Jean Bauer

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  • Some thoughts on “Niceness” and the Yack-Hack Cycle

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    So apparently Twitter exploded yesterday, in that way that Twitter has of “exploding.” I missed it thanks to back-to-back meetings, a long commute, and a desire to spend time with my husband rather than check social media. On any other day, I would probably be pissed as hell. But it’s not any other day. It’s…

  • Network Analysis for Humanists

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    Today I am teaching a workshop called “Network Analysis for Humanists” at Northeastern’s NULab for their Boston Area Days of DH. If you attended my workshop (or are just interested in learning more), here are a few suggested readings. I would include more, but following the links from Scott Weingart’s blog posts will help you…

  • Tales from the Port: Part 2 — Migrating the Database

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    In retrospect, maybe I shouldn’t have promised to write a blog post every night this week. The port has been going well, but I’ve been working late each night, and it’s just too hard to write clear English prose starting at midnight. So here, at last, is the promised post on migrating Project Quincy’s database…

  • Tales from the Port: Day 1 — Dry Dock

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    Welcome to my one week blog series, Tales from the Port, chronicling my rewriting of Project Quincy from Ruby on Rails to Django. This series may be a little rough around the edges — I’ll be writing it every night after I accomplish my goals for that day. But I wanted to give people a…

  • Safe Spaces and Kind Words

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    Every generation has to kill the dragon, or so the saying goes. I disagree. I may be starting a new chapter in my life, but I refuse to slam the door behind me. If I am privileged, then I owe that privilege to my teachers — female and male — who took time out of…

  • Long Live the Library

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    Just yesterday I read that Johns Hopkins Medical Library has decided to close its physical location on January 1, 2012. JHU embedded its subject librarians in their respective departments years ago, and after reviewing the relative use of print and electronic sources, decided to shut down the main building but have no plans to lay…

  • Who you calling untheoretical?

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    I’m sorry. I need to vent. If you think you will be offended, continue at your own risk. You have been warned. Several weeks ago, the whole Digital Humanities Theory, or Hack vs. Yack, debate sprung to life once more with a post by @ncecire. I have since read several other posts on this issue,…

  • Am I even qualified?: Writing about Digital History

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    About two weeks ago, my article “Fielding History: Relational Databases and Prose” went online for open peer review and possible inclusion in the open access essay collection Writing History in the Digital Age, edited by Jack A. Dougherty and Kristen Nawrotzki. If you haven’t heard about Writing History in the Digital Age, you owe it…

  • Ten Years Gone

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    Ten years ago it was Tuesday. I was riding my bike along Long Island Sound, saying goodbye to one of the few things I knew I would miss about living in Connecticut. Ten years ago my family was three days away from moving into Brooklyn. We were finally going to be city dwellers again for…

  • Alt-Ac: The First Month

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    On August 1 I joined Brown University as their first Digital Humanities Librarian. This job is a dream come true. I was hired to help cultivate Digital Humanities projects by working with faculty, students, and staff, and serve as an ambassador for the great digital work already being done by the Brown University Library. I…