Resources for getting started in digital humanities

from AJS Webinar "A Brief Introduction to the Digital Humanities" by Dr. Kalani Craig 

Note that these change regularly. No link is guaranteed after April 20, 2016.

AJS-specific resources:

• Around DH in 80 days
• http://www.thedigin.org/en/
• http://www.mila.cs.technion.ac.il/resources_treebank.html
• Part of speech tagging: http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~barhaim/MorphTagger/
• http://www.textreverse.com

Digitization

• http://codexsinaiticus.org/en/manuscript.aspx
• Salman Rushdie Archives
• Digital Humanities In Practice, “Image processing in the digital humanities”

Data mining

Simple

• Voyant
• Google n-grams

Intermediate

• MALLET and MALLET GUI
• AntConc, Corpus linguistics
• Examples of these

More complex

• TreeTagger
• Stanford Named Entity Recognition
• http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/C08-1081

Image mining

• TinEye, image similarity engine
• https://dh101.ch/2014/10/22/images-digital-humanities-and-challenges/

Spatial Analysis

• Findery
• CartoDB (examples at danieljacksonstory.cartodb.com)
• GoogleEarth
• Leaflet (more complicated, includes georectification and other hGIS features)
• Cartograms

Network Analysis

Basics

• http://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2011/12/networks-analysis-round-up/
• https://dhs.stanford.edu/visualization/more-networks/

Examples

• Networks of people
• Networks of texts
• Networks of topics

Books to read

• Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, Trees and Distant Reading
• Matthew Jockers, Macroanalysis
• Todd Presner, David Shepard, and Yoh Kawano, HyperCities

Building community

• THATCamp.org
• HILT
• DHSI
• DiRT
• DHCommons.org
• Programming Historian

Funding

• NEH Office of Digital Humanities
• ACLS collaborative research fellowship
• ACH grants and awards

Digital scholarship guidelines

• MLA
• AHA