In preparation for the Introduction to Digital Humanities workshop, please read the following articles and install the required software and files before joining the course on Monday 14th.
Building blocks for DH
Install Zotero and set up an account for the Zotero online services. You can either install the Firefox add-on or the standalone version. Both are available at https://www.zotero.org/download/
Please also read the following article, available Open Access:
Whitelaw: ‘Generous Interfaces for Digital Cultural Collections’. http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/9/1/000205/000205.html
Information visualisation
No required reading. If you want to get a sense of the range of data visualisations around, you can go to http://scholarlyvision.tumblr.com/ .
Digital texts
Please download and install AntConc for PC or Mac. Both are available at http://www.laurenceanthony.net/software/antconc/
Download the following novels by Jane Austen from Project Gutenberg’s Jane Austen page in plain text (.txt) format: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion. Please ensure you download each novel as a separate file.
Bookmark the following websites in your browser of choice:
Digital images
Please read the following articles:
- Rose, Gillian (2015). The production, composition, audiencing – and circulation – of images. https://visualmethodculture.wordpress.com/2015/02/05/the-production-composition-audiencing-and-circulation-of-images/
- Yavlinsky, Alexei; Heesch, Daniel and Rüger, Stefan (2006). A large scale system for searching and browsing images from the World Wide Web. In: 5th International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR 2006), 13-15 July 2006, Tempe, Arizona. http://oro.open.ac.uk/29876/1/yavlinsky-etal-2006-civr-preprint.pdf
Bookmark the following websites:
ICONCLASS – http://www.iconclass.nl/about-iconclass/what-is-iconclass
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History – https://rkd.nl/en/
Flickr (British Library) – https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/
Conceptual thresholds
Please read the following article:
Meyer, J.H.F. and Land, R. (2003) Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge: linkages to ways of thinking and practising,
In: Rust, C. (ed.), Improving Student Learning – Theory and Practice Ten Years On. Oxford: Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development (OCSLD), pp 412-424. [See an on-line version: Enhancing Teaching-Learning Environments in Undergraduate Courses, ETL Project, Occasional Report 4, May 2003]
CHASE Arts and Humanities in the Digital Age 