Digital humanities uses digital technologies and computational methods to address research questions in the humanities. It enables new forms of scholarly inquiry, collaboration, and pedagogy through digital evidence, authoring, publishing, curation, and reuse. Digital humanities is an active, collaborative field involving experimentation, building, and participation in definitional debates and online communities. It produces open access, knowledge-based, multimodal work that is non-hierarchical and grounded in theory.

1. Thursday, September 26, 2013
Anna Kijas
Jennifer Lanzing

2. The landscape of humanistic research and
teaching has radically changed as digital
technologies have enabled new modes of
scholarly
inquiry, collaboration, publication, and
pedagogy.
“What is DH,” Center for Digital Humanities, UCLA, accessed September
20, 2013, http://www.cdh.ucla.edu/about/what-is.html.

3. Digital scholarship is the use of digital evidence
and method, digital authoring, digital publishing,
digital curation and preservation, and digital
use and reuse of scholarship.
Abby Smith Rumsey, Director
Scholarly Communication Institute, University of Virginia Library
Abby Smith Rumsey, “New-Model Scholarly Communication: Roadmap for Change,” University of
Virginia Library, 2011, accessed September 20, 2013, http://www.uvasci.org/wp-
content/uploads/2011/04/SCI9-report.pdf.

4. • University of Richmond (Virginia) : http://dsl.richmond.edu/
• Northeastern University (Massachusetts): http://nulab.neu.edu/
• Emory University (Georgia): http://digitalscholarship.emory.edu/
• Miami University (Ohio): http://cds.lib.miamioh.edu/
• Brown University (Rhode Island): http://library.brown.edu/cds/
• Columbia University (New York): https://studio.cul.columbia.edu/
• University of Oregon (Oregon): http://library.uoregon.edu/digitalscholarship

5. A multifaceted disciplinary field where humanities
interests and research questions are addressed through
computing and/or find an expression in the digital
medium.
- Raffaele Viglianti (Research Programmer, University of Maryland)
The use of computational techniques in the humanities
that would allow research that is otherwise impossible.
- Melissa Terras (Director, University College London, Centre for Digital
Humanities)
Jason Heppler, ed. “What Is Digital Humanities?”, accessed September
24, 2013, http://whatisdigitalhumanities.com.

6. Digital humanities is an active field, full of
collaboration, experimentation, building and doing, and
we recommend participating in these definitional debates
while also critically diving into tutorials, tools, and other
resources, as well as joining the very open and active
community of DH scholars and collaborators
on Twitter, DH Questions & Answers, and the many DH
blogs across the web.
“A Guide to Digital Humanities,” Northwestern University Library, accessed September
24, 2013, http://sites.library.northwestern.edu/dh/.

7. • Collaborative and non-hierarchical
• Grounded in theory and critique
• Knowledge-based
• Experimental
• Multimodal
• Open access
Kaetrena Davis Kendrick, “Keeping the “L” in Digital: Applying LIS Core Competencies to Digital
Humanities Work,” The Journal of Creative Library Practice (September 6, 2013), accessed
September 20, 2013, http://creativelibrarypractice.org/2013/09/06/keeping-the-l-in-digital-applying-lis-
core-competencies-to-digital-humanities-work/.

8. • Open Context (Archaeology), http://opencontext.org/
• BibNum (Science), http://www.bibnum.education.fr/
• Visualizing Emancipation
(History), dsl.richmond.edu/emancipation
• Songs of the Victorians/Augmented Notes
(Music), http://www.songsofthevictorians.com/;
http://augnotes.appspot.com/
• Nines (Literature), nines.org
• DH Commons: http://dhcommons.org/projects

9. To find more resources and upcoming workshop
information, visit the Digital Scholarship LibGuide
• http://classguides.lib.uconn.edu/digschol