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 Ordnance 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.
“Smithsonian Digital Volunteers.” Smithsonian Digital Volunteers. Smithsonian., n.d. Web. 08 Aug. 2013. link
Snyder, Susan. The Comic Matrix of Shakespeare’s Tragedies: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979.
Stuart, Elizabeth. “Letter to Shrewsbury, Elizabeth Hardwick Talbot, Countess of.” 1574. MS. Collection of Folger Shakespeare Library.
Thompson, Ann. “Teena Rochfort Smith, Frederick Furnivall, and the New Shakespere Society’s Four-Text Edition of Hamlet.” Shakespeare Quarterly 49, no. 2 (1998): 125–149. Web. 23 August 2013. link
Tufte, Edward. “PowerPoint is Evil.” Wired. September 2003. Web. 22 August 2013. link
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