A quick look at digital humanities principles for the Northern Bridge Winter School 2015

1. DH in the Archives
Northern BridgeWinter School 2015

2. What DH is
‣ DH imagines new forms and methods of knowledge creation
‣ Humanistic scholarship presented in digital forms
‣ Humanistic scholarship enabled by digital methods and tools
‣ Humanistic scholarship about digital technology and culture
‣ Humanistic scholarship building and experimenting with
digital technology
‣ Humanistic scholarship critical of its own digital-ness
Josh Honn

3. What DH Shouldn’t Be
‣ Tools and Methods shouldn’t lead;
‣ Traditional practice s the choice of technologies;
‣ Offers an affordance but shouldn’t overly determine
motivation or approach.

4. Collaboration + Engagement

5. Digital Humanities Celebrates Itself ;-)
‣ Get your own vote in - Explore the Ecosystem

6. DH Awards 2014
‣ Best Use of DH for Fun
‣ Best DH DataVisualization
‣ Best Exploration of DH Failure
‣ Best DH Blog Post or Series of Posts
‣ Best Use DH Public Engagement
‣ Best DH tool or Suite of Tools

7. DH Titles from DH2014 Lausanne

8. Where Does DH Happen?
From: Melissa Terras: http://melissaterras.blogspot.ie/2012/01/infographic-quanitifying-digital.html

9. What is DH Doing?
‣ Digitisation
‣ Structuring
‣ Encoding
‣ Visualising
‣ Analysing
‣ Mining
‣ Networks
‣ Spatial
‣ Temporal
‣ Textual
‣ Image
‣ Curation
‣ User Interface

10. Data Driven Research - Analysis and
Visualisation

12. Image

13. Yale Photogrammar

30. Cool Tools from the RRCNMH
Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is
a free, easy-to-use
application to help you
collect, manage, and
cite your research
sources.
Designed for cultural
institutions,
enthusiasts, and
educators, Omeka is a
platform for publishing
online collections and
exhibitions.
Omeka.net is a hosted
service for your own
Omeka collections,
research, exhibits, and
digital projects.
Short for “The Humanities
and Technology Camp,"
THATCamp is a BarCamp-
style, user-generated
“unconference” on digital
humanities.
Scripto is a free, open
source tool that
enables community
transcriptions of
document and
multimedia files.
PressForward
pioneers new
methods to capture
and highlight
orphaned or
underappreciated
scholarship and share
it with dh across the
web.
Scholarpress
Manage your class,
publish research, or
collaborate on a
conference presentation
with this hub for
scholarly & educational
plugins
Anthologize is a free,
open-source, plugin
that transforms
WordPress into a
platform for publishing
electronic texts.
Survey Builder
Build online surveys
that are especially
applicable to oral
histories.
Timeline Builder
CHNM Labs: Easily create
and manage a timeline of
historical events for your
website.
Serendip-o-matic
connects your sources to
digital materials located in
libraries, museums, and
archives around the world.
Web Scrapbook
Store all kinds of
media items — URLs,
images, text, and
movies — &
collaborate thru the
CHNM online
scrapbook.

31. ThankYou
s.day@qub.ac.uk
http://qubdh.co.uk
@iridium