Early Modern Digital Agendas
Funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Office of Digital Humanities through its Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities programs, the Folger Institute offers Early Modern Digital Agendas to foster the development of digital approaches to early modern texts. These multi-week institutes explore the robust set of digital tools with period-specific challenges and limitations that early modern literary scholars of English have at hand. Following the success of EMDA2013, the Office of Digital Humanities has generously funded a second Early Modern Digital Agendas institute for the summer of 2015. Information about this upcoming opportunity is available at EMDA2015.
EMDA2013
In July 2013, “Early Modern Digital Agendas” created a forum under the direction of Jonathan Hope, Professor of Literary Linguistics at the University of Strathclyde. It afforded the opportunity for twenty faculty, information staffers, and advanced graduate student participants to historicize, theorize, and critically evaluate current and future digital approaches to early modern literary studies—from Early English Books Online-Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) to advanced corpus linguistics, semantic searching, and visualization theory—with discussion growing out of, and feeding back into, their own projects (current and envisaged). With the guidance of expert visiting faculty, participants paid attention to the ways new technologies were and are shaping the very nature of early modern research and the means by which scholars interpret texts, teach their students, and present their findings to other scholars.
Folgerpedia articles produced and resources compiled by EMDA2013 participants
Digital editions of English Renaissance drama
Glossary of digital humanities terms
Digital tools for textual analysis
Bibliography of textual analysis readings
EMDA2013 participant blog posts
The Hors-Texte Tumblr: Tracing the Unpreserved
Digital humanities readings and resources
History of Early English Books Online
Using Early English Books Online
EMDA2013 Curriculum
Week One: The Digital Corpus for Early Modernists
Week Two: Extending the Early Modern Textual Corpus and Organizing Major Digital Projects
Week Three: New Analytical Approaches to the Corpus
Further Resources
Video Introduction: A three-minute, “lightning-talk” of the project was made at the ODH Project Directors meeting.
News from EMDA2013 Participants and Faculty
EMDA2015
Again under the director of Professor Jonathan Hope, EMDA2015 will feature even more advanced topics than its predecessor. Preliminary information, including a link to a "Dear Colleague" letter to prospective applicants, may be found here.