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The field of digital humanities—and the way in which libraries and library workers support and engage with it—continues to expand and evolve with technological innovations and global and national events that have had a large-scale impact on the world. There are productive new ways to interrogate and expand the meaning of digital humanities and the contributions of subject specialists, digital scholarship center directors, user experience experts, special collections librarians, and technical specialists. This revised and expanded edition of 2015's Digital Humanities in the Library includes key reprints from the first edition and new chapters that explore digital humanities and diversity, inclusion, and equity; issues of labor, precarity, and infrastructure; scholarly communication and taxonomies of credit; long-term sustainability; and library digital humanities in the age of institutional austerity. Divided into sections on theory and practice, chapter authors work in a variety of institution types in many different roles and offer ideas and strategies for cross-institutional collaborations and new approaches to the digital humanities work being done. As Paige Morgan says in the foreword, “Any digital humanist who can enthuse about data can also tell you that computers alone cannot do the work—you need the thoughtfulness of a human expert to find the way forward. This collection can help us do that.”

Hidden and Devalued Feminized Labour in the Digital Humanities examines the data-driven labour that underpinned the Index Thomisticus–a preeminent project of the incunabular digital humanities–and advanced the data-foundations of computing in the Humanities. Through oral history and archival research, Nyhan reveals a hidden history of the entanglements of gender in the intellectual and technical work of the early digital humanities. Setting feminized keypunching in its historical contexts–from the history of concordance making, to the feminization of the office and humanities computing–this book delivers new insight into the categories of work deemed meritorious of acknowledgement and attribution and, thus, how knowledge and expertise was defined in and by this field. Focalizing the overlooked yet significant data-driven labour of lesser-known individuals, this book challenges exclusionary readings of the history of computing in the Humanities. Contributing to ongoing conversations about the need for alternative genealogies of computing, this book is also relevant to current debates about diversity and representation in the Academy and the wider computing sector. Hidden and Devalued Feminized Labour in the Digital Humanities will be of interest to researchers and students studying digital humanities, library and information science, the history of computing, oral history, the history of the humanities, and the sociology of knowledge and science.

The first volume to introduce the techniques and methods of reading digital material for research Digital Humanities has become one of the new domains of academe at the interface of technological development, epistemological change, and methodological concerns. This volume explores how digital material might be read or utilized in research, whether that material is digitally born as fanfiction, for example, mostly is, or transposed from other sources. The volume asks questions such as what happens when text is transformed from printed into digital matter, and how that impacts on the methods we bring to bear on exploring that technologized matter, for example in the case of digital editions. Issues such as how to analyse visual material in digital archives or Twitter feeds, how to engage in data mining, what it means to undertake crowd-sourcing, big data, and what digital network analyses can tell us about online interactions are dealt with. This will give Humanities researchers ideas for doing digitally based research and also suggest ways of engaging with new digital research methods. Key features First volume centred on the navigation and interpretation of digital material as research methods in the Humanities Up-to-date analyses of issues and methods including big data, crowdsourcing, digital network analysis, working with digital additions Based on actual research projects such as para-textual work with fanfiction, reading twitter, different kinds of distant and close readings

Laying the Foundation: Digital Humanities in Academic Libraries examines the library's role in the development, implementation, and instruction of successful digital humanities projects. It pays special attention to the critical role of librarians in building sustainable programs. It also examines how libraries can support the use of digital scholarship tools and techniques in undergraduate education. Academic libraries are nexuses of research and technology; as such, they provide fertile ground for cultivating and curating digital scholarship. However, adding digital humanities to library service models requires a clear understanding of the resources and skills required. Integrating digital scholarship into existing models calls for a reimagining of the roles of libraries and librarians. In many cases, these reimagined roles call for expanded responsibilities, often in the areas of collaborative instruction and digital asset management, and in turn these expanded responsibilities can strain already stretched resources.Laying the Foundation provides practical solutions to the challenges of successfully incorporating digital humanities programs into existing library services. Collectively, its authors argue that librarians are critical resources for teaching digital humanities to undergraduate students and that libraries are essential for publishing, preserving, and making accessible digital scholarship.

Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Specialists is a collection of essays focusing on the role of the subject specialist in creating, supporting, and promoting digital humanities projects. Chapter authors include experts from diverse areas, such as humanities subject specialists, digital humanities librarians, special collections librarians, and professors and graduate students from many disciplines.

Digital Humanities befinden sich im Aufwind. Die Digitalisierung von Quellen und wissenschaftlichen Publikationen gehört inzwischen zum Standard, Normdaten machen eine globale Vernetzung wissenschaftlicher Informationen möglich, Smartphone-Apps sorgen für eine leichte Verbreitung von anwendungsorientierten Forschungsergebnissen, Wissenschaftler kommunizieren per Blog und Tweet, Professuren und Zentren für Digital Humanities werden geschaffen. Hinter dieser leicht zu benutzenden und zu bedienenden Oberfläche stehen oftmals komplexe Systeme, die auf eine jahrzehntelange Entwicklung zurückgehen. In diesem Band durchleuchten ausgewiesene Expertinnen und Experten die digitale Theorie und Praxis in den Historischen Kulturwissenschaften, dem Kern der Digital Humanities, anhand von aktuellen Schlüsselthemen.

This book offers a critical introduction to the core technologies underlying the Internet from a humanistic perspective. It provides a cultural critique of computing technologies, by exploring the history of computing and examining issues related to writing, representing, archiving and searching. The book raises awareness of, and calls for, the digital humanities to address the challenges posed by the linguistic and cultural divides in computing, the clash between communication and control, and the biases inherent in networked technologies. A common problem with publications in the Digital Humanities is the dominance of the Anglo-American perspective. While seeking to take a broader view, the book attempts to show how cultural bias can become an obstacle to innovation both in the methodology and practice of the Digital Humanities. Its central point is that no technological instrument is culturally unbiased, and that all too often the geography that underlies technology coincides with the social and economic interests of its producers. The alternative proposed in the book is one of a world in which variation, contamination and decentralization are essential instruments for the production and transmission of digital knowledge. It is thus necessary not only to have spaces where DH scholars can interact (such as international conferences, THATCamps, forums and mailing lists), but also a genuine sharing of technological know-how and experience.

Amongst Digital Humanists brings an ethnographic account of the changing landscape of humanities scholarship as it affects individual scholars, academic fields and institutions, and argues for a pluralistic vision of digital knowledge production in the humanities.

Exploring how scholars use digital resources to reconstruct the 19th century, this volume probes key issues in the intersection of digital humanities and history. Part I examines the potential of online research tools for literary scholarship while Part II outlines a prehistory of digital virtuality by exploring specific Victorian cultural forms.

The past decade has seen a profound shift in our collective understanding of the digital network. What was once understood to be a transcendent virtual reality is now experienced as a ubiquitous grid of data that we move through and interact with every day, raising new questions about the social, locative, embodied, and object-oriented nature of our experience in the networked world. In The Emergence of the Digital Humanities, Steven E. Jones examines this shift in our relationship to digital technology and the ways that it has affected humanities scholarship and the academy more broadly. Based on the premise that the network is now everywhere rather than merely'out there,'Jones links together seemingly disparate cultural events—the essential features of popular social media, the rise of motion-control gaming and mobile platforms, the controversy over the'gamification'of everyday life, the spatial turn, fabrication and 3D printing, and electronic publishing—and argues that cultural responses to changes in technology provide an essential context for understanding the emergence of the digital humanities as a new field of study in this millennium. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203093085, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

学術情報のオープンアクセス化が叫ばれる昨今。どのようなオープン化の流れが最も望ましいのか。論客たちが経緯・現状を分析しながら、未来のあり方を探る 「DHjp」No.3では、「デジタルデータと著作権」と銘打ち、国立国会図書館の近代デジタルライブラリーにおける電子版の公開停止と再開、これを基礎に著作権に絡む問題を取り上げた。「開く」と「閉ざす（守る）」という軸からすると、このテーマは「閉ざす（守る）」ことの意味を問う特集であった。 今回の特集「オープンアクセス」は、「開く」側からの議論とみなし、各執筆者の専門分野におけるオープンアクセスのあり方と、将来の方向性について、紹介する。 例えば、 ・オープンとなったことでどう学問が変化してきているのか ・また、その未来は。望まれるオープンのあり方とは ・具体的な「オープン」の例（論文が検索できるデータベースの紹介。海外の動向、等） など、研究における動向、具体例を織り交ぜながら、「オープンアクセス」の意義について、論じていく。

若い人たちに伝える。どこに行けば「最先端」に触れられるのか？ 欧米では、注目度でも、割り当てられる予算でも、立ち上がるサイトの数・動きでも、学会の規模でも、「DH」が隆盛の学問となっている。 「潮流」という言葉で表現をされるが、では日本国内はどうか、というと、遅れをとっている感がある。 国内での「盛り上がり」がまだ伝わってきていない。DHはいまだ市民権を得るところまでは至らず、さらに、「DH」を意味するところが各人各様であり、まとまって気勢を挙げる段にまだない、という点である。 勿論、各大学でDHプログラムは立ち上がってきており、日本にもその潮流が届いているのは間違いない。それをどう伝え、アピールするのか。 『DHjp』はこれから学問を志す若者達にDHという新たな潮流を紹介するものである。そこでまずは、彼らにDHの現在を伝えたい。 ・今後この学問がどのような展開を辿るのか。 ・若者の現在に、どのようなメリット・デメリットを与えるのか。 ・若者たちがどのような新たな未来を切り拓けるのか。 ・今、どこにアクセスすれば最先端に触れられるのか。その潮流を浴びることができるか。 以上のテーマについて、「若い人たちに伝える」ということを念頭に、論じていく。

学問のニューフロンティアへ、ご招待！ 今、欧米で新たな学問デジタル・ヒューマニティーズ（DH）が勃興している。人文学にデジタル技術をもちい、横断的研究をする。そこから、これまでにない発想が生まれる。 日本でもDHは大きな潮流となるにちがいない。ＤＨについて議論する公の場が必要である。『DHjp』は、その〈場〉を提供する。新たな発想で展望を開く！ インターネットの普及で、情報通信のあり方、生活のあり方は一変しつつある。この一大変化の中で、学問・教育も変化を避けては通れない。人文学にもデジタルの手法が持ち込まれ、変化する社会全体への対応が求められる。 近年、欧米を中心にデジタル・ヒューマニティーズ（DH）への注目が高まっている。この学問・方法論は、これまでの学問に対して、人の能力の及ばない部分にまで深く掘り下げることもできれば、横断的な分析も可能にする。そこからはこれまでにない様々な発想が生まれるだろう。 欧米では学会・シンポジウムが盛んで、研究に巨額の予算が付くこともあるDHだが、日本では未だ潮流を十分に感じ取れない。しかし、ここ数年の間に、DHは大きな学問となっていくと予想される。喫緊に、変化の時代に対応する学問の方法として、DHについて公の場で議論をする必要があると感じている。 「DH」というシリーズをその〈場〉として提供する。この場を通じて、斯界の方々に大いに議論をしていただき、新たな方法でどこまでの展望が開けるかを見出していきたい。ひいては、これからの学問をになう若者たちを刺激し、新たな学問の沃野を切り開いていく指針となるものを目指す。

デジタル技術で「文化」を分析する、新たな挑戦 浮世絵をコンピュータで統計的に解析、伝統芸能の動きをモーションキャプチャで分析…。情報技術の進歩が、新たな文化研究を巻き起こしている。この革新に、無縁ではいられない！ 文理の壁を超える、最先端の研究者たちが集結。 文化情報学を基礎から学ぶ人のためのガイドブック。

Ancient texts, once written by hand on parchment and papyrus, are now increasingly discoverable online in newly digitized editions, and their readers now work online as well as in traditional libraries. So what does this mean for how scholars may now engage with these texts, and for how the disciplines of biblical, Jewish and Christian studies might develop? These are the questions that contributors to this volume address. Subjects discussed include textual criticism, palaeography, philology, the nature of ancient monotheism, and how new tools and resources such as blogs, wikis, databases and digital publications may transform the ways in which contemporary scholars engage with historical sources. Contributors attest to the emergence of a conscious recognition of something new in the way that we may now study ancient writings, and the possibilities that this new awareness raises.

Digital Humanities is becoming an increasingly popular focus of academic endeavour. There are now hundreds of Digital Humanities centres worldwide and the subject is taught at both postgraduate and undergraduate level. Yet the term'Digital Humanities'is much debated. This reader brings together, for the first time, in one core volume the essential readings that have emerged in Digital Humanities. We provide a historical overview of how the term'Humanities Computing'developed into the term'Digital Humanities', and highlight core readings which explore the meaning, scope, and implementation of the field. To contextualize and frame each included reading, the editors and authors provide a commentary on the original piece. There is also an annotated bibliography of other material not included in the text to provide an essential list of reading in the discipline. This text will be required reading for scholars and students who want to discover the history of Digital Humanities through its core writings, and for those who wish to understand the many possibilities that exist when trying to define Digital Humanities.

The field of Digital Humanities is becoming more exciting as the number of low-cost or free mobile and desktop applications flood the market allowing users to accomplish tasks that only a few years ago were either not possible or required complicated coding or high-end computing power. The range of these applications provides access to digital communications, advanced visualization, data storage and retrieval at unprecedented levels. Digital Humanists are incorporating these tools as part of our teaching, research, and creative expression. This research volume approaches the topic from a perspective that will be attractive to those just beginning, through the step by step guides to set up and use of a variety of tools with accompanying objectives, and to those who are more advanced, through more challenging applications and their use for teaching and research. Furthermore this text will be of interest to administrators or those sceptical about the Digital Humanities, as the essays will highlight studies and research by experts in the field while maintaining the particular perspective on literary studies and Digital Africana Studies. This volume includes an introduction to the Digital Humanities and chapters on The Social Web, Communications, Visualization and Collaboration.

This familiar guide to information resources in the humanities and the arts, organized by subjects and emphasizing electronic resources, enables librarians, teachers, and students to quickly find the best resources for their diverse needs.Authoritative, trusted, and timely, Information Resources in the Humanities and the Arts: Sixth Edition introduces new librarians to the breadth of humanities collections, experienced librarians to the nature of humanities scholarship, and the scholars themselves to a wealth of information they might otherwise have missed.This new version of a classic resource—the first update in over a decade—has been refreshed to account for the myriad of digital resources that have rewritten the rules of the reference and research world, and been expanded to include significantly increased coverage of world literature and languages. This book is invaluable for a wide variety of users: librarians in academic, public, school, and special library settings; researchers in religion, philosophy, literature, and the performing and visual arts; graduate students in library and information science; and teachers and students in humanities, the arts, and interdisciplinary degree programs.

A visionary report on the revitalization of the liberal arts tradition in the electronically inflected, design-driven, multimedia language of the twenty-first century.Digital_Humanities is a compact, game-changing report on the state of contemporary knowledge production. Answering the question “What is digital humanities?,” it provides an in-depth examination of an emerging field. This collaboratively authored and visually compelling volume explores methodologies and techniques unfamiliar to traditional modes of humanistic inquiry—including geospatial analysis, data mining, corpus linguistics, visualization, and simulation—to show their relevance for contemporary culture. Written by five leading practitioner-theorists whose varied backgrounds embody the intellectual and creative diversity of the field, Digital_Humanities is a vision statement for the future, an invitation to engage, and a critical tool for understanding the shape of new scholarship.

From full-text article databases to digitized collections of primary source materials, newly emerging electronic resources have radically impacted how research in the humanities is conducted and discovered. This book, covering high-quality, up-to-date electronic resources for the humanities, is an easy–to-use annotated guide for the librarian, student, and scholar alike. It covers online databases, indexes, archives, and many other critical tools in key humanities disciplines including philosophy, religion, languages and literature, and performing and visual arts. Succinct overviews of key emerging trends in electronic resources accompany each chapter. - The only reference guide to electronic resources written specifically for the humanities - Addresses all major humanities disciplines in one convenient guide - Concise format ideal for students, librarians, and humanities researchers