ABSTRACT
This essay considers public engagement in digital humanities initiatives as well as the uses of digital resources in public humanities initiatives, describing what it means when public humanities practitioners think digitally and how digital humanities scholars imagine and address the publics that might utilize their projects. Various ideas of data, forms of remediation and digital curation, and methodologies of working iteratively and publicly are surveyed and assessed. Using a community archival collaboration between a graduate-level Brown University Digital Public Humanities course and the Providence Public Library Special Collections department as its case study, this essay then documents challenges and lessons learned from highly collaborative public-facing digital initiatives.
