Weekly Research

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Informal Research Writing

Most weeks, you’ll conduct independent research to identify current projects, tools, and peer-reviewed articles about work in DH or other fields that explore work/topics of interest in DH.  You’ll write a brief overview of each (3) and share it with the class. Due before 1159 each Sunday and submitted via D2L’s discussions. 12 assigned, 10 graded. 

Projects

You’ll identify and select a current “project” of interest. Your post must identify the project by name, link to the project with an URL, and include three sentences describing the project. 

Tools

You’ll identify and select a current “tool” of interest to those working in the fields of DH. Your post must identify the tool by name, link to a place where one can use/download the tool, and include three sentences describing the tool.  

Peer Reviewed Publications

You’ll identify and select a publication of interest to those working in the fields of DH. Your post must identify the publication by Title, Author, Year, and Journal/Publication Venue. You should either paste the abstract or write 3 sentences describing the article. 

 Resources for Projects

  • Digital Humanities Awards (http://dhawards.org/) This is the best place to start looking for projects in DH.  It’s a crowd-sourced competition that annually selects the best projects in DH.  Navigate by year, then select “results” to see the winners by category.  There are a lot of categories, so it is possible that a winner is *not* a project.  But, most likely, it is…. 
  • UC Berkeley’s DH Projects
  • U of Sheffield’s DH Institute has a ton of Projects
  • European Association of DH has quite a few Projects
  • MIT lists a ton of projects, both at MIT and elsewhere
  • Harvard U’s list includes methods and techniques

Resources for Tools

There are lots of tools and methods in the DH, and more are being generated all the time.  The best place to start for tools is with projects you like.  How’d they do that?  Identify the tool…  Here are some well-regarded repositories of tools:

Resources for Publications

I use google scholar. Type in “digital humanities” (include the quotes) and two things you’re interested in:  BAM! A list of publications emerge.

Good research practice is to scavenge sources from the bibliographies/ references/ works cited of sources you like.  It’s not cheating; it’s grad-school behavior.

All publications used should be peer reviewed and no more than 10 years old.