Calling All Humanists:

Digital Humanities Expo

Jeff Everhart

Digital Education Collaborative

What Are the Digital Humanities?

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What Is DH?

“The digital humanities, also known as humanities computing, is a field

of study, research, teaching, and invention concerned with the

intersection of computing and the disciplines of the humanities. It is

methodological by nature and interdisciplinary in scope. It involves

investigation, analysis, synthesis and presentation of information in

electronic form. It studies how these media affect the disciplines in

which they are use, and what these disciplines have to contribute to our

knowledge of computing.” (56)

Matthew Kirschenbaum, “What is Digital Humanities and What’s It

Doing in English Departments?” (2010)

What is DH?

“[Digital humanities] asks what it means to be a human

being in the networked information age and to participate in

fluid communities of practice, asking and answering

research questions that cannot be reduced to a single

genre, medium, discipline, or institution. [...] It is a global,

trans-historical, and transmedia approach to knowledge

and meaning-making.” (vii)

Digital_Humanities (2012)

Defining Digital Humanities Scholarship:

● presented in digital form(s)

● enabled by digital methods & tools

● about digital tech & culture

● building and experimenting w/ digital

technology

● critical of its own digital-ness

From “A Guide to DH,” Northwestern University

Let’s See Some Examples

Building on the Web

“The Hollow Men”

by T.S. Eliot

“Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”

by Walt Whitman

Archiving on the Web

Walt Whitman Archive

Documenting the

American South

American Memory-LOC

Building Digital Tools

DiRT Directory

Digital Research Tools

Directory

Voyant Tools

Text Analysis

Using Digital Tools

Voyant Tools

US Constitution

Ex. The Language of the State of the Union

Analysis

Using Digital Tools

Visualizing Data

Tableau Public- Mapping the 1854 Cholera

Outbreak

Using Digital Tools

Mapping Spatial and Temporal Data

myHistro - The French Revolution

What New Questions Can We Ask?