Feminist Digital Humanities

“Feminist Digital Humanities” centers an analysis of power and privilege informed by feminist scholars. Using an intersectional approach, the chapter outlines two issues facing dh scholars: systemic bias within dh infrastructure and a need to decenter the whiteness found in dh theory. Highlighting various resistances to exclusionary infrastructures, particularly at international conferences, the chapter highlights ways that current scholars have resisted problematic power dynamics. Using the idea of multiple digital humanities, coined by Jamie Sky Bianco, the chapter argues against an “add and stir’ model of diversity, instead outlining ways that current feminist dh scholars have built coalitions of support and expansion. The chapter will discuss the complicated and often fraught moments that have evolved during coalition building, often revolving around issues of access, location, and privilege. The best articulations of digital humanitie(s) recognizes that much of the exemplary work is itself centered outside of a rigid notion of dh, instead crossing interdisciplinary boundaries, with new media, critical race studies, post-colonial studies, diaspora studies, critical code studies, disability studies, queer theory and pedagogy studies, among other areas, all central scholarly production locations with long histories

Citational Politics: Quantifying the influence of gender on citation in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

Using citation analysis, we consider the role of gender in citation practices in conference special issues of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. Our examination of citations in Digital Humanities conference special issues from 2006 to 2015 demonstrates gender bias in citational practices. This bias is consistent with broader trends in citational politics across the academy more broadly but is a threat to equity and justice within the scholarly community. We further offer proposals for improving citational practices to resist gender bias. Quantifying the impact of gender on citations, we argue, is one approach to understanding gender inequalities within digital humanities communities and to generating solutions to promote the broadest representation of digital humanities scholarship in scholarly communications

How we work: A critical approach to program development to serve library/dh partnerships

Science and Digital Humanities exert influences on one another, particularly as practices and tools developed in the sciences are imagined, borrowed, and manipulated by DH, but also as practices and insights from the humanities are applied to scientific inquiry. With this poster, we present an analysis of studies of how digital humanists and scientists work, testing the oft-referenced distinctions and similarities claimed between science and DH models and interrogating the ways that scientific disciplinarity affects digital humanities processes and products. Our research critically evaluates the comparisons drawn between epistemological and labor models in DH and the sciences

Early Americas Digital Archive

This is a review of Early Americas Digital Archive

Models of Digital Documentation: \u3ci\u3eThe 19th-Century Concord Digital Archive\u3c/i\u3e

As with many digital archives, The 19th-Century Digital Concord Archive (CDA) started as a website utilizing simple technology and has evolved to a more technologically advanced scholarly site. The CDA joins an interdisciplinary team from the Department of English, Texas A&M University; the Digital Humanities Initiative, the College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University; the Map and GIS Collections and Services, Texas A&M University Libraries; and the Concord Free Public Library, Concord, Massachusetts, in the development of infrastructures that allow the entities to share metadata easily, develop innovative, visually-based search functions, and make visible and accessible the cultural record of Concord, Massachusetts, in an interactive, free-access digital archive. This project leverages resources and skills across the team to develop a model of interaction between academic, museum-and-library, and community partners, developing multiple ways of displaying information about the town of Concord that will encourage innovative scholarly research. Materials slated for inclusion in the archive include literary texts, historical documents, maps, photographs, census materials, educational minutes, broadsides, physical artifacts, and town records. Concord figures centrally in critical discussions of nineteenth-century literature, philosophy, abolition, women’s literature and history, architecture, and government. Scholarly production reflects the importance of this location. Currently, WorldCat lists over 500 books published since 2000 that include Concord in their description. When the search is expanded to include figures that lived or worked in Concord, the numbers grow exponentially. Concord is also an interesting test case for this work as it is a location that helped to define the critical framework of American literature and history. The depth of this small town’s historical record proves important to the study of literature, history, government, architecture, philosophy, digital humanities and other fields. By digitizing a broad range of materials we will provide scholars with additional materials to rethink the way in which we conceptualize these fields. Concord is an interesting choice for a digital archive as it bridges the divide between canonical, well-studied figures and unknown figures that flesh out the historical and literary record. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Henry David Thoreau, and Bronson Alcott resided in Concord and interacted with those groups less frequently represented by digital archives: free African-Americans, Irish immigrants, the poor, and the criminal class. In addition to the tremendous scholarly interest in Concord, Concord attracts broad general interest as an historical tourism center. The booming tourism trade attracts tens of thousands of visitors a year, many of whom explore Concord virtually before their visit. Given the interest in nineteenth-century Concord, the Concord archive should experience tremendous use and generate a substantive impact. Documentary Editing 31 3