the reading group is an open forum for learning about the plurality of approaches and critically assessing their applications in digital projects.
Faculty are welcome whenever they can come. Watch this space for session readings.
Logistics:
We will meet every other Friday from 1:30 – 3: 00 P.M. at Alicia’s house (email dla@middlebury.edu for address). Coffee, tea, and light refreshments will be offered.
February 27th – The Spatial Humanities
Readings:
- Monmonier, Mark. “Mapping it Out: Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences“
- Robertson, Stephen. “Putting Harlem on the Map”
- Project: Digital Harlem
March 6th – no meeting
March 20th – Databases
(please note, this meeting has a different location. Please email Anne Knowles for address and directions)
- Ramsey, Stephen. “Databases.”
- Project: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
April 3rd – Data & Metadata
- Selections from “Data + Design“: Foreword, Data Fundamentals
- Yale University. “Best Practices for Descriptive Metadata.”
- Project: Gone To Earth Sample Data (draft)
May 1st – Data Visualization
- Drucker, Joanna. “Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display.”
- Project: Schmidt, Ben. “The State of the Union in Context.”
- Project: Jenkins, Nicholas, Elijah Meeks, and Scott Murray. “Kindred Britain.”
- Project: Collins, Christopher, Gerald Penn, and Sheelagh Carpendale. “Lattice Uncertainty Visualization.”
May 12th – Creative Commons, Fair Use & Digital Projects
- Association of Research Libraries. “Fair Use Fundamentals“
- “What is Creative Commons?
- College Art Association. “Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts.”
- Project: Anderson, Steve, Holly Willis, Erik Loyer, and Anna Helme. Critical Commons.