Dr. Craig Carey gives an introduction to digital humanities and archives. He discusses engaging with archives and provides steps to get started, including introducing students to archival terminology like collections, records, and finding aids. Carey recommends determining what type of collection to use, whether physical or digital, and becoming familiar with the corresponding technology like finding aids or metadata. The presentation provides fundamentals for archives and digital humanities 101.

1. Dr. Craig Carey
An Introduction
Assistant Professor of English
craig.carey@usm.edu

2. 1. What is Digital Humanities?
2. Why engage with archives?
3. Where and how to begin?
Archives and Digital Humanities 101
Dr. Craig Carey
Assistant Professor of English

3. From “Humanities Computing” to “Digital Humanities”

5. “minutely organized particulars”

6. “spontaneous particulars”

7. “The archive does not tell
stories; only secondary narratives
give meaningful coherence to its
discontinuous elements.”
Wolfgang Ernst, Digital Memory and the Archive

8. Where to begin?
A few easy steps to engage
students in archival work.

9. Don’t reinvent the wheel

10. Introduce students
to archival terminology
• collection
• record
• document
• folder
• manuscript
• primary source
• papers
• finding aid

11. Teach students how to analyze archival sources
Archive Analysis Worksheets

12. Determine what kind of
collection you want to use.
Familiar yourself with the
corresponding technology.

13. Physical Archives
& Special Collections

14. The Finding Aid

16. Digital Collections

17. Reading Metadata

18. Curated Digital Collections

19. Online Databases and Search

20. Fundamentals of Search