1. Visualizing the Digital Humanities
Erik Champion, DIGHUMLAB.dk
DeIC 2012 Data computing and net
11.15 Nov 12 - 13, 2012
Middelfart, Denmark

2. http://www.cdh.ucla.edu/instruction/dhcourses.html
What is Digital Humanities?
 UCL Centre for Digital Humanities “at the
intersection of digital technologies and humanities.”
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh
 UCLA DH “interprets the cultural and social impact
of new media and information technologies—the
fundamental components of the new information
age—as well as creates and applies these
technologies to answer cultural, social, historical,
and philological questions, both those traditionally
conceived and those only enabled by new
technologies.”
http://www.cdh.ucla.edu/about/what-is.html

3. Digital Humanities: self defined
 Digital Humanities is self:defined

4. A Survey of Digital Humanities Centers in the USA
by Diane M. Zorich, November 2008
Where new media and technologies are used for humanities-based research, teaching, and
intellectual engagement and experimentation. The goals of the center are to further
humanities scholarship, create new forms of knowledge, and explore technology’s impact
on humanities based disciplines.
 builds digital collections as scholarly or teaching resources;
 creates tools for
◦ authoring (i.e., creating multimedia products and applications with minimal technical knowledge or training)
◦ building digital collections
◦ analyzing humanities collections, data, or research processes
◦ managing the research process;
 departments uses digital collections and analytical tools to generate new intellectual products;
 offers digital humanities training
 conducts research in humanities and humanities computing (digital scholarship);
 offers lectures, programs, conferences, or seminars on digital humanities topics for general or academic
audiences;
 has its own academic appointments and staffing
 creates a zone of experimentation and innovation for humanists;
 serves as an information portal for a particular humanities discipline;
 serves as a repository for humanities-based digital collections
 provides technology solutions to humanities.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub143/pub143.pdf

5. Typical DH centres <>HASTAC
 Resource focused. Centers are organized around a primary
resource, located in a virtual space, that serves a specific
group of members. All programs and products flow from
the resource, and individual and organizational members
help sustain the resource by providing content, and, in
some instances, volunteer labor.
 Center focused. Centers are organized around a physical
location, with many diverse projects, programs, and
activities that are undertaken by faculty, researchers, and
students, and that offer many different resources to
diverse audiences. Most of the centers surveyed operate
under this model.

6. Typical DH centres <>HASTAC
 Resource focused. Centers are organized around a primary
resource, located in a virtual space, that serves a specific
group of members. All programs and products flow from
the resource, and individual and organizational members
help sustain the resource by providing content, and, in
some instances, volunteer labor.
 Center focused. Centers are organized around a physical
location, with many diverse projects, programs, and
activities that are undertaken by faculty, researchers, and
students, and that offer many different resources to
diverse audiences. Most of the centers surveyed operate
under this model.

7. Danish Research Road Map
2.1 Humanities and Social Sciences
 Humanities and social science researchers will to an increasing extent
need robust, generally available and internationally geared research
infrastructures based on modern information technology. The
development of these new tools will significantly advance studies and
interpretations of human experiences, actions and decisions and thus
lay the foundation for an enlightened civil society, competitive business
and industry and an efficient public sector.
 Research infrastructures that support humanities research have
traditionally been libraries, archives and various museum collections
consisting of historical documents, books and periodicals, maps,
artefacts, art and other resources dispersed across different national
institutions. On a smaller scale there are the university laboratories
which are used in humanities research of a more experimental nature,
for example, in linguistics, communication and media research.
 http://www.fi.dk/filer/publikationer/2011/Danish_roadmap_for_resear
ch_infrastructures_2011/html/kap02.htm

8. “RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE”
ERIC DEFINITION
Legal framework for a European Research
Infrastructure Consortium – ERIC Practical
Guidelines Research
 …facilities, resources and related services that are used by
the scientific community to conduct top-level research in
their respective fields and covers major scientific
equipment or sets of instruments; knowledge-based
resources such as collections, archives or structures for
scientific information; enabling ICT-based infrastructures
such as Grid, computing, software and communication, or
any other entity of a unique nature essential to achieve
excellence in research.
 Such infrastructures may be “single-sited” or “distributed”
(an organised network of resources)..

9. Do ideas go into Infrastructure?
 Andrew Prescott King’s College London UK: 3 most
important pieces of infrastructure.. are:
◦ the network provision through JANET;
◦ the collective licensing of commercial digital packages
through JISC Collections;
◦ and the NESLI2 licensing of access to online journals
 ..issues confronting digital scholarship in the
humanities are less to do with the storage and
curation of data and much more to with creating
models which resist the commercialisation..
 http://digitalriffs.blogspot.com/2012/02/thinking-
about-infrastructure.html

10. Is DH service as usual or paradigm shifter?
Whether Digital Humanities should be the
application of computing, or an inquiry as to
how digital media will or can irrevocably change
the Humanities.
David Parry. (n.d.). The Digital Humanities or a Digital Humanism. Debates in the Digital Humanities - Matthew
K. Gold - Google Bøger.

11. "Why does impact
matter?" ...£100M
spent on digitization in
UK...
@SimonTanner in
action
#mcn2012Value #mcn2012pic.twitter.com/Pohy8kcX

12. What is impact?
https://twitter.com/mpedson/status/267313958065676289/photo/
1

13. Visualization: Help Desk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cd7Bsp3dDo&feature=related

14. Visualization Centre failures
 Lack of communication and media to own staff
or to public.
 Affected by political legacies.
 Funding not competitive, lack of kick start funds.
 Locked into expensive inflexible equipment.
 Intellectual capital hard to replace.
 Lack of ongoing training.
 Inability to define successful outcomes.

15. CFP: “THE GENRE OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY”? DATABASES
AND THE FUTURE OF LITERARY STUDIES
http://hastac.org/opportunities/cfp-%E2%80%9C-
genre-twenty-first-century%E2%80%9D-databases-
and-future-literary-studies
 Given that many digital projects have eschewed databases in their
effort to, as Susan Brown wrote of the Orlando Project, “retain the
fluidity, flexibility, and nuance of continuous prose,”
the PMLAdebate demands a reconsideration of the nature of
databases and their use in literary studies. This panel intervenes in
this technological debate. Do current database projects undermine
the familiar rubrics of literary studies or productively challenge the
disciplinary status quo? How have databases reshaped our
understanding of literary history, archives, and digital remediation?
Are databases truly inhospitable to narrative? Does a celebration
of the database participate in a fantasy of technological neutrality
or enforce a new politics? We welcome papers that engage with
these questions, or with other dimensions of the database in
literary studies.

16. 10 Sci-Fi Predictions That Became
Science Fact
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiMzZ8-Ebq0

17. Internet Librarian: 50 Great Mobile Apps
for Libraries
 46% of American adults own smart phones. By 2016, 10
billion will be in use worldwide. By the year 2013 there
will be 81.4 billion apps.
 The average download of apps per device is 51.
 The average time spent on apps per day is 81 minutes.
 80% of people continue to work after leaving the office.
 68% check email before 8am in the morning.
 50% of them check their work email while they’re still in
bed.
 http://librarianinblack.net/librarianinblack/2012/10/mobil
eapps.html
 http://50apps.weebly.com/

18. Text analysis tools (e.g. Wolfram|Alpha)
http://www.wolframalpha.com/about.html

19. Writing History in the Digital Age
http://writinghistory.trincoll.edu/2012/10/approved/

20. HISTORY PIN
Pin your history to the world. 192,682 photos,
videos, audio clips and stories pinned so far.
http://www.historypin.com/

21. Personalized online art projects
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio

22. Interactive Graphic Novel by Museum of
London, iOS app, audio, maps
http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/Resources/app/Dickens_webpage/index.html

23. New and old - Jo Teeuwisse
http://www.zeutch.com/photo/past-and-present-42618
À travers un véritable travail d’archiviste, l’artiste Jo Teeuwisse a tenté de remettre dans le
contexte actuel des images datant de la Seconde Guerre mondiale en France. Un très beau
travail de mémoire, entre passé et présent.
Articles (RSS) - ©2012 Zeutch - Création : RATEL Yannick

24. 3D in Libraries to read books
http://www.ntnu.no/ub/omubit/bibliotekene/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpSP2ojWt
gunnerus-1/mubil Is&feature=youtu.be

25. Digital Humanities: not just text..(or images, e.g.
http://orbis.stanford.edu/)
 Discover Ancient Rome
in Google Earth
 http://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=MqMXIRw
QniA
 Image:
http://www.virtualtrippi
ng.com/google-earths-
rome-reborn/ 2008

26. OCTOBER 24: BERNARD FRISCHER ON “MODELING THE
PAST: NEW PROJECTS OF THE VIRTUAL WORLD HERITAGE
LABORATORY”
http://cunydhi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/10/08/october-24-bernard-frischer-on-modeling-the-past/

27. Get students to learn
about historic events
and literature through
simple game design
Journey to the West, recreated in NeverWinter Nights, a 12 week project by 3 students in 2006.
Involved their translation from the original Chinese text. They included the text in the games, created game
mechanics and levels from the text, and tested Chinese and Australian students.

28. cultural games can be playfully instructive
 Shown at Vsmm2012 conference
Chinese Taoism Touch Screen by Neil
Wang and Erik Champion
 Opening - http://youtu.be/gFYG4zTn4Js
 Game Hua -
http://youtu.be/DiGDezTM8hY
 Game Qi1 -
http://youtu.be/jP9nfdUFDTU
 Game Qi2 -
http://youtu.be/orCga2CQBjs
 Game Qin -
http://youtu.be/iC2BGT5IbDE
 Game Shu -
http://youtu.be/dv_TOnl_sbc

29. BIOFEEDBACK CINEMATICS AND XRAY VISION

30. MirrorBox Projection

31. Interactive narrative
 http://www.interactivestory.net/

32. publicVR.org
http://publicvr.org/
http://vimeo.com/25901467

33. POPCORN MAKER ENHANCE, REMIX AND SHARE WEB VIDEO. USE
YOUR WEB BROWSER TO COMBINE VIDEO AND AUDIO WITH CONTENT
FROM THE REST OF THE WEB — FROM TEXT, LINKS AND MAPS TO
PICTURES AND LIVE FEEDS.
..FOR TEACHERS TO USE WEB VIDEO RESOURCES IN A CUSTOM WAY
WITHOUT BREAKING COPYRIGHT.
https://popcorn.webmaker.org/
http://popcorn.webmadecontent.org/videos/pop
cornmakerteaser2.mp4

34. Online WYSWYG or HTML slides
http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/#/1

35. Self made and remixable games
 Become an inventor with this easy-
to-use touch creation app. Select
from several shapes and items that
can be connected together to form
simple or complex creations.
Customize your designs with color
and then set them in motion as you
add elements of physics, gravity and
velocity to your creations.
 In Creatorverse, your designs set in
motion can take on unexpected
paths and attributes, including
bounciness, density, friction, speed
and force.
 http://www.creatorverse.com/
 http://kotaku.com/5954128/forget-
playing-games-everyone-needs-to-
make-games

36. Mixed Reality
http://virtual.vtt.fi/virtual/proj2/multimedia/p http://ael.gatech.edu/lab/research/arsecondlif
rojects/mrconference.html e/using-the-ar-second-life-client/

37. http://www.airtightinteractive.com/2012/08/webcammesh- 3D and video chat
demo/ http://verold.com/blog/2012/10/31/verold-studio-google-
HTML5 demo projects webcam video onto WebGL 3D Mesh hangouts-for-realtime-design-reviews
Interactive 3D webcam /webchat

38. Virtual Distance Learning
Classroom lets students
congregate online in
virtual reality
Once scanned into the
system, students will be
able to join other avatars in
an online classroom, which
could look like anything
from a traditional learning
space to a life-size model of
a Grecian theater. Distance
units are the same in the
virtual classroom and the
the system creates 3-D avatars using the infrared real world, so taking a step
depth sensor in Microsoft’s Kinect sensor. forward on camera
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSLd-lSk9ts
translates to a step of the
same size online. Avatars
can also interact with
virtual objects.

39. http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs291/CourseRev/1
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/nov/11/online-free-
https://www.coursera.org/
learning-end-of-university?CMP=twt_gu Stanford, Princeton, Michigan and Pennsylvania
Do online courses spell the end for
the traditional university?
Sebastian Thrun

40. Free or Open Data
 Tim Berners-Lee
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-
11/09/raw-data
 When governments begin to release data
openly on the web, the growing movement of
hackers and activists and even internal
government agencies and corporations, can
begin to use the previously unconnected and
undissected numbers, images and graphs to
create new ways for you to access valuable
new information.
 The Ghana Open Data Initiative (GODI) just
held Ghana's first data bootcamp, bringing
together journalists and developers to find,
extract and analyse public data to tell better
informed news stories.
 http://www.thewebindex.org/
 http://www.theodi.org/

41. Free or Open Data
 http://www.slideshare.net/JuryKonga/open-data-
new-reality-community-benefits
 http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2012/11/how-
openspending-is-getting-the-story-out-of-the-
data313.html
 http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/how-
open-source-big-data-can-improve-supply-
chains/4833 (VP, Nike, Financial Times Innovate
2012 conference)
 http://mashable.com/2012/11/07/open-data-
city-apps/

42. HTTP://OPENSPENDING.ORG/
Explore existing spending datasets
Upload and share a financial dataset
Make your own budget monitoring site

43. FUNDING: 2014-2020
CONNECTING EUROPE
copyright Lars Lundqvist ‫ ‏‬arkland_swe CARARE
@
Copenhagen 10:40 AM - 8 Nov 12

44. The massive dataset is the descriptive
information about Europe's digitised
HTTP://WWW.EUROPEANA.EU treasures. For the first time, the
/PORTAL/ metadata is released under the
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/
http://remix.europeana.eu/# Creative Commons CC0 Public Domain
http://www.euscreen.eu/exhibitions.html#.UJ-
MkYakbVM Dedication, meaning that anyone can
use the data for any purpose -
creative, educational, commercial -
with no restrictions. This release,
which is by far the largest one-time
dedication of cultural data to the
public domain using CC0 offers a new
boost to the digital economy,
providing electronic entrepreneurs
with opportunities to create
innovative apps and games for tablets
and smartphones and to create new
web services and portals.
Online open data is a core resource which can fuel enterprise and create opportunities for
millions of Europeans working in Europe's cultural and creative industries. The sector
represents 3.3% of EU GDP and is worth over €150 billion in exports.

45. CREATIVE HACKING
http://nearsomething.com/

46. in brief
 DIGHUMLAB is a national consortium of four Danish universities:
Aalborg University, Aarhus University, the University of Copenhagen and
the University of Southern Denmark. Together with the State and
University Library and the Royal Library, the lab will work to promote
access to digital research resources, the development of research tools
and education as well as strengthening ties to international networks.
 The Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education has
contributed a grant of DKK 30 million to the development of the Danish
Digital Humanities Laboratory (DIGHUMLAB). The establishment of
DIGHUMLAB was named as a priority in the ministry's roadmap for
research infrastructure in 2010, and is intended to promote research in
the humanities and social sciences, education and knowledge exchange
by providing access to digital resources and developing new research
methods and practices.
 http://www.dighumlab.dk

47.  rejuvenate fields of research within the humanities and social
sciences
 through broad access to digital sources and research data
 through development of software-supported analysis methods
 through collaborative forms of work and new research
concepts
 through internationalisation of classic specialist research skills
and emerging interdisciplinary fields of research.
 DIGHUMLAB will enhance and facilitate Digital Humanities in
Danish research, thereby contributing to greater
interdisciplinary cooperation, widespread knowledge transfer
and global orientation and increased internationalisation of
both research and education.

48. Themes
◦ Theme 1: Language-based materials and tools,
CLARIN, see http://clarin.dk
◦ Theme 2: Mediatools (the Net Archive, Net Lab) AU,
(subcontractor: State Library) and Developing tools for
audio and visual media AU, http://www.netlab.dk/
◦ Theme 3: Interaction and Design Studios, AAU and
SDU

49. DIGHUMLAB Launch http://dighumlab.dk
 'A lab doesn't have to be
filled with microscopes and
white lab coats to be a real
lab. The natural sciences
don't have a monopoly on  Fra venstre: Jens Erik Mogensen,
laboratories any more; they prodekan KU, Lone Dirckinck-
must make room for the Holmfeld, dekan AAU, Flemming G.
Andersen, dekan Syddansk
social sciences and Universitet, Lauritz B. Holm-Nielsen,
humanities,' said Minister of rektor AU, Morten Østergaard,
Higher Education Morten uddannelsesminister, Mette Thunø,
Østergaard in his inaugural dekan AU og formand for
address at the DIGIHUMLAB DIGHUMLBs styregruppe Erik
Champion, projektleder DIGHUMLAB
opening seminar.
http://dighumlab.dk/index.php?id=2155&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=120
&cHash=64e8312ce6f3871a51329b63375352aa

50. DARIAH-EU Map
Member
Data Archiving and Observer
Networked Services (DANS) Cooperating Partner
University of Oslo Non-EU (Cooperating Partner)
Museum of Cultural History (KHM)
King's College London
Centre for e-Research (CeRcH)
Norway
Oslo DIGHUMLAB
Irish Research Council for the
Humanities and Social Sciences
(IRCHSS) Copenhagen/ Vilnius University (VU)
UK Denmark (VCC2)
Ireland Dublin Lithuania
(VCC2)
Vilnius
Austrian Academy of Sciences (AAS)
Den Haag/ Institute for Corpus Linguistics
University of Goettingen London Netherlands and Text Technology
Goettingen State and University Library (SUB) (VCC3)
Goettingen
Germany
Paris (VCC1/
Institute of Contemporary History (ICH)
VCC4/DCO)
National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)
TGE ADONIS Vienna
Bern Swit- Austria
(VCC1) Ruđer‫‏‬Bošković‫‏‬Institute‫(‏‬RBI)
France zerland
(VCC3/DCO) Ljubljana/Slovenia Centre for Information and Computer Science
Zagreb/Croatia
Italy
Belgrade
Florence
Serbia
Center for Digital Humanities (CDH)
Swiss Academy of Humanities Tirana/
and Social Sciences (SAGW) Albania
Academy of Athens (AA)
Research Centre for the Study
of Modern Greek History
Digital Renaissance Foundation (FRD)
Athens
Digital Curation Unit (DCU)
Ministry of Tourism Culture Institute for the Management
Youth and Sports of Information Systems

51. Issues
 how does one create a national focus while allowing academics
and other researchers to pursue their own specific goals?
 what are the boundaries of the Digital Humanities pertinent to
our researchers, beyond which we should not tread?
 how to focus on key research areas, without becoming cut off
from international networks?
 how can one develop an infrastructure five years ahead, based
on catering for technology that we are not yet using?
 how can a distributed network allow for unified identity and
individual planning?
 which resources are best managed centrally, or distributed?
 how one create a centre for something that has no physical
centre, unifying traditionally disparate and skeptical disciplines,
without restricting them or discriminating between them?

52. Questions I asked DH scholars
 How can DH re-examine Humanities?
 What is a DH community?
 What has value to scholars beyond 5 years?
 What makes for high quality DH projects?
 NOW, which tools and services are needed?
Copyright http://paulbourke.net/fractals/googleearth/

53. Digital Humanities-Mark Kingwell
 The most important skill is critical thinking
 We say this a lot but don’t do much about it. Here’s what we need:
courses in informal logic, so students can recognize fallacies in public
discourse; in economic theory, since economists think they rule the
world, and politicians believe them; and in computer programming,
because you can’t see the biases of the system unless you know how it
was coded..the widespread view that technology is value-neutral,
inevitable and always here to help, needs to be exposed as the
dangerous ideology it is.
 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/time-to-lead/mark-
kingwells-seven-pathways-to-the-stars/article4610505/
 Erik Champion, Aarhus, Denmark, echa@adm.au.dk
 or http://erikchampion.wordpress.com/

54. Some tools
 http://www.chromeexperiments.com/
 http://www.ludoscience.com/EN/blog/634-Craftyy-an-online-tool-geared-towards-collaborative-game-design.html
 Europeana technical slides
 http://t-pen.org/TPEN/ T-PEN is a web-based tool for working with images of manuscripts. Users attach transcription
data (new or uploaded) to the actual lines of the original manuscript in a simple, flexible interface.
 http://www.textal.org/ to help scholars design wordclouds and produce statistics
 http://dirt.projectbamboo.org/ directory of DH tools
 http://selection.datavisualization.ch/ data viz tools
 http://www.cassiopeiaproject.com/videos2.php hi-def science videos
 http://digitalhumanities.org/centernet/resources/tools/
 http://humanexperience.stanford.edu/digital_humanities
 http://www.esri.com/software/mapping-for-everyone/
 http://neatline.org/ tell stories with maps and timelines
 AR see esp Volkswagen http://econsultancy.com/uk/blog/9842-seven-awesome-augmented-reality-campaigns
 Toozla: AR AUDIO browser http://www.augmentedplanet.com/2009/12/the-worlds-first-audio-augmented-reality-
browser/
 HTML 5 movie threader http://evelyn-interactive.searchingforabby.com/
 Crowd tagging and the museum http://www.imamuseum.org/page/collection-tags
 http://pleiades.stoa.org/ A community-built gazetteer and graph of ancient places
 Epics, e-learning platform for digital heritage http://vimeo.com/33711147