{"id":1525,"date":"2011-07-08T16:17:15","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T15:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2011-09-22T11:11:35","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T10:11:35","slug":"digital-humanities-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=1525","title":{"rendered":"Digital Humanities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Andy-Northedge.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1532\" title=\"Andy Northedge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Andy-Northedge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"104\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/john-corrigan.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1531\" title=\"john corrigan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/john-corrigan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a>After PVC Alan Bassindale opened this colloquium on 8th July and John Wolffe welcomed everybody there was a keynote contribution from John Corrigan of Florida State University. He spoke on &#8216;Digital technologies and the spatial humanities&#8217;. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/Arts\/digital-humanities\/colloquium\/index.shtml#\" >here<\/a>. There were many presentations from staff from all over the University, and beyond, at\u00a0the Digital Humanities colloquium and many\u00a0distinctive and\u00a0fascinating speakers.\u00a0This colloquium is part of a wider debate about the impact of access todigital records and sources for thestudy of the Humanities. For example some academics at Kingston fear that archive data on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.historytoday.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/archives-threatened-government-cuts\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.historytoday.com');\">commercial websites<\/a> tend to be geared to family history rather than other research.<!--more-->Building on some research by Andy Northedge and by Rachel Garnham I spoke about the teaching materials that the OU presented via BBC television.\u00a0Perhaps because my presentation\u00a0included screen shots from OU\u00a0tele of yesteryear, including some of hirsute academicsit appeared to go down well. Oxford University&#8217;s Sebastian Rahtz tweeted the below:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/rahtz\"title=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/rahtz Sebastian Rahtz\"  target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/twitter.com');\">rahtz<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Linda-Wilks.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1533\" title=\"Linda Wilks\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Linda-Wilks-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Sebastian Rahtz: Digitising old OU teaching material, now that&#8217;s fun. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/search?q=%23dighumou\"title=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/search?q=%23dighumou #dighumou\" rel=\"nofollow\"  target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/twitter.com');\">#dighumou<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Follow the hashtag to see comments on other presentations or try <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/search\/realtime\/%23dighumou \" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/twitter.com');\">here<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0There is also a blog about Digital Humanities at the OU, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/dighum\/\" >here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0It was the last day of working for the\u00a0OU for Linda Wilkes,\u00a0a central figure in the organising of this event. Bye <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/Arts\/digital-humanities\/wilks.shtml\" >Linda<\/a> and thanks for all your efforts.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After PVC Alan Bassindale opened this colloquium on 8th July and John Wolffe welcomed everybody there was a keynote contribution from John Corrigan of Florida State University. He spoke on &#8216;Digital technologies and the spatial humanities&#8217;. See here. There were many presentations from staff from all over the University, and beyond, at\u00a0the Digital Humanities colloquium [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1776,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions\/1776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}