About the Book
The book you are holding is an experiment built on top of an
experiment. CESTA, the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis,
is itself an experiment in collaborative work in the digital
humanities and allied fields. Bringing together independent
“labs” from different parts of Stanford, connecting with scholars
beyond the university’s walls (if it had walls), the idea of CESTA
is simply this: combine faculty, staff, and students in a research
lab setting and take advantage of what digital tools and methods
have to offer for the exploration, analysis, and presentation of
humanistic research, broadly construed to include the application
of knowledge and concepts from the social and natural
sciences. As such, the idea is founded upon shared work and
shared space. It differs, in this regard, from much traditional
humanities scholarship, which is often quiet and solitary (wonderful,
in its own way). The use of computers, software suites,
and digital visualization of evidence is also a departure from the
traditional papers and books written by literary scholars and
historians. This is so-called “digital humanities.” By now, this is
old hat. Hence the experiment on top of an experiment: making
a paper version, an old-fashioned book, from the diverse materials
produced in our labs over the past several years. Of course,
as the reader will soon discern, our scholarly practices have
not actually diverged so far from traditional forms as might be
expected. It is possible to translate what we are doing, in many
cases, back into traditional paper and prose.
experiment. CESTA, the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis,
is itself an experiment in collaborative work in the digital
humanities and allied fields. Bringing together independent
“labs” from different parts of Stanford, connecting with scholars
beyond the university’s walls (if it had walls), the idea of CESTA
is simply this: combine faculty, staff, and students in a research
lab setting and take advantage of what digital tools and methods
have to offer for the exploration, analysis, and presentation of
humanistic research, broadly construed to include the application
of knowledge and concepts from the social and natural
sciences. As such, the idea is founded upon shared work and
shared space. It differs, in this regard, from much traditional
humanities scholarship, which is often quiet and solitary (wonderful,
in its own way). The use of computers, software suites,
and digital visualization of evidence is also a departure from the
traditional papers and books written by literary scholars and
historians. This is so-called “digital humanities.” By now, this is
old hat. Hence the experiment on top of an experiment: making
a paper version, an old-fashioned book, from the diverse materials
produced in our labs over the past several years. Of course,
as the reader will soon discern, our scholarly practices have
not actually diverged so far from traditional forms as might be
expected. It is possible to translate what we are doing, in many
cases, back into traditional paper and prose.
Features & Details
- Primary Category: Non-profits & Fundraising
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Project Option: Standard Landscape, 10×8 in, 25×20 cm
# of Pages: 102 - Publish Date: Nov 08, 2013
- Language English
- Keywords digital humanities, digital history, visualizations, mapping, geography, literature, networks, Stanford
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