Digital humanities resources for project building dh tools. This article presents a selection of findings from a surveybased study on the role of software development and programming in the digital humanities, disseminated to researchers, teachers, and practitioners from across the community. Advancing digital humanities research, methods, theories. Alan liu is distinguished professor in the english department at the university of california, santa barbara, where he has in the past served as chair 20082012, graduate program director, and undergraduate program director. Usecase developing custom humanities software as a service in the cloud. Alan liu a pioneer in the digital humanities and creator of the. For a more extensive list of tools, check out the carolina digital humanities initiative tools webpage, alan liu s dh resources for building projects site, or miriam posners dh101 resource guide. Alan liu, cultural criticism, the digital humanities, and.
Culture machine live is a podcast series dedicated to discussions of culture and theory. Where is cultural criticism in the digital humanities. The uc digital cultures multicampus research group. Alan liu center for information technology and society. Owing to the close affinity between morettis distant reading and these methods, alan liu has recently suggested that the concept has brought the digital humanities into closer proximity with the traditional humanities discipline of literary studies. Alan liu 411 view because it registers both a specific problem object to qualitative arguments and insights t in the digital humanities and the larger crisis of about humanistic subjectsculture, literature, n the meaningfulness of todays humanities. Alan liu is distinguished professor in the english department at the. In particular, when asked if software development is an element of digital humanities scholarship, the. Tools digital humanities libguides at university of otago. Mar 27, 2020 a wide spectrum of digital humanities tools curated by alan liu, english professor at the university of california, santa barbara. Pdf remarks on alan liu and the digital humanities, a. Related subfields of digital humanities have emerged like software studies, platform studies, and critical code studies.
Alan liu has argued, while digital humanists develop tools, data, and metadata critically, therefore e. It summarizes the turn toward the digital that is reinventing every aspect of the humanities among scholars, libraries, publishers, administrators, and the public. Proceedings of the mellon foundation online humanities conference at the university of virginia, march 26. November 9, 2010 for developers alan liu this branch of the 4humanities site is a staging ground for collaboration among digital humanists willing to contribute to powering advocacy of the humanities through their special expertise. Digital humanities researchers have already done many projects with texts and geospatial data see new york times series of articles on humanities 2. Paper machines is a plugin for the zotero bibliographic management software that makes cuttingedge topic. As the cue for a thesis i wish to offer about the future of the digital humanities, i start by confessing to a lie i inserted in the last paragraph of the mission statement of 4humanities. Andrew prescott, professor of digital humanities and head, department of digital humanities. Alan liu center for information technology and society uc. In turn, theory contributes to the development of the fields metadiscourse and enables a critical.
Digital humanities application development in the cloud john mulligan, ph. Both of these remarkable books, which participate in what james f. Janneke adema, clare birchall, gary hall and pete woodbridge. Overview and the example of the whatevery1says project. Arcgis is a popular geospatial and mapping software. This digital humanities libguide is an introductory resource and collection of periodicals, reference sources, key articles, projects, initiatives, tools, primary sources, and datasets that are useful for the study and practice of digital humanities this page contains tools, software, and technical resources for use in digital humanities. The project, whatevery1says, collects big data relating to the word humanities. Digital humanities dh is an area of scholarly activity at the intersection of computing or digital technologies and the disciplines of the humanities.
Alan liu, the future of humanities in the digital age with. Dh can be defined as new ways of doing scholarship that involve collaborative, transdisciplinary, and computationally. Freeocr windows software need help with finding or using geospatial data. Its chief deliverable is a set of guidelines since 1994 that specify encoding methods for machinereadable texts, chiefly in the humanities, social sciences and linguistics. It includes the systematic use of digital resources in the humanities, as well as the analysis of their application. He asked, are the digital humanities ready to live up to their responsibility to represent the humanities and higher education as the latter negotiates a new relation to postindustrial society. Generally, digital and digitized texts will be available in a text format such as. Text encoding initiative tei is a consortiumthat develops and maintains a standard for the representation of texts in digital form. Tools digital humanities library guides at lehigh university. Aug 08, 2019 generally, digital and digitized texts will be available in a text format such as.
Digital humanities and critical infrastructure studies by. The new nativity of marshall mcluhans digital adepts, as alan liu. Teresah research software directory of the netherlands escience institute. Meaning of the digital humanities alan liu full lecture nyu center for the humanities. Alan liu digital humanities lecture series university of. Meet our grantees 2015 fulbright specialist alan yeehong liu from santa barbara, california, researched, lectured and consulted on the field of digital humanities and its impact on the humanities. Its chief deliverable is a set of guidelines since. Writings talks courses web organizations contact info. Whatevery1says about the humanities digital humanities methods for understanding and making a difference in public perception of the humanities. English departments, the institutional homes of literary studies, have been fundamental to the development of much of the content that constitutes the emerging canon of digital humanities research. The digital humanities by eileen gardiner june 2015. Alan liu provides the text of his mla presentation on the history and future of the digital humanities, titled where is cultural criticism in the digital humanities i picked up on this from dereks blog. This disk image was created by the digital forensics lab and the maryland institute for technology in the humanities mith at the university of maryland, college park.
Alan liu is a professor and former chair of the department of english. Alan liu is professor in the english department at the university of california, santa barbara, and an affiliated. A professor of english at ucsb and a globally renowned expert in digital humanities, liu cofounded the. Alan liu will discuss some specific methods and tools of digital work in the humanities, framed within three larger methodological concerns. Feels welcome in spite of being an english professor. If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation manager of your choice. Against the cultural singularity uc digital humanities. Curated by alan liu, university of california, santa barbara, a selective list of. The meaning of the digital humanities escholarship. Summary of martha nell smiths the human touch software of the highest order reading. Standards and practices established by communities form another crucial component. Primary sources and data digital humanities libguides at.
May 06, 2016 many humanities scholars have praised the digital humanities as one of the more promising developments for their disciplines. This article presents a selection of findings from a surveybased study on the role of software development and programming in the digital humanities. Tools, software, and technical resources digital humanities. Digital humanities dh is an area of scholarly activity at the intersection of computing or digital. Alan liu, the meaning of the digital humanities pmla free download as pdf file. Examines the emerging field of digital humanities including geospatial analysis, data mining, corpus linguistics, visualization and simulationto show their relevance for contemporary culture.
This is not an exhaustive list of tools available for use in digital humanities research. Andrew prescott, professor of digital humanities and head, department of digital humanities, kings college london, uk. Alan liu digital humanities diversity as technical problem. Programming in the digital humanities digital scholarship. The digital humanities and the digital modern james. In 2011, alan liu issued a report and a critique of dh.
Lists resources for practical work in the digital humanities. Digital initiatives i then led in the 2000s include transliteracies. Jahrestagung des verbands digital humanities im deutschsprachigen raum vom 02. Martha nell smith, the human touch software of the highest order. The digital humanities depends in large part upon the literary. I consider a major essay, the meaning of the digital humanities, two interviews, one with katherine hayles and the other with scott pound, and a major blog. The digital humanities is a comprehensive introduction and practical guide to how humanists use the digital to conduct research, organize materials, analyze, and publish findings. Three key digital humanities trends wolf humanities center. His central interests include digital humanities, information culture, new media, literary theory, cultural studies, and british romantic literature and art. Agisoft photoscan is standalone software that produces 2d elevation. Jul 22, 20 meaning of the digital humanities alan liu full lecture nyu center for the humanities. For more information about the online, open access journal culture machine, visit.
As alan liu has suggested, the practices of digital humanities make engagement with cultural critique online possible. Primary sources and data digital humanities libguides. Alan liu university of california, santa barbara key trends in digital humanities and how the digital humanities register changes in the humanities thursday, september 25, 2014 4. Toward a critical digital humanities, liu both shared early drafts of chapters to his newest book and also asserted his goal with his new book. Its original mission was to seduce other humanities scholars onto the web by showing them available online humanities materials. However, the computational analysis of large image and. About onethird of the dh programs in our dataset are offered outside of academic schoolsdepartments in centers, initiatives, and, in one case, jointly with the library, and most issue from collegesschools of arts and humanities see figure 7. The digital humanities and the digital modern 97817499431. Professor of english, university of californa, santa barbara.
Its true, todays speakers have all been historians, but the projects they presented have possible applications in all branches of the humanities. Digital humanities and critical infrastructure studies by visiting professor alan liu november 16, 2015 dunescholar digital humanities the university of canterbury digital humanities program hosted an afternoon of lectures on november 12, 2015, entitled the frontiers of dh. Alan liu researches and teaches the culture of information at the univ. Liu s paper is an extension of the 4humanities movement, and theres a lot that i agree with there, not only. Guides, tools, and other resources for practical work in the digital humanities by researchers, teachers, and students. Liu is cofounder and leader of the international advocacy initiative. Kirschenbaum, with doug reside and alan liu, no round trip. Alan liu where is cultural criticism in the digital. Directories of dh tools digital humanities research. The thesis i offer today, which can be titled interrogatively where is cultural criticism in the digital humanities. Fieldwork requirements of digital humanities programs in our collected data.
His special focus is the relation between the humanities and the ethos of postindustrial knowledge work as the latter is assisted and and allegorized by information technology. Previously, he was on the faculty of yale universitys english department and. Connections between the two appear in the archives built, corpora analyzed, oral histories recorded, and geographies mapped. Dh can be defined as new ways of doing scholarship that involve collaborative, transdisciplinary, and computationally engaged. Alan liu is professor in the english department at the. Digital humanities application development in the cloud. As the cue for a thesis i wish to offer about the future of the digital. Alan liu has been organizing and conceptualizing digital humanities dh for two decades. In this beginners handson workshop and discussion, alan liu will introduce the idea of distant reading and some of the commonly used digital humanities methods and tools used to pursue it in digital literary studies, digital history, sociology, and other humanities and social science disciplines.
Black digital humanities provides a forum for thinking through the ways that black humanity emerges, submerges, and resurfaces in the digital realm through the racializing assemblages of. The meaning of the digital humanities researchgate. Research in the technological, social, and cultural practices of online reading, a university of california multicampus, collaborative research group 200510. Aug 08, 2019 this digital humanities libguide is an introductory resource and collection of periodicals, reference sources, key articles, projects, initiatives, tools, primary sources, and datasets that are useful for the study and practice of digital humanities this page contains tools, software, and technical resources for use in digital humanities. Alan liu thanks crowd for exhilarating discussion over the course of the day. The scholarly field of the digital humanities has recently expanded and integrated its fundamental concepts, historical coverage, relationship to social experience, scale of projects, and range of.
Alan liu, the meaning of the digital humanities pmla. Alan liu, a professor of english at uc santa barabara is a selfdescribed digihumanist. Article criticizes impact of digital humanities on colleges. Alan liu, the meaning of the digital humanities in pmla. Thus, i make the case for the black digital humanities in order to, as alan liu suggests, enlarge the field with sociocultural meaning liu, 501. Alan liu where is cultural criticism in the digital humanities.
Such are the sort of questions under examination by uc santa barbaras alan liu, by way of his advocacy initiative 4humanities. Because of the recent, shared emphasis in many fields on digital methods, scholars in the humanities, arts. Bibliography on digital humanities the digital humanities. Making a case for the black digital humanities kim. Advancing digital humanities is a fundamental and unmissable contribution to the intellectual and theoretical formation of this important new area of scholarly endeavour. Digital humanities tools and resource recommendations search this guide search. The text encoding initiative tei is a consortiumthat develops and maintains a standard for the representation of texts in digital form. Project on online reading and the rose researchoriented social environment software project. Alan liu, distinguished professor, uc santa barbara, usa. We also develop new computational tools to enable software driven cultural theory and criticism. It speaks with great clarity and wide range of reference about digital humanities infrastructure in a systems framework, softwareintensive research, artificial intelligence, the culture of the digital humanities, and a large ambit of other developments. The premise of the site is that the digital humanities have a special role to. But i call special attention on the present occasion to the problem of the lack of cultural criticism in the digital humanities because i fear that this lack will stunt the growth of our field. Digital humanities diversity as technical problem alan liu.
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