This blog post is a small excerpt from a chapter co-authored by Ball, Tarez Samra Graban, and Michelle Sidler on open data and rhetoric.io and submitted to Networked Humanities (eds. McNely & Rice). While authors of the other posts in this data carnival offer fantastic how tos, tips, and techniques for working with your data, this post takes a step back and urges humanities researchers to collect and publish their data for others to potentially use. The phrase “big data” has become synonymous in the digital humanities with funding agency projects such as the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Digging…
Author: Cheryl Ball
Digital Rhetoric When I was invited to participate in this blog carnival a few weeks ago, I chose to accompany Kris Blair, figuring that she and I would end up discussing digital scholarship in some fashion. Since I’ve never done a blog carnival before, I waited to see what Doug and Troy and Kris would post during the first week or so, to figure out the genre conventions, and then write something appropriate. But the conventions were (rightly) all over the place: Doug’s and Kris’s more formal and academic posts combined with Troy’s more informal and familiar/familial post (with Dan…