What is Digital Humanities (DH)?
What is Digital History?
What is Cliometrics?
What is the Spatial Turn?
What goes into creating a Digital Humanities project?
What are some of the resources available for DH?
What are some of the debates in DH?
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2. Topics
• What is Digital Humanities (DH)?
• What is Digital History?
• What is Cliometrics?
• What is the Spatial Turn?
• What goes into creating a Digital Humanities project?
• What are some of the resources available for DH?
• What are some of the debates in DH?
5. Digital Humanities
“The Digital
Humanities are an
area of research,
teaching, and
creation concerned
with the intersection
of computing and
the disciplines of the
humanities. “
Text via wikipedia Image via Calvinius
6. Digital Humanities AKA…
Humanities Computing
(Around since the 1940s)
Digital Humanities (term
attributed to this text)
Humanistic computing (HCI)
Digital Humanities Praxis (dh
praxis)
Computational Humanities
(More involved in creating
software)
Computational Turn
A Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth. Oxford:
Blackwell, 2004.
7. What is Digital History?
Image via Mintz, S., & McNeil, S. (2015). Digital History. Retrieved from http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu
8. • What Is Digital History?
• To do digital history, then, is to digitize the past certainly, but it is much
more than that. It is to create a framework through the technology for
people to experience, read, and follow an argument about a major
historical problem.”
• The Differences between Digital History and Digital Humanities
• First, the collection, presentation, and dissemination of material
online is a more central part of digital history….
• Second, in regards to digital analysis, digital history has seen more
work in the area of digital mapping than has digital literary studies,
where text mining and topic modeling are the predominant practices.
The pioneering
• Evaluation of Digital Scholarship in History
• Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the
Past on the Web by Daniel J. Cohen, Roy Rosenzweig
• The Programming Historian
9. Cliometrics in History
• Computing and the Historical
Imagination
• “In the United States the greatest fight
in the contest over computational
methods in history took place in 1974
with the publication of Robert Fogel
and Stanley Engerman's Time on the
Cross: The Economics of American
Negro Slavery.”
• What is Cliometrics?
• Answers vary: "historical economics,"
the "economics of history,"
"econometric history" -- not many
years ago, it was called the "new"
economic history. The conclusion is
all of the above. ... Today a common
definition is that Cliometrics is the
application of economic theory and
quantitative techniques to describe
and explain historical events.
Image via Google Books
10. Spatial Turn in History
• The Spatial Turn in History
• “Landscape turns” and “spatial
turns” are referred to
throughout the academic
disciplines, often with
reference to GIS and the
neogeography revolution …the
broader questions of
landscape--worldview,
palimpsest, the commons and
community, panopticism and
territoriality--are older than
GIS, their stories rooted in the
foundations of the modern
disciplines. These terms have
their origin in a historic
conversation about land use
and agency.
Image via Scholars Lab, Hypercities project
11. The Spatial Turn
• GeoHumanities Special
Interest Group (SIG) of the
Alliance of Digital
Humanities Organizations
Gregory, Ian N, and Alistair Geddes. Toward Spatial Humanities: Historical Gis and Spatial History.
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2014.
12. How did they make that DH project?
• How did they make that?
• “Many students tell me that in order to get started with digital humanities, they’d like to have some idea of what
they might do and what technical skills they might need in order to do it. Here’s a set of digital humanities
projects that might help you to get a handle on the kinds of tools and technologies available for you to use.”
• How Did They Make That? The Video!
13. Layers of DH projects
1
•Sources/ Data
•You need digital data to do DH
•Do you have access to a digital corpus, or do you need to digitize your items?
2
•Processing or Manipulation
•What is done to the data
•This is done using some type of software or tool.
3
•Presentation
•DH projects live in the digital realm.
•How is your project presented online?
16. Resources in Digital Humanities @
the UTA Libraries
http://libguides.uta.edu/digitalhumanities
17. Debates in Digital Humanities
“Welcome to the
open-access edition of
Debates in the Digital
Humanities, which
brings together leading
figures in the field to
explore its theories,
methods, and practices
and to clarify its
multiple possibilities
and tensions.”
Text and image via the open-access edition of Debates in the Digital Humanities
18. “Our website addresses these
opportunities by outlining the
shape of the contemporary
‘postcolonial digital
humanities’ through
interrogating the ways
postcolonial studies has
evolved through different
phases of internet
culture…..For our purposes,
our working definition of the
digital humanities is a set of
methodologies engaged by
humanists to use, produce,
teach, and analyze culture
and technology.”
19. Related
Topics
Computers and writing
Computational archaeology
Cybertext
Cultural analytics
Digital Classicist
Digital Humanities Summer Institute
Digital library
Digital Medievalist
Digital history
Digital rhetoric
Digital scholarship
Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
Electronic literature
EpiDoc
Humanistic informatics
Multimedia literacy
New media
Systems theory
Stylometry
Text Encoding Initiative
Text mining
Topic Modeling
Transliteracy
Via wikipedia
Humanities Computing as Digital Humanities
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/3/000065/000065.html
The terminological change from "humanities computing" to "digital humanities" has been attributed to John Unsworth and Ray Siemens who, as editors of the monograph A Companion to Digital Humanities (2004), tried to prevent the field from being viewed as "mere digitization."[22]Consequently, the hybrid term has created an overlap between fields like rhetoric and composition, which use "the methods of contemporary humanities in studying digital objects,"[22] and digital humanities, which uses "digital technology in studying traditional humanities objects".[22] The use of computational systems and the study of computational media within the arts and humanities more generally has been termed the 'computational turn'.[23]
In 2006 the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the federal granting agency for scholarships in the humanities, launched the Digital Humanities Initiative (renamed Office of Digital Humanities in 2008), which made widespread adoption of the term "digital humanities" all but irreversible in the United States.[24]
http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijshc “'Social and humanistic computing' stands for holistic approaches to human/social-centric design of pervasive, ubiquitous systems, providing/supporting a new era of human/social experience going beyond traditional perceptions of the interaction of humans with IT/IS, exploiting social/humanistic research for the provision of high-tech services and human-centric systems promoting social sustainability development.”
“Praxis is the process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is enacted, embodied, or realised. "Praxis" may also refer to the act of engaging, applying, exercising, realizing, or practicing ideas.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxis_(process)
“his new 'computational turn' takes the methods and techniques from computer science to create new ways of distant and close readings of texts (e.g. Moretti).” https://sites.google.com/site/dmberry/
Spatial Turn http://spatial.scholarslab.org/spatial-turn/what-is-the-spatial-turn/
Humanities Computing as Digital Humanities
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/3/000065/000065.html
The terminological change from "humanities computing" to "digital humanities" has been attributed to John Unsworth and Ray Siemens who, as editors of the monograph A Companion to Digital Humanities (2004), tried to prevent the field from being viewed as "mere digitization."[22]Consequently, the hybrid term has created an overlap between fields like rhetoric and composition, which use "the methods of contemporary humanities in studying digital objects,"[22] and digital humanities, which uses "digital technology in studying traditional humanities objects".[22] The use of computational systems and the study of computational media within the arts and humanities more generally has been termed the 'computational turn'.[23]
In 2006 the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the federal granting agency for scholarships in the humanities, launched the Digital Humanities Initiative (renamed Office of Digital Humanities in 2008), which made widespread adoption of the term "digital humanities" all but irreversible in the United States.[24]
http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijshc “'Social and humanistic computing' stands for holistic approaches to human/social-centric design of pervasive, ubiquitous systems, providing/supporting a new era of human/social experience going beyond traditional perceptions of the interaction of humans with IT/IS, exploiting social/humanistic research for the provision of high-tech services and human-centric systems promoting social sustainability development.”
“Praxis is the process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is enacted, embodied, or realised. "Praxis" may also refer to the act of engaging, applying, exercising, realizing, or practicing ideas.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxis_(process)
“his new 'computational turn' takes the methods and techniques from computer science to create new ways of distant and close readings of texts (e.g. Moretti).” https://sites.google.com/site/dmberry/
Spatial Turn http://spatial.scholarslab.org/spatial-turn/what-is-the-spatial-turn/
Humanities Computing as Digital Humanities
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/3/000065/000065.html
The terminological change from "humanities computing" to "digital humanities" has been attributed to John Unsworth and Ray Siemens who, as editors of the monograph A Companion to Digital Humanities (2004), tried to prevent the field from being viewed as "mere digitization."[22]Consequently, the hybrid term has created an overlap between fields like rhetoric and composition, which use "the methods of contemporary humanities in studying digital objects,"[22] and digital humanities, which uses "digital technology in studying traditional humanities objects".[22] The use of computational systems and the study of computational media within the arts and humanities more generally has been termed the 'computational turn'.[23]
In 2006 the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the federal granting agency for scholarships in the humanities, launched the Digital Humanities Initiative (renamed Office of Digital Humanities in 2008), which made widespread adoption of the term "digital humanities" all but irreversible in the United States.[24]
http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijshc “'Social and humanistic computing' stands for holistic approaches to human/social-centric design of pervasive, ubiquitous systems, providing/supporting a new era of human/social experience going beyond traditional perceptions of the interaction of humans with IT/IS, exploiting social/humanistic research for the provision of high-tech services and human-centric systems promoting social sustainability development.”
“Praxis is the process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is enacted, embodied, or realised. "Praxis" may also refer to the act of engaging, applying, exercising, realizing, or practicing ideas.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxis_(process)
“his new 'computational turn' takes the methods and techniques from computer science to create new ways of distant and close readings of texts (e.g. Moretti).” https://sites.google.com/site/dmberry/
Spatial Turn http://spatial.scholarslab.org/spatial-turn/what-is-the-spatial-turn/