tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419001987588063203.post1029004360996553026..comments2024-02-15T00:29:00.066-08:00Comments on Vitruvian design for scholarship in the humanities: The humanities-that-must-not-be-namedNeel Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10590621399352493304noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419001987588063203.post-24546118180565095632013-03-28T01:45:21.921-07:002013-03-28T01:45:21.921-07:00Not so clever. Apparently, when you gather in the...Not so clever. Apparently, when you gather in the august Salle des Actes at ENS, you can meet people who believe they do own Plato, <a href="http://www.superiorpapers.net/research-paper/" rel="nofollow">research paper</a> and don't care to share with others who fall short of their standards, thank you very much. <br />Assmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14036886108127843427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419001987588063203.post-62518014755268571102012-02-02T17:52:09.413-08:002012-02-02T17:52:09.413-08:00>>
I recently asked a professor how he balan...>><br />I recently asked a professor how he balanced his "digital" research and his "traditional scholarly publishing." [If I remember correctly] he said he didn't, that the former was interesting and exciting and the latter totally boring.<br /><<<br /><br />What a brilliantly perceptive observation! I do wonder what the opposition between "digital" and "traditional" publishing means today.<br /><br />Can "traditional" work published today be considered scholarship if it doesn't take account of contemporary scholarly practice? Can "traditional" scholarly practice be considered "scholarship" if practiced today?Neel Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10590621399352493304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419001987588063203.post-43436155673519831942012-02-01T15:12:41.273-08:002012-02-01T15:12:41.273-08:00Traditional closed-text scholarly publishing is pr...Traditional closed-text scholarly publishing is print-directed regardless of whether it is accessed online. The term "digital" is commonly applied to anything computer-based ("computer-driven humanities" isn't very catchy).<br /><br />I recently asked a professor how he balanced his "digital" research and his "traditional scholarly publishing." [If I remember correctly] he said he didn't, that the former was interesting and exciting and the latter totally boring.<br /><br />Things shift slowly. In Anne Knowles two GIS Humanities books, most of the chapter authors go into detail on the humanities side of their projects but leave out details on how the deliverable was created, what platforms were used, etc. The tools used in creating their published product (and any technical problems overcome) are at least as interesting as the humanities scholar's contribution. Admittedly Knowles is a historian and her target audience is fellow historians, not programmers or other tech-centric types.<br /><br />Knowles herself suggests(in the forward of "Placing History," 2008) that a 1960s-70s "quantitative history" movement overstretched in an arrogant challenge of traditional narrative history. Perhaps those overeager revolutionaries were mostly smacked down by entrenched scholars who viewed new computer-driven methods as a threat?agrahamthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00997773827300784876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419001987588063203.post-34990929386667887462012-02-01T14:48:30.213-08:002012-02-01T14:48:30.213-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.agrahamthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00997773827300784876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419001987588063203.post-78405158859499963352012-02-01T14:45:57.038-08:002012-02-01T14:45:57.038-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.agrahamthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00997773827300784876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419001987588063203.post-25867567082592886052012-01-31T03:36:46.749-08:002012-01-31T03:36:46.749-08:00Exactly!!!!! I love this medical metaphore I chose...Exactly!!!!! I love this medical metaphore I chose to use so frequently, it works each time, or almost. Try it each time needed, you'll see. It relieves like ... a good medicine drug. :)mlamehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529971037592654849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419001987588063203.post-36407459717041316072012-01-31T03:25:09.263-08:002012-01-31T03:25:09.263-08:00One crucial difference is that if you perpetuated ...One crucial difference is that if you perpetuated century-old medical practices as a physician, you would immediately be sued for malpractice. I think we're encouraging scholarly malpractice, analogous to encouraging doctors to follow 19th-century surgical techniques without anesthesia.Neel Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10590621399352493304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419001987588063203.post-86682071871576763432012-01-30T12:28:22.899-08:002012-01-30T12:28:22.899-08:00Thank you for this post, Neel. In a similar way, n...Thank you for this post, Neel. In a similar way, not exactly but similar, would anyone say that the essence of medicine has changed and now we have to say "Digital medicine" to make a difference with "traditional medicine"? I would be surprised.<br />btw, I hope your doing well, Neel, and Happy New Year 2012. Marionmlamehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529971037592654849noreply@blogger.com