Dive deeper into this emerging field with these selected resources.
- 4Humanities4Humanities is a platform for advocacy of the humanities that draws on the expertise of the international digital humanities community. Digital methods now play a key role in showing why the humanities must be part of any vision of a future society. Viewpoints and projects presented by 4Humanities and its local chapters - statements, videos, infographics, resources, etc. - use today’s means to shout out for the humanities.
- Debates in the Digital HumanitiesThe open-access edition of Debates in the Digital Humanities brings together leading figures in the field to explore its theories, methods, and practices and to clarify its multiple possibilities and tensions. First published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2012 as a printed book, Debates in the Digital Humanities has expanding into a hybrid print/digital publication stream that will explore new debates as they emerge. Published in January 2013, the open-access edition of Debates in the Digital Humanities marked not just the opening up of the printed text, but also the debut of a custom-built social reading platform. The OA platform makes the text interactive, with key features that allow readers to interact with the text by marking passages as interesting and adding terms to a crowdsourced index.
- DH Curation GuideThe DH Curation Guide is a compilation of articles that address aspects of data curation in the digital humanities. The goal of the DH Curation Guide is to direct readers to trusted resources with enough context from expert editors and the other members of the research community to indicate to how these resources might help them with their own data curation challenges. Each article provides a short introduction to a topic and a list of linked resources. Structuring articles in this way acknowledges the many excellent resources that already exist to provide guidance on subjects relevant to curation such as data formats, legal policies, description, and more.
- Digital Humanities NowDigital Humanities Now showcases the scholarship and news of interest to the digital humanities community through a process of aggregation, discovery, curation, and review. The site highlights work from the open web that has gotten the attention of the digital humanities community or is worthy of such attention, based on critical editorial review.
- Digital Scholarship in the HumanitiesHosted by Lisa Spiro, director of NITLE Labs.
- HASTACHASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) is an interdisciplinary community of humanists, artists, social scientists, scientists, and technologists that are changing the way we teach and learn. Our 13,000+ members from over 400+ affiliate organizations share news, tools, research, insights, pedagogy, methods, and projects--including Digital Humanities and other born-digital scholarship--and collaborate on various HASTAC initiatives. Founded in 2002, HASTAC is reputed to be the world’s first and oldest academic social network with annual pageview counts approaching the half-million mark. HASTAC’s central administration is divided between hubs located at Duke University and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York.
- ProfHackerThis technology blog published by the Chronicle of Higher Education often features content relevant to Digital Humanities.
- Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason UniversityRRCHNM uses digital media and technology to preserve and present history online, transform scholarship across the humanities, and advance historical education and understanding. Each year RRCHNM’s many project websites receive over 20 million visitors, and over a million people rely on its digital tools to teach, learn, and conduct research.
Bartscherer, T. and Coover, R. (Eds.). (2011). Switching Codes: Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Print.
Berry, D.M. (Ed.). (2012). Understanding Digital Humanities. Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Print.
Bodenhamer, D. J., Corrigan, J., and Harris, T.M. (2010). The Spatial Humanities: GIS and the Future of Humanities Scholarship. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Print.
Bowen, W.R. and Siemens, R.G. (Eds.). (2008). New Technologies and Renaissance Studies. Tempe, Ariz.: ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies). Print.
Cohen, D. J. and Rosenzweig, R. (2005). Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Available on http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/
Council on Library and Information Resources. (2009, March). Working Together or Apart: Promoting the Next Generation of Digital Scholarship. Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources. Available online at https://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub145/
Deegan, M. and McCarty, W. (Eds.). (2012). Collaborative Research in the Digital Humanities. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. Print.
Earhart, A.E. and Jewell, A. (2011). The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press. Available online at http://www.digitalculture.org/books/american-literature-scholar-in-the-digital-age/
Fitzpatrick, K. (2009). Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy. New York: NYU Press. Available from http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/plannedobsolescence/
Gold, M.K. (Ed.). (2012). Debates in the Digital Humanities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Print.
Klein, J.T. (2014). Interdisciplinary Digital Humanities: Boundary Work in an Emerging Field. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/dh.12869322.0001.001
Nowviski, B. (Ed.). (n.d.). Alt-Academy: Alternative Academic Careers for Humanities Scholars. (Web log). Available at http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/alt-ac/
Rosenzweig, R. (2011). Clio Wired: The Future of the Past in the Digital Age. New York: Columbia University Press. Print.
Schreibman, S., Siemens, R., and Unsworth, J. (Eds.). (2004). A Companion to Digital Humanities. Available from http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/
Scholz, R. T. (2011). Learning Through Digital Media: Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy. Available from http://learningthroughdigitalmedia.net/
Siemens, R., and Schreibman, S. (Eds.). (2008). A Companion to Digital Literary Studies. Available from http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companionDLS/
Spiro, L. (2011, October 14). Getting Started in the Digital Humanities. (Web log post). Retrieved from http://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/getting-started-in-the-digital-humanities/
Weller, M. (2011). The Digital Scholar: How Technology is Transforming Scholarly Practice. London: Bloomsbury Academic. Print.
Zorich, D.M. (2008). A Survey of Digital Humanities Centers in the United States. Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources. Available at http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub143/pub143.pdf