Digital Humanities for Historians: An introduction
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The document provides an introduction to digital humanities (DH) and its intersection with history, covering topics such as cliometrics, digital history, and the spatial turn in historical research. It discusses the methodologies and tools for creating digital humanities projects, as well as the resources and debates within the field. The guide serves as a resource for historians and scholars interested in integrating digital methods into their research and teaching.
Digital Humanities for Historians: An introduction
- 1. Digital Humanities for Historians: An Introduction Rafia Mirza Digital Humanities Librarian [email protected] @librarianrafia
- 2. Topics • What is Digital Humanities (DH)? • What is Digital History? • What is Cliometrics? • What is the Spatial Turn? • What goes into creating a Digital Humanities project? • What are some of the resources available for DH? • What are some of the debates in DH?
- 4. What is it?
- 5. Digital Humanities “The Digital Humanities are an area of research, teaching, and creation concerned with the intersection of computing and the disciplines of the humanities. “ Text via wikipedia Image via Calvinius
- 6. Digital Humanities AKA… Humanities Computing (Around since the 1940s) Digital Humanities (term attributed to this text) Humanistic computing (HCI) Digital Humanities Praxis (dh praxis) Computational Humanities (More involved in creating software) Computational Turn A Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
- 7. What is Digital History? Image via Mintz, S., & McNeil, S. (2015). Digital History. Retrieved from http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu
- 8. • What Is Digital History? • To do digital history, then, is to digitize the past certainly, but it is much more than that. It is to create a framework through the technology for people to experience, read, and follow an argument about a major historical problem.” • The Differences between Digital History and Digital Humanities • First, the collection, presentation, and dissemination of material online is a more central part of digital history…. • Second, in regards to digital analysis, digital history has seen more work in the area of digital mapping than has digital literary studies, where text mining and topic modeling are the predominant practices. The pioneering • Evaluation of Digital Scholarship in History • Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web by Daniel J. Cohen, Roy Rosenzweig • The Programming Historian
- 9. Cliometrics in History • Computing and the Historical Imagination • “In the United States the greatest fight in the contest over computational methods in history took place in 1974 with the publication of Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman's Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery.” • What is Cliometrics? • Answers vary: "historical economics," the "economics of history," "econometric history" -- not many years ago, it was called the "new" economic history. The conclusion is all of the above. ... Today a common definition is that Cliometrics is the application of economic theory and quantitative techniques to describe and explain historical events. Image via Google Books
- 10. Spatial Turn in History • The Spatial Turn in History • “Landscape turns” and “spatial turns” are referred to throughout the academic disciplines, often with reference to GIS and the neogeography revolution …the broader questions of landscape--worldview, palimpsest, the commons and community, panopticism and territoriality--are older than GIS, their stories rooted in the foundations of the modern disciplines. These terms have their origin in a historic conversation about land use and agency. Image via Scholars Lab, Hypercities project
- 11. The Spatial Turn • GeoHumanities Special Interest Group (SIG) of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Gregory, Ian N, and Alistair Geddes. Toward Spatial Humanities: Historical Gis and Spatial History. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2014.
- 12. How did they make that DH project? • How did they make that? • “Many students tell me that in order to get started with digital humanities, they’d like to have some idea of what they might do and what technical skills they might need in order to do it. Here’s a set of digital humanities projects that might help you to get a handle on the kinds of tools and technologies available for you to use.” • How Did They Make That? The Video!
- 13. Layers of DH projects 1 •Sources/ Data •You need digital data to do DH •Do you have access to a digital corpus, or do you need to digitize your items? 2 •Processing or Manipulation •What is done to the data •This is done using some type of software or tool. 3 •Presentation •DH projects live in the digital realm. •How is your project presented online?
- 14. Resources in Digital Humanities
- 15. Resources in Digital Humanities
- 16. Resources in Digital Humanities @ the UTA Libraries http://libguides.uta.edu/digitalhumanities
- 17. Debates in Digital Humanities “Welcome to the open-access edition of Debates in the Digital Humanities, which brings together leading figures in the field to explore its theories, methods, and practices and to clarify its multiple possibilities and tensions.” Text and image via the open-access edition of Debates in the Digital Humanities
- 18. “Our website addresses these opportunities by outlining the shape of the contemporary ‘postcolonial digital humanities’ through interrogating the ways postcolonial studies has evolved through different phases of internet culture…..For our purposes, our working definition of the digital humanities is a set of methodologies engaged by humanists to use, produce, teach, and analyze culture and technology.”
- 19. Related Topics Computers and writing Computational archaeology Cybertext Cultural analytics Digital Classicist Digital Humanities Summer Institute Digital library Digital Medievalist Digital history Digital rhetoric Digital scholarship Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative Electronic literature EpiDoc Humanistic informatics Multimedia literacy New media Systems theory Stylometry Text Encoding Initiative Text mining Topic Modeling Transliteracy Via wikipedia
- 20. Questions? by Martin Grandjean, CC-BY-SA.
Editor's Notes
- #7: Humanities Computing as Digital Humanities http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/3/000065/000065.html The terminological change from "humanities computing" to "digital humanities" has been attributed to John Unsworth and Ray Siemens who, as editors of the monograph A Companion to Digital Humanities (2004), tried to prevent the field from being viewed as "mere digitization."[22]Consequently, the hybrid term has created an overlap between fields like rhetoric and composition, which use "the methods of contemporary humanities in studying digital objects,"[22] and digital humanities, which uses "digital technology in studying traditional humanities objects".[22] The use of computational systems and the study of computational media within the arts and humanities more generally has been termed the 'computational turn'.[23] In 2006 the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the federal granting agency for scholarships in the humanities, launched the Digital Humanities Initiative (renamed Office of Digital Humanities in 2008), which made widespread adoption of the term "digital humanities" all but irreversible in the United States.[24] http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijshc “'Social and humanistic computing' stands for holistic approaches to human/social-centric design of pervasive, ubiquitous systems, providing/supporting a new era of human/social experience going beyond traditional perceptions of the interaction of humans with IT/IS, exploiting social/humanistic research for the provision of high-tech services and human-centric systems promoting social sustainability development.” “Praxis is the process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is enacted, embodied, or realised. "Praxis" may also refer to the act of engaging, applying, exercising, realizing, or practicing ideas.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxis_(process) “his new 'computational turn' takes the methods and techniques from computer science to create new ways of distant and close readings of texts (e.g. Moretti).” https://sites.google.com/site/dmberry/ Spatial Turn http://spatial.scholarslab.org/spatial-turn/what-is-the-spatial-turn/
- #9: Humanities Computing as Digital Humanities http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/3/000065/000065.html The terminological change from "humanities computing" to "digital humanities" has been attributed to John Unsworth and Ray Siemens who, as editors of the monograph A Companion to Digital Humanities (2004), tried to prevent the field from being viewed as "mere digitization."[22]Consequently, the hybrid term has created an overlap between fields like rhetoric and composition, which use "the methods of contemporary humanities in studying digital objects,"[22] and digital humanities, which uses "digital technology in studying traditional humanities objects".[22] The use of computational systems and the study of computational media within the arts and humanities more generally has been termed the 'computational turn'.[23] In 2006 the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the federal granting agency for scholarships in the humanities, launched the Digital Humanities Initiative (renamed Office of Digital Humanities in 2008), which made widespread adoption of the term "digital humanities" all but irreversible in the United States.[24] http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijshc “'Social and humanistic computing' stands for holistic approaches to human/social-centric design of pervasive, ubiquitous systems, providing/supporting a new era of human/social experience going beyond traditional perceptions of the interaction of humans with IT/IS, exploiting social/humanistic research for the provision of high-tech services and human-centric systems promoting social sustainability development.” “Praxis is the process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is enacted, embodied, or realised. "Praxis" may also refer to the act of engaging, applying, exercising, realizing, or practicing ideas.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxis_(process) “his new 'computational turn' takes the methods and techniques from computer science to create new ways of distant and close readings of texts (e.g. Moretti).” https://sites.google.com/site/dmberry/ Spatial Turn http://spatial.scholarslab.org/spatial-turn/what-is-the-spatial-turn/
- #10: Humanities Computing as Digital Humanities http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/3/000065/000065.html The terminological change from "humanities computing" to "digital humanities" has been attributed to John Unsworth and Ray Siemens who, as editors of the monograph A Companion to Digital Humanities (2004), tried to prevent the field from being viewed as "mere digitization."[22]Consequently, the hybrid term has created an overlap between fields like rhetoric and composition, which use "the methods of contemporary humanities in studying digital objects,"[22] and digital humanities, which uses "digital technology in studying traditional humanities objects".[22] The use of computational systems and the study of computational media within the arts and humanities more generally has been termed the 'computational turn'.[23] In 2006 the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the federal granting agency for scholarships in the humanities, launched the Digital Humanities Initiative (renamed Office of Digital Humanities in 2008), which made widespread adoption of the term "digital humanities" all but irreversible in the United States.[24] http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijshc “'Social and humanistic computing' stands for holistic approaches to human/social-centric design of pervasive, ubiquitous systems, providing/supporting a new era of human/social experience going beyond traditional perceptions of the interaction of humans with IT/IS, exploiting social/humanistic research for the provision of high-tech services and human-centric systems promoting social sustainability development.” “Praxis is the process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is enacted, embodied, or realised. "Praxis" may also refer to the act of engaging, applying, exercising, realizing, or practicing ideas.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxis_(process) “his new 'computational turn' takes the methods and techniques from computer science to create new ways of distant and close readings of texts (e.g. Moretti).” https://sites.google.com/site/dmberry/ Spatial Turn http://spatial.scholarslab.org/spatial-turn/what-is-the-spatial-turn/
- #11: Spatial Turn http://spatial.scholarslab.org/spatial-turn/what-is-the-spatial-turn/
- #12: Spatial Turn http://spatial.scholarslab.org/spatial-turn/what-is-the-spatial-turn/