Comments on: Starting a Digital Humanities Program in the Library. How? http://dhlib2012.thatcamp.org/10/26/starting-a-digital-humanities-program-in-the-library-how/ The Humanities and Technology Camp Wed, 07 Nov 2012 20:30:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 By: Camille Cooper http://dhlib2012.thatcamp.org/10/26/starting-a-digital-humanities-program-in-the-library-how/#comment-480 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 18:47:40 +0000 http://dhlib2012.thatcamp.org/?p=305#comment-480 Alex and Thea, I have the same questions; thank you for articulating them so well! The reason I wanted to come to this THATCamp was to start exploring possible answers to them.

]]> By: cmitchell http://dhlib2012.thatcamp.org/10/26/starting-a-digital-humanities-program-in-the-library-how/#comment-478 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 18:31:11 +0000 http://dhlib2012.thatcamp.org/?p=305#comment-478 I’d be interested in talking about this more. There are several programs on my campus that want help with digital humanities: our history department has a “digital history” graduate program…but doesn’t have a centralized way of archiving or showcasing the graduate projects. They are also starting an oral history project for our student veterans. (We have a fairly significant population of military veterans on this campus.)

The modern languages department has 10 years of born digital data that they don’t know what to do with, including some incredible documentation of languages that are at risk of disappearing. I’m trying to get them to do an inventory of the files, but they didn’t use consistant file naming structures. (Several people gathering data over several years = a mess!)

How do I get the faculty started on thinking about this holistically? How can I get the other librarians and the campus IT department to see this as a priority? It’s a little overwhelming for me to think about all the options and potential projects.

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