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by Kevin D. Franklin and Karen Rodriguez'G, ICHASS
In this series of articles Kevin D. Franklin and Karen Rodriguez'G examine computational tools and approaches at the interface of humanities, arts and social science.
18thConnect: Digitizing the Canon
For the humanities scholar who may have only recently mastered library and archival finding aids beyond the archaic card catalog, the possibility of retrieving source materials at the flash of a keystroke (well maybe a few...) is very heady stuff. Very. But even as scholars rub their hands together and salivate at the possibilities that advanced computer technologies bring to the archival table, questions of open access and issues of intellectual ownership and copyright infringement have emerged as fast as the world's knowlege repositories (and Google) are digitizing texts. Accessibility is particularly important to historians, for example, where research in primary sources can often only be accomplished with an expensive plane ticket, extended sabbatical leave, and a pocketful of increasingly dwindling research monies ...
For Laura Mandell and Robert Markley, professors of English at Miami University-Ohio (MU) and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), respectively, the possibilities of internet-enabled research are tremendous. Mandell and Markley are the lead organizers of 18thConnect, a collaboration between MU, UIUC, and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), which will provide the first comprehensive means of digitally organizing materials produced before 1800 ...
Please click here to read the full article from HPC Wire. To see 18thConnect's website, click here.
About the authors
Kevin D Franklin is the Executive Director of the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts and Social Science (ICHASS), Senior Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), Research Professor - Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and Adjunct Associate Professor - African American Studies (UIUC). Karen Rodriguez'G is Public Relations Liaison for ICHASS and a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at UIUC. Founded in 2004 at UIUC, ICHASS charts new ground in high performance computing and the humanities, arts, and social sciences by creating both learning environments and spaces for digital discovery. ICHASS presents path-breaking research, computational resources, collaborative tools, and educational programming to showcase the future of the humanities, arts, and social sciences by engaging visionary scholars from across the globe to demonstrate approaches that interface advanced interdisciplinary research with high-performance computing.