All Things Digital

Digital Humanities,

Digital Resources

and Humanities Computing

Digital Resources on the Web

• British Library http://www.bl.uk

• Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi http://www.cvma.ac.uk/

• William Blake Archivehttp://www.blakearchive.org/blake/

• Early English Books Online EEBO http://eebo.chadwyck.com/home

• Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/• Old Bailey On-Line www.oldbaileyonline.org

Digital Humanities

• Electronic editions

• On-line databases

• Publishing medium

• Research tools

• New methodologies – new questions?

• Communication/collaboration.

It concerns how all of the above are used in scholarly research.

What is Humanities Computing?

• Not new – Father Robert Busa, 1949. Index Thomisticus.

• Huge and varied spectrum of disciplines.• Source data are the products of human hand

and mind.• Took a long time for computer hardware and

techniques to advance• Digitised sources + computing tools +

appropriate knowledge.

Humanities Data

• Text• Numerical Data• Images• Sound• Moving Images• Spatial Data• Means of rendering content ‘visible’ – Metadata.

(SGML, XML, TEI)

Computing Tools

• Methods common to all disciplines• Discovering – Communication• Annotation• Comparing• Referring - linking• Sampling – search by query-sampling• Illustrating – elucidating, diagrams etc• Representing - publishing

Online communities• Antiquist: an online community of people working

with computing in the heritage sector

• Digital Classicist : humanities computing applied to research into the ancient world

• Digital Medievalist: medievalists working with digital media

• Humanist: an electronic seminar on the application of computers to the humanities

Courses to follow AV1003

Second year modules (level 5)• AV2001: Texts in the Digital Humanities (15 credits 1st

semester)• AV2002: Databases in the Digital Humanities (15

credits 2nd semester)• AV2012: Research methods in the digital humanities

(15 credits 2nd semester)

Third year modules (level 6)• AV3000: Independent research project in the digital

humanities (30 credits full year)

MA Programme see course pages: here