Supplemental Resources for Project Building

Part III Tools & Methods

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:

Duke University list of DH Tools

U of Texas LibGuide for DH Tools, Methods, Resources

U of Va’s Library Guide for Finding Tools and Data in DH

Part II Where to look 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
• Projects funded by the NEH Office of Digital Humanities
  • This is a list of exemplary projects funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.  It’s a great source for projects, particularly at the early stages. 

Part I: Disciplines in the Humanities

Humanities Disciplines

• Archaeology
  • Readings
    • Earley-Spadoni, Tiffany. “Spatial History, Deep Mapping and Digital Storytelling: Archaeology’s Future Imagined through an Engagement with the Digital Humanities.” Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 84, 2017, pp. 95-102.  
    • Kotoula, Eleni, et al. “Computational Photography, 3-D Modeling, and Online Publication of Basketry for Cache Cave, California.” Advances in Archaeological Practice, vol. 7, no. 4, 2019, pp. 366–381., doi:10.1017/aap.2019.23. (Open Access)
    • Magnani, Matthew, Anni Guttorm, and Natalia Magnani. “Three-Dimensional, Community-Based Heritage Management of Indigenous Museum Collections: Archaeological Ethnography, Revitalization and Repatriation at the Sámi Museum Siida.” Journal of Cultural Heritage, vol. 31, 2018, pp. 162-169.  Bonacchi, Chiara, et al. “Participation in Heritage Crowdsourcing.” Museum Management and Curatorship (1990), vol. 34, no. 2, 2019, pp. 166-182. Projects
    • The Oplontis Project
      • Not all elements of this project are digital! 
• Anthropology
  • Readings
    • Tolbert, Jeffrey A., and Eric D. M. Johnson. “Digital Folkloristics: Text, Ethnography, and Interdisciplinarity.” Western Folklore 78.4 (2019): 327-56. 
• Art History
  • Readings
    • Marmor, Max. “Art History and the Digital Humanities.“ Zeitschrift Für Kunstgeschichte, vol. 79, no. 2, 2016, pp. 155-158. 
    • Zorch, Diane M. “Transitioning to a Digital World: Art History, its Research Centers, and Digital Scholarship.” Journal of Digital Humanities, vol. 1, no. 2, 2012.
• Classics
  • Readings
    • Neil Coffee and Neil W. Bernstein, “Digital Methods and Classical Studies,” Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 10 no. 2, 2016. 
    • Greg Crane, “Classics and the Computer: An End of the History,” in A Companion to Digital Humanities, edited by Susan Schreibman et al., Blackwell Publ., 2011. Chapter 4
  • Resources
    • The Digital Classicist Wiki 
  • Projects
    • Perseus Digital Library
    • Romans 1by1
• Film Studies
  • Readings
    • Eric Hoyt, Kevin Ponto, and Carrie Roy, “Visualizing and Analyzing the Hollywood Screenplay with ScripThreads,” Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 8 no. 4, 2014
    • Flueckiger, Barbara. “A Digital Humanities Approach to Film Colors.“ Moving Image (Minneapolis, Minn.), vol. 17, no. 2, 2017, pp. 71-94. 
    • Candel, Daniel, et al. “Analyzing the Fictional Worlds of Pixar with an Eye on Digital Humanities.” Semiotica, vol. 2017, no. 218, 2017, pp. 91-117. 
• French Literature
  • Readings
    • “Vive la Différence! Text Mining Gender Difference in French Literature,” Shlomo Argamon, Jean-Baptiste Goulain, Russell Horton, Mark Olsen. Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 3 no. 2, 2009
• History
  • Readings
    • Romein, C. A., et al. “State of the Field: Digital History.” History (London), vol. 105, no. 365, 2020, pp. 291-312. 
    • Drew VandeCreek, “‘Webs of Significance’: The Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project, New Technology, and the Democratization of History,” Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 1 no. 1, 2007 
    • Block, Sharon. “DigEarlyAm: Reflections on Digital Humanities and Early American Studies.” The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 76, no. 4, 2019, pp. 611-648. 

• Projects
  • The Carribean Diaspora Project
  • Survey of Scottish Witchcraft
  •  Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760–1761

• Linguistics & Modern Languages
  • Readings
    • Thea Pitman and Claire Taylor, “Where’s the ML in DH? And Where’s the DH in ML? The Relationship between Modern Languages and Digital Humanities, and an Argument for a Critical DHML.” Digital Humanities Quarterly, 2017
    • Jensen, K. “Linguistics in the Digital Humanities: (computational) Corpus Linguistics”. MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research, Vol. 30, no. 57, Dec. 2014, p. 20 p., doi:10.7146/mediekultur.v30i57.15968.  
    • Barbara McGillivray, Thierry Poibeau, and Pablo Ruiz Fabo,  “Digital Humanities and Natural Language Processing: ‘Je t’aime… Moi non plus.’” Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 14 no. 2. 2020.
• Literary Studies
  • Projects
    • The Women Writers Project
    • The Walt Whitman Archive
• Medieval Studies
  • Readings
    • Maga, Mihai. “Critical Exploration of Medieval Philosophy with Digital Humanities Tools: Challenges And Solutions.” Philobiblon 22.1 (2017): 221-32. ProQuest. Web. 8 Sep. 2020 
• Media Studies
  • Readings
    • Lewis, Kevin. “A Review of ‘Memes in Digital Culture.” Digital Humanities Quarterly. Vol. 10 no. 2, 2016
• Music
  • Readings
    • Sterne, Jonathan. The Sound Studies Reader. New York: Routledge, 2012. 
    • Snickars, Pelle, “Spotibot: Turing Testing Spotify.” Digital Humanities Quarterly, 2018
    • Meindertsma, Peter. “Changes in Lyrical and Hit Diversity of Popular U.S. Songs 1956-2016.” Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 13 no. 4, 2019. 
  • Projects
    • Human-Machine Interactive Composition Using Machine Learning, Juan Hernandez, Scott Rubin, UC Berkeley.

• Philosophy
  • Readings
    • Buckner, Cameron, Mathias Niepert, and Colin Allen. “From Encyclopedia to Ontology: Toward Dynamic Representation of the Discipline of Philosophy.” Synthese (Dordrecht), vol. 182, no. 2, 2011, pp. 205-233. 
• Religious Studies
  • Readings
    • Reed, Ashley. “Digital Humanities and the Study and Teaching of North American Religions.” Religion Compass, vol. 10, no. 12, 2016, pp. 307–316., doi:10.1111/rec3.12226. 
  • Projects
    • Virtual St. Paul’s Cathedral Project
• Spanish Literature
  • Readings
    • González, José E., Montserrat-Fuente Camacho, and Marcus Barbosa. “Detecting Modernismo’s Fingerprint: A Digital Humanities Approach to the Turn of the Century Spanish American Novel.” Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas: Rubén Darío and Modernismo Today, vol. 51, no. 2, 2018, pp. 195-204. 
• Theatre/Performing Arts
  • Readings
    • Caplan, Debra. “Notes from the Frontier: Digital Scholarship and the Future of Theatre Studies.” Theatre Journal 67.2 (2015): 347-59. ProQuest. Web. 3 Sep. 2020. 
    • Escobar Varela, Miguel, and Luis Hernández-Barraza. “Digital Dance Scholarship: Biomechanics and Culturally Situated Dance Analysis.” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 2019, doi:10.1093/llc/fqy083. 
  • Projects
    • ONSTAGE: Online Datasystem of Theatre in Amsterdam from the Golden Age to the present

Part I(b) Kissing Cousins: Disciplines that sometimes affiliate with the Humanities

• Economics
  • Readings: Araya, Daniel. (2013). “Donald Brinkman on Digital Humanities at Microsoft Research.” E–Learning and Digital Media Volume 10, Number 1, 2013 www.wwwords.co.uk/ELEA

• Projects:  UC Cliometric History Project
  • Greene Street Project

Part II Where to look 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…. 
• Projects funded by the NEH Office of Digital Humanities
  • This is a list of exemplary projects funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.  It’s a great source for projects, particularly at the early stages. 

Part III Tools & Methods

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:

Duke University list of DH Tools

U of Texas LibGuide for DH Tools, Methods, Resources

U of Va’s Library Guide for Finding Tools and Data in DH

Publications in DH

  A Companion to Digital Humanities (http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/)

– A Companion to Digital Literary Studies (http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companionDLS/)

– HASTAC

– Digital Humanities Quarterly (http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/)