Welcome to Digital Humanities at BC
Digital Humanities: Five Definitions
1. Humanities + Digital
2. A cross-disciplinary community in humanities that uses technology, especially web computing, as an analytical tool for critical inquiry and/or a means of scholarly collaboration and communication.
Introductions to the Field
Digital Humanities spans a broad variety of organizations, approaches, tools, methodologies, and of course disciplines. Here are some helpful guides and articles to get you started.
- Getting Started in the Digital Humanities [blog post]Informational post that includes best practices, tutorials, and workshop listings.
- Why humanists need to understand text mining [blog post]Ted Underwood reasons that humanists already do naive text mining, and need to do it better.
- Tooling up for Digital Humanities (Stanford Univ.)Provides an "entryway" into digitization, text analysis, spatial analysis, databases, data visualization, and pedagogy for scholars interested in starting to explore digital humanities.
- Promoting Open Access in the Humanities - Peter SuberThe humanities has been slower than the sciences and social sciences to embrace Open Access scholarly publishing. Peter Suber, don of Open Access, explains why and offers recommendations. 2004-2005.
- The CUNY Digital Humanities Resource GuideA collaborative resource guide, the CUNY Digital Humanities Resource Guide includes helpful links such as funding information, upcoming conferences, and sample syllabi.
- Blackwell's "A Companion to Digital Humanities"Providing a concise overview of Digital Humanities, this e-book is a compilation of 37 articles focusing on computational methods, basic humanities principles, specific applications, dissemination, and archiving.
- Blackwell's "A Companion to Digital Literary Studies"This guide is a complete overview of the application of computing in literary studies including best practices for digital preservation.
- Conjectures on World Literature - Franco MorettiIn this influential article, Franco Moretti discusses the use of digital analytics in comparative literature, coining the term "distant reading" as an analytical corrective to modernism's "close reading."
- The differentiation of literary and nonliterary diction, 1700-1900Ted Underwood shares the development process of his analysis of language changes, using data mining of literature samples, an interesting example of "distant reading."
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