Digital Humanities in Practice: Project Work on Developing a
Scholarly Database of Electronic Literature
University of Bergen, Norway (DIKULT 207, Spring 2013)
Patricia Tomaszek patricia.tomaszek@uib.no
Scott Rettberg scott.rettberg@uib.no
90min sessions
Schedule
Class meetings are on Fridays from 10:15-11:45. Students will also participate in the ELMCIP
project meetings, which follow from 13:00-ca.14:30. Assignments and readings may be tweaked
during the semester.
Written homework usually will be assigned on mi side.
Week
Topic
3 (PT, SR)
18.01.
Course-intro, intro Knowledge Base + manual
presentation, KB exploration.
4 (PT, SR)
25.01.
Readings/Homework:
Debates: “Definitions.” (67-71)
“How do you define Humanities Computing/
Digital Humanities”:
http://tapor.ualberta.ca/taporwiki/index.php/How_do_you_
define_Humanities_Computing_/_Digital_Humanities%3F
Drucker: A Short Guide to the Digital Humanities” (122135)
Read manual/point out questions/make editorial
suggestions, create first KB-record (assigned on mi side).
in-class: What are the Digital Humanities?
Presentation of Meri’s work, Luciana’s work. Presentation
of resources to document as project.
Scott Rettberg presents Drupal
5
1.02.
faglig-pedagogisk dag, no class
visit presentations.
Aud D, Sydneshaugen skole, and workshop 12:15-14h
(HF-265)
Readings/Homework:
choose big data e-lit project and write a paragraph (mi
side instructions). describe what is specific about it
concerning digital humanities.
Read: “The History of Humanities Computing” (Hockey, 320)
6 (PT, SR)
8.2.
Readings/Homework
Graphs, Maps, Trees (Moretti, 67-93)
“Developing Things” (Ramsay and Rockewell, Debates,
75-85)
“Making Connections Visible” (Scott Rettberg, 1-12)
student presents
Ramsay/Rockewell
in-class: Distant Reading and Developing “Things”
Scott Rettberg presents CELL
in-class: present project-idea
!!!!
7 (PT)
15.2.
Readings/Homework
@ “The End of the Virtual” (Rogers, ebrary (readable at
uib, 1-25)
“Poetry, Patterns, and Provocation” (Kirschenbaum, 3140)
“Mining the Knowledge Base” (Walker Rettberg, Rettberg,
1-12)
student presents
Rogers
Homework: Present another DH-project
choose from the following resources:
http://dhcommons.org/projects
https://securegrants.neh.gov/publicquery/main.aspx?q=1&
a=0&n=0&o=0&k=0&f=0&s=0&p=1&pv=247&d=0&y=0&pr
d=0&cov=0&prz=0&wp=0&pg=0&ob=year&or=DESC
http://digitalhumanities.org/centernet/centers/
in-class: What are digital methods? What are other DHprojects doing?
8 (PT)
22.2.
Readings/Homework
“Critique of the Semantic Web.” (Cramer)
“Toward a Semantic Literary Web.” (Tabbi)
“Ontology is Overrated.” (Shirky, 1-19)
student presents
Shirky
Homework: compare tags of different databases
in-class: tagging
9 (PT)
1.3.
Readings/Homework
Wright “Data Visualization”
Manovich “What is Visualization” (1-23)
Manovich (Debates, 460-476)
student presents
Manovich
(Debates)
student presents
Manovich (web
resource)
in-class: visualization
10 (PT)
8.3.
Readings/Homework
“Electronic Literature Seen from a Distance: The
Beginnings of a Field” (Walker Rettberg)
Graphing the History of Philosophy (Simon Raper)
in-class: visualization research
11 (PT)
15.3.
DH Criticism:
Readings/Homework
Drucker (Debates, 85-96)
Liu (Debates, 490-509)
in-class: present work in-progress
!!!!!
12 (PT)
22.3.
DH Criticism&DH future:
Readings/Homework
Davidson: “Humanities 2.0: Promise, Perils, Predictions”
(Debates, 476-490)
13 (PT)
29.3
working on projects
14 (PT)
5.4.
no class/eastern
15 (PT)
12.4.
working on projects
15 (PT)
19.4.
wrap-up, exam-talk/analyze data/begin writing paper
16 (PT)
26.4.
working on projects/write, write paper
17
no class/innlevering kl. 1pm
03.05
student who
missed one class
will have to present
this article