Introducing the Digital Humanities
I wanted to share the Prezi portion of the workshop that Aaron McCollough (Subject Librarian for English and Comparative Literature) and I offered recently at the Teaching and Technology Collaborative.
The presentation, “Introducing the Digital Humanities,” was a whirlwind tour of new large-scale databases and tools for conducting and storing research, and a demonstration of some of the interactive platforms for broadcasting and publishing findings. We examined the digital humanities as a dynamic field (or perhaps “set of practices” is a better descriptor) that relies on and benefits from the scale of the Information Age and which, in equal measure, provides a uniquely humanist take on the new media making such scale possible.
We hope everyone who attended benefitted in some way from this first step toward increasing the “DH” profile at the University. Stay tuned for follow-up performances in the weeks and months to come!
Below you’ll find a list of resources mentioned in the presentation:
Overview
- Lisa Spiro, “Getting Started in the Digital Humanities” | http://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/getting-started-in-the-digital-humanities/
- Patricia Cohen, New York Times “Humanities 2.0” | http://topics.nytimes.com/top/features/books/series/humanities_20/index.html
Tools
- Million Song Dataset | http://labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/millionsong/
- BBC ‘s “Arab Spring: An Interactive Timeline of Middle East Protests” | http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2011/mar/22/middle-east-protest-interactive-timeline
- Google Ngram Viewer | http://books.google.com/ngrams
- Cytoscape (visualization software) | http://www.cytoscape.org/
- Scalar | http://scalar.usc.edu/anvc/?page_id=6
Labs
- Stanford Literary Lab | http://litlab.stanford.edu/
- Scholar’s Lab, University of Virginia | http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/
- and the Scholar’s Lab Praxis Program | http://www.scholarslab.org/praxis-program/announcing-the-praxis-program/
- Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University | http://chnm.gmu.edu/
Crowdsourcing
- Ancient Lives Project, University of Oxford | http://ancientlives.org/
- Hypothes.is | http://hypothes.is/
Publications
- Hacking the Academy (edited by Dan Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt) | http://www.digitalculture.org/hacking-the-academy/
- Writing History in the Digital Age (edited by Jack Dougherty and Kristen Nawrotzki) | http://writinghistory.trincoll.edu/
- Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular | http://vectors.usc.edu/journal/index.php?page=Introduction
- Alexandra Juhasz, Learning from YouTube | http://vectors.usc.edu/projects/learningfromyoutube/
Open Access
- Open Source Initiative | http://www.opensource.org/
- SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) | http://www.arl.org/sparc/openaccess/
- Open Access Week | http://www.openaccessweek.org/
Organizations
- ADHO (Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations) | http://digitalhumanities.org/
- HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory) | http://hastac.org/
Conferences
- HASTAC Annual Conference | http://hastac2011.org/
- THATCamp | http://thatcamp.org/
- Digital Conference Calendar | http://digital-conferences-calendar.info/
Discipline-specific Organizations
- Digital Americanists | http://digitalamericanists.unl.edu/wordpress/
- Digital Medievalist | http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/
- Digital Classicist | http://www.digitalclassicist.org/
- EighteenthCentury.org | http://www.eighteenthcentury.org/
- Romantic Circles | http://www.rc.umd.edu/
Other Resources
- ProfHacker (The Chronicle of Higher Education) | http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/
- Digital Humanities Questions & Answers | http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/
- Digital Humanities Now | http://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/
Vetting and Funding (a good source for exemplary projects)
- NEH Office of Digital Humanities | http://www.neh.gov/ODH/
- NEH Library of funded projects | http://www.neh.gov/ODH/Default.aspx?tabid=111&id=5
- NINES (Nineteenth-Century Scholarship Online) | http://www.nines.org/
- Arts-Humanities.net, Project list | http://www.arts-humanities.net/project
Training
- DiRT (Digital Research Tools Wiki) | https://digitalresearchtools.pbworks.com/w/page/17801672/FrontPage
- Stanford’s “Tooling Up for Digital Humanities” | http://toolingup.stanford.edu/
- Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria | http://www.dhsi.org/
- Rare Book School, University of Virginia | http://www.rarebookschool.org/schedule/