Last year, we were DHing it up with everyone else who breathlessly converted to online pedagogies within a week with the expectation that all would be back to normal by April…or…May? Surely by May. Here we are more than a year later. Day of Digital Humanities this year and April 29 followed on some extraordinary about Digital and Public Humanities at San Jose State University. I captured the day (and some of my perpetual exhaustion) over on Twitter #dayofdh2021 and archive them here for posterity along with the last 5, 7, 8 (?) other instantiations of Day of Digital Humanities from years past.
It’s #DayofDH2021 again!
So many irons in the fire…and they’re all infrastructure building under the umbrella of Public Humanities, but really is everything I ever learned from #dh
First up, a little Google Forms, spreadsheets, ontologies, and curating people— Katherine D. Harris (@triproftri) April 29, 2021
As a faculty member, over the last year, I spent much of my time teaching #pandemicpedagogy & doing super pumped up #digped – that left me way way depleted by Dec 2020 https://t.co/Fzeqlxe7hi #DayofDH2021— Katherine D. Harris (@triproftri) April 29, 2021
I started doing a lot of Public Humanities work with this programming grant initiative I run in @SJSU_HA — https://t.co/SDIiHRQcEC #DayofDH2021— Katherine D. Harris (@triproftri) April 29, 2021
so, the Dean, in the face of dropping enrollments and the pandemic budget shortfall, saw a way to pump up this position & turned me into a Director of Public Programming – starts in the Fall, officially https://t.co/EMQSz2wlgw #DayofDH2021— Katherine D. Harris (@triproftri) April 29, 2021
We’re ramping up for @NEH_Challenge fundraising to support the NEW Digital Humanities Center @SJSU_HA @sjsulibrary (hmm, shd create a Twitter acct for that!) – so, I’m curating faculty from all disciplines — bc we have a boatload of faculty who already do DHy stuff! #DayofDH2021 pic.twitter.com/OMLzhWXQ5V— Katherine D. Harris (@triproftri) April 29, 2021
This means I attended *every* virtual event over the last year to curate faculty research projects – collaborate w/our fabulous librarians on how to collect, collate, represent faculty work #DayofDH2021 pic.twitter.com/YtyjffWYW1— Katherine D. Harris (@triproftri) April 29, 2021
But, first, we collaborated on how to organize those multi-disciplinary faculty projects.
Disciplines? No. Creates silos
Types via #DH @Wikipedia def? No. Not capacious
Ah ha! @roopikarisam pointed me twds *Reviews in DH* ontology. SHAZAM!! https://t.co/LBNgnDGOBP#DayofDH2021— Katherine D. Harris (@triproftri) April 29, 2021
I really love collaborating with librarians. They see me.
Ontologies. Infrastructure building. Capacity building.
…and credit. Always generously credit
Because I’m able to get this all done only w/standing on shoulders of giants – @roopikarisam@jenguiliano#DayofDH2021 pic.twitter.com/3aUOvj9Jkk— Katherine D. Harris (@triproftri) April 29, 2021
I’ve spent the first 2 hours of this morning investigating the self-determined categories by faculty & emailing to suggest different categories (while also explaining the difference).
Look at all this work & different disciplines! #DayofDH2021 pic.twitter.com/y3rRZlfXbL— Katherine D. Harris (@triproftri) April 29, 2021
This infrastructure building does a few things:
1) Collects: curates faculty DHy projects
2) Community: creates a single web page for faculty to see others who are doing similar work or who are just engaging tech/dig methods
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3) Educate: Faculty see how capacious an @sjsu specific #dh can be
4) Promote: alert potential donors about how capacious our version of #dh is
5) Disrupt: @sjsu #dh includes research, pedagogy, meta-critique, and projects – *our* kind of #dh *in* Silicon Valley#DayofDH2021— Katherine D. Harris (@triproftri) April 29, 2021
Also today: revising proposal for @NEHgov grant for Humanities Initiatives @ HSI to help @SJSU_HA faculty integrate public programming events into curriculum by helping them collaborate on interdisciplinary assignments w/a partner outside H&A#DayofDH2021— Katherine D. Harris (@triproftri) April 29, 2021
All activities are based on key concepts from *Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities*! https://t.co/WIxzEZ4bb6
With monthly roundtables by curators of keywords/pedagogical artifacts https://t.co/DS7jQjyfs8
e.g., Andre Carrington’s “Future”https://t.co/9x2aoNuq8D
#DayofDH2021— Katherine D. Harris (@triproftri) April 29, 2021
Also (did I mention that gig as Dir, Public Programming starts in Fall?!)
Anyway
Also today: another simul proposal — @NEHgov American Rescue Plan Humanities Orgs — 14 days to write 5pp proposal for ALL humanities @sjsu ! https://t.co/6uy2zWmR8y
DREAM BIGGER! #DayofDH2021— Katherine D. Harris (@triproftri) April 29, 2021
…and that brings me to another infrastructure building small portion of this giant grant proposal — collaborating w/ another @calstate campus on something…bigger…can’t say much now bc we’re still thinking about it…but, we’re dreaming beyond just #dh @sjsu #DayofDH2021— Katherine D. Harris (@triproftri) April 29, 2021
There are 23 @calstate
campuses — how much #dh powerhouse can we become if we unify? 🙂
And create a #dh stronghold that doesn’t replicate research-intensive institutions’ versions of #dh — but instead a #dh for the communities we serve #DayofDH2021— Katherine D. Harris (@triproftri) April 29, 2021
It’s 9:30am here. Working from home means I spend 30mins situating the girls (Beatrice & Gracie kitties) before diving into working. Work that is so rewarding but not flashy or visible.
My #dayofdh2021 is to make that work visible. pic.twitter.com/pJxU8lV1Eg— Katherine D. Harris (@triproftri) April 29, 2021
Sharing is caring, right Gracie & Bea? #dayofdh2021 pic.twitter.com/77BkjgsrEs— Katherine D. Harris (@triproftri) April 29, 2021
Ok, shew. I think Inbox:1 will stay that way for a bit. Flurry of emails for #DayofDH2021 and now the 2nd virtual mtg @sjsu 1) about the Fall/masks/campus return and 2) recognition of student & faculty awards
…while I email w/faculty about listing their DHy projects.— Katherine D. Harris (@triproftri) April 29, 2021
Hoping to clear my decks so I can finish revising this @neh proposal and start the routing process on Monday (for just this one!) #DayofDH2021
Hard cut off for the day is a promise to go for a run at 5pm in the hills!— Katherine D. Harris (@triproftri) April 29, 2021
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