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Whearty, Bridget. 2022. Digital Codicology: Medieval Books and Modern Labor. Redwood City: Stanford University Press. Pp. 338. ISBN 9781503632752.
Get PDFBook review of Whearty, Bridget. 2022. Digital Codicology: Medieval Books and Modern Labor. Redwood City: Stanford University Press. Pp. 338. ISBN 9781503632752
Guest Speaker: Demystifying Grad School: From Initial Curiosity to Applications and Beyond
No full textHave you ever done research and been surprised by how much you enjoyed it?
Have you discovered issues that you’re passionate about and feel as if you’ve only just begun to work on them?
Have your professors ever said you should think about grad school?
If so, you should join Bridget Whearty for this frank and engaging conversation about graduate school.
Learn more about “grad school” and how to decide if it’s right for you, get insider tips on picking out schools and programs to apply to, find out how to manage the application process, and learn survival tips for life in grad school!
This session is open to all students – from those who are unsure about what they want to do next to those who have always wanted to go to grad school
Invisible in \u27The Archive\u27: Librarians, Archivists, and The Caswell Test
Get PDFThis presentation, Invisible in \u27The Archive\u27: Archivists, Librarians, and The Caswell Test, was given at the 53rd International Congress for Medieval Studies, on May 11, 2018. It argues that medievalists, and humanities scholars more broadly, have erred in writing and theorizing about the archive as an abstract, depopulated space, untouched by human labor and laborers. Building on the work of M. L. Caswell, Eira Tansey, Amy Hildreth Chen, Myron Groover, and other scholars of library and information sciences, it proposes that humanities scholars adopt what I call The Caswell Test.
Based on the famous Bechdel Test for gender representation in media, as well as The Tansey Test of archivists, The Caswell Test gives humanities scholars three short, easy to remember rules to follow whenever we write about libraries and archives in order to ensure that we are no longer engaging in the problematic erasure of archivists and librarians
The Caswell Test, single slide
No full textThis poster/slide comes from a larger conference presentation, Invisible in \u27The Archive\u27: Archivists, Librarians, and The Caswell Test, given at the 53rd International Congress for Medieval Studies, on May 11, 2018. That larger paper argues that medievalists and humanities scholars more broadly have erred in writing and theorizing about the archive as an abstract, depopulated space, untouched by human labor and laborers. Building on the work of archivist M. L. Caswell, it proposes that humanities scholars adopt The Caswell Test. Based on the famous Bechdel Test for gender representation in media, as well as The Tansey Test of archivists, The Caswell Test --reproduced on this poster/slide gives humanities scholars three steps to follow in order to ensure that when we write about libraries and archives we are not engaged in the problematic erasure of archivists and librarians
Digital Scholarship: Current Challenges in Hiring, Promotion, and Tenure
Get PDFThis is the performance script and slides (embedded) of my Oct 11, 2019 talk given at the University of Albany Library\u27s Digital Scholarship Conference--Digital Scholarship: Opportunities and Challenges (see https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/dsconf/).
This talk examines how local conditions can strongly discourage pretenure faculty from engaging in innovative digital work. Arguing that individual faculty, larger institutions, local communities, and the humanities themselves lose out when digital scholarship is not adequately valued, I offer an alternative universe tenure timeline, outlining some of the work I would have done in the past five years if digital scholarship was valued for promotion and tenure
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Queer, Digital, Codicology: Pope Joan, MS Hunter 5 and queering medieval books
No full textUniversity of Glasgow, Hunter 5 manuscript on Folio 197-recto a reader rewrote the story of Pope Joan including switching pronouns from from she/her to he/his. We explore a methodology of making the editor\u27s hand more visible deciphering other areas of the text that have been written over, but are currently unstudied
Adam Scriveyn in Cyberspace: Loss, Labour, Ideology, and Infrastructure in Interoperable Reuse of Digital Manuscript Metadata
Get PDFThis chapter seeks to demystify invisible work at the heart of manuscript digitization. Descriptive metadata and its curation are the unseen elements upon which image discoverability—and later reuse—depends. Seeing and taking seriously that labor, I contend, is fundamental to developing a more rigorous understanding of medieval manuscripts in our increasingly digital age.
The chapter begins by connecting major challenges facing manuscript interoperability to the deeper disciplinary histories of codicology, library studies, and digital humanities. Next, it progresses through three case studies, each of which illustrates different challenges in digital manuscript studies. Studying the Walters Art Museum metadata, I emphasize how change (mouvance, variance) is inevitable in digital manuscripts. Working with Parker on the Web, I reveal how and why data curation is a process not just of preservation, but also of loss. Finally, in ecodices, the Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland, I connect individual curatorial choices to larger debates about access, audience, and the problematic monolingualism of the digital humanities.
Throughout, I argue that creation and curation are not neutral acts. I repeatedly highlight how my medievalist roots shaped specific curatorial practices and use medieval poets to theorize my work on digital manuscripts. By foregrounding my own narrative of growth as a digital humanist, I seek to show how often-unseen laborers profoundly influence digitizations--and, through them, digital humanities more broadly. Ultimately, I argue that a more just digital humanities must include digitizers in its histories, presents, and futures
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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