Digital humanities bloggage
Dr. Amanda Visconti designs, prototypes, & studies digital interface UX for a more public digital humanities, with interests in community design & meaningful crowdsourcing, web annotation, games & experimental design, and social reading & learning. I ground my work on a strong research background (Literature PhD, Information MS) in human-computer interaction, info science, & digital humanities.
Contact me to collaborate, or check out my online portfolio & resume & Twitter.
Blog posts
- Apr 30, 2019 »DH Archiving: Data Policies for Small DH Projects
- Apr 26, 2019 »20% Time: Why we make self-initiated research & development part of the job
- Apr 15, 2019 »ScholarsLab.org website relaunch!
- Apr 15, 2019 »A Moderate Proposal: Healthier Systems for Running Online Digital Humanities Communities
- Apr 15, 2019 »DH Dissertation to Director: Notes connecting my student and staff experiences
- Apr 15, 2019 »Automating Webpage & Tweet Screencaptures
- Apr 15, 2019 »DH archiving on the Scholars' Lab Blog
- Nov 25, 2018 »Notes: Workflows to consider before opening a DH lab (Purdue version)
- Nov 25, 2018 »Notes: Wise resource investments for a DH initiative (Purdue version)
- Nov 25, 2018 »Notes: Planning a DH lab's physical location (Purdue version)
- Nov 25, 2018 »Notes: A mission statement for digital humanities (Purdue version)
- Nov 25, 2018 »Notes: DH initiative scope & practice (Purdue version)
- Nov 25, 2018 »Notes: DH initiative working with existing IT expertise (Purdue version)
- Nov 25, 2018 »Notes: DH hiring ads & HR policy (Purdue version)
- Nov 25, 2018 »Designing a digital humanities initiative at Purdue: all my notes
- Oct 10, 2018 »I/O: Reading & writing as a digital humanist
- Feb 26, 2018 »Starter kit for considering a DH dissertation
- Jun 30, 2017 »Making a pneumatic tube messaging system
- Feb 23, 2017 »DH Job Talk (for my new role!): Scholars' Lab Managing Director
- Feb 22, 2017 »New role: Scholars' Lab Managing Director
- Feb 19, 2017 »DH 2017 Long Paper & Panel Acceptances
- Feb 4, 2017 »Theming Jekyll: Customizing the look of your GitHub Pages-hosted, Jekyll-generated website
- Jan 31, 2017 »Buying digital humanities hardware (a proposal for an archival DH 3D scanner and 3D printer)
- Sep 9, 2016 »Designing a Digital Humanities Initiative: Background & Campus DH Survey
- Sep 5, 2016 »Meta-DH, or Designing and Building a DH Initiative
- Aug 19, 2016 »Teaching with Omeka (DH consultation notes)
- Jul 21, 2016 »A Digital Humanities What, Why, & How (DLF eResearch Network Talk)
- Jul 15, 2016 »Infinite Ulysses in the New York Times and other recent DH activity
- Jul 13, 2016 »How the Digital Humanities uses Slack to support and build a geographically dispersed intellectual community
- Jul 6, 2016 »The Digital Humanities Slack & Community Design
- Jun 20, 2016 »Digital Humanities Dissertation Defense Talk
- Jun 14, 2016 »Digital Humanities Dissertation Defense Advice
- Jun 2, 2016 »Infinite Ulysses beta closes for 1.0 work
- May 9, 2016 »Lunar dust & tapioca pudding (touring Purdue Archives' aerospace collections)
- Apr 20, 2016 »Building a static website with Jekyll and GitHub Pages
- Apr 11, 2016 »Talking social web annotation at the Folger Digital Futures panel
- Mar 24, 2016 »Making it public (a Knight Foundation News Challenge proposal)
- Mar 22, 2016 »Better tech via annotation (using Hypothesis to improve your technical documentation, code, and tutorials)
- Mar 15, 2016 »Peer review for my Programming Historian lesson on Jekyll+GitHub Pages website creation
- Feb 28, 2016 »Service +/- collaboration for digital humanities in the library (a DH job talk)
- Feb 2, 2016 »Digital Humanities Annotates (#DHannotates)
- Jan 26, 2016 »Educase Podcast Interview on Digital Humanities Dissertations
- Jan 11, 2016 »Digital Dissertations in an Increasingly Welcoming Landscape
- Jan 5, 2016 »The Filter Problem at the CODEX Literary Hackathon
- Jan 4, 2016 »The future of a thing is a return to its values
- Dec 8, 2015 »Introducing Static Sites for Digital Humanities Projects (why & what are Jekyll, GitHub, etc.?)
- Nov 20, 2015 »ACH Executive Council
- Sep 30, 2015 »Invited Speaking
- Sep 25, 2015 »A small sample of cool digital humanities info visualization projects & tools
- May 10, 2015 »Digital dissertation defended!
- Sep 30, 2014 »Evaluating Non-Traditional Digital Humanities Dissertations
- Sep 23, 2014 »Infinite Ulysses Technical Update: Summer 2014
- Sep 16, 2014 »User-testing a digital edition: Getting the feedback you need
- Sep 9, 2014 »Getting Digital Humanities Done: Schedule, Software, Etc. for a Digital Dissertation
- May 27, 2014 »Designing Digital Editions: Inclusivity vs. the Literary Canon
- May 12, 2014 »Infinite Ulysses: Spring 2014 Tech Update
- Apr 28, 2014 »Affinity of ideas: Using an affinity wall to map out my digital dissertation
- Apr 20, 2014 »Dissertation Quick Video!
- Apr 20, 2014 »My Digital Dissertation: Public Humanities, Participatory Design, and Infinite Ulysses
- Apr 7, 2014 »Notes from an Islandora Installation (aka Islandora Digital Edition Brain Dump)
- Apr 2, 2014 »Choosing the best format for your scholarship: digital dissertation edition
- Mar 31, 2014 »Designing a digital scholarly article
- Mar 28, 2014 »Tutorial: Omeka+Imagemagick Happiness with MAMP Pro 3
- Feb 10, 2014 »Digital Professionalism for Graduate Students: How to Use Twitter, Blogging, and the Rest of the Web as an Academic
- Dec 16, 2013 »A Speculative Experiment, Useful Here and Now?: Tagging the Digital Edition
- Dec 12, 2013 »Infinite Ulysses: Usability Personas and Site Content Ideas
- Dec 9, 2013 »Copyleft, IP Rights, and Digital Humanities Dissertations
- Dec 3, 2013 »Values
- Sep 9, 2013 »Get Your Data into Gephi: A Quick and Basic Tutorial
- Sep 9, 2013 »"Suppose there's some connection": Visualizing Character Interactions in Ulysses for Bloomsday 2013
- Aug 26, 2013 »Bitcurator: Digital Forensics in the Archive
- Aug 19, 2013 »Thinking Through Making: More Precedents for Scholarly Experimentation as Critical Work
- Aug 14, 2013 »Digital dissertation deliverables (and how to complete them!)
- Aug 2, 2013 »#OWOT a Week: Introducing Serendip-o-matic, a Tool for Digital Humanities Discovery and Delight
- Jul 29, 2013 »Cat GIFs & Mrkgnao: Ulysses, Reddit, and What Digital Editions Can Learn from Online Communities
- Jul 22, 2013 »Digital Disputations: A Tech Review of Digital Editing and Commentary Projects
- Jul 18, 2013 »"Exquisite handicraft" or "book ghouls"? Grangerizing and Book Materiality
- Jun 27, 2013 »Infinite Ulysses: Project Precedents and Caveats
- Jun 26, 2013 »Experimental Editions: Digital Editions as Methodological Prototypes
- Jun 25, 2013 »Infinite Ulysses: Planned Features for a Participatory Edition
- Jun 24, 2013 »Infinite Ulysses: What if we build a digital edition and everyone shows up?
- May 10, 2013 »O rocks, again: More Info Visualization of James Joyce's Ulysses (Bloomsday 2013 Project)
- Apr 11, 2013 »"Electronic Literature after Flash": Weirding Credible Digital Platforms to Tell Stories
- Apr 11, 2013 »Building for the Great Conversation: Participatory Digital Design & the Urgency of the Public Humanities
- Apr 9, 2013 »My Digital Humanities Dissertation: Building Code, Design, and Games for Textual Knowledge and Participation
- Feb 11, 2013 »Monograph Writing Isn't the Only Scholarly Act: Chronicle Interview on Digital Dissertations
- Nov 27, 2012 »Info Dump: Humanities Ph.D. Exams Advice
- Nov 12, 2012 »Recovering Teena Rochfort-Smith: Complex Edition Prototype, Female Victorian Editor
- Nov 6, 2012 »Living Editions: What Seminars Can Teach Us About Building Digital Editions
- Nov 5, 2012 »Book Ghouls: Grangerizing as Book Hacking's Black Sheep
- Nov 3, 2012 »Testing DH Sites: More on Use, Usability, and Usefulness
- Nov 2, 2012 »DH User Testing: What’s Been Done? (Adding to a Growing List of Resources)
- Nov 1, 2012 »The Amateur in the Archive: Toward a Wider Audience for Your DH Project
- Oct 31, 2012 »DH Evaluation: A Four-Part Series on User Testing Your DH Work
- Oct 31, 2012 »Quick and Dirty DH User Testing
- Oct 22, 2012 »Five Tips for Getting Started on a Digital Humanities Dissertation
- Oct 7, 2012 »The beauty of DH: We're all continually n00bs at something
- Jul 11, 2012 »View DHQ: Getting Started with Gephi for DH Vis (Part II of II)
- Jul 11, 2012 »View DHQ: Visualizing Data from Digital Humanities Quarterly (Part I of II)
- Jun 26, 2012 »O rocks! Tell it to us in plain images (A THATCamp/Bloomsday Visualization)
- Jun 14, 2012 »What’s Up with Digital Editing Tools? (Summer Conference Edition)
- Apr 19, 2012 »Mapping the Flow of Knowledge with "View DHQ": ACH Microgrant Award
- Apr 19, 2012 »“How Can You Love a Work If You Don't Know It?”: Six Lessons on Digital Editing from Team MARKUP
- Apr 12, 2012 »Useful prosthetics, pretty metaphors? (and more on DH tools)
- Feb 20, 2012 »Ulysses the Video Game and Anachronistic Linati Schema!
- Feb 17, 2012 »Think Like an Editor: Five Disciplinary Approaches to Editing Pedagogy (Society for Textual Scholarship Panel Abstract)
- Feb 11, 2012 »THATCamp Games: The DH and Games Unconference
- Jan 27, 2012 »Hack Books: Hack What?
- Jan 12, 2011 »Digital Dos Passos
- Oct 16, 2010 »Bringing ARGs into the Classroom
- Dec 2, 2009 »Online Archives: The Deena Larsen Collection and Omeka