Breakfast at Milliways 2

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The Big Bang:

What impossible thing to you want to do?

(who do you want to be?)

• Researcher: protected, experimental, poss. failure

• Expert/salesperson ('dissemination'): public, informative, novelty, 'real-world' relevance,

• Teacher: semi-open, skills-oriented, citability, etc.

Fellow hitchhikers:

• Computer scientists (tools, algorithms, etc.) academic
• Heritage institutions (GLAMs): content access, metadata: public
• Web/Interaction Designers: brings it all together; business

“maintenance encompasses a world of standards, tools, practices, and wisdom. Sometimes it deploys machine learning; other times, a mop.”

Shannon Mattern,"Maintenance and Care"

https://placesjournal.org/article/maintenance-and-care/

Community

> 'team';

< '(intended) audience':

Translating objects

https://prezi.com/ulkp-ssu9z00/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

objects not as destinations or illustrations, but as connections

maintaining polyvocality: artefact/object/representation/source

committed spectators (testers, ambassadors, critics, contributors)

there ain't no

http://www.inventingeurope.eu/globalisation/women-encounter-the-empire

Babel Fish

• Identified

"To discover winter and know it well, to find,

Not to impose, not to have reasoned at all,

Out of nothing to have come on major weather,”

• Recruited

Two things are infinite: stupidity and space

No…. just……everywhere

More ….. and ….. in bulk

It’s only love and weather that never, ever stop

We demand a bit of change in our orbit

Final liberation from Newton’s gravity madness

No gravitationalities, or else floating is too hard

And no more continental drift, bring Pangaea back!

translation

• Included

a reflexive project:

• Enlisted

• Rewarded

“Migrating heritage encompasses not only the migration and mobility of post-colonial artefacts, but also the migration of people, technologies and disciplines crossing boundaries and joining forces in cultural networks and partnerships to address new emerging challenges of social inclusion, cultural dialogue, new models of cultural identity, citizenship and national belonging” (Innocenti 2014)

http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/80836/1/80836.pdf

(but when, and how?)

• Internal translation (‘boundary objects’ between domains)
• Outward translation (into public history)
• Smoothness vs messiness
• Translating silences (copyright, lost voices, etc.)

"it is largely due to the apparently instrumental or utilitarian value of the digital humanities that university administrators, foundation offi-cers, and government agencies are so eager to fund DH projects"

experiences and consultations:

Radio Garden: http://radio.garden/

Inventing Europe: http://inventingeurope.eu

CLARIAH Media Suite: https://mediasuite.clariah.nl/

Sensory moving image archive: https://sensorymovingimagearchive.humanities.uva.nl/

Utrecht Data School: https://dataschool.nl/

Chun et. al "The Dark Side of Digital Humanities" 2016 http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/text/89

It is possible, possible, possible. It must/ Be possible.

That which is, is.

That which is not, is possible

Einstürzende Neubauten, "Was ist ist" (1998)

Wallace Stevens “Notes toward a supreme fiction" (1942)

If you've done 6 impossible things this morning, why not round it off with...

Digital scholarship as hitchhiking:

Not just mobile: entangled

Beyond usual skillsets, partners:

http://mtschaefer.net/entry/field-notes-teamwork/

breakfast at

Negotiated, collaborative mobilities

the restaurant at the end of the universe

precarious staff

• How are their needs being met?
• How central is the content of the project to their 'core content'?
• What are their opportunity costs?
• What (alt-ac?) skills are they acquiring?
• How much does the project rely on them being present for the duration?

A hitchhiker’s guide to digital projects and the art of the (im)possible

Knowing where your towel is

Belonging(s)

• Whose is what? (Objects? Text? Design? Whole?): credits page

What is everyone investing and what return do they expect?

Wave or Particle?

('content' vs. 'design')

Meet space/meat space

• What role does the design play in what you want to do?

Who really cares?

• What units/scale? Objects? Stories? Collections? How do they connect outside?

• New genre: - how to master it?

• How much ready content now (research cycle) vs. how much needed? How much can you do prior to design?

Don't forget the back end!!

eddies in the space-time continuum...

who's Eddie?

time, maintenance, sustaininability

the end is the beginning...

academic timescales vs. everyone else's

sustainability and/as growth

reincarnation

PANIC