Doing Digital Humanities

<p>Digital Humanities is rapidly evolving as a significant approach to/method of teaching, learning and research across the humanities. This is a first-stop book for people interested in getting to grips with digital humanities whether as a student or a professor. The book offers a practical guide to the area as well as offering reflection on the main objectives and processes, including:</p><ul> <li>Accessible introductions of the basics of Digital Humanities through to more complex ideas</li> <li>A wide range of topics from feminist Digital Humanities, digital journal publishing, gaming, text encoding, project management and pedagogy</li> <li>Contextualised case studies</li> <li>Resources for starting Digital Humanities such as links, training materials and exercises</li> </ul><p>Doing Digital Humanities looks at the practicalities of how digital research and creation can enhance both learning and research and offers an approachable way into this complex, yet essential topic. </p> <p>Preface, <i>Raymond Siemens</i></p><p>Introduction, <i>Constance Crompton, Richard J. Lane and Raymond Siemens</i></p><p>Notes on Contributors</p><p>Foundations</p><p>1. Thinking-Through the History of Computer-Assisted Text Analysis, <i>Geoffrey Rockwell and Stéfan Sinclair</i></p><p>2. Global Outlooks in Digital Humanities: Multilingual Practices and Minimal Computing, <i>Alex Gil and Élika Ortega </i></p><p>3. Problems with White Feminism: Intersectionality and Digital Humanities, <i>Jacqueline Wernimont and Elizabeth Losh</i></p><p>4. Towards Best Practices in Collaborative Online Knowledge Production, <i>Susan Brown</i></p><p>5. Understanding the Pre-Digital Book, <i>Hélène Cazes and J. Matthew Huculak</i></p><p>Core Concepts and Skills</p><p>6. Critical Computing in the Humanities, <em>Phillip R. Polefrone, John Simpson, and Dennis Yi Tenen</em></p><p>7. Text Encoding, <i>Julia Flanders, Syd Bauman, and Sarah Connell</i></p><p>8. Computational Stylistics and Text Analysis, <i>Jan Rybicki, Maciej Eder, and David Hoover</i></p><p>9. Databases, <i>Harvey Quamen and Jon Bath</i></p><p>10. Digitalization Fundamentals, <i>Robin Davies and Michael Nixon</i></p><p>11. Geographical Information Systems as a Tool for Exploring the Spatial Humanities, <i>Ian Gregory and Patricia Murrieta-Flores</i></p><p>12. Electronic Literature and Digital Humanities: Opportunities for Practice, Scholarship, and Teaching, <i>Dene Grigar</i></p><p>12a. Electronic Literature: What Is It?, <i>N. Katherine Hayles</i></p><p>12.b Electronic Literature: Where Is It?, <i>Dene Grigar</i></p><p>Creation, Remediation, and Curation</p><p>13. Foundations for Digital Editing, with Focus on the Documentary Tradition, <i>Jennifer Stertzer</i></p><p>14. XSLT: Transforming our XML Data, <i>Julia Flanders, Syd Bauman, and Sarah Connell</i></p><p>15. Working with the Semantic Web, <i>James Smith</i></p><p>16. Drupal and Other Content Management Systems, <i>Quinn Dombrowski</i></p><p>17. Augmented Reality, <i>Markus Wust</i></p><p>18. Fabrication and Research-Creation in the Arts and Humanities, <i>Nicole Clouston and Jentery Sayers</i></p><p>19. From Theory to Experience to Making to Breaking: Iterative Game Design for Digital Humanists, <i>Matt Bouchard and Andy Keenan</i></p><p>Administration, Dissemination, and Teaching</p><p>20. Project Management and the Digital Humanist, <i>Lynne Siemens</i></p><p>21. Doing DH in the Classroom: Transforming the Humanities Curriculum through Digital Engagement, <em>Diane Jakacki and Katherine Faull</em></p><p>22. Digital Liberal Arts and Project-Based Pedagogies, <i>Aaron Mauro</i></p><p>23. Dissemination as Cultivation: Scholarly Communications in a Digital Age, <i>James O'Sullivan, Christopher P. Long, and Mark Mattson</i></p>