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

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

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

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

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

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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