Tools for Digital Humanities / Humanities Student Conference

On March 23, 2019, I had the privilege of giving the keynote address as the Stolzenberg-Doan Speaker for the inaugural Humanities Student Conference entitled ‘Crossroads of the Transatlantic.’

Check out the conference program here!

To complement my keynote and post-lunch lecture, here is a curated list for participants on digital humanities + pedagogy. 

For a list of digital tools, check out a few lib guides from university libraries like the following:

Northwestern University: https://libguides.northwestern.edu/dh/tools

University of Tennessee: https://libguides.utk.edu/dh/tools

New York University: https://guides.nyu.edu/dighum/tools

A few readings on digital humanities and digital pedagogy:

• Johanna Drucker, “Intro to Digital Humanities,” UCLA, http://dh101.humanities.ucla.edu/   INCLUDES TUTORIALS OF DIGITAL TOOLS

• Ryan Cordell, “How Not to Teach the Digital Humanities,” 1 February 2015, http://ryancordell.org/teaching/how-not-to-teach-digital-humanities/

• Julia Flanders, “The Productive Unease of 21st-century Scholarship,” Digital Humanities Quarterly3:3 (2009), http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/3/000055/000055.html.

• Amy E. Earhart and Toniesha L. Taylor. “Pedagogies of Race: Digital Humanities in the Age of Ferguson.” Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016. Eds. Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. 251-264: http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/text/72

• Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models and Experiments, Modern Language Association (preprint 2016), https://digitalpedagogy.mla.hcommons.org

• Brett D. Hirsch, ed. Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles and Politics. Open Book Publishers, 2012. http://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/161/digital-humanities-pedagogy–practices–principles-and-politics

• Roopika Risam. “Navigating the Global Digital Humanities: Insights from Black Feminism.” Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016. Eds. Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. 359-367: http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/text/80​

• The Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy, https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

• Hybrid Pedagogy, http://www.digitalpedagogylab.com

• Tooling Up for Digital Humanities: Pedagogy, Stanford University, http://toolingup.stanford.edu/?page_id=1211

• Miriam Posner, “How’d They Make That?” 23 August 2013, http://miriamposner.com/blog/how-did-they-make-that/

• Tooling Up for Digital Humanities: Pedagogy, Stanford University, http://toolingup.stanford.edu/?page_id=1211

• Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models and Experiments, Modern Language Association (2016), https://digitalpedagogy.mla.hcommons.org

• Johanna Drucker, “Intro to Digital Humanities,” UCLA, http://dh101.humanities.ucla.edu/

• The Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy, https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

• Hybrid Pedagogy, http://www.digitalpedagogylab.com/hybridped/

• *Trevor Muñoz and Katie Rawson, “Against Cleaning,” Curating Menus, 6 July 2016, http://curatingmenus.org/articles/against-cleaning/

• *Johanna Drucker, “Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display,” Digital Humanities Quarterly 5.1 (2011), http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/5/1/000091/000091.html

• *Hadley Wickham, “Tidy Data,” Journal of Statistical Software 59 (2014), http://vita.had.co.nz/papers/tidy-data.pdf

• Ed Summers, “On Forgetting and Hydration,” On Archivy, Nov. 18, 2014, https://medium.com/on-archivy/on-forgetting-e01a2b95272

• Alex Gil and Élika Ortega. “Global Outlooks in Digital Humanities: Multilingual Practices and Minimal Computing.” Doing Digital Humanities. Eds. Richard Lane, Raymond Siemens, and Constance Crompton. London/NY: Routledge, 2016. 22-34.

• Christof Schöch, “Big? Smart? Clean? Messy? Data in the Humanities,” Journal of Digital Humanities 2:3 (2013), http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/2-3/big-smart-clean-messy-data-in-the-humanities/

• *Lisa Gitelman, “Introduction,” Raw Data Is an Oxymoron ed. Gitelman (MIT Press 2013), pdf: RawData.

• Thomas Padilla and David Higgins, “Library Collections as Humanities Data: The Facet Effect,” Public Services Quarterly 10:4 (2014), http://thomaspadilla.org/papers/padillahiggins_humdata_postprint.pdf(doi:10.1080/15228959.2014.963780)

•  P. Gabrielle Foreman and Labanya Mookerjee, “Computing in the Dark: Spreadsheets, Data Collection, and DH’s Racist Inheritance” in “Collections as Data Position Papers,” https://collectionsasdata.github.io/aac_positionstatements.pdf

• Leah Rosenberg. “Refashioning Caribbean Literary Pedagogy in the Digital Age.” Caribbean Quarterly (62:3-4), 2016, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00086495.2016.1260282

•  Ted Underwood, “Seven ways humanists are using computers to understand text,” Jun. 4, 2015, https://tedunderwood.com/2015/06/04/seven-ways-humanists-are-using-computers-to-understand-text/

• Trevor Owens, “Discovery and Justification are Different: Notes on Science-ing the Humanities,” Nov. 19, 2012, http://www.trevorowens.org/2012/11/discovery-and-justification-are-different-notes-on-sciencing-the-humanities/

• Ted Underwood, “Topic modeling made just simple enough,” Apr. 7, 2012, https://tedunderwood.com/2012/04/07/topic-modeling-made-just-simple-enough/

• Elijah Meeks and Maya Krishnan, “Introduction to Network Analysis and Representation,” http://dhs.stanford.edu/dh/networks/

• Also of interest: Claire Lemercier, “Formal Network Methods in History: Why and How?,” Social Networks, Political Institutions, and Rural Societies (Brepols, 2015), https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00521527v2/document

• Lisa Spiro, “‘This Is Why We Fight’: Defining the Values of the Digital Humanities,”Debates in Digital Humanities (2012), http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/text/13

• Alan Liu, “DH Toychest,” http://dhresourcesforprojectbuilding.pbworks.com/w/page/69244243/FrontPag

• *Haley Di Pressi, Stephanie Gorman, et al., “A Student Collaborator’s Bill of Rights,” UCLA Digital Humanities, http://www.cdh.ucla.edu/news-events/a-student-collaborators-bill-of-rights/

• *Digital Safety for Open Researchers, https://github.com/opendigitalsafety/Digital-Safety-for-Open-Researchers OR https://digital-safety-for-open-research.gitbook.io/project/

• “Fair Use Fundamentals,” http://fairuseweek.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/ARL-FUW-Infographic-r4.pdf

• Bethany Nowviskie, “Evaluating Collaborative Digital Scholarship (or, Where Credit Is Due),” Journal of Digital Humanities 1:4 (Fall 2012), http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-4/evaluating-collaborative-digital-scholarship-by-bethany-nowviskie/

• Also of interest: project charters from the Scholars’ Lab, http://praxis.scholarslab.org/charter/

Free Tools for Students and Faculty

DIGITAL PUBLISHING

Omeka (omeka.org)  allows for the creation and sharing of scholarly collections or exhibits.

WordPress (https://wordpress.com/) a popular, open-source blogging platform. Can be used for websites. 

Storymaps (https://storymaps.arcgis.com/en/)combine your maps with narrative text, images, and multimedia content.

Scaler (scalar.usc.edu) supports the creation of long-form, born-digital online scholarship using a variety of media.

TIMELINE TOOLS

Chronos Timeline (hyperstudio.mit.edu/software/chronos-timeline) “dynamically presents historical data in a flexible online environment. Switching easily between vertical and horizontal orientations, researchers can quickly scan large numbers of events, highlight and filter events based on subject matter or tags, and recontextualize historical data.”

QGIS (qgis.org/en) is “the best GIS tool in the free and open-source software (FOSS) community.”

TimelineJS (timeline.knightlab.com) “is an open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines. Beginners can create a timeline using nothing more than a Google spreadsheet.”

DATA VISUALIZATION

Concordle (folk.uib.no/nfylk/concordle) and Wordle (wordle.net): creates word clouds that are interactive.

Netlytic (netlytic.org) is a text and social network analyzer that summarizes and discovers social networks that are apparent from online conversations on social media sites.

Palladio (hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio) visualizes historical data.

Prism (prism.scholarslab.org/users/sign_in) is a tool for crowdsourcing the interpretation of any type of textual materials.

Sophie (sophie2.org/trac) allows users to combine text, images, video, and sound.

Tableau (tableau.com) is a free data visualization software.

Voyant Tools (voyant-tools.org) is a web-based reading and analysis environment for any digital text.