Digital humanities readings and resources

Readings for further exploration

Anthologies and Core Readings

Berry, David M., ed. Understanding Digital Humanities. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Burdick, Anne et al. Digital Humanities. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2012.

Egan, Gabriel, and John Jowett. “Review of the Early English Books Online (EEBO).” Interactive Early Modern Literary Studies (January 2001): 1–13. Accessed October 27, 2008. link

Eliot, Simon, and Jonathan Rose. A Companion to the History of the Book. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2007.

Fitzpatrick, Kathleen. “Giving it Away: Sharing and the Future of Scholarly Communication.” In Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy. New York: New York University Press, 2011. link

Gold, Matthew K., ed. Debates in the Digital Humanities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012.

Hindley, Meredith. “The Rise of the Machines.” Humanities 34, no. 4 (2013). Web. 23 August 2013. link

Hirsch, Brett D. Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles and Politics. Cambridge: OpenBook, 2012.

Jockers, Matthew. “Foundation.” In Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History, 3–32. Urbana: University of Illinois, 2013.

Literary Studies in a Digital Age: An Evolving Anthology. Edited by Kenneth M. Price and Ray Siemens. link

Marcus, Leah S. “The Silence of the Archive and the Noise of Cyberspace.” In The Renaissance Computer: Knowledge Technology in the First Age of Print, edited by Neil Rhodes and Jonathan Sawday, 18–28. London and New York: Routledge, 2000.

McCarty, Willard. Introduction to Humanities Computing. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

McEnery, Tony, and Andrew Hardie. Corpus Linguistics: Method, Theory and Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

McGann, Jerome. “Philology in a New Key.” Critical Inquiry 29, no. 2 (2013): 327–46.

McLuhan, Marshall. The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man. Toronto: The University of Toronto Press, 1962.

Morozov, Evgeny. To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism. New York: Public Affairs, 2013.

Ong, Walter. “Writing Restructures Consciousness.” Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word, 77–114. London and New York, Routledge, 1982.

Price, Kenneth M. and Ray Siemens, eds. Literary Studies in the Digital Age: An Evolving Anthology. MLA Commons, 2013. E-Book. Accessed July 10, 2013. link

Sayer, Jentrey. Teaching and Learning Multimodal Communications. 9 July 2013. Web. 21 August 2013. link

Schreibman, Susan, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth, eds. A Companion to Digital Humanities. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. Accessed July 10, 2013. link

“SECT (sustaining the EBBO-TCP Corpus in Translation).” JISC. Web. 21 August 2013. link

Siemens, Ray, and Susan Schreibman, eds. A Companion to Digital Literary Studies. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008. Accessed July 10, 2013. link

Simon, Herbert A. “Understanding the Natural and the Artificial Worlds.” In The Sciences of the Artificial, 3rd ed., 1–24. Cambridge and London: The MIT Press, 2000.

Suber, Peter. Open Access. Cambridge, MA: MIT, 2012.

Tiles, Mary, and Hans Oberdiek, “Conflicting Visions of Technology.” In Living in a Technological Culture: Human Tools and Human Values, 12–28. London and New York: Routledge, 1995.

Underwood, Ted. “We don’t already understand the broad outlines of literary history.” The Stone and the Shell. WordPress. 8 February 2013. Web. 9 August 2013. link

—. “Very Briefly: Scalable Reading.” Scalable Reading. WordPress, 1 June 2012. Web. 09 Aug. 2013. link

Editing and Encoding

“A Gentle Introduction to XML.” TEI: A Test Coding Initiative. 26 July 2013. Web. 21 August 2013. link

Adams, Robyn. “Bodley Diplomatic Correspondence Project.” Textal. 9 July 2013. Web. 22 August 2013 link

Alston, Robin. “The Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue: a personal history to 1989.” 8 September 2008. Web. 22 August 2013. link

Brown, Susan. “CWRC-Writer.” The Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory. 30 November 2010. Web. 8 August 2013. link

Buzzetti, Dino, and Jerome McGann. “Critical Editing in a Digital Horizon.” In Electronic Textual Editing. Edited by Lou Burnard, Katherine O’Brien O’Keefe, and John Unsworth, 53–73. New York: Modern Language Association, 2006. Accessed July 10, 2013. link

Jannidis, Fotis et al. “An Encoding Model for Genetic Editions.” TEI Guidelines. link

—. “Ch. 11: Representation of Primary Sources.” TEI Guidelines. Last modified July 5, 2013. link

Mak, Bonnie. “Archaeology of a Digitization.” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 65, no. 8 (2014): 1515-1526. link to preprint (pdf). DOI: 10.1002/asi.23061

“MARC in XML.” MARC in XML. Library of Congress, 8 Sept. 2008. Web. 09 Aug. 2013. link

DH and the Profession  

American Historical Association Statement on Policies Regarding the Embargoing of Completed History PhD Dissertations. American Historical Association, 19 July 2013. Web. 09 Aug. 2013. link

Barab, Sasha, and Kurt Squire. “Design-Based Research: Putting a Stake in the Ground.” The Journal of the Learning Sciences 13, no. 1 (2004): 1–14. Web. 8 August 2013. link

Clement, Tanya. “Welcome to HiPSTAS.” HiPSTAS. 14 November 2012. Web. 23 August 2013. link

Findlen, Paula. “How Google Rediscovered the 19th Century.” Chronicle of Higher Education 22 July 2013. Web. 8 August 2013. link

Green, Karen. “Naughty Bits.” Adventures in Academia. Comixology. 4 January 2008. Web. 21 August 2013.

Guiliano, Jennifer. “I’ll see your open access and raise you two book contracts: or why the AHA should re-think its policy.” Jennifer Guilliano’s Blog. Cyber Chimps. 24 July 2013. Web. 8 August 2013. link

Hall, Gary. “Towards a Post-Digital Humanities: Cultural Analytics and the Computational Turn to Data-Driven Scholarship.” Forthcoming in special issue of American Literature: “New Media and the Digital Humanities,” eds. Wendy H. K. Chun, Patrick Jagoda, and Tara McPherson.

Harris, Katherine D. “Let’s Get Real with Numbers: The Financial Reality of Being a Tenured Professor.” triproftri. 24 June 2013. Web. 22 August 2013. link

Newfield, Christopher. “Ending the Budget Wars: Funding the Humanities during a Crisis in Higher Education.” Profession 2009, 270–84. Web. 22 August 2013. link

Russell, John. “Teaching Digital Scholarship in the Library: Course Evaluation.” dh + lb. ARCL Digital Humanities Discussion Group. 24 July 2013. Web. 8 August 2013.

Saler, Michael. “The Hidden Cost: Review of To Save Everything, Click Here, by Evgeny Morozov.” The Times Literary Supplement (24 May 2013): 3–4.

History of the Book and Electronic Resources  

Binkley, Richard. “New Tools, New Recruits, for the Republic of Letters.” Robert C. Binkley, 1897–1940/ Life, Works, Ideas. 21 May 2013. Web. 22 August 2013. link

“Discussion Area, Archived.” Internet Shakespeare Editions. 6 July 2006. Web. 8 August 2013. link

Gadd, Ian. “The Use and Misuse of Early English Books Online.” Literature Compass 6 (2009): 680–692. Accessed July 10, 2013. link

—-. “EMDA13-in-the-reading-room.” Storify. 11 July 2013. Web. 22 August 2013. link

Hirsch, Brett D., and Christopher Wortham. “Rom Jew to Puritan: The Emblematic Owl in Early English Culture.” “This Earthly Stage”: World and Stage in Late Medieval and Early Modern England. Turnhout: Brepols, 2010.

“History and Milestones.” ProQuest. Web. 22 August 2013. link

Hutchison, Coleman. “Breaking the book known as Q.” PMLA (2006): 33–66.

Jackson, William A. “Some Limitations of Microfilm.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 35 (1941): 281–88.

Kearney, Patrick J., and G. Legman. The Private Case: An Annotated Bibliography of the Private Case Erotica Collection in the British (Museum) Library. London: J. Landesman, 1981.

Knutson, Roslyn. “Theatrical Commerce and the Repertory System….” Folger Shakespeare Library, 2003. Web. 09 Aug. 2013. link

Marcus, Manfred. “Article Contents.” Wright’s English Dialect Dictionary Computerised: Towards a New Source of Information. University of Helsinki, 17 Dec. 2007. Web. 09 Aug. 2013.

Mod, Craig. “The Digital-Physical: On Building Flipboard for iPhone & Finding the Edges of Our Digital Narratives.” @craigmod. March 2013. Web. 8 August 2013. link

Mueller, Martin. “Collaborative curation of Early Modern plays by undergraduates.” Scalable Reading. 5 June 2012. Web. 21 August 2013. link

—-. “How to fix 60,000 errors.” Scalable Reading. 22 June 2013. Web. 21 August 2013. link

—-. “What is a Young Scholar edition.” Scalable Reading. 23 June 213. Web. 21 August 2013. [1]

Parker, Patricia A. “Othello and Hamlet: Syping, Discoery and Secret Faults.” Shakespeare from the Margins: Language, Culture, Context. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1996.

Pastorino, Cesare. “The Mine and the Furnace: Francis Bacon, Thomas Russell, and Early Stuart Mining Culture.” Early Science and Medicine 14, no. 5 (2009): 630–60.

Poole, Steven. “Green’s Dictionary of Slang by Jonathon Green and Guardian Style by David Marsh & Amelia Hodsdon–review.” The Guardian. 17 December 2010. Web. 9 August 2013. link

Powell, Daniel. “Dispatches from Capitol Hill: #1″ Daniel Powell. 9 July 2013. Web. 22 August 2013. link

—-. “Dispatches from Capitol Hill: #2, or EEBO and the Infinite Weirdness.” Daniel Powell. 10 July 2013. Web. 22 August 2013. link

—-. “Dispatches from Capitol Hill: #3, or XML and TEI are scary.” Daniel Powell. 9 July 2013. Web. 22 August 2013. link

—-. “Dispatches from Capitol Hill: #4, or What is transcription, really?” Daniel Powell. 18 July 2013. Web. 22 August 2013. link

Power, Eugene. Edition of One. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan., 1990.

Proot, Goran, and Leo Egghe. “Estimating Editions on the Basis of Survivals…” Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America, 102, no. 2 (2008): 149–74.

Rymer, Thomas. A Short View of Tragedy. London: Richard Baldwin, 1693. link (EEBO-TCP, subscription req.)

Scott, Alexander De Courcy, and H. James. On Photo-zincography and Other Photographic Processes Employed at the Ordance Survey Office, Southampton. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1862.

Shore, Daniel. “WWJD? The Genealogy of a Syntactic Form.” Critical Inquiry. 37, no. 1 (2010): 1–25.

Hypertext Literature

Abbott, Edwin. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1963.

Mohammad, K. Selim. “Mark Rutkoski, Words of Love.” Harriet The Blog RSS. Poetry Foundation, 1 May 2013. Web. 09 Aug. 2013. link

Linguistic and Textual Analysis and Corpora

Atwell, Eric. “[Corpora-List] Question: Citing Linguistic Corpora.” [Corpora-List]. 7 March 2013. Web. 8 August 2013. link and threaded response from Angela Chambers link

Bieber, Douglas. “Representativeness in Corpus Design.” Literary and Linguistic Computing 8, no.4 (1993): 243–257. Web. 22 August 2013. link

Bird, Steven, Ewan Klein, and Edward Loper. Natural Language Processing with Python. Beijing: O’Reilly, 2009.

Burton, Matt. “The Joy of Topic Modeling.” Mcburton.net. 21 May 2013. Web. 9 August 2013. link

Davies, Mark. “A corpus-based study of lexical developments in Early and Late Modern English.” In Handbook of English Historical Linguistics, edited by Merja Kytö and Päivi Pahta. Forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.

—. “Expanding Horizons in Historical Linguistics with the 400 million word Corpus of Historical American English.” Corpora 7, no. 2 (2012): 121–57. Accessed July 10, 2013. link

Davis, Robin Camille. “Testing out the NLTK sentence tokenizer.” Robin Camille Davis/ Blog. 18 February 2012. Web. 8 August 2013. link

— “Gephi+ MALLET + EMDA.” Robin Camille Davis/ Blog. 18 February 2012. Web. 23 August 2013. link

Froehlich, Heather. “We’re up All Night Playing with Docuscope.” Early Modern Digital Agendas. Folger Shakespeare Library, 21 July 2013. Web. 09 Aug. 2013. link

—-. “How Many Female Characters Are There in Shakespeare?” heather froehlich. 8 February 2013. Web. 21 August 2013. link

“Getting Started with Topic Modeling.” Digital humanities 2013. UCLA. 11 June 2013. Web. 9 August 2013. link

Koh, Adeline. “First Look: Textual, A Free SmartPhone App for Text Analysis.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. 18 July 2013. Web. 21 August 2013. link

Moretti, Franco. “Network Theory, Plot Analysis.” Literary Lab. Pamphlet 2, 1 May, 2011. Web. 21 August 2013. link

Pumfrey, Paul, Paul Rayson and John Mariani. “Experiments in 17th Century English: manual versus automatic conceptual history.” Literary and Linguistic Computing 27, no. 4 (2012): 395–408.

“Searching Corpora.” Corpus Search. Northwestern University. 15 July 2013. Web. 21 August 2013. link

Witmore, Michael. “Fuzzy Structuralism.” Wine Dark Sea. WordPress. 20 July 2013. Web. 20 August 2013. link

—-. “Text: A Massively Addressable Object.” 31 December 2010. Web. 21 August 2013. link

Wynne, Martin. “Archiving, Distribution and Preservation.” Developing Linguistic Corpora: a Guide to Good Practice, ed. M. Wynne. Oxford: Oxbow Books: 71–78. link

Cataloguing, Classification, and Citation

Blaney, Jonathan. “Citing Digital Resources.” SECT: Sustaining the EBBO-TCP. Bodleian Library. 25 June 2013. Web. 8 August 2013. link

Earheart, Amy. “Recovering the Recovered Text: Diversity, Canon Building and Digital Studies.” Digital Humanities 2012. Web. 22 August 2013. link

“Fast Facts.” CrossRef.org. 25 July 2013. Web. 23 August 2013. link

Hellqvist, Björn. “Referencing in the Humanities and Its Implications for Citation Analysis.” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 61, no. 2 (2009). Web. 22 August 2013. link

Media Studies and Visualization Studies

“About the Project.”Mapping the Catalog of Ships. University of Virginia Library. Web. 21 August 2013. link

Aimer Media Ltd. “Grayson Perry: The Vanity of Small Differences.” iPhone/iPad Application. Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre and Aimer Media. Last modified June 28, 2013. Accessed July 10, 2013. link

Alexander, Marc. “Patchworks and Field-Boundaries: Visualizing the History of English.” Digital Humanities 2012. Web. 9 August 2013. link

Carey, Craig. “< A > and < B >: Marks, Maps, Media, and the Materiality of Bierce’s Style.” Forthcoming in special issue of American Literature: “New Media and the Digital Humanities,” edited by Wendy H. K. Chun, Patrick Jagoda, and Tara McPherson.

Drucker, Johanna. “Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 5, no. 1 (2011). Accessed July 10, 2013. link

Dupond, Grégoire. “Piranesi Carceri d’Invenzione.” Online video clip. Vimeo. Vimeo, 2012. Web. 8 August 2013. link

Fifty Nine Productions. “Five Truths: Brook.” Online video. National Theatre of Southbank, London. National Theatre. Date unknown. Web. 21 August 2013. link

Friendly, Michael. “DataVis.ca.” Gallery of Data Visualization. New York University, 9 Aug. 2013. Web. 09 Aug. 2013.

“Jonathon Green’s Slang – On The Media.” Onthemedia. NYC, 8 Apr. 2011. Web. 09 Aug. 2013.

Klein, Lauren Frederica. “The Image of Absence: Archival Silence, Data Visualization, and James Hemings.” Forthcoming in special issue of American Literature: “New Media and the Digital Humanities,” edited by Wendy H. K. Chun, Patrick Jagoda, and Tara McPherson.

Long, Christopher. “Performative Publication.” Christopher P. Long. 19 July 2013. Web. 8 August 2013. link

Lupton, Julia Reinhard. “Blur Building: Softscape.” Shakespeare & Hospitality.

Moore, Suzanne. “Grayson Perry’s Tapestries: Weaving Class and Taste.” The Guardian. 7 June 2013. Web. 10 July 2013. link

Ortiz, Santiago. “45 Ways to Communicate Two Quantities.” visual.ly. visual.ly 2012. Web. 8 August 2013.

Perry, Grayson. The Vanity of Small Differences. Tapestry.

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista. “The Arts of Piranesi.” Exhibits Development Group. link

“Sorting Algorithms as Dances.” Sorting Algorithms as Dances. I Programer, 10 Apr. 2011. Web. 09 Aug. 2013. link

“The 20 Best Tools for Data Visualization.” Creative Bloq. Future Publishing Limited. 18 March 2013. Web. 8 August 2013. link

Templeman-Kluit, Nadaleen, and Alexa Pearce. “Invoking the User from Data to Design.” College & Research Libraries. 1 September 2014.

Tillman, R L. “Pirensi: Now in 3-D.” Printeresting. Warhol Foundation. 5 October 2010. Web. 8 August 2013. link

Weir, George R. S., and Marina Livitsanou. “Playing Textual Analysis as Music.” Corpus, ICT, and Language Education, eds. Weir, George R. S., and Shinʼichirō Ishikawa. Glasgow: University of Strathclyde Press, 2011. Web. 8 August 2013. link

Theories of Technology

Benjamin, Walter. “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (or Reproducibility) (1936).” Transcribed by Andy Blunden. UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, 1998. Accessed July 10, 2013. link

—-. “The Storyteller, Reflections on the Works of Nikolai Leskov.” Slought Foundation. Web. 22 August 2013. link

Heidigger, Martin. “The Question Concerning Technology, 1950.” The Institute for the Promotion of Learning Disorders. Web. 23 August 2013. link

Marsh, Leslie. “Review of Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence, Andy Clark; Oxford University Press, 2003, $26.00, 240 pp. ISBN: 0-1951-4866-5.” Cognitive Systems Research 6 (2005): 405–409. link

Marshall, Catherine C. Reading and Writing the Electronic Book. [San Rafael, Calif.]: Morgan & Claypool, 2010.

Sartre, Jean-Paul, and Lloyd Alexander. Nausea. New York: New Directions, 1964.

Electronic Resources and Sites

See also Digital resources at the Folger.

ArchBook, University of Toronto. link

Archive for the REKn (Renaissance English Knowledgebase) Category, Early Modern Online Bibliography. link

AustESE Project, the University of Queensland, Australia. link

Bess of Hardwick’s Letters, University of Glasgow. link

Cluster Analysis, Quick-R. link

Corpora, Brigham Young University. link

Corpus Query Processor, Lancaster University. link

Critical Code Studies, WordPress. link

Development for the Digital Humanities. link

Digital Renaissance Editions, The University of Western Australia. link

DocuScope, Carnegie Mellon University. link

Doing Digital Humanities- A DARIAH Bibliography, Zotero. link

Early English Books Online, Proquest. link (subscribing institution) or link (non-subscribing institution)

Early Modern Digital Agendas Wiki. link

Early Modern Digital Collaboratory, MLA Commons. link

Early Modern Letters Online, Bodleian Library. link

Early Modern OCR Project, Texas A & M University. link

Early Theatre: A Journal Associated with the Records of Early English Drama, McMaster University. link

EMDA13 Pinterest Board, Pinterest. link

“English Handwriting” [Introduction to Paleography], Cambridge University. link

English Short Title Catalogue, British Library. link

Folger Digital Texts, Folger Shakespeare Library. link

Henslowe-Alleyn Digitization Project, King’s College, London. link

Heurist. link

Invisible City Audio Tours. link

Juxta Commons, University of Virginia. link

Lexicons of Early Modern English, University of Toronto.

LUNA, Folger Shakespeare Library. link

Map of Early Modern London, the University of Victoria. link

Marsyas, the University of Victoria. link

Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance. link

Monk, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. link

MPublishing, University of Michigan. link

Natural Language Toolkit, NLTK Project. link

New Women Writers, Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research. link

Old Bailey Online. link

Palaeography, The National Archives. link

Raymond Carver Reading Series, Syracuse University Library. link

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University. link

Selected Tools, datavisualization.ch. link

Stanford Topic Modeling Toolbox, Stanford University. link

Tesserae, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. link

The Alliance for Networking Visual Culture, University of Southern California. link

The Chymistry of Isaac Newton, Indiana University. link

The Penn Treebank Project, University of Pennsylvania. link

The Newton Project, University of Sussex. link

The Updike Collection Book Trade Portraits, Providence Public Library. link

The Zeumatic Project. link

Tools, WikiViz. link

“Try R,” Code School. link

UCREL Semantic Analysis System. link

Varieng, University of Helsinki. link

Versioning Machine. link

Version Variation Visualization, Swansea University. link

Vincent van Gogh: The Letters. link

Virtual Pauls Cross Project: a Digital Recreation of John Donne’s Gunpowder Day Sermon, London, 1622, NC State University. link

Visualizing Variation, University of Toronto. link

What is Digital Humanities? link

Wmatrix., University of Lancaster. link

Wordnet, Princeton University. link

Word Hoard Tutorial Page, Northwestern University. link