Comments on: An infrastructure wishlist

By: Craig Bellamy

Craig Bellamy — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 11:30:53 +0000

OK, one last point. On your blog theme you say ‘people over systems’. But eResearch infrastructures are largely about connections of people (the net-workers), not just connections of data; linked or otherwise. It is really important that the two work together. It is the 2 hands of the DH that Willard McCarty often talks about. We need to foster the conditions for collaboration first; the tacit knowledge as well as the applied.

By: Craig Bellamy

Craig Bellamy — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 11:10:15 +0000

Just reading Franco Moretti’s ‘Graphs, Maps, Trees’. I would be interested on your ideas here?

By: Craig Bellamy

Craig Bellamy — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:51:55 +0000

Some good points here Tim. But as you say, it is a wish list. There is an old saying, “an historian is as close to a man of action as a curator is to an artist”. How can we make these things happen?

By: Kathryn Tomasek

Kathryn Tomasek — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:54:05 +0000

Under constructing narratives, what do you think of Alan Liu’s Rose database? Do you know whether it is constructed in such a way as to allow for data harvesting? What about interoperability?

I ask because when I heard him speak at Brown a few weeks ago, the tool struck me as being one that could be useful for historians, though of course it was constructed from the perspective of literary studies.