Guides: Research Commons: Digital Humanities

What is Digital Humanities?

Digital Humanities (DH) is the conjunction between computer science and humanities.

While a relatively new field (since the 1980's) of research and teaching, DH has a crucial role in teaching and research due to its increasing relevance and use of advanced technology-related methods in arts and humanities research.

"There is a wide range of computational tools that enables humanities scholars to conduct research at a scale once thought impossible. Digital humanities foster collaboration and traverse disciplines and methodological orientations, with projects to digitize archival materials for posterity, to map the exchange and transmission of ideas in history, and to study the evolution of common words over the centuries.

DH projects implement tools such as 3-D mapping, algorithmic literary analysis, advanced visualization techniques, and digitization of textual corpora in non-Latin languages. Researchers experiment and interact with source materials in ways that yield new findings, while also building community and sharing information."

From Stanford Digital Humanities

Digital Humanities Tools. See also Data & Text Analysis Software

ACH: Association for Computers and the Humanities
Professional association for digital humanities. "We support computer-assisted research, teaching, and software and content development in humanistic disciplines."
ADHO
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) promotes and supports digital research and teaching across all arts and humanities disciplines, acting as a community-based advisory force, and supporting excellence in research, publication, collaboration and training.
Critical Commons
"Critical Commons is a public media archive and fair use advocacy network that supports the transformative reuse of media in scholarly and creative contexts. It is part of technical and conceptual architecture of Scalar."
DH Toychest
List of resources for DH for building projects.
Digital Mappa
An open-access DH platform for your own workspaces, projects, collaborations, and scholarly publications. If you have a collection of digital images and texts, then you should be able to create a project where you can link together specific moments on these images and texts, annotate these moments as much as you want, generate searchable content, collaborate with your friends, and publish your work online for others to see and share.
HASTAC
HASTAC is a a commons, an active, open online, academic social network in support of humanistic learning in the Information Age.
irLH
Immersive Realities Lab for the Humanities.
irLh is a digital and experimental humanities workgroup still working to define ourselves in this 21st century
Praxis Network
Praxis Network programs are allied but differently-inflected humanities education initiatives, mainly focused on graduate training, and all engaged in rethinking pedagogy and campus partnerships in relation to the digital.
Resource Guide Digital Humanities Berkeley

SimplyAnalytics
Create visual, thematic geographical maps and custom reports using 100,000+ data variables. Limited to two simultaneous users. Sign in as a guest or create an account (with a unique username and password).

View data by state, congressional district, city, county, ZIP Code, census tract, or block group with data that includes population, age, gender, race & ethnicity, income, education, jobs & employment, poverty, language, ancestry, family types, marital status, vehicles, transportation, household & housing, market segments, consumer behavior, health, technology, finance, retail, business locations, and crime. It also includes the D&B business points-of-interest file and marketing data from Mediamark Research (MRI) and Simmons Research with information on over 8,000 brands, 450 categories including consumer behavior, attitudes, health, technology, finance and retail data. Experian MOSAIC consumer lifestyle segmentation and Nielsen PRIZM is also available with the most comprehensive and precise insights using demographics and consumer lifestyle data.

TEI: Text Encoding Initiative
TEI is a consortium which collectively develops and maintains a standard for the representation of texts in digital form. Its chief deliverable is a set of Guidelines which specify encoding methods for machine-readable texts, chiefly in the humanities, social sciences and linguistics.

Abbot Commercial
A text interoperability tool.
convert dissimilar collections of XML texts into a common interoperable form. Abbot's key feature is the ability to read an XML schema file and output procedures to convert source files into a valid form that is consistent with the target schema.

Aida
Image Analysis for Archival Discovery
Locating and digitizing images

Evince
A text visualization and analysis tool developed by the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with funding by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

MorphAdorner v2.0
MorphAdorner is a Java command-line program which acts as a pipeline manager for processes performing morphological adornment of words in a text. 'Adornment' rather than annotation or tagging.

Omeka Net
Omeka provides open-source web publishing platforms for sharing digital collections and creating media-rich online exhibits. Omeka.net is a hosted service option for publishing digital collections and exhibits, allowing users to run Omeka Classic without worrying about installation or hosting.

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Omeka is a Digital Scholar project, originally launched at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media with funding from multiple organizations. Omeka's name and logo are registered trademarks of Digital Scholar.
Website content available as CC-BY-NC| Software License
Omeka Classic User Manual
Installing, using, and administration.
UIUC Library Help Guide
An introductory guide to building online exhibits with Omeka.net, the web-based version of Omeka

Scalar
Scalar: "Born-digital, open source, media-rich scholarly publishing that's as easy as blogging."
More about Scalar
From OpenSource.com, a deeper explanation about Scalar, how it works and why it is useful (fun too).
Scalar Users Guide
". . . includes introductions to Scalar's features as well as more in-depth material to explore as you get to know the tools."
Note the link to the Getting Started section
UIUC LibGuide: Scalar
Very helpful, inclusive step-by-step guide for working within Scalar. Some of the information is, of course, UIUC-centric. For specifics within Illinois State University (ISU), contact Anne Shelley, Scholarly Communications Librarian.
Filmic Texts and the Rise of the Fifth Estate by Virginia Kuhn
By Dr. Virginia Kuhn, an example of a digital article (the first) created through Scalar.

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Read here for more about Dr. Kuhn
https://scalar.usc.edu/anvc/kuhn/users/5

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TokenX
A multi-document text visualization, analysis, and play tool designed for the XML document tree.