The Companion to Digital Humanities in Practice

List of figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction:

1. Digital Humanities in Practice, Across Data, Tools and Techniques, Communication and Engagement, and Pedagogy

Section 1: Data

2. From a “bag of names” to a “name index”: Using Wikipedia and Wikidata to create an enriched list of person names

Silvia Gutiérrez, Manuel Burghardt, and Andreas Niekler

3. Databasing As Research: new paradigms for the long tail….

Ian Johnson and Michael Falk

4. Unicorns, Janitors, Ninjas, Wizards, and Rock Stars

Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein

5. Editing mundane texts across the digital divide: The case of Arabic periodicals from the late nineteenth-century Eastern Mediterranean

Till Grallert

6. Sharing Data for Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR)

Peter Stokes and Benjamin Kiessling

7. Digital Public Health Advocacy in Nigeria: A Multimodal Study of WhatsApp-mediated COVID-19 Posts

‘Tunde Ope-Davies (Opeibi), Anthony Elisha Anowu, and Kofo Adedeji

8. Why Digital Humanists Should Emphasize Situated Data over Capta

Matthew Lavin

Section 2: Tools and Techniques

9. Digitizing the container: books as objects in the digital medium

Alberto Campagnolo

10. Modeling cultural heritage materials for  discovery and analysis

Slavina Stoyanova, Øyvind Eide, and Enes Türkoglu

11. IIIF for Digital Humanities

Glen Robson and Niqui O'Neill

12. What is Humanities Mapping?

Bill Pascoe

13. Mapping and 3D Modelling: Expanding 19^th-century New York City  Bookstore Geographies

Kristen Doyle Highland and Marwan Saksouk

14. Enacting Our Values: Practical Applications of Ethics in the Transgender Media Lab

Evie Johnny Ruddy and Laura Horak

15. Against Violent Quantification: Lessons from the Bellevue Almshouse Project

Anelise Hanson Shrout

16. Thinking-Through the Ethics of Artificial  Intelligence

Geoffrey Rockwell and Nidhi Hegde

Section 3: Communication and Engagement

17. Community and Digitality in/of Indian DH: Exploring Legacies, Presents and Futures

Dibyadyuti Roy, Samya Brata Roy, and Surojit Kayal

18. Valuing and Evaluating Digital Scholarship as a Social Justice Practice

Jennifer Guiliano and Roopika Risam

19. Effect, Affect, Engagement: Digital Storytelling as Personal Process

Leah Henrickson

20. The influence of communication on digital humanities training

Menno van Zaanen, Mmasibidi Setaka, and Anelda Van der Walt

21. Some Things Can't be Measured: Rethinking Context, Metrics and Disciplinarity in the Digital Humanities

Tully Barnett and Tyne Daile Sumner

22. Public Works: Ecological Inspiration for Equitable Knowledge Production

Alyssa Arbuckle and Katina Rogers

Section 4: Pedagogy

23. Intersectional Ethics of Care and Co-Creation in Digital Humanities Pedagogy

Andie Silva

24. Student-led Digital Projects in Cultural Heritage Sector Collaborations

Katrina Grant and Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller

25. Digital Pedagogy as Topoi: Assignments that Encourage ‘Play’ within the History of Race, Space and State Power in Apartheid South Africa

Steve Davis and William J. B. Mattingly

26. Creative Writing and Digital Humanities: Between Literature and Technology

Bernardo Bueno

27. Assembling Body, Mind, and Spirit in Digital Humanities Teaching Praxis

Diana Alvarez and Rebecca Rouse.

28. Two ways to engage students in a digital project, an experience in Mexico

Ernesto Priani Saisó

29. The Risks and Rewards of Implementing Digital Humanities Methodologies in Modern Language Graduate Research

Nora Benedict

Index

Biography

Constance Crompton is a white, queer, able-bodied settler and Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities. They are a member of several research project teams: Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada, Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship, the Implementing New Knowledge Environments Partnership, and the Transgender Media Portal. She is the co-editor of two volumes, Doing Digital Humanities and Doing More Digital Humanities, with Ray Siemens and Richard J. Lane (Routledge 2016, 2020). They live and works on unceded Algonquin land.

Laura Estill is Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities and Professor of English at St. Francis Xavier University in Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia). Her works include Digital Humanities Workshops (2023), with Jennifer Guiliano, and a special issue of Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities (IDEAH, 2023), with Constance Crompton and Ray Siemens. She directs the Canadian Certificate in Digital Humanities, ccdhhn.ca.

Richard J. Lane is Professor of English and Director of the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) funded MeTA Digital Humanities Lab at Vancouver Island University, Canada. His research interests include the intersection of literary theory, philosophy and the digital humanities, with recent projects on DH and AI, big data, machine reading, machine learning, and topic modelling. He collaborates on research with the VIU Canadian Letters and Images Project, with the support of CFI, VIU and the British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund.

Ray Siemens FRSC is Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria, Canada, in English and Computer Science, and past Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing; in 2019, he was also Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Loughborough University and, 2019-22, Global Innovation Chair in Digital Humanities in the Centre for 21st Century Humanities at University of Newcastle.