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more [selected] resources for the digital humanities

// hyperstudio 
"focuses on questions about the integration of technology into humanities curricula within the broader context of scholarly inquiry and pedagogical practice"
// example course & project
cms.609: the word made digital 
- student portfolio [1] [2] 
- class website (from 2009)
- "considers uses of text within different contexts of computing"
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annotation studio 
  • "open source web application that engages students in close reading and textual interpretation"
  • "integrates powerful tools with an intuitive interface"
// center for spatial & textual analysis
imagined san francisco
  • "spatial history"
  • "uses historical plans, maps, architectural renderings, and photographs to show what might have been"
mapping emotions in victorian london
  • from the literary lab
  • "explore fictional passages, to discover how London was constructed, navigated, and represented emotionally in its fiction"
// center for interdisciplinary digital research
palladio
  • "web-based platform for the visualization of complex, multi-dimensional data"
// center for computer research in music & acoustics
music in virtual worlds:
  • research group 
  • "focuses on the intersections between musical performance/composition and the use of virtual environments as controlling and performative spaces"
// digital humanities focal group
  • "promotes faculty and graduate research in the digital humanities through lectures series, praxis workshops, curriculum, and the identification and development of digital humanities research projects, especially those eligible for grant-funding opportunities"
// dhi^2 (digital humanities initiative @ davis humanities institute)
modlab
  • economusic: "performer can have the computer play many different hand-traced (economic) data lines using any from a large choice of instruments–from digeredoo to choir voices"
  • play the knave: "a Kinect-enabled game for Windows that offers players an immersive, embodied experience of staging Shakespeare"
// digital scholars lab
pioneering punjabis project
  • "over 700 video interviews, speeches, diaries, photographs, articles, and letters in which Punjabi Americans share their life stories, values, and contributions to California’s history over the last hundred and twenty years"
places in walt whitman
  • "used text mining methods to isolate all of the locations mentioned in Whitman’s works and then created a visual map of all of the locations"
// humtech (humanities technology)
  • "improving humanities education by leveraging technology and digital methods"
  • "provide technology expertise to the humanities, including but not exclusive to the digital humanities"
// example project
genocide, testimony, & the digital archive
  • "investigates the ways computational tools and digital archives can help us preserve memory, ask new historical questions, and understand the various roles of survivor testimony"
// digital humanities at ucsc
  • "uses new digital tools and methodologies to ask new questions in the pursuit of Humanistic Scholarship"
  • "connecting the work of scholarship with new audiences through maps, visualizations, and textual analysis"
  • "rethinking relationship to the digital world through engagement with computation" 
// example course & project
doing history in a digital age (his 189)
  • aims to prepare students for analysis and arrangement of historical data through using new technologies 
  • "investigates questions relating to how new technologies are changing the way historians do research and interact with the public"
the gail project
  • "collaborative, international public history project that explores the founding years of the American military occupation of Okinawa"
  • aims to start a dialogue about the past, present, and future of the Okinawan-American relationship through using photography, narratives, and art as a lens to tell past stories
// example course/s & project
digital humanities minor/certificate
  • "teaches you how to ask timeless questions & answer them using today’s tools"
  • "offers you the skills to make your work communicable and relevant in today’s digital world"

aesthetics & data
  • "considers aesthetics as a crucial, but often overlooked, component of data science"
  • integrates art history terminology & approaches with data analysis 

human-machine interactive composition using machine learning 
  • "software program that interacts with human musicians to automatically co-author music in real time using machine learning"
  • aims to produce music beyond rigid notation or fixed technique, recognizing the importance of improvisation in music
// digital humanities at berkeley
"supports the thoughtful application of digital tools and methodologies to humanistic inquiry"
// digital humanities lab
"theoretical and applied approach to digital humanities, with an emphasis on how digital technologies can be employed to present concepts, advance arguments, and perform critique"
// example course & project
lmc 3314/8803: media, materiality, & archives
  • "from archives of documents to archives of junk, the concept of 'the archive' and how it is transformed in the digital age is explored"
  • class project: fanzines [compiled by "individuals interested in both digitally preserving science fiction fanzine collections as well as expanding the reach of such fanzines to those that cannot readily access the GA Tech Archives"]
  • class website ('16)

visualizing the papers of thomas jefferson