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5
Oct 11

Digital Humanities and Libraries

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Links used in presentation:

Intro and History:

Wikipedia entry for Digital Humanities

The Walt Whitman Archive

Civil War Washington

Wikipedia entry for Father Busa

Office of Digital Humanities at the National Endowment for the Humanities

Models of Digital Humanities: Individuals

Jean Bauer – Davila. Davila is an DAVILA is an “open source relational database schema visualization and annotation tool.”

Ben Brumfield – From the Page. An annotation tool.

Anonymous – Almas Diary. Placing a family diary online, adding commentary and light categorization.

Small Groups

NYPL Labs.

Digital Humanities Centers

Center for Digital Research in the Humanities

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

Scholar’s Lab

Collaboration

Digging into Data

The Whitman Archive

Resources

centerNet – centerNet is an international network of digital humanities centers, and is part of The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO)

Office of Digital Humanities – The Office of Digital Humanities, part of the National Endowment for the Humanities, offers many grants. They have an active blog, and reading through some of the entries can give you an idea of the focus of today’s DH projects.

Digital Humanities Questions and Answers – A very nice resource where you can ask questions about the Digital Humanities in one of many categories. People are very nice and friendly, unlike some online technical boards.

Humanist – an email list geared towards the Digital Humanities. Very active.

Digital Humanities Twitter List – curated by Dan Cohen, at the CHNM, a great way to see what digital humanists are up to.