Schedule

Each week, this schedule will be updated with more details on the exercices and the sites to explore. This syllabus is subject to change based on time and the interests of the class.

(1) January 19, 2023: Presentation

• Presentations
• Entry survey
• Manifesto for the Digital Humanities
• Super quick intro to GitHub and activation of GitHub Pages: Steps

(2) January 26, 2023: Introduction, DH Scenarios | Markdown Intervention

1. Read:
   • Burdick, Anne, et al. “Humanities to Digital Humanities.” Digital_Humanities, MIT Press, 2012.
   • Warwick, Claire. “Building Theories or Theories of Building? A Tension at the Heart of Digital Humanities.” A New Companion to Digital Humanities, edited by Susan Schreibman et al., John Wiley & Sons, 2016.
2. Explore and pick yours:
   • Reviews on DH
   • RIDE – A review journal for digital editions and resources
   • Digital Humanities Awards
3. Hands-on:
   • Install Visual Studio Code
   • Simpkin, Sarah. “Getting Started with Markdown.” Programming Historian, no. 4, 2015.
   • Exercise 1
   • Exercise 2 (If we have time)

(3) February 2, 2023: The Basics, Formats | GitHub Pages

1. From 5pm to 6:30pm: Students Presentations of their research and DH project
2. Read:
   • Drucker, Johanna. “Chapter 3 Digitization.” The Digital Humanities Coursebook: An Introduction to Digital Methods for Research and Scholarship. Routledge, 2021.
   • Digital Humanities Workbench, “File Formats”
3. Hands-on:
   • Milligan, Ian, and James Baker. “Introduction to the Bash Command Line.” Programming Historian, no. 3, 2014.
   • Class Practice

(4) February 9, 2023: Classification, Structures | HTML, CSS

1. Read:
   • Sperberg-McQueen, C.M. “Classification and its Structures”, in A New Companion to Digital Humanities, edited by Susan Schreibman et al., John Wiley & Sons, 2016.

Optional:

• Foucault, Michel. “Preface,” The Order of Things. An Archaeology of the Human Sciences. New York: Vintage Books, pp. XV-XXIV.
• Borges, Jorge Luis. “The Analytical Language of John Wilkins”

1. Hands-on:
   • Turkel, William J., and Adam Crymble. “Understanding Web Pages and HTML.” Programming Historian, no. 1, 2012.
   • W3Schools HTML5 Tutorial and CSS Tutorial
   • Exercise 1: HTML (in Class)
   • A Workflow: Markdown, GitHub Pages (Steps)
   • Time to get serious: choose your design

For those of you taking Jekyll to the next level, you can follow:

• Visconti, Amanda. “Building a Static Website with Jekyll and GitHub Pages.” Programming Historian, no. 5, Apr. 2016.

(5) February 16, 2023: Metadata | Zotero

1. Read:
   • Drucker, Johanna. “Chapter 4 Metadata, Markup, and Data Description.” The Digital Humanities Coursebook: An Introduction to Digital Methods for Research and Scholarship. Routledge, 2021.
2. Hands-on:
   • Install and Work with Zotero (updated).
   • Tenen, Dennis, and Grant Wythoff. “Sustainable Authorship in Plain Text Using Pandoc and Markdown.” Programming Historian, no. 3, 2014.
   • Markdown and Pandoc

(6) February 23, 2023: Data Modeling, Text Analysis | AntConc

1. Read:
   • Weisser, Martin. “Understanding Corpus Design.” Practical Corpus Linguistics: An Introduction to Corpus-Based Language Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, 2016.
   • Drucker, Johanna. “Chapter 2 Data Modeling and Use.” The Digital Humanities Coursebook: An Introduction to Digital Methods for Research and Scholarship. Routledge, 2021.

Optional:

• Jannidis, Fotis, and Julia Flanders. “Data Modeling in a Digital Humanities Context. An Introduction.” The Shape of Data in Digital Humanities: Modeling Texts and Text-Based Resources, Routledge, 2018, pp. 3–25.

1. Hands-on:
   • Turkel, William J. “Basic Text Analysis with Command Line Tools in Linux.” William J Turkel, 15 June 2013.
   • Download and install AntConc
   • Froehlich, Heather. “Corpus Analysis with Antconc.” Programming Historian, no. 4, 2015.

(7) March 2, 2023: Vizualiations, Text Analysis | Voyant

5:00 - 6:00pm: In Class Exam

1. Read:
   • Sinclair, Stéfan, and Geoffrey Rockwell. “Text Analysis and Visualization: Making Meaning Count.” A New Companion to Digital Humanities, edited by Susan Schreibman et al., John Wiley & Sons, 2016.
   • Drucker, Johanna. “Graphical Approaches to the Digital Humanities.” A New Companion to Digital Humanities, edited by Susan Schreibman et al., John Wiley & Sons, 2016.
   • Drucker, Johanna. “Chapter 7 Data Mining and Analysis.” The Digital Humanities Coursebook: An Introduction to Digital Methods for Research and Scholarship. Routledge, 2021.
2. Hands-on:
   • Voyant Tutorial
   • Install all requirements for next class: Mallet By L. Thomas

(8) March 9, 2023: Topic Modeling, Text Analysis | Mallet

Session offered by Prof. Lindsay Thomas

1. Readings:
   • Lisa Marie Rhody, “Topic Modeling and Figurative Language,” Journal Of Digital Humanities 2.1 (Winter 2012)
   • Lindsay Thomas and Abigail Droge, “The Humanities in Public: A Computational Analysis of US National and Campus Newspapers,” Journal of Cultural Analytics (2022)
     • Code repo: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/BD9CE8,
     • Browsable code repo: https://github.com/lcthomas/humanitiespublic
   • Topic models discussed in the article:
     • Collection 33
     • Collection 36

Other recommended readings:

• Ted Underwood, “Topic Modeling Made Just Simple Enough,” (2012)
• David Mimno, “The Details: Training and Validating Big Models on Big Data” (video recording starting around 3:30)
• Benjamin M. Schmidt, “Words Alone: Dismantling Topic Models in the Humanities,” Journal Of Digital Humanities 2.1 (Winter 2012)

1. Hands on:
   • Download the corpus
   • Mallet Tutorial By L. Thomas

Spring Break

(9) March 23, 2023: Sentiment Analysis By Jerry Bonnell

• Materials available through a Google Collab notebook
• Raw code in GitHub repo
• Prerequisite: you need to associate the notebook with a Google account. Also save a copy of it to your Google Drive, and run that one instead so that you can keep any changes made (There is a note about this at the top of the notebook). One caveat: the first cell installs some packages, please allow ~5 minutes to complete.

1. Readings:

These reading are case studies that examine sentiment analysis in literary/historical corpora.

• Lerma Mayer, Adán Israel, Ximena Gutierrez-Vasques, Ernesto Priani Saiso, Hannu Salmi. Underlying Sentiments in 1867: A Study of News Flows on the Execution of Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico in Digitized Newspaper Corpora. Digital Humanities Quarterly 16.4, 2022.
• Schmidt, Thomas, and Manuel Burghardt. An Evaluation of Lexicon-based Sentiment Analysis Techniques for the Plays of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Proceedings of Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature, pages 139–149, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, August 25, 2018.

(10) March 30, 2023: Digital Humanities Research Institute

Our class will be interchanged with the Digital Humanities Research Institute which will take place on Thursday, March 30th from 10:30 to 4:00pm and Friday, March 31st, from 10:00am to 4:00pm.

(11) April 6, 2023: Text Encoding | TEI (I) (Online; Asynchronous)

1. Read:
   • 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.
   • Flanders, Julia, et al. “Text Encoding.” Doing Digital Humanities: Concepts, Approaches, Cases, edited by Joacim Hansson and Jonas Svensson, Routledge, 2020, pp. 104–22.
2. Hands-on: Deadline: Friday April 6, at noon.

• Module 0: Introduction to the Text Encoding and the TEI. Check example Module 0, do Test 0 and send screenshot of your result.
• Module 1: Common Structure, Elements, and Attributes. Check the example Module 1, do the Test 1, do Exercise Module 1 using the Workspace, and send screenshot of your result.
• Module 2: The TEI Header. Check the example Module 2, do the Test 2, Exercise Module 2 using the Workspace, and send me the screenshot of your result.
• Module 3: Prose. Check the example Module 3, do the Test 3, do the exercise Module 3, and send me the screenshot of your result.
• Finally, take the content of exercise 3 and try to create a document called myTEIfile.xml. The file should have the content of this exercise 3. You can use the software I mentioned: Oxygen (v. 24), but Visual studio code also works.

(12) April 13, 2023: Text Encoding | TEI (II)

1. Read:
   • Flanders, Julia, et al. “XSLT: Transforming Our XML Data.” Doing Digital Humanities: Concepts, Approaches, Cases, edited by Joacim Hansson and Jonas Svensson, Routledge, 2020, pp. 255–72.
   • Platforms for publication.
2. Hands-on
   • XML transformations through XSLT.

(13) April 20, 2023: Databases & Maps | Google Maps

1. Read:
   • Ramsay, Stephen. “Databases.” in A Companion to Digital Humanities, 2004.
   • Quamen, Harvey, and Jon Bath. “Databases.” Doing Digital Humanities: Concepts, Approaches, Cases, edited by Constance Crompton et al., Routledge, 2016, pp. 145–62 (Bb).
2. Hands-on:
   • Exercice on databases

BREAK

1. Read:
   • 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.
2. Hands-on
   • Clifford, Jim, et al. “Intro to Google Maps and Google Earth.” Programming Historian, no. 2, Dec. 2013.
3. Explore and pick ours:
   • Radical Cartography http://www.radicalcartography.net/

Annotated bibliography created with Zotero due

• Use Zotero and create a public Library
• Include at least 10 relevant references for your digital research project
• Create a Bibliography from the references (MLA or Chicago style)
• Include only the references on your Portfolio (DH Project description or DH Project itself)
• The final annotated bibliography should be written in markdown and transformed through Pandoc into a PDF. The annotation should be around 250 words.

(14) April 27, 2023: Optional Lab

(Class moved to Friday, April 28th)

Final presentations of your Portfolio and DH Project April 28th

Final deadline for digital project: May 4th, 2023

Students will have to send the link to the professor.