1. Angel David Nieves Associate Professor & Chair of Africana Studies Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi), Co-Director/Co-PI Janet Thomas Simons Associate Director, Instructional Technology Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi), Co-Director/Co-PI Mary Lehner Hamilton ’12 Steve Young Unix/HPC System Administrator How Do You ‘do’ Digital Humanities? GLCA Workshop, 7-8 October 2011

2. OVERVIEW/ROADMAP What is Digital Humanities? How do we ‘do’ DH @ Hamilton?DH @ Hamilton What is necessary? Our model … –Seed money (thank you Mellon Foundation) –Scalable, sustainable, technology … –Case studies … Japanese Film Archive Sinixit Nation –Explain, promote, P&T

4. MISSION DHi challenges the traditional ways in which teachers and students interact, primarily through creation and use of digital collections (archival holdings) and through the design and implementation of new digital tools. DHi creates opportunities for new interdisciplinary models and methods of collaboration between faculty and students as co-researchers and co-creators of new knowledge. These activities support a fundamental shift in humanities research, leveraging the potential of technology to access and manipulate rich media collections in ways that increase collaborative scholarship (not only within Hamilton humanities but also, potentially, with other institutions around the world). DHi supports innovative inter and multidisciplinary research while integrating that research with teaching at the undergraduate level through ITS and the HILLgroup. DHi sponsors a wide range of activities, including faculty development workshops, media literacy programs, scholarly conferences and symposia, undergraduate seminars, a fellows program for Hamilton College students and faculty, and humanities programs designed for the public-at-large. DHi establishes a cohort of faculty well-trained in the digital humanities who can assist in outreach, mentor colleagues, and enhance faculty development. ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION GRANT

5. THEMES: The Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi) is a research and teaching collaboration where new media and computing technologies are used to promote humanities-based research, scholarship and teaching across the liberal arts. transform through collaborations to enhance scholarship tocreate new knowledge and interactive collections “I am confident that the DHi will transform the ways in which humanities scholarship and teaching are practiced not only at Hamilton, but also, through collaborations, among our peers across the liberal arts … To remain relevant to new generations of students and faculty, the humanities must embrace the tools of technology to enhance scholarship, create knowledge, and inform curricula. Hamilton’s DHi will make these digital tools available to faculty and their student partners, teach them how to employ these tools to create new knowledge and interactive collections of artifacts, and help them integrate their discoveries into the classroom and beyond.” President Joan Hinde Stewart ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION GRANT

6. CHARACTERISTICS OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES RESEARCH Transformative Connections to traditional approaches but asking a fundamentally different set of questions by applying new methods and novel approaches. ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION GRANT

8. CHARACTERISTICS OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES RESEARCH Collaborative It is the intersections of perspectives and methods. DH approaches require collaboration – Multiple experts sharing expertise. Teamwork and division of labor to divide and conquer, build knowledge that others can further build upon. ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION GRANT

9. CHARACTERISTICS OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES RESEARCH Interactive Enhance scholarship through collaborative knowledge building, interdisciplinary connections, and interactive collection development. Understanding through experience and shared knowledge development. ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION GRANT

10. CHARACTERISTICS OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES RESEARCH Transformative + Collaborative + Interactive = MESSY ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION GRANT Communication and Project Management are absolutely necessary!!!

11. http://www.dhinitiative.org/projects/support/

12. DHI PROJECT GUIDELINES FOR FUNDING I. Must be digital humanities-based research question II. Project scope must fit within digital humanities prototype technology/infrastructure III. Expect that projects will take 2 years to reach proof of concept stage a. Within the 2-year timeframe, expect to write a grant proposal with our support to further project development b. Emphasis on NEH grants & others for visibility IV. Must be connected to the curriculum a.Coursework, project in course, etc. V. Must have civic and/or public component VI. Project durations reevaluated at regular milestones (6 mo.) in consultation with DHi. ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION GRANT

13. BEST PRACTICES IN INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT Sustainable, scalable infrastructure and processes that combine the best of existing technology and library practices with feature rich options in support of collaborative digital scholarship. Characteristics include Connected data, artifacts, working tools, presentations Shared collections – among faculty/students, institutions Collaborative working environments Efficient, scalable project workflows Collaboration among faculty/students/support experts – Project teams and Advisory Committee ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION GRANT

14. INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION GRANT Collection Layer Repository Objects with metadata – High Quality, High Resolution formats – Fedora IR Collection Layer Repository Objects with metadata – High Quality, High Resolution formats – Fedora IR Working Space Tools & Methods to Access & Manipulate objects in Collection Originals unaltered, new instances of objects monitored and may be added to the Collection Layer. Discovery Garden. Working Space Tools & Methods to Access & Manipulate objects in Collection Originals unaltered, new instances of objects monitored and may be added to the Collection Layer. Discovery Garden. Presentation Layer Digital Scholarship drawing from Working space with additional programming as necessary. Public Presentation, peer review, and collaborative scholarship. Drupal CMS. Presentation Layer Digital Scholarship drawing from Working space with additional programming as necessary. Public Presentation, peer review, and collaborative scholarship. Drupal CMS.

15. DR. KYOKO OMORI, “COMPARATIVE JAPANESE FILM ARCHIVE” Omori began development of a Japanese film archive over the summer of 2009. As of September 2009, the archive stores video clips and stills from 14 feature- length films and 4 shorts. Having collected close to five hundred images from these movies, the archive obviously covers only limited aspects of Japanese cinema. The impetus of the list of films selected to date was provided by her new “Introduction to Japanese Film” course. This course surveys the history of Japanese cinema over the last 110 years. As it stands now, the archive is useful for any student or faculty interested in determining certain directors’ signature styles and in assessing genre differences – from camera work, editing, sound effects, lighting, stage properties, and acting, to various other aspects of film. ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION GRANT

16. DR. NATHAN GOODALE AND ERICA KOWSZ, “SEARCH” ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION GRANT

17. Promotion and Tenure University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA http://cdrh.unl.edu/articles/promotion_and_tenure.php University of Victoria, BC http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Foyer/CompRecog.html

18. RESEARCH TRANSLATED INTO THE CLASSROOM Faculty research projects supported through DHi are required to have a curricular component. HILLgroup course support, among other collaborative services, will be crucial to the translation of research outcomes into assignments, course designs, and independent projects. Goals Increased access to and use of rich media collections Increased literacy in manipulation and presentation of scholarly work Increased opportunities for inter-institutional collaborations around courses and programs CLASS (Culture, Liberal Arts and Society Scholars Program) … more to come … ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION GRANT