Humanities New York
Dec 11, 2018
Slides: bit.ly/hny-dh-2017
Jim Casey
Center for Digital Humanities Princeton University
twitter: @jimccasey1
Slides from the workshop: bit.ly/hny-dh-2017
Digital humanities in the wild
NEH Office of Digital Humanities grants http://neh.gov/divisions/odh
DH Summer Institute http://dhsi.org
HILT http://dhtraining.org/hilt/
DH Debates 2012 + 2016 editions http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/
DH Awards http://dhawards.org/
A sample of DH Conferences (click to expand)
DH2017 https://dh2017.adho.org/
Digital Humanities Forum 2017 (Kansas) https://idrh.ku.edu/dhforum2017
KeystoneDH http://keystonedh.network/2017/
Digital Frontiers 2017 (U of North Texas) www.library.unt.edu/events/digital-humanities-collaborative-programs/digital-frontiers-2017-exploring-edges-pushing
“Race, Memory, and the Digital Humanities” (recent symposium) oieahc.wm.edu/conferences/supported/race/index.html
Our (Digital) Humanity: Storytelling, Media Organizing and Social Justice Community (Lehigh 4/18) wordpress.lehigh.edu/odh2018/about/
Varieties of digital humanities
My fuzzy categories:
Texts
text encoding: The Walt Whitman Archive & Women Writer’s Project
text mining: Quantifying Kissenger
text collation: Vincent Van Gogh Letters
text analysis: The Viral Texts Project
topic modeling: Mining the Dispatch
Data visualization & Analysis
networks: Six Degrees of Francis Bacon, Belfast Group Poetry|Networks
maps: Borderlands Archives Cartography, Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760-1761
timelines: Nelson Mandela’s Extraordinary Life: An Interactive Timeline
story maps: Restoring Old Havana, Place | Poem
Embodied data viz: Dear Data, Data Cuisine
physical computing: “Pu Gong Ying Tu (Dandelion Painting)” by Jie Qi
metadata as research data: Using Metadata to find Paul Revere, Collections as Data
Data curation
digitization: Digital Public Library of America, NYPL Digital Collections, Digital Aponte
transcription: Smithsonian Transcription Center, DIYHistory, Transcribe Bentham, Zooniverse
collecting: Wearing Gay History, Curatescape, Boston Marathon Digital Archive, HistoryPin
refining: Curating Menus, DH Data Curation
linked open data: Pelagios – Recogito, LinkedJazz
Digital connections
pedagogy: Hybrid Pedagogy, The American Yawp
crowdsourcing: What’s on the Menu?, Beyond Words, Scribes of the Cairo Geniza
social media: Every Three Minutes, MobyDickatSea, Documenting the Now
oral history: StoryCorps, Bracero Archive
Wikipedia: Feminist Wiki-Storming, edit-a-thons
games: Reacting to the Past, ex: Greenwich Village, 1913
community archives: DC Punk Archive, Plateau Peoples’ Web Portal
Public voices
podcasts: Left of Black, Ben Franklin’s World
e-literature: game, game, game and again game by Jason Nelson, Twine, The Electronic Literature Lab Catalog
user interfaces/UX/design: Generous Interfaces for Digital Cultural Collections,
digital exhibits: Mall History, Performing Archive: Curtis + “the vanishing race”
blogging: Black Perspectives, The Junto
Twitter suggestions: Miriam Posner @miriamkp, Bethany Nowviskie @nowviskie, UMD African American Digital Humanities @UMD_AADHum, Borderlands Archives Cartography @BACartography, Steven Lubar @lubar, Brett Bobley @brettbobley, and many, many others.
Emerging areas of critical emphasis:
Black Digital Humanities Projects & Resources: http://bit.ly/Black-DH-List
US Latinx DH Projects: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wtOeETfLvCv4ZYKxj0xiB6mqh3GfFqvRv8U9LVr_OkM/edit?usp=sharing
Digital Native American and Indigenous Studies | dNAIS http://digitalnais.org/
Humanities New York Questionnaire, click to view form.
Data Viz Quick Tools
Palladio http://hdlab.stanford.edu/
Google Fusion Tables http://fusiontables.google.com
Add’l Resources & Guides
Grants
A grant-writing guide for public historians, by Sonya Lovine.
List of Grants & Funding Opportunities
Public Humanities
Reading group, “What can the public digital humanities be?”
Imagining Personas & Publics for a Digital Humanities Project
Data Visualization
Tools & Resources for Data Viz (pdf)
Building and Working with a Dataset
Learn more about digital methods
Programming Historian https://programminghistorian.org/