1st Edition
The Companion to Digital Humanities in Practice
The Companion to Digital Humanities in Practice offers international perspectives on how we teach and research in and with digital humanities today.
Building on the foundation of earlier publications that focused on practice in the field, this Companion provides a significant treatment of pertinent issues and contexts, extending breadth and depth, as well as reach, in terms of geographical diversity of topics and contributors. Divided into four sections, each with a high-level practice-oriented focus, the volume covers data; tools and techniques; communication, dissemination and engagement; and pedagogical practices. Contributors to the volume include both established and emerging scholars. Foregrounding and critically reviewing the emergence and development of standards-based communities of practice, the Companion provides an overview of core competencies; conceptualized case studies; and links to further reading, training materials and exercises.
The Companion to Digital Humanities in Practice will appeal to academics, researchers, and postgraduate students working in DH, literary studies, history, and the humanities more broadly. It should also be of interest to professionals working in DH and galleries, libraries, archives, and museums.
List of figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction:
1. Digital Humanities in Practice, Across Data, Tools and Techniques, Communication and Engagement, and Pedagogy
Section 1: Data
2. From a “bag of names” to a “name index”: Using Wikipedia and Wikidata to create an enriched list of person names
Silvia Gutiérrez, Manuel Burghardt, and Andreas Niekler
3. Databasing As Research: new paradigms for the long tail….
Ian Johnson and Michael Falk
4. Unicorns, Janitors, Ninjas, Wizards, and Rock Stars
Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
5. Editing mundane texts across the digital divide: The case of Arabic periodicals from the late nineteenth-century Eastern Mediterranean
Till Grallert
6. Sharing Data for Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR)
Peter Stokes and Benjamin Kiessling
7. Digital Public Health Advocacy in Nigeria: A Multimodal Study of WhatsApp-mediated COVID-19 Posts
‘Tunde Ope-Davies (Opeibi), Anthony Elisha Anowu, and Kofo Adedeji
8. Why Digital Humanists Should Emphasize Situated Data over Capta
Matthew Lavin
Section 2: Tools and Techniques
9. Digitizing the container: books as objects in the digital medium
Alberto Campagnolo
10. Modeling cultural heritage materials for discovery and analysis
Slavina Stoyanova, Øyvind Eide, and Enes Türkoglu
11. IIIF for Digital Humanities
Glen Robson and Niqui O'Neill
12. What is Humanities Mapping?
Bill Pascoe
13. Mapping and 3D Modelling: Expanding 19th-century New York City Bookstore Geographies
Kristen Doyle Highland and Marwan Saksouk
14. Enacting Our Values: Practical Applications of Ethics in the Transgender Media Lab
Evie Johnny Ruddy and Laura Horak
15. Against Violent Quantification: Lessons from the Bellevue Almshouse Project
Anelise Hanson Shrout
16. Thinking-Through the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Geoffrey Rockwell and Nidhi Hegde
Section 3: Communication and Engagement
17. Community and Digitality in/of Indian DH: Exploring Legacies, Presents and Futures
Dibyadyuti Roy, Samya Brata Roy, and Surojit Kayal
18. Valuing and Evaluating Digital Scholarship as a Social Justice Practice
Jennifer Guiliano and Roopika Risam
19. Effect, Affect, Engagement: Digital Storytelling as Personal Process
Leah Henrickson
20. The influence of communication on digital humanities training
Menno van Zaanen, Mmasibidi Setaka, and Anelda Van der Walt
21. Some Things Can't be Measured: Rethinking Context, Metrics and Disciplinarity in the Digital Humanities
Tully Barnett and Tyne Daile Sumner
22. Public Works: Ecological Inspiration for Equitable Knowledge Production
Alyssa Arbuckle and Katina Rogers
Section 4: Pedagogy
23. Intersectional Ethics of Care and Co-Creation in Digital Humanities Pedagogy
Andie Silva
24. Student-led Digital Projects in Cultural Heritage Sector Collaborations
Katrina Grant and Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller
25. Digital Pedagogy as Topoi: Assignments that Encourage ‘Play’ within the History of Race, Space and State Power in Apartheid South Africa
Steve Davis and William J. B. Mattingly
26. Creative Writing and Digital Humanities: Between Literature and Technology
Bernardo Bueno
27. Assembling Body, Mind, and Spirit in Digital Humanities Teaching Praxis
Diana Alvarez and Rebecca Rouse.
28. Two ways to engage students in a digital project, an experience in Mexico
Ernesto Priani Saisó
29. The Risks and Rewards of Implementing Digital Humanities Methodologies in Modern Language Graduate Research
Nora Benedict
Index
Biography
Constance Crompton is a white, queer, able-bodied settler and Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities. She is a member of several research project teams: Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada, Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship, the Implementing New Knowledge Environments Partnership, and the Transgender Media Portal. She is the co-editor of two volumes, Doing Digital Humanities and Doing More Digital Humanities, with Ray Siemens and Richard Lane (Routledge 2016, 2020). She lives and works on unceded Algonquin land.
Dr. Laura Estill is a Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities and Professor of English at St. Francis Xavier University in Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia). Works include Digital Humanities Workshops (2023), with Jennifer Guiliano, and a special issue of Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities (IDEAH, 2023), with Constance Crompton and Ray Siemens. She directs the Canadian Certificate in Digital Humanities, ccdhhn.ca.
Richard J. Lane is Professor of English and Director of the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) funded MeTA Digital Humanities Lab at Vancouver Island University, Canada. His research interests include the intersection of literary theory, philosophy and the digital humanities, with recent projects on DH and AI, big data, machine reading, machine learning, and topic modelling. He collaborates on research with the VIU Canadian Letters and Images Project, with the support of CFI, VIU and the British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund.
Ray Siemens FRSC is Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria, Canada, in English and Computer Science, and past Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing; in 2019, he was also Leverhulme Visiting Professor at U Loughborough and, 2019-22, Global Innovation Chair in Digital Humanities in the Centre for 21st Century Humanities at U Newcastle.
