Digital Humanities: An Overview and Case Study
Symposium presentations can be viewed at: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2v-vQy9W5DeXsuC5-l-T65WgFrPFKNDk
Digital Humanities has become a focus of interest in libraries and an increasing number of positions are described as digital humanities librarians, although the responsibilities vary. The concept of digital humanities itself also varies widely depending on where you are in the world and your institutional context. This presentation describes some trends in digital humanities, briefly considers digital humanities internationally, and describes the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, http://cdrh.unl.edu, as a specific case study.
Katherine L. Walter, Professor and Chair of Digital Initiatives & Special Collections in the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL) Libraries, is responsible for coordinating the Archives & Special Collections, E-Text, and Scholarly Communication units. She also co-directs the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, a joint initiative of the UNL Libraries and the College of Arts & Sciences. Its faculty have tenure homes in the departments of Anthropology, Art & Art History, Classics & Religious Studies, English, History and the Libraries.
Walter co-chairs centerNet, the international network of digital humanities centers, with Paul Arthur of the University of Western Sydney, and is its voting representative on the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organization steering committee. She is chair of the state humanities council, represents UNL on the Humanities Without Walls Consortium, and co-chairs the Big Ten academic alliance’s CIC Digital Humanities committee.
