Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.0.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Introduction to the Digital Humanities You Say You Want a Revolution ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Stephanie Stillo](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/05/11/stephanie-stillo/) - Stephanie Stillo's presentation focused on the inner workings of historical artifacts. Inner workings meaning what the piece is actually composed of, primarily the chemicals used. This could be called "metadata," meaning, data about data. Once the proper chemicals are named, her work can lead to the better preservation of documents and art works, since certain - [Beyond Bow Ties - Preliminary Implementation and Analysis](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/05/10/beyond-bow-ties-preliminary-implementation-and-analysis/) - Beyond Bow Ties - Preliminary Implementation and Analysis [PDF] Beyond Bow Ties Preliminary Implementation and Analysis Saturday, May 10, 2014 Christian Martine, Project Manager Kelsey Carter, Designer Melissa Coggins, Designer Patrick Ozark, Developer Beyond Bow Ties Preliminary Implementation Current Research Questions How did the coeducation decision affect social and academic environments in the years - [Stephanie Sillo](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/05/09/stephanie-sillo/) - The problem that Stephanie and others at the Library of Congress were dealing with was restoring old documents that had been muddied over the years. Some of these historical papers contained interesting and important information that was no longer legible or visible to a human eye. The main tool they used to unveil the material - [Preliminary Implementation and Analysis](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/05/09/preliminary-implementation-and-analysis/) - Lee Chapel Digital Humanities Project Ulemj Enkhbold, Ryan Grant, Nicole Porter and Hollis Tardy Preliminary Implementation Recall: What are your research questions? Overarching Question What was Lee’s intent for the purpose of the chapel, and how has that purpose changed over time, especially from its construction starting in 1867 through the 1920’s? Supporting Questions: - [Guest Speaker Stephanie Stillo ](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/05/08/guest-speaker-stephanie-stillo-2/) - Stephanie Stillo’s overarching problem she was trying to solve was how to discover the hidden data in old, historic documents, due to the fact that people used to reuse parchment. In addition, she talked about evaluating dyes in paintings to find out what era the painting is from and what natural substances the artist used - [Guest Speaker](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/05/08/guest-speaker-2/) - Stephanie Stillo’s talk centered on the recovery of vital information from historical art artifacts. An example of crucial information to the archiving and restoration of documents and art works is the medium used. If the chemicals used in the work are known, we can better store and protect the piece from the natural decay of - [Beyond Bow Ties Revised Project Proposal](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/05/06/beyond-bow-ties-revised-project-proposal/) - Beyond Bow Ties - Project Proposal (Revised v2) [PDF - May 8, 2014] Beyond Bow Ties - Project Proposal (Revised v1) [PDF - May 6, 2014] - [Guest Speaker: Stephanie Stillo](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/05/07/guest-speaker-stephanie-stillo/) - Yesterday we were visited by Stephanie Stillo, a candidate for a two-year fellowship position in W&L's history department. Stephanie has a background in digital humanities and talked to us about the work she's done with historical artifacts. She explained that artifacts can be considered "data," but with data there is "metadata." Metadata is essentially "the - [Guest Speaker](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/05/07/guest-speaker/) - Stephanie Stillo spoke to our class yesterday primarily about recovering information in maps and other old pieces of writing that may have been lost due to ink fading over time. This is obviously important for historians to learn about the past; by uncovering previously lost information, they can gain access to material never before seen - [Below the Surface of Artifacts](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/05/06/below-the-surface-of-artifacts/) - This morning's lecturer presented our class with some real cutting-edge mechanisms to find details of artifacts that cannot be seen with the naked eye. Combining certain light wavelengths that are both visible and invisible to the naked eye, faded words and images of an artifact can be seen. A neater use of this technology, known - [Class Speaker](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/05/06/class-speaker/) - Today, Stephanie Stillo presented information on various imaging processes and their importance in recovering information about historical events, specifically involving the discovery of the New World. Stephanie’s work contributes to solving the problem that age and destruction impose upon historical documents. Recovering this information will provide information about cultural concerns throughout history. Stephanie approaches - [Two DH Tools](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/05/06/two-dh-tools/) - Through the many tools that we have seen and learned about in class, Voyant is of a particular relevancy to the Beyond Bow Ties project and standing alone, a powerful tool. It takes either the link to a text document/PDF file or the input of the entire text itself, analyzes the entire content of the - [DH Tools](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/05/06/dh-tools/) - It's easy to feel overwhelmed by all of the DH tools we've learned since the beginning of the course. There are so many tools available, but since we have less than two weeks left in the course, it's difficult to incorporate all of the relevant tools into our project. Two of the tools that we - [Two Tools for Thought](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/05/06/two-tools-for-thought/) - A discussion on the Prism and Cirrus, powerful digital humanities tools. - [Using New Tools ](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/05/06/using-new-tools/) - As I was searching in Bamboo I came across Neatline, which was mentioned briefly at the UVA Scholars Lab. I looked at the demo for Neatline and I think it is a great visualization to use for our project. In the demo that I looked at, they took a map of the US and zoomed - [Cool Tools](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/05/06/cool-tools/) - I definitely could have written up a solid paragraph about Lenny... Aside from the fact that I’m taking a 3D printing course in fall term and that I love video games, 3D models are still the coolest things ever. I’m familiar with a lot of computer technology and I still can’t wrap my head around - [Two New Tools](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/05/06/two-new-tools/) - Through the DH Tools for Beginners site, I found a tool called Timeline JS. Because I have primarily been in charge of the timeline portion of our site thus far, exploring different timeline tools is very interesting to me. This tool was developed by the knight lab at Northwestern University. The site provides a template - [SketchUp and GitHub](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/05/06/sketchup-and-github/) - The first, and very important to our project, tool is SketchUp. SketchUp allows the user to create 3-D models of... whatever the user pleases. The nice thing about SketchUp is that the projects do not have to be buildings, but rather whatever the user wants to use their imagination for, such as video game design, - [New Tools](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/05/05/new-tools/) - Gwen from UVA Scholars’ lab introduced us to Google Ngram in her discussion of differentiating reading through physical books versus sifting through online publications. In his article “Technology is Taking Over English Departments: The false promise of the digital humanities,” Adam Kirsch defines Google Ngram Viewer as “an online tool that allows you to map - [Beyond Bow Ties Charter and Project Proposal](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/05/03/beyond-bow-ties-charter-and-project-proposal/) - Beyond Bow Ties - Charter and Project Proposal [PDF] - [Lee Chapel Proposal](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/05/02/lee-chapel-proposal/) - Statement of problem: What was Lee’s vision for Lee Chapel and how is it different today? What was its purpose for the W&L community and how has the Chapel’s meaning been interpreted over time? Motivation: One of General Lee’s last contributions to Washington and Lee was Lee Chapel, yet many of us do not know - [Lee Chapel Charter](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/05/02/lee-chapel-charter/) - GOALS Developing skills: We hope to learn and become comfortable with Wordpress, in addition to the various programs we will use for our project. We would like to familiarize ourselves with 3D modeling, photogrammetry and text analysis and the Mapplication program. We also want to experiment with writing in blog form as opposed to a - [Project Management](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/04/28/scholars-lab/) - A major portion of today’s class involved the importance of working together as a team to establish an interactive, navigable design. Brandon and Sarah from the Scholars' Lab at UVA walked us through a brainstorming activity in which we examined poorly designed websites and discussed their faults. The websites we viewed have a common fault- - [Teamwork](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/04/29/teamwork/) - 4/28/14 Today Sarah Storti and Brandon Walsh from the Scholars' Lab at UVA visited our class. All in all, it was a fantastic experience as the students learned even more about project management. More importantly, we had catering from... some place... but it was good. You mean to tell me we can simply get - [How I became a cyborg](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/04/29/how-i-became-a-cyborg/) - Creating our charter helped put this project in perspective. We had originally planned on focusing on the Cadaver Society. Then the design jam pushed us towards Lee Chapel. We left UVA confident in Lee Chapel, but we really had no idea what specifically about it other than maybe the significance of the location or the - [A Charter and Preliminary Development](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/04/29/a-charter-and-preliminary-development/) - Group projects in college have been learning experiences for me. Generally, groups run smoothly as they are short-term obligations in which there is a defined deliverable with a relatively limited amount of work. When group work has failed in the past, there have often been misunderstandings from the beginning, particularly expectations of quality, understandings of - [Project Management](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/04/29/project-management-3/) - Do You Want to Build a Project? Today our Intro to DH class was lucky enough to be visited by Sarah Storti and Brandon Walsh from the UVA Scholars Lab. Sarah and Brandon spent the day teaching us about project management, a topic that I had never given much consideration. Of the many successful and - [Project Management](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/04/29/project-management-2/) - Our group made a lot of progress today on our project. The original brainstorming we did was an interesting experience for us because we met on Sunday and had already discussed the specifics of where we wanted to go with our project. It was good, though, for us to talk about what “success” meant for - [Project Management/Software Development](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/04/29/project-managementsoftware-development/) - Both Sarah Storti and Brandon Walsh thoroughly discussed principles and tips for project management and software development during their abridged lecture of these topics. Project management is something that should generally fall into place during the beginning stages of the project. Duties of each team member should align to their specific skill set. Given that - [Project Management](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/04/28/project-management/) - Brandon and Sarah helped our class to move away from a more abstract idea of our project groups and actually start deciding who will be doing what tasks. The engine room’s biggest problem was that all of us know what our basic research question is, but we were not sure what techniques we should use - [A Day With the Scholars' Lab](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/04/25/a-day-with-the-scholars-lab/) - Nothing quite starts the day like your professor jumping out of the Enterprise saying, We're taking a big ass van to Charlottesville. And then Tweeting about it. Drivin a big ass van to @scholarslab #wludh pic.twitter.com/ZR0IbPh8ZP — Paul A. Youngman (@PaulAYoungman) April 24, 2014 Rethinking Digital Humanities Today was a fun and clarifying day for me - [DH Revision + UVA](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/04/25/dh-revision-uva/) - Digital humanities refers to the making a project created by any department or discipline. It is not restricted to traditional humanities, nor is it required to end. Unlike a standard essay, a digital humanities project can continue to grow and expand long after its basics are completed. A key part to the digital humanities is - [We Jammin'](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/04/25/we-jammin/) - Digital Humanities is a collaborative, interdisciplinary, project-based academic field that engages an audience in a digital environment where users are able to learn about a particular topic. Digital Humanities' projects are different from end-products like papers or written articles. Papers have deadlines, and while DH projects must often have deadlines, they are truly never finished. - [Revised DH Definition and Design Jam Thoughts](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/04/25/revised-dh-definition-and-design-jam-thoughts/) - Digital Humanities is the intersection of multiple humanities disciplines with science and technology. It requires a group of people, and the projects that result are collaborative in nature. Unlike a paper or book, DH projects are always changing and are never finished. You could work on a DH project for years and still not be - [DH Revised Definition](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/04/25/dh-revised-definition/) - Digital Humanities is a collaborative, interdisciplinary, project based effort to expose various fields of academia through innovative technological processes. It transcends boundaries set forth by the core humanities departments and allows for further alteration and exploration of information through continuously evolving mediums. The Design Jam at UVA reinforced the definition of digital humanities that we - [DH Definition Revision and UVA Thoughts](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/04/24/dh-definition-revision-and-uva-thoughts/) - Digital Humanities is the integration of technology and the fields of the humanities. Digital Humanities is the effort to modernize humanities by focusing the product of the studies as collaborated projects as opposed to books or essays. These projects are internet based and open to the public, essentially fighting against the privatization of knowledge. This; - [DH Revision and UVA Scholars Lab](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/04/24/dh-revision-and-uva-scholars-lab/) - After visiting the Scholars Lab at UVA, I believe my definition of DH will be slightly adjusted. The digital humanities is a collaborative and interdisciplinary effort to present and/or analyze information from the humanities disciplines, mainly through projects, using a variety of general creative techniques and often creative technology. Although this definition is long, I - [What is DH? & Design Jam at UVA](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/04/24/what-is-dh-design-jam-at-uva/) - Digital Humanities involves the curating of large sets of data across a variety of disciplines. This involves the interpretation and analysis of numerous works that relate to the Humanities. Thus, the field’s work is mostly collaborative and project-based. With the incorporation of technology, the projects are fluid in content. Data can be added to the - [Liberal Arts, DH and Employment](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/04/22/liberal-arts-dh-and-employment/) - See my Blog - [Digital Humanities!!!](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/04/22/digital-humanities-5/) - The Digital Humanities field arose with the advancement of technology, and because of the increasing use of digital resources in academia and beyond, it’s a field that will continue to grow and receive recognition. I had never heard of “Digital Humanities” before registering for this course. I’m still trying to grasp the full meaning of - [Digital Humanities](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/04/22/digital-humanities-4/) - 22 April 2014 The term Digital Humanities refers to the relationship of disciplines such as “literature, philosophy, classics, rhetoric, history, and studies of art, music, and design” (4) and various technological outlets that reinforce their respective theories. The first chapter of “Digital_Humanities” addresses the influence of digital outlets on humanists’ and explains that “archival projects” - [Beyond the Paper: Digital Humanities](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/04/22/beyond-the-paper-digital-humanities/) - My journey into the digital humanities and why they matter. - [Digital Humanities](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/04/22/digital-humanities-3/) - Digital Humanities, in a sense, is a way to express content similar to that of any other humanities discipline, but using technology and other available resources to yield results that cannot be communicated simply through written word. Digital Humanities uses visual aids, in particular, to add meaning to ordinary humanities projects, which are usually in - [Digital Humanities](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/04/22/digital-humanities-2/) - Digital humanities are the combined efforts of all modern scholars. It is the gathering of all information of the humanities into the digital world. This means that it’s being accessed by scholars from all over. It means putting information on the internet and giving others the ability to analyze and look over work on the - [Introduction to Digital Humanities](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/04/21/blog-post-1/) - The Digital Humanities is a collaborative effort to preserve and to share information and data that falls within the categories of the humanities. This effort is accomplished through using technology and computer programs to plot and sort the data in a way that is easy to access. Many of the programs use searches, maps and archives - [What Are the Digital Humanities?](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/04/21/what-are-the-digital-humanities/) - The Digital Humanities are centered on the modernization of the study of the Humanities. The digitization of Humanist studies transforms information of concern to a widely accessible format--many times using the Internet as means for this dispersal of information. The study can also focus on how this information is accessed and indexed on the Internet. - [Digital Humanities ](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/2014/04/21/digital-humanities/) - The heavy packed question is, "What are Digital Humanities?" The answer, as we discovered today, is somewhat ambiguous and vague because it is something that is currently occurring. Digital Humanities is the attempt to modernize the fields of humanities in an effort to better suit a contemporary lifestyle. No one today wants to sit down ## Pages - [About](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/) - Welcome to INTR 203: You Say You Want a Revolution: Introduction to Digital Humanities! Throughout this course, you will be introduced to digital humanities ideas and tools as well as up-and-coming digital humanities scholars. This site will evolve throughout the semester. Students should check daily for updates. Course Description This project-based course introduces non-STEM majors - [Teaching Fellows](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/teaching-fellows/) - Through a generous grant from the Associated Colleges of the South, we were able to fund four graduate students from UVA's Scholars' Lab to lead classes. Our wonderful TAs provided the students with ideas, feedback, energy, and support on their projects. Our students first met the TAs on a day-long field trip to Scholars' Lab - [Poster](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/project/poster/) - Posters are a common format to present your work. You will create a poster to showcase your work for presentation at the Spring Term festival as well as used in other venues (perhaps the Entrepreneurial Summit or SSA?). (5%) There is a lot of flexibility in your poster presentation. You want people to get the - [Project](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/project/) - This course requires a collaborative, inquiry-based project applying non-traditional (and some traditional) humanities research tools to a large data set involving history in a broad sense or more specifically the history of Washington and Lee. You could use data such as that offered in the Internet Archive to examine a recent event in history or - [Post-project Analysis](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/project/post-project-analysis/) - This is the only project deliverable that is an individual submission. Each student will discuss their experience with the project, including an analysis of the team’s collaboration, what was learned, ideas about future work, and ideas about other DH applications (5%). Emailed as a Word attachment to your instructors by Saturday, May 17 at 5 - [Final Implementation, Analysis, and Web Presentation](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/project/final-web-presentation/) - This is the big one: WordPress-based web site containing an introduction to the problem, research questions and hypothesis, discussion of the approach, and methodology, related work, data and implementation (for others to potentially utilize), the results, analysis of results, and possibilities for future directions (24%). An email to your instructors, cc'ing your entire group, confirming - [Labs](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/labs/) - We have dedicated lab sessions three times per week to give you hands-on experience with a variety of tools. - [Schedule](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/schedule/) - We have a packed schedule that is evolving! It is subject to change. Week 1 Day Topic Lab Assignments M 21 Apr What are Humanities? Heart of the Matter -- Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences What does computing have to do with it? What is Digital Humanities? Day1-IntroToDH Slides Guest Speaker: Sarah Bond Lab 1 - [Presentations](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/project/presentation/) - Presentation to class and the University’s Digital Humanities Working Group and Digital Humanities Action Team (DHAT) about project (8%). 20 minute presentation, leaving 10 minutes for questions. Each team member should speak for at least 3 minutes. Content: motivation statement of problem research questions hypotheses methodology results demo future directions Evaluated on content, organization, presentation, - [Preliminary Implementation and Analysis](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/project/preliminary-implementation-and-analysis/) - These deliverables are meant to give you an intermediate deadline to help you with the "evaluate" step in the iterative design process. Of course, you're evaluating on nearly a daily basis. This is the "big"/macro evaluation point. 18% of course grade. Preliminary Implementation Collection of data; implementation of data mining approach; creation of preliminary results. - [Lab: Tool Spotlight](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/labs/lab-tool-spotlight/) - So far, you have seen several presenters demo several tools. For this lab, you are going to choose two tools (as a team) and present those tools to the other team. This is a common practice: you'll need to explore tools, quickly learn how to use them, and try them out on something similar. Finding - [Lab Preparation: Mallet Installation and Set Up](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/labs/lab-preparation-mallet-installation-and-set-up/) - In preparation for Friday's lab on text analysis, we're going to get you set up with Mallet, MAchine Learning for LanguagE Toolkit. Installing Download Mallet. You're probably more comfortable with zip files but .tar.gz work as well Extract the download (likely automatic when you click on the file) Note the location of the extraction. Running - [Resources](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/resources/) - Digital Humanities Tools for Beginners Bamboo Dirt -- Digital Research Tools Take a look at the tutorials named “Getting started with SketchUp - Part”x Search Engine Optimization - how to help your site get seen by search engines DHAT's Tools Documentation -- includes Wordpress, Voyant, and OCR Stanford Literary Lab Immersion - a people-centric - [Proposal and Lightning Talk Requirements](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/project/proposal-and-lightning-talk-requirements/) - The first deliverables are meant for you to demonstrate that you have thought about your project topic in depth and are prepared to successfully complete the project. Worth 10% of your course grade. Lightning Talk Your 5-minute lightning talk to members of DHAT and Scholars Lab will include similar information to the proposal (see below) - [Speaker Evaluation](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/labs/speaker-evaluation/) - In a paragraph in your blog, summarize the talk, including the problem they’re trying to solve motivation for problem (problem’s importance) their approach to the problem how they evaluated their approach their contributions (may overlap with some of the other parts) Then, address the following questions: What were the two most interesting things about the - [Lab 2: Looking Behind the Web Curtain](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/labs/lab-2-looking-behind-the-web-curtain/) - Yesterday, you searched for yourself and made a Wordpress page. Today, we want to talk a bit about the technology behind the Web. Lab2 Slides - [DH Projects](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/dh-projects/) - We are collecting some of our favorite DH projects that we found through searches to help inspire and inform our digital humanities projects. Ryan Grant "AXE" by Grant Dickle and Doug Reside on MITH AXE (Ajax XML Encoder) is a program that allows video, audio, and pictures from anywhere on the internet to be tagged. - [Lab 1: Exploring Your Digital Presence and Digital Humanities](https://dhintro.academic.wlu.edu/labs/lab-1-exploring-your-digital-presence-and-digital-humanities/) - In this lab, you will explore your digital presence and the scope of digital humanities. Being a Good "Searcher" Being able to search the Internet for information you want is an important skill. What is your approach to finding information? 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