Making Digital: Visual Approaches to the Digital Humanities

Beale, Gareth; Beale, Nicole; Dawson, Ian; Minkin, Louisa

doi:10.14236/ewic/eva2013.51

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“…Workshops and summer institutes have been deemed as effective ways of giving "researchers the chance to work with techniques and concepts with which they are not necessarily familiar and to reflect upon their own disciplinary practice from the outside" (Beale et al, 2013). Several well-established training programs include:…”

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Convergence of digital humanities and digital libraries

2015

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Purpose – Digital humanities (DH) has become a much discussed topic among both humanities scholars and library professionals. The library and information science (LIS) community has taken efforts in providing new facilities and developing new services to meet humanities scholars’ changing research behaviors and needs employing digital tools and methods. How to effectively collaborate with the DH community has been a challenging task to LIS in their digital library (DL) development endeavors. The purpose of this paper is to discover productive ways for LIS to support DH scholarship, specifically, what DL components, including content, technology, and service, should and could be developed for digital humanists. Design/methodology/approach – As an initial effort of the Digital Humanities Interest Group at University of California, Irvine Libraries, the examination is primarily based on a cross-boundary environmental scan in both DH and DL fields. The environmental survey includes both a literature review and web and physical site visits. The survey results, especially a gap analysis between the behaviors and needs of humanities scholars and the digital content, technologies, and services currently offered by the DL community, are used to shape the proposed roles of DH librarianship. Findings – First, DH’s innovative approach to research and teaching practices brings opportunities and challenges. Second, DH research is collaborative work. Third, major channels are established for the DH community. Fourth, various tools and data sets are developed to support different types of projects. Fifth, DH community has unbalanced geographical and disciplinary distribution. Sixth, DH research output still lacks attention, integration, and sustainability. Finally, LIS professionals play unique roles in DH projects. Overall, the communities of DH and DL share common goals and tasks. Practical implications – This paper proposes these present and future roles of LIS professionals: creator and contributor; curator; messenger and liaison; educator; mediator and interpreter; host; partner; innovator; “hybrid scholar”; advocate; consultant. At the organizational level, libraries should demonstrate higher efficiency and effectiveness in the services by revamping organizational culture or structure to stimulate and realize more and deeper cross-boundary conversations and collaborations. On a larger scale, the DL community should strive to become more visible, valuable, and approachable to the DH community; and even better, become part of it. Originality/value – This paper examines both DH and DL fields critically and connects the two communities by discovering gaps and commonalities. Based on the findings, the authors recommend roles and actions to be taken by LIS professionals, libraries, and the DL community. This paper is valuable to both humanities scholars who are seeking support in their research using digital methods and LIS professionals who are interested in providing more effective and suitable services. The paper also helps library administrators and aspiring librarians better understand the concept of DH and grasp insight on the present and future of DH librarianship.

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Convergence of digital humanities and digital libraries

2015

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“…A reader can do this in several ways to highlight and underline the important information by skimming the text. According to Beale (2013), in speed-reading strategies, readers need to figure out how to skim and scan information in a text. It is in line with Brown (2007), who states that the two most valuable reading strategies for readers are scanning and skimming.…”

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Speed-Reading Technique to Boost English as Foreign Language Learners’ Text Comprehension

Karim

2022

NOBEL

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Nowadays, many English as Foreign Language (EFL) learners still have problems comprehending the texts they are reading. This article aims at reviewing the speed-reading technique as one of the techniques to boost EFL learners’ text comprehension. A qualitative descriptive research design was applied for the present study. The data were obtained through a documentation study and used state-of-the-art sources in the related studies. Furthermore, the literature review was used to elucidate the findings from the previous studies and related to the present review. The data were analyzed qualitatively by describing how the speed-reading technique can boost learners’ text comprehension. It initiates with information about a brief of speed reading, the development, and trends of speed reading, then describes the speed-reading purposes and movement. The speed-reading techniques to be acquired by the EFL learners are described thoroughly. Besides, the benefits and several implications of speed reading for the Indonesian EFL learners in the classroom practice are highlighted. Finally, this article provides some conclusions and recommendations on what teachers, students, and government can do to boost EFL learners’ text comprehension.

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“…Intersecting archaeological and artistic practices in cultural production, and their mutually fruitful engagement with the material and how they each represent the world, are increasingly the subject of critical appraisal (e.g. Renfrew 2003;Renfrew, Gosden and DeMarrais 2004;Beale et al 2013;Russell and Cochrane 2014;Chittock and Valdez-Tullett 2017;Ferraby 2017;Smith 2017). Our point of departure is taken from philosopher Matthew Crawford's stimulating book, The World Beyond Your Head: How to Flourish in an Age of Distraction, in which he argues convincingly for the importance of fostering 'ecologies of attention'; the skill of paying attention to what is important.…”

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Different expressions of the same mode: a recent dialogue between archaeological and contemporary drawing practices

Gant

Reilly

2017

Journal of Visual Art Practice

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Stefan Gant's practice and research explores the discourse of contemporary drawing. Through peer selection, Gant was selected as a finalist and exhibitor in 2007, 2010 and 2012 for the Jerwood Drawing Prize, London and UK tour. He was also 'Highly Commended' at the National Eisteddfod of Wales Visual Arts Exhibition in 2007. Through his art practice, Gant challenges the notions of what drawing can be through the temporality of filmic medium and digital technologies. He has exhibited nationally and internationally and has been the recipient of Arts Council of Wales and Wales Arts International funding. Paul Reilly is a both a practicing field archaeologist and a pioneer of virtual and creative digital archaeologies. His current research explores ontological transformations that occur when (im)material archaeology enters the digital. He has published widely (see orcid.org/0000-0002-8067-8991). Reilly is honorary life member and former chairman of the Computer Applications and Archaeology organisation (CAA), and also chairs the CAA International Scientific Committee.

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Making Digital: Visual Approaches to the Digital Humanities

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Convergence of digital humanities and digital libraries

Convergence of digital humanities and digital libraries

Speed-Reading Technique to Boost English as Foreign Language Learners’ Text Comprehension

Different expressions of the same mode: a recent dialogue between archaeological and contemporary drawing practices

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