Through a glass, darkly – reflections upon digitisation
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The document discusses the implications of digitization in the humanities, highlighting its potential to educate and connect communities with their past while enabling new research opportunities. It also addresses the challenges faced in digitization, such as funding and curation, and provides examples of how digital resources can reveal previously unseen historical narratives. The talk emphasizes the transformative impact of digital technology, albeit with caution regarding the pursuit of digital initiatives without proper planning.
Through a glass, darkly – reflections upon digitisation
- 1. @SimonTanner Through a glass, darkly – Reflections upon digitisation Simon Tanner Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London Image: cvma.ac.uk 06/02/2015 12:18 ENC Public Talk 19 February 2013 1
- 2. Digital Humanities: the application of digital technology to humanities disciplines reflection upon the impact of digital media upon humanity > 50 academics & researchers ~ £2.5 million research income per annum >5 million digital objects, 130+projects 200+million hits over 5 years: 2009-2013 www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh/
- 3. Why not go where they are?
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- 12. The purpose of digitisation: to educate, enlighten & entertain Memory organisations are where a community nourishes its memory, imagination & creativity. Where it connects with the past & invents its future.
- 13. Curation Challenges & Unfunded Mandates Digitisation Web Archiving Collection Development Material heritage Intellectual heritage Digital Preservation Virtual heritage Web 2.0 / Interactive heritage Born digital Preservation & Conservation
- 15. “Old Bailey Online reaches out to communities, such as family historians, who are keen to find a personal history, reflected in a national story... Digital resources both create a new audience, and reconfigure our analysis to favour the individual.” Professor Tim Hitchcock, University of Hertfordshire “Digitised resources allow me to discover the hidden lives of disabled people, who have not traditionally left records of their lives. I have found disability was discussed by many writers in the Eighteenth Century and that disabled men and women played an important role in the social life of the time.” Dr David Turner, Swansea University www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/inspiring.html New areas of research enabled
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- 22. A Digital Death Spiral?
- 23. “digitisation = funding” “Digital is everything today” “who knows how much it’ll cost, but digital’s bound to be wonderful” “Planning is so 20th Century, let’s be Agile” “cos our competition / Google / my mate is doing it” “cos if we build it, they will come!” Signs you are in the Digital Death Spiral
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