Precarious Labor and the Digital Humanities

Boyles, Christina; Cong-Huyen, Anne; Johnston, Carrie; McGrath, Jim; Phillips, Amanda

doi:10.1353/aq.2018.0054

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“…This chapter focuses on the development of technical approaches that support projects that John Bradley worked on during his career, but it is worth reflecting on another important legacy before we start: the development of career paths for King's Digital Lab (KDL) staff members, which are derived in large part from the work of previous generations of experts, like John, who helped define the career of Research Software Engineer (RSE). As generational change occurs and in line with reorientations across the digital humanities community (see Boyles et al 2018), it has become increasingly clear that the surest way to sustainability is to ensure continuity of technical expertise, domain knowledge and tacit understanding. In the final analysis, John's enduring legacy, like those of so many of his colleagues, will be human as much as technical.…”

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On Making in the Digital Humanities

2023

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Her research intersects digital humanities, early modern intellectual history, and cultural heritage and archival studies. She has previously held positions at King's College London, University College London and the British Museum. Her current work explores digital approaches to archival silences. John Bradley worked in the digital humanities from the early 1970s until 1997, first at the University of Toronto and then at the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London, continuing past his retirement in 2015. Most of his posts were 'academic-related' until he was made an academic by King's in 2011. His work includes the development of the text analysis software TACT and the experimental software platform Pliny. He has collaborated on more than 20 public humanities-oriented digital resources. Dauvit Broun has been lecturing at the University of Glasgow since 1990, and since 2009 as Professor of Scottish History. He was Principal Investigator of projects centring on the creation and development of the PoMS database (two funded by the AHRC, 2007-13, with John Bradley as a Co-Investigator, and one funded by the Leverhulme Trust, 2013-17, with John Bradley as Co-Investigator).Dino Buzzetti taught history of philosophy, mainly medieval, at the University of Bologna. For several years he ran a course on documentation and historical document processing at the Faculty of Preservation of Cultural Heritage and a course on humanities computing for philosophy students. His main research topic was the history of logic in relation to contemporary developments in philosophical and theological doctrines.Averil Cameron is a historian of late antiquity and Byzantium. She taught at King's College until 1994 and chaired the Humanities Research Centres. As a Fellow of the British Academy she was instrumental in bringing the Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire (PBE, later PBW) to King's and was the founding director of the Centre for Hellenic Studies. In relation to PBE and PBW she worked closely with Harold Short and John Bradley.

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Section: Arianna Ciula and James Smithiesmentioning

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On Making in the Digital Humanities

2023

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“…Since individual scholarly recognition is not typically credited in contributions of data, especially spreadsheets provided by emerging scholars, Liberated Africans recognizes versions of the "Collaborators Bill of Rights" (Anon 2011;Di Pressi et al 2015;Boyles et al 2018). Beyond the website's database, Liberated Africans cannot operate without different spreadsheets compiled by different people, which then have to be modified and "cleaned" into the values outlined in the metadata scheme.…”

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Quem fez o quê quando? Reconhecer as contribuições colaborativas nos projetos de história digital

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2020

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“…The reasons for the lack of resources are many. Still, one important consideration is what Boyles et al (2018) have noted: academia, although interested in public digital humanities, still values print monographs over digital labor. Yet, for those of us producing public-facing work, in this case, an oral history that centers on the local community and who engage students in several steps of this work (interview training, digital photography, video editing, and accessioning), digital access is crucial, and the need to make the content available is pressing.…”

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Archiving Bilingual Latin@ Oral Histories

Foulis

D'Souza

2023

IJIDI

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Over the past ten years, digital archives documenting underrepresented communities have been rising. For example, oral and print historical projects about minoritized communities and ethnic cultural heritage centers have existed for decades (Daniel, 2010), yet few are fully accessible online. The increased presence of these types of archives points not only to the need to document the histories of these communities but also to the interest in making this work accessible to all. There is an urgency in documenting, archiving, and curating histories—audio, print, video, and other ephemera—because minoritized communities have consistently faced exclusion from majority historical documents. As precarious and essential as this work is, important projects like the one discussed here are often shared as an in-process version. This process allows us to shape and consider new ways of archiving, perhaps even disrupting traditional collecting and accessioning methods beyond canonical (White) standards. This article shows our interest in developing a decolonized model for archiving digital oral history collections. Indeed, much of the way we are thinking about making the collection accessible is by centering it on bilingual descriptions of each item in the collection signals a non-traditional and, thus, decolonial way of documenting a community. “Archiving Bilingual Latin@ Oral Histories” is an initiative to make an already existing digital oral history archive accessible to the community it documents. From collecting stories, accessioning, and website design and content, it seeks to work collaboratively with students and the community to present a bilingual archive representing the Latina/o/x community in Ohio.

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Precarious Labor and the Digital Humanities

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On Making in the Digital Humanities

Quem fez o quê quando? Reconhecer as contribuições colaborativas nos projetos de história digital

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