A Digital Wasteland: Modernist Periodical Studies, Digital Remediation, and Copyright

Slides from a paper presented at the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) 2015 Conference in Portland, Oregon (March 25-28, 2015).

Transcript

1. A Digital Wasteland Modernist Periodical Studies, Digital Remediation, and Copyright @RoxanneShirazi
2. The fallout from extended copyrights settles upon each of us like a fine, invisible dust. “ ” Robert Spoo, “Three Myths for Aging Copyrights: Tithonus, Dorian Gray, Ulysses” (2012)
3. context
4. why modernist periodical studies? ²  heavy reliance on digital archives for research and teaching ²  field emerging in tandem with rise of digitized collections ²  affordances of magazines mirroring hypertext ²  object of study traverses the public domain cutoff
6. the hole in the archive digital archives have performed the work of recovery, bringing together digitized versions of intact periodicals
8. magazines With few exceptions, magazines are mass-produced, single- edition texts whose variability results from the infinite number of ways to read them.
13. dates + scope Journal of Modern Periodical Studies (1880 – 1950) Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, Volume 2: North America: 1894 – 1960
15. what can we do? develop experimental interfaces for our digital collections and provide access to the underlying data to facilitate computational analysis
16. archival APIs Matt Burton + Korey Jackson, “Archival APIs: Humanities Data Publishing and Academic Librarianship” (2015) data metadata derived data the content bibliographic information combination of data + metadata
17. derived data APIs representations of data extracted from original digital objects Matt Burton + Korey Jackson, “Archival APIs: Humanities Data Publishing and Academic Librarianship” (2015) “ ” + word counts + named entity extraction + geolocation data
19. blue mountain project I think the most important choice we made was to focus on the data, independent of its delivery. There are lots of catalog-searching, page-turning applications out there, with more coming along all the time. Rather than binding ourselves to one platform, we've chosen to encode our data and metadata using bona fide and de facto standard schemas like MODS, METS, ALTO, and TEI. “ ” Clifford Wulfman, “Digital Libraries and Hybridity: An Interview with Clifford Wulfman” (2014)
21. the digital canon Without careful and systematic analysis of our digital canons, we not only reproduce antiquated understandings of the canon, but also reify them through our technological imprimateur. Amy E. Earhart, “Can Information Be Unfettered? Race and the New Digital Humanities Canon” (2012) “ ”
22. depth + digital scholarship If the depth of periodical studies is to be found in the investigation of networks and systems, the tools and methods of non-consumptive digital scholarship have untold possibilities to advance the field, even in the face of seemingly immutable copyright restrictions.
23. citations •  Spoo, Robert, “Three Myths for Aging Copyrights: Tithonus, Dorian Gray, Ulysses.” Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal 31, no. 1 (2012): 80. •  Earhart, Amy, “Can Information Be Unfettered? Race and the New Digital Humanities Canon,” in Debates in the Digital Humanities, ed. Matthew K. Gold (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2012). •  Burton, Matt and Korey Jackson, “Archival APIs: Humanities Data Publishing and Academic Librarianship,” in Getting the Word Out: Academic Libraries as Scholarly Publishers, ed. Maria Bonn and Mike Furlough (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2015). •  Wulfman, Clifford and Roxanne Shirazi, “Digital Libraries + Hybridity: An Interview with Clifford Wulfman,” dh+lib, October 29, 2014. Roxanne Shirazi The Graduate Center, CUNY @RoxanneShirazi
24. website credits •  Modernist Journals Project http://modjourn.org •  Index of Modernist Magazines http://sites.davidson.edu/littlemagazines/ •  Newsstand 1925 https://secure.uwf.edu/dearle/enewsstand/enewsstand.htm •  Pulp Magazines Project https://secure.uwf.edu/dearle/enewsstand/enewsstand.htm •  MJP Lab (Sourceforge) http://sourceforge.net/p/mjplab/home/Home/ •  Blue Mountain Project http://bluemountain.princeton.edu/index.html •  Blue Mountain Project (GitHub) https://github.com/pulibrary/BlueMountain