2017 Opening Keynote: Jack of all Trades, Master of One: the Promise of Intermethodological Collaboration

Dr Diane Jakacki, Digital Scholarship Coordinator, Faculty Teaching
Associate in Comparative Humanities, Bucknell University , gives
the opening keynote to the 2017 Digital Humanities at Oxford
Seminar School. As humanists we are trained to think across methods
while we focus on a particular theoretical or praticable approach
to our research. As digital humanists we undertake that same type
of training to find a digital method that best helps us ask
questions of, analyse, and share our subject matter. At the same
time, many of us find ourselves engaged in research projects that
are expanding across disciplines and growing in scope, scale, and
modes of analysis. Certainly, the prospective of linking data
across projects requires that we think about how others might be
interested in connecting with our corpora. While it is important
that we reach beyond our methodological comfort zone to become
conversant in others, it is increasingly crucial that we seek out
fellow digital humanists expert in other methods with whom we can
effectively collaborate. In this talk, Dr. Jakacki will present
examples of major research projects that are possible through such
coalescence of skills and approaches.