Texas Center for Digital Humanities and New Media

We propose the creation of a Center for Digital Humanities, Media and Culture (formerly titled Texas Center for Digital Humanities and New Media). The Center will address two related grand challenges: the need to investigate the relationship of computing technologies and culture, and the need to construct cyberinfrastructure for the humanities and social sciences. The Center’s research, focused in four interrelated areas -- the cultural record, cultural systems, cultural environments, and cultural interactions in the digital age – engages one of the most compelling questions of our time: What does it mean to be human in the digital age

A Catalyst for Social Activism: The Digital Black Bibliography Project

This project is transitioning from DiBB to a new platform and direction for the future.This ppt presentation details a collaborative proof of concept project called Digital Black Bibliography (DiBB) that sought to provide scholars with the tools to compile, preserve, manipulate, and interpret Africana cultural history as represented in seminal black historical bibliography texts. The project objectives were to transform printed bibliographies into more granular data that scholars could use to search, analyze, and expand the understanding of bibliographies. The works used in the project were of two seminal bibliographers, Prof. Dorothy Porter Wesley's A Catalogue of The African Collection and Prof. Abdul Alkalimat (Gerald McWhorter)'s Afro-Scholar newsletters.TAMU's Division of Research, PESCA Grant funding of $25, 00

Are We Having Fun Yet

This presentation was the basis for discussing, surfacing, and sharing best practices for establishing and evolving collaborations among digital scholars. We sought to engage the audience in discussing what factors to consider when dealing with multiple faculty and students, an issue that can become thorny, particularly as projects change and grow, despite good intentions. How do we properly credit any work that is done to publicize or publish these multidisciplinary projects that universities and funding agencies are encouraging and oftentimes are requiring academics to secure in order to receive shrinking dollars?Texas A&M University's Division of Research PESCA funds and the University Libraries

Are We Having Fun Yet

This presentation was the basis for discussing, surfacing, and sharing best practices for establishing and evolving collaborations among digital scholars. We sought to engage the audience in discussing what factors to consider when dealing with multiple faculty and students, an issue that can become thorny, particularly as projects change and grow, despite good intentions. How do we properly credit any work that is done to publicize or publish these multidisciplinary projects that universities and funding agencies are encouraging and oftentimes are requiring academics to secure in order to receive shrinking dollars?Texas A&M University's Division of Research PESCA funds and the University Libraries