On April 8, 2014, digital humanists around the world joined together to blog, take photos, and tweet, about how their day as a digital humanists actually looked like for Day of DH.
 
As iterated by Ethan Watrall (@captain_primate), this event showcased the sense of profound community, recognition of disciplinary diversity, and potential for cross-disciplinary collaboration inherent within Digital Humanities.
"Building and fostering community is hard, don’t let anyone tell you different.  But if its something you believe in, something that is important and meaningful, its always worth doing."
 
Building community is incredibly difficult, but it is something that we truly believe in. Even within the past months of launching DH@Berkeley, we have been able to launch talks, workshops, and the first DH hackathon, as well as curate and bring together campus wide events and departments. I've witnessed scholars coming together from all over campus to contribute skills, perspectives, and time to big events like our 12 day digital humanities hackathon of the digital Free Speech Movement archive to workshops for students on digital research methods.  And of course, much of this community building involves the recognition of the amazing work of scholars, librarians, technologists, and administrators all across campus and helping to facilitate future projects and ideas. 
So what does the day in the life of a digital humanist look like in the community here at Berkeley? It looks like excitement in the possibilities of computational text analysis (Cindy A. Nguyen), the challenge to gendered fields (Andrea Horbinski), and critical reflections on "safe seeing" in the internet age (Chiara T. Ricciardone) It also means balancing critical exploration with other professional demands and personal obligations (Sharon K. Goetz ). Scott Paul McGinnis, for example, spent his day of DH working on a concordance tool for early Chinese historical work whilst taking intensive language classes in Taiwan. And of course, it also looks like the behind the scenes work of the phenomenal Digital Humanities Coordinator at UC Berkeley, Quinn Dombrowski.
 
by Cindy A. Nguyen, April 21, 2014