We’ll meet one another, talk about the plan for the class, and discuss how the digital humanities are being represented in the media (to the extent that they are being represented at all).
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Before we try to figure out what the digital humanities are, maybe we should start with the more basic question of what the humanities are.
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Is there a “crisis” in the humanities? Do the humanities need defending? And if so, why bother?
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The digital humanities, though often promoted as the “new new thing,” are at least a half-century old.
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Read “The History of Humanities Computing” (Hockney) and at least one of the other discipline-specific historical overviews in Part I (archaeology, art history, classics, history, lexicography, linguistics, literary studies, music, multimedia, performing arts, and philosophy/religion).
Assignment #1 Preliminary Reflection due
What are the differences among “digital humanities,” “humanities computing,” “new media studies,” “rhetoric and technology,” etc. Are these differences that make a difference, or just symptoms of academic territory-marking?
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Assignment #2 Subject Research due
Assignment #3 User Research due
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How is the move to a digital research environment affecting the way humanists gather, treat, and think about evidence? Does digitization imply a move from scarcity to abundance of humanities “data”?
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One of the most venerable forms of digital humanities work is the preparation of scholarly digital editions through a process known as text encoding.
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An overview of and introduction to the TEI P5 guidelines. Also take a look at some of the other sections of the manual, just to get a sense of what TEI provides. For example, the tags for encoding verse structure, transcriptions of speech, or names, dates, people, and places.
Assignment #4 Critique of an Existing Project due
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Note that this is a series of three blog posts: 1, 2, 3.
While you are reading these posts, explore the ImagePlot visualization software by browsing the documentation, visualizations gallery, and demo videos. Download the software and example image collections (you’ll probably want to do this on-campus or someplace with a fast Internet connection), and try it out yourself.
Assignment #5 Envisioning due
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Be sure to also read the supporting online material in addition to the main text.
Assignment #7 Sketching due
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Assignment #8 Reflecting, Revisiting, Refining due
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Assignment #9 Analysis & Critique due
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