What/Where/How is Digital Scholarship?: An Overview of the CLIR Colloquium, Digital Humanities 2009, and THATCamp

1. What/Where/How is Digital Scholarship?: An Overview of the CLIR Colloquium, Digital Humanities 2009, and THATCamp Sarah Toton Librarians Assembly July 21, 2009

4. Pedagogy: Problem: Are we hindering our digital humanities students by NOT training them in digital technologies and computational sciences? Teach fundamental concepts, rather applications and tools (teach Video Editing skills rather than teaching a student Final Cut or iMovie) Example 1: UNL’s 2 courses-- graduate theory of digital scholarship and applications for digital scholarship. UNL also creates “on-the-job” training for graduate students, including internships, and positions with digital scholarship projects Example 2: Digital history curriculum for public historians. develop skills and practices in students to take into the field (museum, historical society or library) http://www.digitalhistorycurriculum.org/ Lab Space : A space where students can meet, partner, work, and self-learn. A laboratory based on collaboration as well as convergence.

15. What now? Review conference websites and blogs chronicling specific conferences. Ask me questions (DH – Ask Alice, Future of Digital Scholarship – Ask Erika) Contact presenters – most have blogs, and many of them are on Twitter. Steve Ramsey – sramsay; David Chudnov is dchud; Matthew Kirschenbaum is mkirschenbaum; Beth Nowviskie is nowviskie I’m stoton