Program
August 23:
- Introductions
- Guest Lecture from Dr. Paige Morgan: Humanities Data Creation and Curation
THE DISCIPLINE(S)
August 30:
- “Foreword: Perspectives on the Digital Humanities.” A Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
- Berry, Dave. “The Computational Turn.” Culture Machine, 12, 2011 [Online]
- Lisa Samuels and Jerome McGann, “Deformance and Interpretation”
Start thinking on your eportfolio [coming]
September 6:
Class Leader: Tarika Sankar
First Presentations
- Hughes, Lorna, Panos Constantopoulos, and Costis Dallas. “Digital Methods in the Humanities: Understanding and Describing their Use across the Disciplines.” In A New Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. by S. Schreibman, et al. Oxford: Wiley Black 2016, pp. 150-170.
- Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. “Done: Finishing Projects in the Digital Humanities,” vol. 3, no. 2 (2009).
- Kramer, Michael. “What Does Digital Humanities bring to the Table?”, Michael J.Kramer’s Blog, 25 September 2012
September 13:
Class Leader: Ashley Hemm
Paige Morgan: “Project Management for new-to-DH grad students”
- Leon, Sharon. “Project Management for Humanists.” #alt-academy (May 6, 2011).
- Liu, Alan. “The Meaning of the Digital Humanities.” PMLA 128 (2013): 409-23
- Nowviskie, Bethany. “Ten Rules for Humanities Scholars New to Project Management.” Personal. Bethany Nowviskie, November 2011.
WEB TECHNOLOGIES
September 20:
Class Leader:
Exercice: Create an ePortforlio (cv, research).
- Foucault, Michel. “Introduction,” The Order of Things. An Archaeology of the Human Sciences. New York: Vintage Books.
- Sperberg-McQueen, C.M. “Classification and its Structures”, in A Companion to Digital Humanities, 2004.
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Spiro, Lisa. “This Is Why We Fight: Defining the Values of the Digital Humanities,” in Debates in the Digital Humanities. Minneapolis-London: University of Minnesota Press, 2012, pp. 16-35
- Posner, Miriam, S. Varner, Brian Croxall, “Creating Your Web Presence: A Primer for Academics”, 2011
- Sayers, Jentery. “Do You Need Your Own Website While On the Job Market”, 2011
- Tips for Building a Better Public Portfolio*, LSU Distinguished Communicator Handbook, July 2014
- Turkel, William J., and Adam Crymble, “Understanding Web Pages and HTML,” The Programming Historian 1 (2012).
Tutorials
- CodeCademy. Introduction to HTML and Learn CSS
- Or W3Schools HTML5 Tutorial and CSS Tutorial
- Or Learn to Code HTML & CSS
Github Pages + Jekyll: Build a simple website
DATA AND DATABASE
September 27:
Class Leader: Dainerys Machado
ePortfolio due; you should also have had your first project conference with Dr. Morgan by now.
Exercice: Explore types of database; propose solutions for humanities projects; design (sketch) their own… CSV file fun!
- Manovich, Lev. “Database as a Symbolic Form.” Millenium Film Journal, 34, Fall 1999.
- Ramsay, Stephen. “Databases.” in A Companion to Digital Humanities, 2004.
- “‘Raw Data’ is an Oxymoron”, ed. Lisa Gitelman Gitelman, MIT Press, 2013. Introduction and afterward.
Tutorials
- McGlone, Jonathan.“Creatin and Hosting a Personal Site on GitHub”
- Visconti, Amanda. “Building a static website with Jekyll and GitHub Pages.” The Programming Historian 5 (2016)
- Explore the free Jekyll theme and go minimal!
TEXT TECHNOLOGIES (I)
October 4:
Class Leader: Lidiana de Moraes dos Santos
Exercice: collaborative Text Encoding activity (Shakespeare’s Sonnet 17)
- Burnard, Lou. What is the Text Encoding Initiative? How to add intelligent markup to digital resources, Open Edition: Marseille, 2014, pp. 1-54, (Skim fast Part II, pp. 55-100), pp. 101-103, and Glossary pp. 109-111.
- Pierazzo, Elena. “Textual Scholarship and Text Encoding.” In A New Companion to Digital Humanities, pp. 307-321.
DATA VISUALIZATION
October 11:
Guest Lecture: Prof. Alberto Cairo, Visualization design for communication
Tutorial: Flourish https://flourish.studio/
- Cairo, Alberto. “Infographics and Visualizations as Tools For the Mind.” Visually, Sept. 5, 2012
- Michael Dubakoc. Visual Encoding. Target Process, Sept. 2012
- Few, Stephen. “Data Visualization for Human Perception.” In: Soegaard, Mads and Dam, Rikke Friis (eds.). The Encyclopedia of Human–Computer Interaction, 2nd Ed.. Aarhus, Denmark: The Interaction Design Foundation.
- Drucker, Johanna. “Graphical Approaches to the Digital Humanities.” In A New Companion to Digital Humanities, London: Blackweel, 2004, pp. 238-250.
[Fall Recess, No Class October 18th]
TEXT TECHNOLOGIES (II)
October 25
Class Leader: Elena Bonmatí
Tutorial: Corpus Analysis with AntConc
Exercice: Text mining with structured texts Inaugural Speaches or Federico García Lorca Copus, or choose one here https://github.com/cligs/textbox.
- Sinclair, Stéfan, and Geoffrey Rockwell. “Text Analysis and Visualization: Making Meaning Count.” In A New Companion to Digital Humanities, pp. 274-290.
- Ted Underwood, “Seven ways humanists are using computers to understand text.” The Stone and the Shell. Blog. June 4, 2015.
- Moretti, Franco. Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for Literary History, London-New York: Verso, 2005.
MAPPING
November 1:
Class Leader: Sam Johnson
Exercice: Explore some of the maps available at http://www.radicalcartography.net/
Tutorial: Creating a map with Fusion Tables
Note: you should have had your second mandatory project conference with Dr. Morgan by November 5th.
- Goodchild, Michael. “What Does Google Earth Mean for the Social Sciences?.” In Geographic Visualization. Concept, Tools and Applications, ed. Martin Dodge, Mary McDerby and Martin Turner. West Sussex: Wiley, 2008, pp. 11-23.
- Presner, Todd, and David Shepard. “Mapping the Geospatial Turn.” In A New Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. by S. Schreibman, et al. Oxford: Wiley Black 2016, pp. 201-212.
FINAL STRETCH
November 8: FULL LABORATORY DAY: Annotated Bibliography Due!
November 15: FULL LABORATORY DAY
[Thanksgiving Recess, No Class November 22nd]