Standards

Gestured Labor: A Review of Proxies (2021)

Sarah Potvin

infrastructure
standards

proxy
labor

Dylan Mulvin's Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing In (2021) argues that because proxies maintain a fiction of representativeness, we must be attentive both to their function as stand-ins and to the human labor and bodies that sustain their status.

Open or Close Research Instruments? Conflicting Rationales in the Organization of Early Digital Medieval History in Europe (1960–1990).

Edgar Lejeune

dh
history
standards
publishing
medieval

History of Digital Humanities
Digital Medieval History
Research Instruments

A history of debates about medievalists circulating early digital research instruments.

From Tamagotchis to Pet Rocks: On Learning to Love Simplicity through the Endings Principles

Martin Holmes
Joey Takeda

data curation
infrastructure
minimal computing
publishing
standards
tools
web

project resiliency
digital editions
software obsolescence
sustainability
static websites

We’ve made all our digital editions static websites, and should too; you’ll regret it if you don’t.

Reference Rot in the Digital Humanities Literature: An Analysis of Citations Containing Website Links in DHQ

Zach Coble
Jojo Karlin

dh
digital
hypertext
citation
standards
publishing

project resiliency
link rot
Digital Humanities Quarterly

Link rot in DHQ

Radically Accessible Shakespeare: Cripping the Digital Shakespeare Canon through Universal Design and Disability Studies

Christine M. Gottlieb

users
standards
access
ethics
digital
literary studies

Shakespeare
Universal Design
Disability Studies

This article argues for making Shakespeare resources radically accessible and inclusive by incorporating both Universal Design approaches and Disability Studies perspectives.

From the Presupposition of Doom to the Manifestation of Code: Using Emulated Citation in the Study of Games and Cultural Software