1st Edition
The Digital Humanities Coursebook An Introduction to Digital Methods for Research and Scholarship
The Digital Humanities Coursebook provides critical frameworks for the application of digital humanities tools and platforms, which have become an integral part of work across a wide range of disciplines.
Written by an expert with twenty years of experience in this field, the book is focused on the principles and fundamental concepts for application, rather than on specific tools or platforms. Each chapter contains examples of projects, tools, or platforms that demonstrate these principles in action. The book is structured to complement courses on digital humanities and provides a series of modules, each of which is organized around a set of concerns and topics, thought experiments and questions, as well as specific discussions of the ways in which tools and platforms work. The book covers a wide range of topics and clearly details how to integrate the acquisition of expertise in data, metadata, classification, interface, visualization, network analysis, topic modeling, data mining, mapping, and web presentation with issues in intellectual property, sustainability, privacy, and the ethical use of information.
Written in an accessible and engaging manner, The Digital Humanities Coursebook will be a useful guide for anyone teaching or studying a course in the areas of digital humanities, library and information science, English, or computer science. The book will provide a framework for direct engagement with digital humanities and, as such, should be of interest to others working across the humanities as well.
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List of Tables
Preface
Chapter 1 Digital Humanities Overview
1a. What is Digital Humanities?
1b. Principles and scenarios for digital humanities
Chapter 2 Data Modeling and Use
2a. Making data
2b. Cleaning and using data
Chapter 3 Digitization
3a. Digital documents: Formats and protocols
3b. Digitization and file formats
Chapter 4 Metadata, Markup, and Data Description
4a. Metadata and classification
4b. Markup: XML, TEI, KML, JSON and other standards
Chapter 5 Database Design
5a. Database basics
5b. Database issues: legacy data, ethics, and use
Chapter 6 Information Visualization
6a. Basics of visualization
6b. Networks and complex systems
Chapter 7 Data Mining and Analysis
7a. Data mining and text analysis
7b. Cultural analytics, multi-modal communication, media, and audio mining
Chapter 8 Mapping and GIS
8a. Getting started
8b. Critical issues in spatial humanities
Chapter 9 Three-dimensional and Virtual Models
9a. Virtual space and modelling 3-D representations
9b. Photogrammetry
Chapter 10 Interface Design
10a. Interface basics
10b. Understanding interface design
Chapter 11 Web Presentation Formats and Networked Resources
11a. Web presentation formats
11b. Networked resources, standards for data sharing, and platforms
Chapter 12 Project Design and Intellectual Property
12a. Project design and management
12b. Intellectual property issues
Coda: A note on advanced topics in Digital Humanities
Index
Biography
Johanna Drucker is the Distinguished Breslauer Professor in Bibliography in Information Studies at UCLA, USA. She has published widely on topics related to visual design in digital and print forms. Her publications include: Graphesis (2014), Diagrammatic Writing (2013), The Visible Word (1994), and Visualization and Interpretation (2020).
