Definitions & Commentary
- Defining the Digital HumanitiesA collection of blog posts hosted by the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative.
- How do you define Humanities Computing / Digital Humanities?A compendium of citations for 2009 and 2010.
Centers
A Survey of Digital Humanities Centers in the United States by Diane Zorich (Washington: Council on Library Resources, 2008)
For links to individual centers, see the Centers page.
Tools and Standards
A sampling (a separate page on tools and standards is forthcoming).
- METS: Metadata Encoding and Transmission StandardA "standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library, expressed using the XML schema language of the World Wide Web Consortium. The standard is maintained in the Network Development and MARC Standards Office of the Library of Congress, and is being developed as an initiative of the Digital Library Federation."
- MONK: Metadata Offer New KnowledgeAn environment for text analysis with workbench capability.
- TEI: Text Encoding Initiative"a consortium which collectively develops and maintains a standard for the representation of texts in digital form."
- TAPoR:Text Analysis Portal for ResearchAn environment for text analysis and tool experimentation.
Introductions
The Digital Scholar by Martin Weller (open access).
Digital Scholarship-Introduction (a blog entry by Weller on the Ed Techie comments on the themes of the book.
A Companion to Digital Humanities. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth, eds. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Pub., 2004.
Widener: WID-LC AZ105 .C588 2004
Review Article: Classical Review
Concise Lexicon of/for the Digital Commons
Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0
Emerging Genres in Scholarly Communication (Scholarly Communication Institute 8)
The Promise of Digital Humanities White Paper by Todd Presner and Chris Johanson (UCLA)
Developing the digital humanities at the Open University: progress report
CNI (Coalition for Networked Information) cnivideo's channel: Hosts talks from meetings, the year's overviews, etc.
Tooling Up for Digital Humanities (Stanford): "a repository of essays designed to provide an introduction to key topics in the digital humanities. This web site is intended to provide a gateway for scholars with minimal exposure to digital methodology but who are interested in exploring the vast potential of the field of digital humanities."
Online Guides
M Publishing
"Introducing the Digital Humanities," a presentation by the MPublishing Office of the University of Michigan, is a useful overview of digital humanities (definitions, tools and projects). More...