The University of Chicago is hosting a Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, November 1-3,2008. Here are the details:
The goal of the annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer
Science (DHCS) is to bring together researchers and scholars in the humanities
and computer science to examine the current state of digital humanities as a
field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and
perspectives for future research. The first
DHCS Colloquium in 2006 examined the challenges and opportunities posed by
the “million books” digitization projects. The second DHCS Colloquium in 2007 focused
on searching and querying as both tools and methodologies.
The theme of the third Chicago DHCS Colloquium is “Making Sense” – an
exploration of how meaning is created and apprehended at the transition from
the digital to the analog.
With the number of people in the humanities and in computation considering
the organization and hierarchy of knowledge, this seems like it could be
a productive direction for a discussion. I have attached a recent article from
Jennifer Rowley that considers the 'data-information-knowledge-wisdom'(DIKW)
hierarchy. Interesting to know what some humanities folks think of it.
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