This post is a little belated, but then, Remix has never been about linear time!
Back on January 24, 2020, we celebrated the 5th anniversary of Remix with a day of conversations: “Remix / Relaunch / Reimagine: A Digital Research Symposium.” The first half of the day focused on the Re-Imagining History Project and the second half brainstormed future projects. We concluded with an impromptu visit to MS 003183 at Rauner Special Collections, graciously organized on short notice by Laura Braunstein and Jay Satterfield. We took notes on post-its and on Sli.do polling app; there is also a Zoom recording with Otter.ai transcription (honestly, no one is really motivated to view or read that…).
Here’s the meeting report!
Participants:
- Alex Gillespie, http://www.english.utoronto.ca/facultystaff/facultyprofiles/gillespie.htm
- Dot Porter, http://www.dotporterdigital.org/about/
- Bridget Whearty, https://www.binghamton.edu/english/faculty/profile.html?id=bwhearty
- Georgia Henley, https://www.anselm.edu/faculty-directory/georgia-henley
- Jacque Wernimont, https://jwernimont.com/about/
- Laura Braunstein, https://library.dartmouth.edu/staffdir/bio.php?emp=99
- Daniel Chamberlain, https://library.dartmouth.edu/staffdir/bio.php?emp=625
- Madeline Miller, https://library.dartmouth.edu/staffdir/bio.php?emp=637
- Victoria Corwin, https://library.dartmouth.edu/staffdir/bio.php?emp=650
- Shawn Martin, https://library.dartmouth.edu/staffdir/bio.php?emp=645
- James Adams, https://library.dartmouth.edu/staffdir/bio.php?emp=592
- Jenny Mullins, https://library.dartmouth.edu/staffdir/bio.php?emp=511
- Shaun Akhtar, https://library.dartmouth.edu/staffdir/bio.php?emp=292
- Mina Rakhra, https://library.dartmouth.edu/staffdir/bio.php?emp=322
- Michelle Warren, https://faculty-directory.dartmouth.edu/michelle-r-warren
- Neil Weijer, http://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/prf.php?account_id=216035
Re-Imagining History
- Madeline Miller presented the corpus map based on our current (incomplete) spreadsheet
- Bridget Whearty drew our attention to a Brut in Texas whose existence leapt to mind when she saw the map with no dot in Texas… (Sli.do)
- Laura Braunstein asks: “What are the differences between a “catalogue, a “handlist,” a “discovery tool,” and/or any of the other names we might give the project?” (Sli.do)
- Discussion of the whole idea of no-grant, small-grant, and big-grant DH research; faculty-centered models versus staff-centered models. Remix tries to thread the needle through multiple communities. As one anonymous poster asked: “How does the learning outcome, or the potential for benefit differ when you’re talking about library projects vs grants? What skills, etc would be most useful?” (Sli.do)
- Think about User Journeys: how do we organize categories and identities in digital space? How do people discover and then navigate the resource? What will their goals be? (post-it note)
- Jennifer Mullins presented the Project Charter draft, a model for library-faculty digital collaboration
- Georgia Henley wants to know: “could the complete handlist someday include the French and Latin versions too? does completeness matter?” (Sli.do).
- Georgia also asked us to share our messiest spreadsheet of QUB data! Produced mostly by Monica Erives in 2018, who also made a field mapping document that helped determine that Re-Imagining History couldn’t just recycle the metadata structure of Imagining History
- Neil and Michelle are working on an article for Digital Philology that will describe the purpose and current plans for Re-Imagining History (forthcoming 2021).
Re-Launch: What Else?
- StoryMap of Arthurian places presented by Victoria Corwin and Madeline Miller. We discussed the tension between producing more data and analyzing more tools.
- Someone posted this very cool StoryMap of Incunabula from Library of Congress (Sli.do)
- Resource note from Dot Porter, gazetteer of ancient places (Sli.do)
- Resource note from Georgia Henley, Historic Battlefields in Wales (Sli.do)
- When is $30 a lot of money and when it is a little? (thinking about software fees) (Bridget Whearty)
- Post a new Wishlist 2020
- Brut on VisColl (Dot Porter)
- Provenance Project: digitize, transcribe, and encode the modern provenance materials for MS 003183. What can we do with this dataset? What should we do about the presentation of provenance information in the manuscript’s MARC record? (Laura Braunstein, Shawn Martin)
- Return to transcription projects with new tools: Transkribus, From the Page, AtlasTI, etc.
- Ongoing unsolved issues with the idea of a website as a research object. A five-year old blog needs to start thinking about its longevity and sustainability.
- Digital Brut survey: why and how have libraries chosen to digitize Brut manuscripts? Since relatively few in the corpus have been photographed in full, perhaps there is something to learn by assessing the current digital corpus (Jennifer Mullins)
- How can fandom be created for an object? For a digital object? (Dot Porter)
- Can the story of labor be part of the research? What about a “wishlist” of the things we can’t do because the scale of labor is beyond our scope? The science fiction of research projects…(Bridget Whearty)
- More thinking about the “vocational awe” and libraries (Laura Braunstein)
Funding from Dartmouth College
- Leslie Humanities Center
- Thanks to Mary Fletcher for all the amazing logistical work!
- Associate Dean of International and Interdisciplinary Programs, Dennis Washburn
- Digital Humanities and Social Engagement Research Cluster, Jacque Wernimont
