Digital Humanities User Guides
Digital Humanities Terminology
- XML (Extensible Markup Language): https://www.w3.org/XML/
- A defined set of rules for encoding documents in a document that is both human and machine readible.
- TEI (Text Encoding Initiative): http://www.tei-c.org/
- A consortium that maintains a standard for the representation of texts in digital form. (* Expressed in XML)
- Oxygen XML Editor: https://www.oxygenxml.com/
- Software designed to edit XML and XML based coding, such as TEI.
- Omeka: https://omeka.org/
- Open source web publishing platform for sharing digital collections and creating media-rich online exhibits.
- Python: https://www.python.org/
- Programming language designed for general-purpose programming, and featuring automatic memory management.
Resources for Digital Humanities Projects
This page introduces users to Print and Digital resources that focus on digital humanities scholarship. The majority of these resources are applicable to all humanities scholars, however medieval and Early Modern centered resources have been given priority. In the right column there are three lists of digital programs and tools divided by project type: Digitization and Digital Analysis Tools for Text, Digitally Archiving Content, and Visualizing Maps and Charts.
Medieval Manuscript Fragment 48, recto. Gothic, c. 12th century. Newberry Library. LUNA: https://tinyurl.com/yd299uby (UChicago login required.)
Print Sources
From Parchment to Cyberspace by Call Number: PN671 .N525 2016ISBN: 9781433129636Publication Date: 2016
Early Modern Studies after the Digital Turn by Call Number: AZ105.E27 2016ISBN: 9780866985574Publication Date: 2016-07-26
Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture by Call Number: AZ186.D54 2012ISBN: 0866984747Publication Date: 2012
Digital Humanities and the Lost Drama of Early Modern England by Call Number: PR658.L6S74 2015ISBN: 9781409444145Publication Date: 2016
Shakespeare and the Digital World by Call Number: PR2976.S33718 2014ISBN: 9781107660786Publication Date: 2014
Mapping Space, Sense, and Movement in Florence by Call Number: DG737.4.M37 2016ISBN: 9781138184893Publication Date: 2016
Understanding Digital Humanities by Call Number: AZ105 .U64 2012ISBN: 9780230292642Publication Date: 2012
Digital Humanities in Practice by Call Number: AZ195 .D54 2012ISBN: 9781856047661Publication Date: 2012
Formal Representation and the Digital Humanities by Call Number: AZ105 .F67 2018ISBN: 9781527508033Publication Date: 2018
Journals
- Archive Journal | Digital Medieval Manuscript CulturesSpecial Issue dedicated to manuscripts and digitization methods. Includes multiple articles on the topic of digital humanities and manuscript studies.
- Digital Medievalist (DM)Journal of the Digital Medievalist Community publishing original research and scholarship, theoretical articles on digital topics, tutorials, and project reports.
- Speculum | The Digital Middle Ages, An IntroductionSupplement of Speculum devoted to digital medieval projects, offered in an online, open-access format that reinforces the openness to which the digital aspires and which it encourages.
- Wired!Journal dedicated to examining visual culture through digital technologies.
- Journal of Interactive Technology and PedagogyOnline journal promoting uses of digital technology in teaching, learning, and research.
- Digital Humanities QuarterlyOpen-access, peer-reviewed, digital journal covering all aspects of digital media in the humanities.
- Digital Scholarship in the HumanitiesInternational, peer reviewed journal publishing original contributions on all aspects of digital scholarship in the Humanities.
- Game StudiesInternational open-access, cross-disciplinary journal dedicated to games research. Web-published.
Digitization & Digital Analysis Tools for Text
- SerendipSystem for visually exploring topic models generated on large corpora of documents. The primary goal is to investigate ways of using data visualization principles to study literature from the Early Modern period (roughly the 15th to the 18th century). Developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- From the PageSoftware for transcribing documents, including manuscripts.
- Juxta CommonsWeb-based platform designed to facilitate comparing and collating versions of the same textual work.
- Voyant ToolsWeb-based text reading and analysis scholarly project designed to facilitate reading and interpretive practices for digital humanities students and scholars in a variety of formats, including plain text, HTML, XML, PDF, RTF, and MS Word.
- The Versioning MachineDigital framework for displaying multiple versions of text encoded according to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines. VM provides for annotation and also takes advantage of opportunities afforded by electronic publication allowing easy comparison of an image of a manuscript.
- 'R' for Digital HumanitiesPrograming language for statistical analysis and visualization broadly used for many applications in the digital humanities.
- ScalarOpen source authoring and publishing platform designed to allow users to write long-form, born-digital scholarship online, and assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with their own writing.
- ISSUUOnline publishing platform for media content.
Digitally Archiving Content
- WordPressWebsite that can host and publish multimedia projects, images, and text.
- Adobe BridgeDigital asset management for personal and team images, with batch edit capacity, watermarks, and connection to other Adobe platforms.
- MurkurtuOnline platform designed manage, share, narrate, and exchange digital heritage in culturally relevant and ethically-minded ways.
- OmekaWeb publishing platform for creating and sharing media-rich online exhibitions and digital collections.
Visualizing Maps & Charts
- QGISFree and open-source GIS for creating, editing, visualizing, analyzing, and publishing spatial data.
- ArcGIS for UChicago UsersOnline platform designed for visualizing maps.
- Google EarthFree desktop software for viewing, creating, and displaying spatial data and information.
- CartoFormerly Carto DB. Online platform for creating interactive or static maps.
- NeatlineGeo-temporal exhibit builder allowing scholars, students, and curators to tell stories with maps and timelines. As a suite of add-on tools for Omeka, it opens new possibilities for hand-crafted, interactive spatial maps, image annotations, and collections of archives and artifacts.
- Google Fusion TablesWeb-application designed to facilitate gathering, visualizing and sharing data online.