Jacob Heil
WHO I AM I am the Assistant Director for Digital Learning in Davidson College's E.H. Little Library.
Centering HUmanness in Digital Initiatives
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jacob heil
digital scholarship librarian &
director of core
@dr_heil
jheil@wooster.edu
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... has a great desire to learn and want to continuously improve. The process of learning, rather than the outcome, excites them.
... searches for reasons and causes. They have the ability to think about all of the factors that might affect a situation
... wants to make a big impact. They are independent and prioritize projects based on how much influence they will have on their organization or people around them.
... works hard and possess a great deal of stamina. They take immense satisfaction in being busy and productive.
... enjoys close relationships with others. They find deep satisfaction in working hard with friends to achieve a goal
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DH project management is not so much a fixed set of best practices as it is a flexible and engaged mode of inquiry itself that must function within sometimes rigid, modular environments: digital, virtual, and institutional.
Carrie Johnston
in the abstract for this panel
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Project management is a tool that has long been associated with business. Its use in the academy is increasing as projects grow beyond the scope of a single researcher. Funding agencies are encouraging this trend by requesting detailed and realistic work plans as part of grant applications. However, challenges exist for the application of project management to research projects. For example, research goals may be articulated but the methodology to accomplish them is not well understood. This is further complicated by the fact that researchers see the application of these tools as rigid management approaches, perhaps not suited for the academy.
CFP for Project Management Conference,
posted by Lynne Siemens on the Humanist List
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recognize messiness
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It is only through acknowledging and addressing how both traditional and computational media are constructed, consumed, and utilized by humans as political social actors with intersectional positionalities that digital humanities can raise the crucial questions of gender, race, nationality, class, power, and representation. We urge our colleagues in the material, mediated, and messy digital humanities to join us in embracing an ethos of generosity that supports collaboration and inclusion in the field.
https:// slides.com / jacobheil / mla20 / live
recognize messiness
be generous
https:// slides.com / jacobheil / mla20 / live
Yet one concern in the literature of care has been whether engrossment can impede critical, objective disinterest by becoming too intense. I believe the answer is the same for caregiving (nursing, teaching, tending, mothering) as it is for humanities scholarship: real experts are those who manifest deep empathy, while still maintaining the level of distance necessary to perceive systemic effects and avoid projection of the self onto the other. In other words, empathetic appreciation of the positional or situated goes hand in hand with an increase in effective observational capacity. A care-filled humanities is by nature a capacious one.
Bethany Nowviskie in
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recognize messiness
be generous
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Thank You!
jheil@wooster.edu
@dr_heil
digital scholarship librarian &
director of core
jacob heil
Centering Humanness in Digital Initiatives
By Jacob Heil
Centering Humanness in Digital Initiatives
These are my remarks as a part of a session at MLA 2020 entitled, Being Human in Digital Humanities Project Management. https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:26651 Will remain live until 9 JUN 2020.
