An introductory seminar at Queen's University Belfast November 2013

1. An Introduction to Digital
Humanities Practise
A Curated Journey
19 November 2013

2. Upcoming Seminars and Workshops
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2 December - Hands On
Engaging Your Auduence with Your Research Data
(Exhibit)
9 December - Hands On
Telling Stories with Data – Collections Visualisation
for Arts and Humanities Scholars (OMEKA)
January Digital Project Management
Februrary - Hands On Workshop
Data Visualisation for Presentation
February Social Scholarship – Tools for Collaborative Research
March Data Visualisation for Textual and Spatial Analysis

3. http://qubdh.co.uk

4. Agenda
1. Defining
2. Exploring
3. Playing

5. Defining DH
What is Digital Humanities?

6. A Natural Extensuon of the Traditional
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The Development of Classification Systems
The Development of Ontologies and Metadata

7. Concepts
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Digitisation
Structuring
Encoding
Visualising
Analysing
Mining
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Networks
Spatial
Temporal
Textual
Image
Interface

8. Conceptualising DH
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A Digital Humanities Project
Stuff
Files
Metadata
Classification
Data
Services
Processing
Database
Analysis, etc.
Source: Johanna Drucker
Use
Display
Search
Interaction

9. DHO:DRAPIer
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All Island
Methods, Tools, Funding
Contact
75+ Digital projects
Drive Through

10. DHO:Discovery

11. Europeana

12. Mapping the Republic of Letters

13. AHRC ICT Methods Network

14. Arts+Humanities Net

15. CELT

16. Transcribing Bentham

17. History Pin

18. What Was There?

19. CAIN

20. How is it different from the nonDigital H?

21. DH on the Island of Ireland

22. DH in Europe

23. Additional Info
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DiRT (https://digitalresearchtools.pbworks.com/w/
page/17801672/FrontPage)
CUNY (http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/wiki/index.php/
The_CUNY_Digital_Humanities_Resource_Guide)

24. Upcoming Seminars and Workshops
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2 December - Hands On
Engaging Your Auduence with Your Research Data
(Exhibit)
9 December - Hands On
Telling Stories with Data – Collections Visualisation
for Arts and Humanities Scholars (OMEKA)
January Digital Project Management
Februrary - Hands On Workshop
Data Visualisation for Presentation
February Social Scholarship – Tools for Collaborative Research
March Data Visualisation for Textual and Spatial Analysis

25. Thank You
s.day@qub.ac.uk @iridium
http://qubdh.co.uk