Dr. Jennifer Guiliano

Call for Submissions: Future of Digital Methods for Complex Datasets

I’m delighted to be co-editing the 10th anniversary edition of IJHAC with Mia Ridge. Consider applying:

 

Call for Submissions:

Special Edition: The Future of Digital Methods for Complex Datasets

International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing

IJHAC: A Journal of Digital Humanities

Abstracts Due: April 15, 2015

Full Chapters Due: August 1, 2015

 

Submit Abstracts electronically via .doc, .txt or .pdf to:

Jennifer Guiliano

jenguiliano@gmail.com

 

meth·od·ol·o·gy

ˌmeTHəˈdäləjē/

noun

noun: methodology; plural noun: methodologies

  1. a system of methods used in a particular area of study or activity.

 

Forty years on from the advent of digital humanities computing, there is a flood of case-study work that explores specific instances of computational methods (e.g. close and distant reading via textual analysis, visualization methods for social networks, etc) being developed and then utilized within the digital humanities. Yet, despite this cross-pollination of methodology to the humanities, little has been done to discuss methodology outside of the project-based context in either the contemporary or future contexts. We know the specific results of particular methods within a given project, but much less about how those processes and workflows would function outside of that singular dataset or specific area of study.  Several questions arising from current practice remain unanswered: Can Digital Methods fully realize the promise of humanities and arts-driven inquiry when confronted with complex datasets? Is Digital Methodology in conflict with efforts to conduct micro or local level analyses as it encourages the use of “Big Data” and other large-scale longue durée-type analyses? Does Digital Methodology offer its own problematic system of assumptions? What grounds have humanists ceded to scientists? What impact does this have on the tools created and the future of Digital Methodology? How should we train the next generation of scholars to deal with complex cultural records, and to interrogate and argue for tools suitable for humanities inquiry? This special edition of the International Journal of Arts and Humanities Computing (IJHAC) seeks submissions from scholars who explore what the future of Digital Methodology will be ten, fifteen, twenty or even fifty years in the future.

 

We seek contributions that might address the following:

  • In an environment where resources for humanities education are reduced, how might the decline of humanistic and artistic disciplines challenge the future of digital methods?
  • Is Digital Methodology for the Humanities & Arts something distinct from data science or other computational methods? Or alternately, has the underlying reliance on “data” forged a common methodology across previously distinct disciplines?
  • What might the critical theoretical perspectives (e.g. Feminist, post-colonial, etc) offer to Digital Methodology?
  • What problems might scholars need to account for in their digital methods if we anticipate a future where copyright, international law, and publishing systems become more restrictive?
  • How might conflicts between or syntheses of analog and digital methodologies lead to a richer system of approaches?
  • What might non-western systems of Digital Methodology bring to the future of the Digital Humanities?
  • How might digital techniques and approaches from other disciplines impact the future of Digital Humanities?
  • How might Digital Methodologies, Digital assumptions, and modes of thinking destabilize fundamental humanistic and artistic scholarly assumptions?

 

The Future of Digital Methods for Complex Datasets  invites applications from faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students, and staff from cultural heritage institutions, as well as the general public with a serious interest in digital humanities and/or arts methodology regardless of rank, position, or affiliation. Collaboratively authored submissions, submissions from minority applicants, and those located outside the US and Canada are especially welcomed.

 

Abstracts will be reviewed by the special edition co-editors in conjunction with IJHAC editors. Authors of selected abstracts will be invited to submit full manuscripts by 1 August 2015 with review of manuscripts taking place in August and September. The special edition will be published, in print and online, in 2016.

Contributions to this special edition should take the form of critical essays, varying in length from 2,000–6,000 words inclusive of endnotes.  The editorial team will consult with authors of selected abstracts about the word count of their contributions. This special edition will be available in English and all materials should be submitted in English; however, authors are encouraged to make available non-english versions of their materials under the pre-print Green Open Access rules noted below.

 

Questions regarding this CFP may be directed to Jennifer Guiliano at jenguiliano@gmail.com or Mia Ridge at Mia.Ridge@open.ac.uk. Dr. Guiliano is Assistant Professor of History at the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and co-director of the Humanities Intensive Learning & Teaching Institute, a US-based digital humanities training organization. Mia Ridge is completing her dissertation on historians and scholarly crowdsourcing at the Open University. She has been a CENDARI Visiting Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (2014) and has had residencies at the Powerhouse Museum (Sydney, 2012) and the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum (New York, 2012).

 

IJHAC is published on a Green Open Access basis, whereby authors are allowed to deposit a pre-publication version of their contribution on their personal or departmental web page and in their institutional repository. Authors are also permitted to deposit a pre-publication version of their contribution in a non-commercial subject repository one year after publication in print. Questions regarding this policy may be directed to: Laura Danielson, Managing Editor, at ledaniel@iupui.edu.

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16 responses to “Call for Submissions: Future of Digital Methods for Complex Datasets”

  10. The call raises a compelling set of questions about whether digital methods developed within specific projects can translate across datasets and disciplines, and the tension between large-scale computational analysis and local, humanistic inquiry seems especially worth interrogating. The emphasis on critical theoretical perspectives like feminist and post-colonial approaches also suggests a productive direction for moving beyond purely technical discussions of methodology.

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  11. This CFP raises a useful tension: digital methods are usually validated inside a single project, while the harder questions concern how workflows and assumptions travel across datasets, disciplines, and institutional constraints. The emphasis on methodology beyond case studies, and on critical, non-Western, and theoretical perspectives, seems especially important if the field wants to avoid simply reproducing data-science norms under a humanities label.

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  12. This CFP raises useful questions about whether digital methods developed for one project can be meaningfully generalized across complex datasets and disciplines. The emphasis on methodology beyond project-based case studies seems especially important, and the invitation to feminist, post-colonial, and non-western perspectives could help address some of the assumptions built into large-scale computational work.

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  13. This CFP raises a genuinely productive tension: digital humanities has plenty of project-specific case studies, but far less work on how methods travel across datasets, disciplines, and institutional contexts, or on what gets lost when they do. The questions about whether “Digital Methodology” is distinct from data science, and about what feminist, post-colonial, and non-Western perspectives might contribute, are especially worth pushing on rather than treating as add-ons. The invitation to contributors outside the US and Canada, and to those from cultural heritage institutions, is a welcome step toward avoiding another narrowly Anglophone conversation about method.

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  14. This call for submissions raises a useful provocation about the relationship between project-specific digital methods and broader methodological reflection. The questions about whether reliance on “data” has forged a common methodology across disciplines, and about what non-Western systems of digital methodology might contribute, seem especially worth pursuing in a tenth-anniversary edition. It is also notable that the CFP explicitly welcomes collaborators, minority applicants, and those outside the US and Canada.

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  15. The call’s focus on methodology beyond project-based case studies feels like the right provocation, especially the question of whether digital methods can realize humanities-driven inquiry with complex datasets. I also appreciate the explicit welcome for cultural heritage staff, students, and applicants outside the US and Canada, since that broadens whose methodologies shape the conversation.

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  16. The call’s emphasis on methodology beyond project-based case studies is timely, especially the questions about whether digital methods can fulfill humanities and arts inquiry with complex datasets and how critical theoretical perspectives might reshape that work. I also appreciate the explicit invitation to faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students, cultural heritage professionals, and the general public, along with the encouragement for collaboratively authored and minority-led submissions. The 2015 abstract and full chapter deadlines make the timeline clear, and the Green Open Access policy is a useful detail for authors considering where else they can share their work.

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