Introducing DH Tools

Seminar and Workshop Framing

What are DH tools and why are they useful? Also how and when should we use these tools for humanities research? How has the rise of DH tools been part of a larger shift of mass digitization and datafication?

Contextual Materials

• Risam, Roopika. “Introduction: The Postcolonial Digital Cultural Record.” In New Digital Worlds, 3–22. Northwestern University Press, 2019. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv7tq4hg.4.
• Barbot, Laure, Frank Fischer, Yoann Moranville, and Ivan Pozdniakov. “Which DH Tools Are Actually Used in Research?,” December 6, 2019. https://weltliteratur.net/dh-tools-used-in-research/.
• Mcpherson, Tara. “Why Are the Digital Humanities So White?: Or Thinking the Histories of Race and Computation.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities, edited by Matthew K. Gold, NED-New edition., 139–60. University of Minnesota Press, 2012. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttv8hq.12.
• Gibbs, Fred, and Trevor Owens. “Building Better Digital Humanities Tools: Toward Broader Audiences and User-Centered Designs.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 006, no. 2 (October 12, 2012). http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/6/2/000136/000136.html.

Applied Materials

• Weingart, Scott B., and Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara. “What’s Under the Big Tent?: A Study of ADHO Conference Abstracts.” Digital Studies / Le Champ Numérique 7, no. 1 (October 13, 2017). https://doi.org/10.16995/dscn.284
• Explore the Index of Digital Humanities Conferences https://dh-abstracts.library.virginia.edu/.

Curated Additional Materials (optional but recommended if familiar with assigned materials)

• Morgan, Paige C. “The Consequences of Framing Digital Humanities Tools as Easy to Use.” College & Undergraduate Libraries 25, no. 3 (July 3, 2018): 211–31. https://doi.org/10.1080/10691316.2018.1480440.
• James Baker, “Preserving Your Research Data,” Programming Historian 3 (2014). https://doi.org/10.46430/phen0039.

Prior to Class

• Complete the GitHub, Git, & DH Tools assignment.