Digital Humanities: Concepts, Opportunities, Tools. 1500-SZD-HCKPN
The course highlights the significance of the digital revolution in humanities, with a special focus on philological challenges, new forms of textuality and the ways of (re)shaping cultural memory. The aim of the course is to discuss the use of digital technologies in humanities, including research tools designed for e-resources. The course is composed of complementary modules offered by relevant experts, and combines short lectures with workshops and panel discussions.
The following topics are discussed in detail:
methodological section
1. Revolutions in humanities: from manuscripts to digital editions. Theorizing the change: Jacques Derrida and The Archive Fever. Theorizing the change: Jerome McGann The New Republic of Letters.
2. (Re)shaping cultural memory: databases, archives, thematic collections. Homo typographicus vs. digital textuality: landmarks and challenges.
Workshops
3. Copyright (free and open licenses, concepts and standards in data accessibility management) and open science infrastructure.
4. Data and metadata in humanities research: data design for digital humanities projects; metadata standards and processing. Introduction to data exchange in digital projects: IIIF, OAI-PMH, API
5. Wikipedia and akin projects vs. the history of knowledge (e.g. OpenGLAM, DBpedia).
6. Web archiving and methods for exploring Web resources.
7. Literary texts online I: introduction to methods of natural language processing and text analysis using CLARIN tools
8. Literary texts online II: basic principles of TEI standard and XML. The merits of XML digital editions.
panel section
9. Showcasing Shakespeare digital resources. An overview. Digital projects completed by UW researchers: an overview.
10. Panel session featuring students’ presentations on the use of DH in their research practice/projects.
Type of course
Learning outcomes
The participants of the course understand:
- the significance and scale of the digital revolution in humanities,
- the specificity of digital editions and the role of e-resources in (re)shaping cultural memory,
- know the methods and good practices in digital project management,
- gain practical knowledge necessary to design their own digital projects.
The participants acquire also the knowledge about :
- fundamentals of copyright regulations in DH (public domain, free licenses, Creative Commons, RightsStatements.org, open data and FAIR, 5 star Open Data);
- open access infrastructure and resources,
- basic information about data and metadata, ontologies and schema, metadata standards and format (MARC21, schema.org, Dublin Core, dictionaries);
- data exchange solutions in DH projects: IIIF, OAI-PMH, API; basic (XML, JSON) and advanced (RDF) data structures;
- publishing literary texts online: metadata, scans, transcriptions (OCR), semantic transcription (XML - TEI);
- data design in DH projects.
Assessment criteria
Participation, presentation on the use of DH in the participant’s research practice/project.
Bibliography
Elizabeth Eisenstein, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe (2nd edition), (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005).
Elizabeth Eisenstein, Divine Art, Infernal Machine. The Reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions the Sense of an Ending (Philadelphia PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011).
Harriet Bradley, “The Seductions of the Archive: Voices Lost and Found,” History of the Human Sciences, t. 12, nr 2 (1999), 107-122.
Constance Crompton, Richard Lane, Ray Siemens (eds.), Doing Digital Humanities: Practice, Training, Research (London and New York: Routledge, 2016).
Hugh Craig and Brett Greatley-Hirsch, Style, Computers and Early Modern Drama: Beyond Authorship (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression, trans. Eric Prenowitz (Chicago and
London: University of Chicago Press, 1995).
Marlene Manoff, “Theories of the Archive from Across the Disciplines”, portal: Libraries and the Academy, t. 4, nr 1 (2004), 9–25.
Jerome McGann, A New Republic of Letters: Memory and Scholarship in the Age of Digital
Reproduction (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2014).
Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth (eds.) A New Companion to Digital Humanities (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016).
Adriaan van der Weel, Changing Our Textual Minds: Towards a Digital Order
of Knowledge (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011).
and training packages of the Digital Competence Center of the University of Warsaw.
Additional information
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