Much of what the group predicted for 2015 came to pass, to some extent: universities were hacked; SHARE developed; the push to learn to code continued; and Proquest and Gale moved to provide data mining access to their collections (at considerable additional cost to libraries). And, with the FAA moving to require that drones be registered, Mills’s prediction from 2013 that an Amazon drone will be shot down over Texas looks ever more likely. If you are impressed by those predictions, then in 2016 you should expect the Wu Tang Clan album to leak, Virtual Reality MOOCs to be launched, a digital humanist to win a Macarthur Fellowship, hypothes.is not to take off (or to enjoy the same success as DPLA), and emojis to replace text as our primary form of communication.
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– John Donne’s 1622 sermon for Gunpowder Day: Virtual Paul’s Cross Project
– NEH Anniversary Message from President Obama
– NEH Funding Levels, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Check back in two weeks for more from the world of digital humanities, libraries, and museums and to see where Mills lands on another episode of Digital Campus.
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MLA CORE
MLA Commons Open Repository Exchange
Humanities CORE NEH-ODH Start-up Grant
AHA Guides on Assessing Digital Scholarship
Guidelines for the Professional Evaluation of Digital Scholarship in History (PDF)
YouTube’s Tenth Anniversary
The very first YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw
Matt Schiavenza, “How YouTube Changed Journalism,” The Atlantic (February 14, 2015)
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]]>To begin, everyone weighs in on the Maya Angelou stamp controversy and whether or not quotation inaccuracies are getting worse because of the internet. Then the crew discusses a recent survey by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation which found that only 20% of college and university professors have used “high-tech teaching methods.” Dan argues that the majority of professors default to textbook teaching just to get the job done. While professors lack digital diversity, the group then shifts to discussing whether the Apple watch could cause problems in the classroom. Could widespread adoption of wearable technology lead to easier cheating? The podcast wrapped up by congratulating Amanda on being elected to the THAT Camp counsel for another year and the announcement that THAT Camp has switched to Reclaim Hosting.
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Internet Explorer
Tom Warren, “Microsoft is Killing Off the Internet Explorer Brand,” The Verge, March 17, 2015.
Apple
Tim Moynihan, “Life with the MacBook’s Single Port Won’t Be Easy – Yet,” Wired, March 16, 2015.
“Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard,” The Onion.
Maker Faires
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]]>After describing the good and the bad of the year, the group discussed their predictions from 2013. While Mills’s prediction that an Amazon drone would be shot out of the sky in Texas did not come true, it appears that many of the predictions made by the group last year were pretty close–even though Dan gave himself a solid “B”. With 2015 quickly approaching, everyone discussed their latest predictions for the new year and where the digital humanities are headed in the next 365 days.
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Gender and Digital History Centers Google Doc
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