LSC 874 Digital Humanities (Spring 2015)
Department of Library and Information Science
LSC 874: Special Topics: Digital Humanities
Spring, 2014
Final version (01/26/2015)
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: One of: 551, 553, 555, 557, 648, 652, 677 or permission of the instructor. The course is
designed for graduate students.
Tuesdays, 6:40pm-9:10pm
Classroom: Pangborn 303
Kevin Gunn, M.A., M.L.I.S.
Coordinator of Religious Studies and Humanities Services
314 Mullen Library
1-202-319-5088
mailto:gunn@cua.edu
Office Hours: Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. (by appointment is preferred).
Blog: http://kevinbgunn.wordpress.com/
Old Blog: http://humanitieslibrarianshipandtechnology.blogspot.com/
Twitter: @KevinBGunn Follow me!
Curriculum Vitae: http://libraries.cua.edu/staff/gunn/
Course Description
Digital Humanities can be defined as “a diverse and still emerging field that encompasses the practice of
humanities research in and through information technology and the exploration of how the humanities
may evolve through their engagement with technology, media, and computational methods.” Digital
Humanities combines the methodologies from the traditional humanities disciplines such as religion,
philosophy, art, architecture, literature, linguistics, film and theater, music, history, and archaeology with
tools from computer science such as data visualization, data mining, textual analysis, information
retrieval, and digital publishing. Librarians are playing collaborative roles in such areas as data curation
and preservation, digitization of critical editions, data analysis, project design, and project management.
Topics include the evolution of humanities to digital humanities; the tools and techniques used by digital
humanists; the scholarly communication issues impacted by the digital humanities; and the issues
pertaining to funding, managing, and evaluating digital humanities projects.
This course will provide a foundation for understanding the issues and problems surrounding the digital
humanities. It is a ‘jumping off’ point for the study of digital humanities rather than a ‘capstone’ course.
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Instructional Methods
Lectures in classroom, labs, Blackboard, guest lecturers
Required Texts
Jockers, Matthew L., Text Analysis with R for Students of Literature. Heidelberg: Springer, 2014.
Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner, and Jeffrey Schnapp. Digital Humanities
(MIT Press, 2012). Open source: http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/digitalhumanities-0
Matthew Gold, Debates in the Digital Humanities (University of Minnesota Press, 2012). Open source
edition: http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/
Recommended Texts
None
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companionDLS/
Recommended Resources
CUA Digital Humanities Research Guide: http://guides.lib.cua.edu/digitalhumanities
Digital Humanities and the Library: a Bibliography: http://miriamposner.com/blog/?page_id=1033
Adams, J.L. and Gunn, K.B. (2012). "Digital Humanities: Where to start." College & Research Library
News 73 (9), pp. 536-569.
Course Goals
The course is designed to provide students with a foundation of understanding the issues in the digital
humanities. Specifically, explore various theoretical and applied perspectives on the digital humanities,
work with a wide variety of digital humanities projects, methods, and tools; and develop project
management skills in examining and evaluating digital humanities projects.
Goals for Student Learning
At the conclusion of the course, the student will be able to critically discuss digital humanities with
regards to theories, methods, and practices within the various disciplines, be familiar with the tenets of
digital humanities research and scholarly communication, and be comfortable with project management
issues when working on a digital humanities project.
Professional Standards Addressed
American Library Association (ALA)
http://www.ala.org/ala/educationcareers/careers/corecomp/corecompetences/finalcorecompstat09.pdf
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Best Practices for TEI in Libraries
http://www.tei-c.org/SIG/Libraries/teiinlibraries/
Evaluation of DH: Guidelines for Librarians
http://acrl.ala.org/dh/2012/12/03/evaluating-dh-work-guidelines-for-librarians/
Guidelines for Evaluating Work in Digital Humanities and Digital Media
http://www.mla.org/guidelines_evaluation_digital
Map and Geography Round Table (MAGERT)
Map, GIS and Cataloging / Metadata Librarian Core Competencies
Required Technologies
Capabilities Required for Course Delivery and Student Participation: Blackboard; standard CUA
software; CUA library and information system accounts; ability to use ALADIN digital library resources.
Every student should have daily access to a computer and high speed internet access, and the ability to use
Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, and Excel or equivalent tools. Students should fulfill the Baseline
Technology Requirements (http://slis.cua.edu/tech/base-tech.cfm).
Laptops will be required for classes as we will download, install, and personalize software packages. See
me if this is a problem.
Tools and Technologies Taught: This course includes the discussion and use of information technology
in:
 text analysis for humanities computing and textual scholarship using Juxta
(http://www.juxtasoftware.org/), Voyant Tools (http://voyant-tools.org/), AntConc
(http://www.laurenceanthony.net/software/antconc/), and R (http://cran.r-project.org/) and
RStudio (http://www.rstudio.com/)
 critical edition creation using XML in the Oxygen XML Editor (or other open source software)
following TEI Guidelines (http://www.oxygenxml.com/). Oxygen has a 30 day free period so do
not download until March 31st.
 spatial analysis with Geographical Information Systems (GIS) using ArcGIS
(http://www.arcgis.com/home/) and Google Earth (http://www.google.com/earth/)
All software will be either free, open source software or trial based. No software will need to be
purchased by the student. In addition to the above packages that will be assigned, the course will contain
biweekly exercises and demonstrations of a variety of software packages dealing with some aspect of
humanities data manipulation. Students should not be intimidated by the nature or variety of software.
We will get our feet wet by exploring the possibilities that abound in digital humanities!
Expectations and policies
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Academic honesty: Academic honesty is expected of all CUA students. Faculty are required to initiate
the imposition of sanctions when they find violations of academic honesty, such as plagiarism, improper
use of a student’s own work, cheating, and fabrication.
The following sanctions are presented in the University procedures related to Student Academic
Dishonesty (from http://policies.cua.edu/academicundergrad/integrityprocedures.cfm): “The presumed
sanction for undergraduate students for academic dishonesty will be failure for the course. There may be
circumstances, however, where, perhaps because of an undergraduate student’s past record, a more
serious sanction, such as suspension or expulsion, would be appropriate. In the context of graduate
studies, the expectations for academic honesty are greater, and therefore the presumed sanction for
dishonesty is likely to be more severe, e.g., expulsion. ...In the more unusual case, mitigating
circumstances may exist that would warrant a lesser sanction than the presumed sanction.”
Please review the complete texts of the University policy and procedures regarding Student Academic
Dishonesty, including requirements for appeals, at
http://policies.cua.edu/academicundergrad/integrity.cfm and
http://policies.cua.edu/academicundergrad/integrity.cfm.
Attendance. Show up and be on time! It is CUA Policy that attendance is mandatory. Attendance is
important as there will be many topics, examples, etc. that will discussed in class but not found in the
reading material. Absences will affect your final grade. Let me know before class if you will be absent.
Accommodations for students with disabilities: Any student who feels s/he may need an
accommodation based on the impact of a disability should contact the instructor privately to discuss
specific needs. Please contact Disability Support Services (at 202 319-5211, room 207 Pryzbyla Center)
to coordinate reasonable accommodations for students with documented disabilities. To read about the
services and policies, please visit the website: http://disabilitysupport.cua.edu.
Course Requirements and Assessment
Assignment 1: Text analysis with Juxta and Voyant (10%) due: February 3rd.
Take some text—your own or a selection from a website—and analyze it for insights. Write a summary
(2-3 pages).
Assignment 2: Text analysis with AntConc or R & RStudio (20%) due: March 17th. Using a corpus
using the BNC, COCA or create your own project. Create a research question or topic and explore the
corpus analyzing lemmas, word origins, parts of speech (POS), etc. Write a report (3-4 pages).
Assignment 3: GIS project (20%) due: March 31st. Working with ArcGIS or Google Earth, you will
create an interactive map using downloaded data sets or your own data set.
Assignment 4: XML/TEI digital edition (20%) due: April 21st. Using the XML editor, Oxygen, you will
learn to do basic searching using the XQuery and XSLT languages. Submission of a take home test.
Assignment 5: Final project (30%): due April 28th. One of the following:
a) working on or for a digital humanities project with a final report 6-7 pages of a critical analysis
of the work.
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b) developing a grant proposal for a digital humanities project following the ODH guidelines
(outline project design, implementation, budget, evaluation, and preservation, etc.) (8-10 pages).
c) writing a research paper that reflects on the theory, methodology, or impact of the digital
humanities. (8-10 pages).
Final grades will be assigned as follows:
Letter
A
AB+
B
BC
F
Numeric range
94-100
90-93.99
86-89.99
82-85.99
78-81.99
70-77.99
Below 70
University grades:
The University grading system is available at
http://policies.cua.edu/academicundergrad//gradesfull.cfm#II for undergraduates and
http://policies.cua.edu/academicgrad//gradesfull.cfm#iii for graduate students. Reports of grades in
courses are available at the end of each term on http://cardinalstation.cua.edu.
Libraries
The CUA Libraries' wide range of resources and services, including databases, online journals, and FAQs
are on the main web site (http://libraries.cua.edu). For assistance on papers and assignments, consult the
research guides (http://guides.lib.cua.edu/) or schedule an appointment with a subject librarian
(http://libraries.cua.edu/about/subjLibs.cfm).
NOTE: Friday, January 23rd is the last day to register or add courses for credit; last day to drop a
course without record.
Course Schedule
January 13 Introduction to the course. What are the Humanities? What are the Digital
Humanities?
Svensson, Patrik, “The Landscape of Digital Humanities,” Digital Humanities Quarterly 4, no. 1 (Summer
2010).
Drucker, Johanna, “The Virtual Codex from Page Space to E-space,” A Companion to Digital Literary
Studies. Susan Schreibman and Ray Siemens. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008.
Hindley, Meredith. "The Rise of the Machines." Humanities 34.4 (2013): 10-53.
http://www.neh.gov/humanities/2013/julyaugust/feature/the-rise-the-machines
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Hopkins, Curt. “Future U: Rise of the Digital Humanities.” Ars Technica, June 17, 2012.
http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/06/future-u-rise-of-the-digital-humanities/.
Ramsey, Stephen. Who’s In and Who’s Out. January 8, 2011.
Ramsey, Stephen. On Building. January 11, 2011.
Spiro, Lisa. “‘This Is Why We Fight’: Defining the Values of the Digital Humanities.” IN Matthew K.
Gold, ed., Debates in the Digital Humanities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012,
16-35.
January 20 History of Humanities Computing and Digital Humanities
Burdick, Anne, et al. (2012). “Humanities to Digital Humanities” in Digital_Humanities, 3–26.
Dalbello, Marija, A Genealogy of Digital Humanities, Journal of Documentation 67(3) (2011): 480506.
Hockey, Susan, “The History of Humanities Computing” A Companion to Digital Humanities.
McCarty, Willard, “Getting there from here: Remembering the future of digital humanities,” Literary and
Linguistic Computing 29.3 (2014): 283-306.
McCarty, Willard, “Modeling: A Study of Words and Meanings,” A Companion to Digital Humanities.
Schreibman, Susan, John Unsworth, and Ray Siemens. “The Digital Humanities and Humanities
Computing: An Introduction,” A Companion to Digital Humanities.
Lab: Voyant, Juxta, AntConc
January 27 Project Development and Project Management
Coble, Zach, “Evaluating Digital Humanities Work: Guidelines for Librarians.” Journal of Digital
Humanities 1.4 (2012).
Croxall, Brian, 12 Basic Principals of Project Management
Leon, Sharon, Project Management for Humanists: Preparing Future Primary Investigators
Nowviskie, Bethany, Ten Rules for Humanities Scholars New to Project Management
Parker, Deborah, Guidelines for the Evaluation of Digital Humanities Projects. ADFL Bulletin vol. 41, no.
1, 2009, 67-75.
Owens, Trevor, Where to Start? On Research Questions in the Digital Humanities.
Projects and Tools: DevDH.org
Lab: AntConc
February 3 What are Big Data? Introduction to Big Data
Alvarado, Rafael, Four Theses on Big Data. April 9, 2014.
Boyd, Danah and Crawford, Kate. Six Provocations for Big Data. A Decade in Internet Time: Symposium
on the Dynamics of the Internet and Society, September 2011.
Gitelman, Lisa and Virginia Jackson. Ed. ‘Raw Data’ is an Oxymoron. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2013, 114.
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Dixon, Dan, Analysis Tool or Design Methodology?: Is there an epistemology for patterns? In Berry, D.
(Ed.), Understanding Digital Humanities (191-209). New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
Jockers, Matthew. Macroanalysis. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2013, 24-62.
Rosenberg, Daniel, “Data Before the Fact,” IN Gitelman, Lisa, Ed. “Raw Data’ is an Oxymoron.
Cambridge: MIT Press, 2013, 15-40.
Speakers: (1) Lilla Kopár, Director of the Center for Medieval and Byzantine Studies, The Catholic
University of America. Co-principal Investigator, Project Andvari
(2) Robin Darling-Young, Associate Professor of Spirituality, The Catholic University of
America, Iraqi Christian Oral History Project
Lab: OpenRefine, DataWrangler, R & RStudio
Assignment #1 due
February 10 Data Mining and Text Mining
Manovich, L. (2012). “How to compare one million images.” In Berry, D. (Ed.), Understanding Digital
Humanities (249-278). New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
Hagood, Jonathan. “A Brief Introduction to Data Mining Projects in the Humanities.” ASIS&T Bulletin.
April/May 2012.
Hoover, David. “Textual Analysis,” Literary Studies in the Digital Age. MLA Commons, 2014.
Morgan, Eric Lease, Text Mining in a Nutshell, September 6, 2013.
Simeone, Michael, Guiliano, Jennifer, Kooper, Rob, and Bajcsy, Peter. “Digging into data using new
collaborative infrastructures supporting humanities-based computer science research.” First
Monday 16 (5) (16 April 2011).
Ramsay, Stephen, Reading Machines: Towards an Algorithmic Criticism. Urbana: University of Illinois
Press, 2011, 1-17. Reserve: P98.5 .P38 R36 2011
Tenopir, Carol, Ben Birch and Suzie Allard. Academic Libraries and Research Data Services.
Washington, DC: ACRL, 2012.
Underwood, Ted. “For most literary scholars, text mining is going to be an exploratory tool,” The Stone
and the Shell, August 15, 2011. http://tedunderwood.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/how-to-maketext-mining-serve-literary-history-and-not-the-other-way-around/.
Williford, Christa and Charles Henry. One Culture: Computationally Intensive Research in the
Humanities and Social Sciences. Washington, DC: CLIR, 2012.
Speaker: Kim Hoffman, Scholarly Communications Coordinator, The Catholic University of America
Lab: R & RStudio
February 17 Data Curation
Cox, Andrew et al. “Upskilling Liaison Librarians for Research Data Management.” Ariadne 70 (2012).
Higgins, Sarah. “Digital Curation: The Emergence of a New Discipline.” International Journal of Digital
Curation, 6.2 (2011): 78-88.
Jahnke, Lori, Andrew Asher and Spencer D.C. Keralis. The Problem of Data. Washington, DC: CLIR,
2012.
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Latham, Bethany and Jodi Welch Poe. “The Library as Partner in University Data Curation: A Case Study
in Collaboration.” Journal of Web Librarianship 6. 4 (Oct 2012), 288-304.
Lee, Christopher A., Kam Woods, Matthew Kirschenbaum, and Alexandra Chassanoff. From Bitstreams
to Heritage: Putting Digital Forensics into Practice in Collecting Institutions, 2013.
Smith, Susan S. “Introduction: Special Issue on Data Curation.” Journal of Web Librarianship 6. 4 (Oct
2012): 225-227.
Weber, Nicholas M., Carole L. Palmer & Tiffany C. Chao. “Current Trends and Future Directions in Data
Curation Research and Education.” Journal of Web Librarianship 6. 4 (Oct 2012), 305-320.
February 24 ADMINISTRATION MONDAY—No Class
March 3 Tools and Methodologies: Topic Modeling
Weingart, Scott. Topic Modeling for Humanists: a Guided Tour. July 25, 2012.
Riddell, Allen Beye. A Simple Topic Model (Mixture of Anagrams), July 22, 2012.
Ramsay, Stephen. The Hermeneutics of Screwing Around; or What You Do with a Million Books. April,
2010.
Mike Kestemont, Sara Moens, and Jeroen Deploige. Collaborative authorship in the twelfth century: a
stylometric study of Hildegard of Bingen and Guibert of Gembloux. Literary & Linguist
Computing. October 26, 2013. doi:10.1093/llc/fqt063
Video: Hildegard of Bingen: Authorship and Stylometry. July 18, 2013.
Speaker: Paul Evans, PhD candidate in the Medieval and Byzantine Studies program at CUA and a
research assistant at the Maryland Institute for Technology and the Humanities at the University of
Maryland, College Park.
NOTE: Paul has asked that you read the Jockers and Underwood articles below BEFORE class.
Jockers, Matthew. The LDA Buffet is Now Open; or, Latent Dirichlet Allocation for English Majors.
September 29, 2011.
Underwood, Ted. Topic Modeling Made Just Simple Enough. April 7, 2012.
See also the special issue devoted to topic modeling in the Journal of Digital Humanities, vol. 2 no. 1
(Winter 2012).
Lab: R & RStudio
March 10 SPRING BREAK—NO CLASS
March 17 Tools and Methodologies: Spatial Humanities
Drucker, Johanna. Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display. DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly vol.
5 no. 1 (2011).
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Harley, J.B., "Deconstructing the Map," Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic
Information and Geovisualization 26.2 (1989): 1-20.
Harris, Trevor M., Susan Bergeron and L. Jesse Rouse (2011). “Humanities GIS: Place, Spatial
Storytelling, and Immersive Visualization in the Humanities” GeoHumanities: Art, History, and
Text at the Edge of Place, Michael Dear, Jim Ketchum, Sarah Luria, Doug Richardson, editors.
New York: Routledge, 226-240.
Kalas, Gregor, Diane Favro, and Chris Johanson, "Visualizing Statues in the Late Antique Forum":
http://inscriptions.etc.ucla.edu
Speaker: Samuel Russell, Graduate Library Pre-professional, The Catholic University of America
Lab: ArcGIS and Google Earth
Assignment #2 due
March 24 Tools and Methodologies: Data Visualization
Jessop, Martyn, Digital Visualization as a Scholarly Activity, Literary and Linguistic Computing, vol. 23, issue 3,
2008, 281-293.
Drucker, Johanna, Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display, DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 5 no. 1
2011.
Few, Stephen, Now You See It: Simple Visualization Techniques for Quantitative Analysis. Burlingame, CA:
Analytics Press, 2009, 29-53. Reserve: TK7882 .I6 F48 2009
Rix, Kate, The Art of Data Visualization: How to Tell Complex Stories Through Smart Design. Open Culture, May
15, 2013.
Sinclair, Stephan, Stan Ruecker, and Milena Radzikowska, “Information Visualization for Humanities Scholars,”
Literary Studies in the Digital Age. MLA Commons, 2014.
Visconti, Amanda, View DHQ: Visualizing Data from Digital Humanities Quarterly, July 11, 2012. Parts I and II.
Tools and Projects: Google N-Gram Viewer, Over 100 Incredible Infographic Tools and resources
Lab: Gephi and Palladio
March 31 Tools and Methodologies: TEI / XML
Birnbaum, David J. What is XML and why should Humanists Care? An even gentler introduction to
XML.
Terras, Melissa, Ron Van den Branden, and Edward Vanhoutte. “Teaching TEI: The Need for TEI by
Example.” Literary and Linguistic Computing 24, no. 3 (2009), 297-306.
Zillig, Brian L. Pytlik. 2009. “TEI Analytics: converting documents into TEI format for cross-collection
text analysis,” Literary and Linguistic Computing. 24, no. 3, 187-192.
Sukovic, Suzana. “Convergent Flows: Humanities Scholars and their Interactions with Electronic Texts,”
Library Quarterly 78 (3) (2008), 263–284.
Tools: TEI: Learn the TEI
Lab: XML, XSLT, and XQuery using Oxygen editor
Assignment 3 due
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April 7 Tools and Methodologies: TEI / XML: Digital Editions
Clement, Tanya. “Knowledge Representation and Digital Scholarly Editions in Theory and Practice.”
Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative 1.1 (2011).
Eggert, Paul, “Apparatus, text, interface: How to read a printed critical edition.” Cambridge Companion
to Textual Scholarship, Neil Fraistat and Julia Flanders, editors. Cambridge University Press,
2012, 97-118. Reserve: P47 .C36 2012
Lab: TAPAS is the TEI Archive, Publishing, and Access Service
Video: Introduction to TAPAS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJRwZK1Q-3E&feature=youtu.be
Lab: TEI/XML with Oxygen
April 14 Issues: New Models for Scholarly Publishing, Research, and Criticism
Burdick, Anne, et al. “How to Evaluate Digital Scholarship,” Digital_Humanities, 2012, 128-129.
Gibbs, Fred and Trevor Owens, “Building Better Digital Humanities Tools: Toward Broader Audiences
and User-Centered Designs,” Digital Humanities Quarterly 6(2) (2012).
Deegan, Marilyn and Willard McCarty, Collaborative Research in the Digital Humanities. Farnham, UK:
Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011.
Edwards, Charlie. “Digital Humanities and Its Users.” Debates in the Digital Humanities, Matthew K.
Gold, editor. University of Minnesota Press, 2012, 213-232.
Gibbs, Fred. “Critical Discourse in Digital Humanities.” Journal of Digital Humanities (March 9, 2012).
Greetham, David. “The Resistance to Digital Humanities.” Debates in the Digital Humanities, Matthew
K. Gold, editor. University of Minnesota Press, 2012, 438-451.
Hall, Gary. “There are no Digital Humanities.” Debates in the Digital Humanities, Matthew K. Gold,
editor. University of Minnesota Press, 2012, 133-8.
Lui, Alan. “The State of the Digital Humanities: A Report and a Critique.” Arts and Humanities in Higher
Education, 11.1 (2012): 1-34.
Liu, Alan. “Where Is Cultural Criticism in the Digital Humanities?” Debates in the Digital Humanities,
Matthew K. Gold, editor. University of Minnesota Press, 2012, 490-509.
Maron, Nancy L. and Sarah Pickle. Sustaining the Digital Humanities: Host Institution Support Beyond
the Start-up Phase. Ithaka S+R Report, June 18, 2014. Read the executive summary, peruse the
entire report.
Spiro, Lisa, “Computing and Communicating Knowledge: Collaborative Approaches to Digital
Humanities Projects,” in Laura McGrath ed. Collaborative Approaches to the Digital in English
Studies. Utah: Utah State University Press, 2011.
Lab: TEI/XML with Oxygen
April 21 Issues: Librarians and Digital Humanities
Adams, J.L. and Gunn, K.B. (2012). "Digital Humanities: Where to start." College & Research Library
News 73 (9) (Oct. 2012), 536-569.
Kretzschmar, William and Willaim Gray Potter. "Library Collaboration with large Digital Humanities
Projects." Literary and Linguistic Computing 25.4 (Dec 2010), 439-445.
Muñoz, Trevor. Digital Humanities in the Library isn't a Service. August 19, 2012.
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Posner, Miriam. What are Some of the Challenges in Doing DH in the Library? August 10, 2012.
Rieger, Oya. Framing Digital Humanities: the role of new media in humanities scholarship. First Monday
15 (10)(11 October 2010).
The following readings are part of a special issue of the Journal of Library Administration, vol. 52 issue
1, 2013: Special Issue: “Digital Humanities in Libraries: New Models for Scholarly Engagement,”
available online through CUA Libraries.
Nowviskie, Bethanie. “Skunks in the Library: a Path to Production for Scholarly R&D.” Journal of
Library Administration 53(1) (2013): 53-66.
Posner, Miriam. “No Half Measures: Overcoming Common Challenges to Doing Digital Humanities in
the Library” Journal of Library Administration 53(1) (2013): 43–52.
Sula, Chris Alen, “Digital Humanities and Libraries: A Conceptual Model.” Journal of Library
Administration 53(1) (2013): 10-26.
Vandegrift, Micah and Stewart Varner, "Evolving in Common: Creating Mutually Supportive
Relationships Between Libraries and the Digital Humanities." Journal of Library Administration
53(1) (2013): 67-78.
Speaker: Perry Collins, ODH senior program officer, Office of Digital Humanities, National Endowment
for the Humanities, Washington, DC. She handles grants to the Digital Public Library of America.
Assignment #4 due
April 28 Issues: The Future of Digital Humanities
Besser, Howard. ‘The Past, Present, and Future of Digital Libraries’. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens,
John Unsworth, editors. A Companion to Digital Humanities. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
Burdick, Anne, et al. “Emerging Methods and Genres,” Digital_Humanities, 2012, 29-60.
Davidson, Cathy. “Humanities 2.0: Promise, Perils and Predictions.” Matthew Gold, editor, Debates
in the Digital Humanities (University of Minnesota Press, 2012).
Manovich, Lev. “Trending: The Promises and the Challenges of Big Social Data.” Matthew Gold, editor,
Debates in the Digital Humanities (University of Minnesota Press, 2012).
Assignment #5 due
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