In this presentation, Alex Juhasz, Director of the Mellon DH Grant and Professor of Media Studies at Pitzer College, along with Ashley Sanders, Digital Scholarship Librarian and DH specialist, will describe (1) what the digital humanities is (and digital scholarship more broadly) (2) the opportunities the Mellon DH grant and the Claremont Colleges Library provide for faculty and students to learn more, and (3) present a snapshot of some of the exciting work already happening at the 7Cs.

1. DH at the 7Cs
What is DH? And What’s it Doing at
the Claremont Colleges?

2. Alex Juhasz, Ph.D.
Mellon DH Project Director
& Professor of Media Studies, Pitzer College
Ashley Sanders, Ph.D. (History)
Digital Scholarship Librarian
Claremont Colleges Library

3. Roadmap
1. What is digital humanities?
2. What opportunities does the Mellon DH
grant offer?
3. Library support & resources
4. DH@CC projects

4. What does “digital” mean to
you?
How do you define “humanities”?
What does/might the intersection look like?
1. What is digital humanities?

5. Definitions of DH
Voyant Tools: Word Trends
1. What is digital humanities?

6. 1. What is digital humanities?
Data Visualization:
Micki Kaufman, “Quantifying Kissinger.” See: http://vimeo.com/100791450

7. 1. What is digital humanities?
Geospatial & Temporal Modeling:
www.neatline.org

8. 1. What is digital humanities?
Network Analysis:
http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/snac/search

9. 1. What is digital humanities?
Topic Modeling:
http://signsat40.signsjournal.org/topic-model/#/model/list

10. What is DH?
DH is the study, exploration, and preservation of, as
well as education about
human cultures, events, languages, people, and
material production in the past and present
in a digital environment
through the creation and use of dynamic tools to
▫ visualize and analyze data
▫ share and annotate primary sources
▫ discuss and publish findings
▫ collaborate on research and teaching
for scholars, students, and the general public.
(Ashley Sanders, 18 December 2013,
colonialismthroughtheveil.wordpress.com/category/digital-humanities/)
1. What is digital humanities?

11. DH @ CC Definitions:
• Digital humanities is a conglomeration of professional
practices that simultaneously enhances and disrupts
humanistic inquiry through interactions with technologies.
• Digital Humanities means tackling both old and new
questions in the humanities using newly digitized sources and
tools for exploring new digital cultures. The digital humanities
embraces new forms of scholarship that value open access and
collaboration.
• …it offers new ways of reaching hearts and minds in
community and in the classroom. It is a powerful tool that can
be taken up by many, but it must remain critical and
accountable, and bound to the ethics of humanity.
1. What is digital humanities?

12. 2. What opportunities does the Mellon
DH grant offer?
• $1.5 Million 5-Year Grant
• 25 new or redesigned digitally-infused courses
• 2 Week-Long Summer Institutes (2015 & 2016)
• Spring Symposium

13. Programming
• “Intro to DH” Short Course
• DH Workshop Series at the Library
• DH Project Design 1-1 Consulting
▫ Ashley Sanders
• GIS Workshops and 1-1 Consulting
▫ Warren Roberts
• Audio/Video Consulting
▫ AJ Strout
2. What opportunities does the Mellon DH
grant offer?

14. Emerging Technology
▪ Google Glass
▪ Arduino
▪ Epson Smart Glasses
▪ Oculus Rift
▪ GoPro Cameras
▪ Raspberry Pi
3. Library Support & Resources

15. Library DH Support
bit.ly/DHatCCL

16. Library DH Support
bit.ly/DHatCCL

17. COMING SOON!
• 2015-2016 In Progress:
▫ Digital Tool Shed
• Beginning October 2015:
▫ Intro WordPress Workshop Series
• Beginning January 2016
▫ Digital Research Studio
▫ Intermediate DH Professional Learning
Communities
▫ Digital Shakespeare
3. Library Support & Resources

18. Digital Tool Shed:
What is it?
• A vibrant, open, accessible, technology-rich, inviting space
for the Claremont Colleges community to extend faculty
and student knowledge and collaborative experience with
digital research tools.
• Incubator
• A space for exploration, practice, engagement, and
experiential learning
• A services-oriented space
• A place to build cross-functional, intercollegiate teams for
innovative research and to design new tools for scholarship
in the humanities and beyond.
3. Library Support & Resources

19. Digital Tool Shed:
What is it?
It will also provide access to software for
data analysis and visualization. It will be a
space to explore and use the technology to
create both seed projects and finished
products. We are investigating the
possibility of creating a data visualization
wall, as well as a “green screen” for video
and photo shoots.
3. Library Support & Resources

20. Digital Research Studio
(Mellon Funded)
• Complete 4-5 faculty-designed DH
projects through 2019
• Application process
• Teams of qualified undergrad & grad
students
• Overseen by Digital Research Studio
Director
3. Library Support & Resources

21. Faculty Projects Snapshot
• Interactive, multimedia
timeline of ancient
Jerusalem’s history
• Multiple and cross-readings of
unique photograph collection
• Creating digital course hubs
• Integrating GIS into the
classroom
• Building archive of recent local
music history
• Documenting women in
Mariachi bands
• Archiving, sharing, and
designing digital exhibits of
unique primary source
materials
4. DH@CC projects

22. New/Revised Digitally Infused Courses
4. DH@CC projects

23. SurveyResponses

24. Intro to DH Short-Course Registration
Sign up here:
http://goo.gl/forms/NLZWmijWlH

25. Questions?
Contact: Ashley_Sanders@cuc.claremont.edu