Readings
- Ted Underwood, “Seven Ways Humanists Are Using Computers to Understand Text.” The Stone and the Shell, June 4, 2015 https://tedunderwood.com/2015/06/04/seven-ways-humanists-are-using-computers-to-understand-text/ Estimated Read Time: 12 minutes
- Jeffrey McClurken, “Student Contracts for Digital Projects,” Profhacker: The Chronicle of Higher Education (March 20, 2010): http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/student-contracts-for-digital-projects/23011 Estimated Read Time: 3 minutes
- Brandon T. Locke, “Digital Humanities Pedagogy as Essential Liberal Education: A Framework for Curriculum Development,” DHQ (11, 3): http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/11/3/000303/000303.htmlSee also, the other articles in this issue.) Estimated Read Time: 22 minutes
Suggested:
- Frederick W. Gibbs and Daniel J. Cohen. “A Conversation with Data: Prospecting Victorian Words and Ideas.”Victorian Studies54, no. 1 (2011): 69-77. (pre-print available )http://www.dancohen.org/2012/05/30/a-conversation-with-data-prospecting-victorian-words-and-ideas/
- Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy (2011), http://mcpress.media-commons.org/plannedobsolescence/
- Using DH in the Classroom: http://scalar.usc.edu/works/digital-humanities-in-the-classroom-a-practical-introduction/index
- Dwayne Dixon Imagining the Essay as Digital Assemblage: Collaborative Student Experiments with Writing in Scalar, Prompt: A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments, vol 1, no 1 (2017) http://thepromptjournal.com/index.php/prompt/article/view/13/20
- Jeffrey W. McClurken, “Teaching and Learning with Omeka: Discomfort, Play, and Creating Public, Online, Digital Collections,” in Learning through Digital Media: Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy, edited by Trebor Schultz. New York: The New School and the MacArthur Foundation, 2011. http://mcpress.media-commons.org/artoflearning/teaching-and-learning-with-omeka/
- Rick Anderson, “Scholarly-Communication Reform: Why is It So Hard to Talk About, and Where are All the Authors?” Scholarly Kitchen (May 16, 2016), https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2016/05/16/scholarly-communication-reform-why-is-it-so-hard-to-talk-about-and-where-are-the-authors/.
- T. McMillan Cottom, (2015) “‘Who Do You Think You Are?’: When Marginality Meets Academic Microcelebrity,” Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, No.7, http://adanewmedia.org/2015/04/issue7-mcmillancottom/
Morning Session
Textual Analysis
- Close Reading: Annotation
- Hypothes.is: https://web.hypothes.is/
- Distant Reading
- Project Example: Language of the State of the Union: http://benschmidt.org/poli/2015-SOTU
- Activity: Bookworm, http://bookworm.culturomics.org/
- Activity: Voyant Tools https://voyant-tools.org/ | Documentation: http://voyant-tools.org/docs/#!/guide/start
- Tutorial: http://elmira.doingdh.org/voyant-tutorial/
- Data Set: Slave Narrative Sample Zip: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwQ67Xdq4RhRbjB3VDVuOGUwTE0
- Named Entity Extraction:
- Stanford Named Entity Recognizer: http://nlp.stanford.edu:8080/ner/ (About the tool)