By Laura Schmidt and Heather Wacha
The 2016-17 academic year marks the third year of the Digital Humanities Research Network (DHRN), an organization that aims to create a community for UW scholars who are interested in the intersection between the humanities and computing. Following two successful years as a Borgesi-Mellon workshop hosted by the Center for the Humanities, this year DHRN became part of the Center for Print and Digital Culture. With this transition, the coordinators have made the decision to shift our energies to building a strong virtual DH community at UW, including enhancing our existing web presence: dhrn.wiscprintdigital.org.
As a result of this shift into building a solid web presence, DHRN has undertaken an oral interview project that hopes to feature and document the diversity of digital humanities projects already underway at the University of Wisconsin. The DHRN team will be interviewing digital humanists on campus about both their DH projects and the data behind their work. The interviews will be recorded, edited and posted on the DHRN website. Given that we hope to hear about a breadth of data types and management in digital humanities projects, there is a natural overlap with RDS that has prompted the team members at DHRN and RDS to co-host a series of shared blog posts in order to contribute to the larger digital scholarship conversation here on campus, as both scientists and humanists have a lot in common, particularly when it comes to their data management needs!
Our first interview will be with a DHRN coordinator, Deidre Stuffer, on her work with the Visualizing English Print Project and it will be out in December.