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All Things Digital
Digital Humanities,
Digital Resources
and Humanities Computing
Digital Resources on the Web
• British Library http://www.bl.uk
• Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi http://www.cvma.ac.uk/
• William Blake Archivehttp://www.blakearchive.org/blake/
• Early English Books Online EEBO http://eebo.chadwyck.com/home
• Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/• Old Bailey On-Line www.oldbaileyonline.org
Digital Humanities
• Electronic editions
• On-line databases
• Publishing medium
• Research tools
• New methodologies – new questions?
• Communication/collaboration.
It concerns how all of the above are used in scholarly research.
What is Humanities Computing?
• Not new – Father Robert Busa, 1949. Index Thomisticus.
• Huge and varied spectrum of disciplines.• Source data are the products of human hand
and mind.• Took a long time for computer hardware and
techniques to advance• Digitised sources + computing tools +
appropriate knowledge.
Humanities Data
• Text• Numerical Data• Images• Sound• Moving Images• Spatial Data• Means of rendering content ‘visible’ – Metadata.
(SGML, XML, TEI)
Computing Tools
• Methods common to all disciplines• Discovering – Communication• Annotation• Comparing• Referring - linking• Sampling – search by query-sampling• Illustrating – elucidating, diagrams etc• Representing - publishing
Online communities• Antiquist: an online community of people working
with computing in the heritage sector
• Digital Classicist : humanities computing applied to research into the ancient world
• Digital Medievalist: medievalists working with digital media
• Humanist: an electronic seminar on the application of computers to the humanities
Courses to follow AV1003
Second year modules (level 5)• AV2001: Texts in the Digital Humanities (15 credits 1st
semester)• AV2002: Databases in the Digital Humanities (15
credits 2nd semester)• AV2012: Research methods in the digital humanities
(15 credits 2nd semester)
Third year modules (level 6)• AV3000: Independent research project in the digital
humanities (30 credits full year)
MA Programme see course pages: here