Here are links to readings and outside websites that we will be discussing throughout the semester. Additional links may be added as necessary, so check back frequently for possible updates.
Week 2: 20 January 2015 – What is DH?
- Jeffrey Schnapp and Todd Presner. “A Digital Humanities Manifesto.” (version 1.0). 15 December 2008. http://manifesto.humanities.ucla.edu/2008/12/15/digital-humanities-manifesto/
- Jeffrey Schnapp, Peter Lunenfeld, and Todd Presner. “The Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0.” 29 May 2009. http://www.humanitiesblast.com/manifesto/Manifesto_V2.pdf (for illustrated PDF) or http://manifesto.humanities.ucla.edu/2009/05/29/the-digital-humanities-manifesto-20/ (for plain text)
- Helle Porsdam. “Too much ‘digital’, too little ‘humanities’? An attempt to explain why many humanities scholars are reluctant converts to Digital Humanities.” 2011. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1810/244642/DigitalHumanities.pdf?sequence=1
- Ryan Cordell. “On Ignoring Encoding.” 8 May 2014. http://ryancordell.org/research/dh/on-ignoring-encoding/
Week 3: 27 January 2015 – Capitalism & DH? Postcolonial DH?
- Johanna Drucker. “Pixel Dust: Illusions of Innovations in Scholarly Publishing.” Los Angeles Review of Books. 16 January 2014. http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/pixel-dust-illusions-innovation-scholarly-publishing
- Adeline Koh and Roopika Risam. “Founding Principles.” Postcolonial Digital Humanities. http://dhpoco.org/founding-principles/ (Also read through as much as possible of the rest of the DHPoco website.)
- Paul Barrett. “Where is the Nation in Postcolonial Digital Humanities?” Postcolonial Digital Humanities. 20 January 2014. http://dhpoco.org/blog/2014/01/20/where-is-the-nation-in-postcolonial-digital-humanities/
Week 4: 3 February 2015 – Metadata
- Nicholas Carr. “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” The Atlantic. 1 July 2008. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/306868/
- Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. “Metadata Basics.” http://dublincore.org/metadata-basics/ (Also read as many linked pages as you can.)
Week 4: 10 February 2015 – Tool Review
- DiRT Directory: Digital Research Tools. http://dirtdirectory.org/
Week 5: 17 February 2015 – TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) in theory
- “A very gentle introduction to the TEI markup language.” Text Encoding Initiative. http://www.tei-c.org/Support/Learn/mueller-index.htm
- TEI by Example. http://www.teibyexample.org/ (Explore as much of this website as you can.)
Week 6: 24 February 2015 – TEI in practice
- MoEML: The Map of Early Modern London. http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/index.htm
- Guest speaker, Janelle Jenstad (UVic). http://english.uvic.ca/people/janelle_jenstad.html
- “Encoding a Primary Source Transcription.” http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/encoding_primary_sources.htm
- “Create a MoEML <teiHeader>.” http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/encode_teiHeader.htm
- “Encode a Date.” http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/encoding_dates.htm
- “Primary Source Document Template.” http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/encode_primary_doc.htm?showDraft=true
Week 7: 3 March 2015 – Digital Textual Analysis
- TAPoR: Text Analysis Portal for Research. http://www.tapor.ca/
- Voyant Tools. http://voyant-tools.org
- Wordle. http://www.wordle.net/
Week 8: 10 March 2015 – Project Showcase
- Examples of projects to analyze include: British Women Playwrights around 1800; Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare Project (CASP); Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory (CWRC); English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA); Editing Modernism in Canada (EmiC); Global Shakespeares; Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE); Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice (ICASP); Internet Shakespeare Editions (ISE); Map of Early Modern London (MoEML); Modernist Journals Project; Modernist Versions Project; Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-century Electronic Scholarship (NINES); The Orlando Project; Rossetti Archive; Shakespeare on Screen in Francophonia; Synergies: Canada’s SSH Research Infrastructure; The Walt Whitman Archive; Women Writers Project; Woolf Online; and The Yellow Nineties Online.
- Additional possible projects to analyze can be found at DHCommons under the Projects tab: http://dhcommons.org/projects
- Invited scholar Eric Johnson (Folger Shakespeare Library). http://collation.folger.edu/2013/07/q-a-eric-johnson-director-of-digital-access/
Week 9: 24 March 2015 – Projects hypothetically in practice
Week 10: 31 March 2015 – Databases and mySQL
- Harvey Quamen. “Why Databases? An Introduction via 4 ½ Cool Ideas.” 2013.http://dhsi.org/content/2014Curriculum/Databases/Slideshows/1-Why%20Databases.pdf (If you can, keep reading Part 2 about “Database Design”: http://dhsi.org/content/2014Curriculum/Databases/Slideshows/2-Database%20Design.pdf)
- Invited scholar Mark Algee-Hewitt (Stanford). https://english.stanford.edu/people/mark-algee-hewitt
Week 11: 9-11 April 2015 – Digitorium
- Digitorium. http://apps.lib.ua.edu/blogs/digitorium/
Week 12: 14 April 2015 – Semantic Web: RDF and Linked Data
- Harvey Quamen. “Semantic Web Databases.” 2013. http://dhsi.org/content/2014Curriculum/18.%20Digital%20Humanities%20Databases%202014.pdf (read pages 293-302 of PDF)
- Bizer, Heath, Berners-Lee. “Linked Data: The Story So Far.” 2009.http://tomheath.com/papers/bizer-heath-berners-lee-ijswis-linked-data.pdf
Week 13: 21 April 2015 – Review