It has been rather silent for almost two months now, but we haven’t been idle, and there’s more good to come. I, Wybo, a core-developer and author of most writings on this blog, have been working hard in the last few months (and will for some months to come) to finish my Ba-degrees at the University of Groningen. This because as of September I will be doing the Digital Humanities MA at Kings College London.
Now Kings College London is not bad, as the Brits would say, but the coolest thing about it all is the subject matter of the MA (& also what makes it relevant for this blog), as Digital Humanities at Kings is just the thing to do and the place to go for improving LogiLogi, and for working on systems like it!
For example among others John Bradley, the creator of the desktop note tool Pliny, and Michele Pasin, one of the persons behind CoHere are working there. And then there’s Willard McCarty, one of the foremost thinkers on humanities computing, and many more people that I have not met yet, or only shortly, and whom I will, or hope to, meet there soon :)
Also when speaking more broadly, Digital Humanities is a very promising and socially useful field. Promising because whereas for example in physics a digital revolution has already happened, in the Humanities, because of their different and complex needs, there is still a lot to do and to discover.
And it is useful for society because applications and improvements for Historians and Philosophers – when successful – can have more extensive and profound consequences for culture and the human condition than those for physics and maths, on whose faculties, and to whose needs Computer Science has historically developed. So it’s not just interesting and fun, it’s a good thing to work on too.
On a more personal note I am happy to have heard today that my studying at Kings will be made possible by a HSP-Talentenbeurs scholarship of the Nuffic, the Dutch organisation for international cooperation in higher education.
So there is more to come, and LogiLogi, and hopefully this world too, will continue to become better all the time, bit by bit.
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Wybo! this is very good news! You have your heart put on the right place, and it looks like the head too.
Keep up man! congratulations!