Resources

This page is designed to serve as a resource site for the class. If you come across an article, website example, or other resource that would be useful to the class, please add it under the proper category and add any comments that give them context.

Audience

• Dan Cohen, "Measuring the Audience of a Digital Humanities Project http://www.dancohen.org/2006/04/04/measuring-the-audience-of-a-digital-humanities-project/
• Dan Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig, "Building an Audience," Digital History http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/audience/
• Fondren Library Analysis of Scholar's Use of Digital Resources [http://library.rice.edu/services/digital_media_center/projects/the-impact-of-digital-resources-on-humanities-research]
• Mike Moran, "The Pros and Cons of Forced Registration" Nov. 11, 2009 blog [http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=698&doc_id=184459]

Best Practice Guides

• Jeremy Boggs, Digital Humanities Design and Development Process, ClioWeb, 2008 [http://clioweb.org/2008/04/06/digital-humanities-design-and-development-process/]
• Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts: A Guide to Good Practice, by Alan Morrison, Michael Popham, and Karen Wikander http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/documents/creating/
• NINCH Guide to Good Practice http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/
• Archival Digital Image Scanning, University of Virginia, Electronic Text Center http://etext.virginia.edu/services/helpsheets/scan/specscan.html
• Image Scanning, University of Virginia, Electronic Text Center http://etext.virginia.edu/services/helpsheets/scan/scanimage.html
• Scantips.com scanning guide, very detailed and comprehensive. http://www.scantips.com/basics01.html
• Text Scanning, University of Virginia, Electronic Text Center http://etext.virginia.edu/services/helpsheets/scan/scantext.html
• Ten Major Steps in Digital Project Management, Oxford Text Archive Arts and Humanities Data Service [http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/documents/creating/chap7.html]
• Basic Guide to Text Encoding, University of Nebraska Center for Digital Humanities [http://cdrh.unl.edu/articles/guide_site/]
• Scanning and digital Imaging Benchmarks, University of Nebraska, Center for Digital Humanites [http://cdrh.unl.edu/articles/scanning_benchmarks.php]
• Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing (via Google books) [http://books.google.com/books?id=fobHSO6GlZAC]
• Moving Theory into Practice, Cornell University [http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/index.html]
• New York Public Library, "Planning Digital Projects for Historical Collections" http://digital.nypl.org/brochure/index.html
• ClioWeb Blog on Designing and Developing a Digital Humanities Project [http://clioweb.org/blog/2008/04/digital-humanities-design-and-development-process/]
• Federal Agencies Digitization Standards [http://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/]
• Howard Besser's "Digital Longevity" 1999 [http://besser.tsoa.nyu.edu/howard/Papers/sfs-longevity.html]
• Library of Congress, "Sustainability of Digital Formats" [http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/index.shtml]
• Cornell University's Digital Preservation Management: Implementing Short-term Strategies for Long-term Problems, [http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/dpm/dpm-eng/eng_index.html]

Budget Aids

• Association of Computing in the Humanities Jobs Database [http://curlew.cch.kcl.ac.uk/ach/]
• Chronicle of Higher Education Careers (keyword "digital") [http://chronicle.com/section/Jobs/61/]
• Digital Arts and Humanities Job Listing [http://www.arts-humanities.net/jobs]
• History News Network Job Listings (includes digital) [http://hnn.us/roundup/55.html]
• Indeed Job Search [http://www.indeed.com/]
• Simply Hired job search site [http://www.simplyhired.com]
• Monster.com [http://www.monster.com]
• Association of Research Libraries 2009-2010 salary survey results (see attached file: tables2009-10.xls)
• Estimating time for scanning [http://digital.uflib.ufl.edu/technologies/documentation/average_times.htm]

Content Management Systems

• Drupal [http://drupal.org/]
• Content Management System comparison website [http://www.cmsmatrix.org/]
• DSpace [http://www.dspace.org/]
• Audiovisual Archive Network (in development) [http://www.archivenetwork.org/]

Copyright

• NYU's Guide to Copyright http://library.nyu.edu:8000/copyright/copyright.html
• U.S. Copyright Office http://www.copyright.gov/
• Peter Hirtle "Copyright Renewal, Copyright Restoration, and the Difficulty of Determining Copyright Status," D-Lib Magazine, July 2008 http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july08/hirtle/07hirtle.html
• Open Access Bibliography http://digital-scholarship.org/tsp/w/tsp.html

Data Mining & Text Analysis

• Daniel J. Cohen, "From Babel to Knowledge: Data Mining Large Digital Collections," D-Lib Magazine, March 2006. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march06/cohen/03cohen.html
• Tattoo - web-based text analysis tool [http://ra.tapor.ualberta.ca/~tatoo/]

Designing Websites

• Boggs, Jeremy. 2008. Digital Humanities Design and Development Process. ClioWeb. April 6. http://clioweb.org/2008/04/06/digital-humanities-design-and-development-process/.

Digital History Websites

• American Memory, Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
• American Social History Project, Columbia University, Center for Media and Learning http://www.ashp.cuny.edu/
• The Avalon Project at Yale Law School, Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
• Best of History Websites http://www.besthistorysites.net/
• Computer History Museum http://computerhistory.org
• Digital Arts & Humanities http://www.arts-humanities.net/
• Digital History, University of Houston http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
• Digital History, University of Nebraska, Lincoln http://digitalhistory.unl.edu/
• ECHO - Exploring and Collecting History Online, George Mason University, Center for History and New Media http://echo.gmu.edu/index.php
• Jacqui Williams, Filling in the Gaps in American History, http://www.figah.us/index_b.html
• September 11 Digital Archive http://www.911digitalarchive.org/
• Virginia Center for Digital History http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/index.php?page=Projects
• University of Michigan Michigan Humanities Text Initiative http://www.hti.umich.edu/index-all.html
• Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities http://www.mith2.umd.edu/research/
• MATRIX, Mississippi State University http://matrix.msu.edu/projects/
• Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History http://www.canadianmysteries.ca/indexen.html
• California Digital Library http://www.cdlib.org/
• Smithsonian Institution, "America on the Move" [http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthemove/]
• Archimedes Palimpset [http://www.archimedespalimpsest.org/]
• Discovering American Women's History Online [http://library.mtsu.edu/digitalprojects/womenshistory.php]
• SepiaTown: From Here to Then [http://sepiatown.com/about]

Digitizing Audio

• Digitization of Audio Files, Linguist List. http://linguistlist.org/emeld/school/classroom/audio/index.html
• AudioVisual Preservation Solutions' Papers and Presentations [http://www.avpreserve.com/avpsresources/papers-and-presentations/]
• Audio Engineering Society E-Library (can be accessed through BobCat) [http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=1107]
• National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress, PDF of "Capturing Analog Sound for Digital Preservation" [http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:7_9TM--vmLIJ:www.loc.gov/rr/record/nrpb/pub137.pdf+audio+engineering+society+capturing+analog+sound+for+digital+preservation&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESizNwnegDdVGNufjn-0uOdAUJpjnFf2mkT9o29u-Ppr5hautHoZWNGyuF5cXxGQ6p_S8U4m83YoZLZ9eY28IsJjKDHpeQJ0my26JicpvkZRISPPgFULyBy10rRHtQV0aSbxTaUf&sig=AHIEtbTlyIUS4iPJOB11noZ7bNjQtuhCWQ]
• Sound Directions: Digital Preservation and Access for Global Audio Heritage [http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/sounddirections/]

Digitizing Images

• Digitizing Historical Pictorial Collections for the Internet, by Stephen E. Ostrow (February 1998) http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/ostrow/pub71.html
• Photography Printing Guide (provides information on dpi, ppi, and megapixels [http://www.design215.com/toolbox/print_guide.php]
• About.com guide to Scanning and Printing Digital Files [http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/aboutgraphics/l/blscanning3.htm]
• * Cornell University Library's Digital Imaging Tutorial [http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/intro/intro-01.html]

Digitizing Video

• Digitization of Video Files, Linguist List. http://linguistlist.org/emeld/school/classroom/video/
• Video History Project: Resources [http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org/history/tools/ttext.php3?id=12&page=1]
• Association of Moving Image Archivists' Guidelines, Manuals, and Q&A's [http://www.amianet.org/resources/guidelinesnologin.php?accesscheck=%2Fresources%2Fguidelines.php]
• VidiPax Articles: "Magnetic Tape Deterioration: Tidal Wave at Our Shores" [http://www.vidipax.com/tidal.php]
• VidiPax Magnetic Tape Composition [http://www.vidipax.com/magtapecomp.php]
• Professional Video Formats [http://www.cybercollege.com/tvp048.htm]
• History of Video Tape [http://www.r-vcr.com/~television/TV/formats.htm]
• BAVC Video Preservation Glossary of Terms [http://cool.conservation-us.org/byorg/bavc/bavcterm.html]
• Australia's National Film and Sound Archive Resources [http://www.nfsa.gov.au/preservation/]
• Charles Bensinger's "The Video Guide" [http://videopreservation.conservation-us.org/library/index.html]
• Texas Commission on the Art: Videotape ID and Assessment Guide [http://www.arts.state.tx.us/video/resources.asp]

Digital Publishing Platforms

• Anvil Digital Academic Publishing http://www.nitle.org/help/anvil.php
• TEI Archiving, Publishing and Access Service http://www.tapasproject.org/

Document-based websites

• The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti A Hypermedia Archive http://www.rossettiarchive.org/index.html
• Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, "My Day" http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/myday/
• Footnote.com (subscription service, free trial offered) http://www.footnote.com/
• Lincoln/Net, Northern Illinois University, http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/
• The Speeches and Articles of Margaret Sanger, http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/webedition/app
• Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, e-Library http://www.woodrowwilson.org/learn/learn_show.htm?doc_id=321375

Fundraising for Digitization Projects

• Grant Writing guides [http://www.grantproposal.com]
• Council on Library and Information Resources, Review of Funders of Digital Cultural Heritage Initiatives http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub118/part3.html
• Cathy Davidson, "Understanding the Economic Burden of Scholarly Publishing," http://chronicle.com/free/v50/i06/06b00701.htm
• National Endowment for the Humanities http://www.neh.gov/grants/digitalhumanities.html
• Ken Price, "Dollars and Sense in Collaborative Digital Scholarship," http://www.unl.edu/Price/Dollars.htm

Metadata and Markup Standards

• A Glossary of Metadata Standards [http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jenlrile/metadatamap/seeingstandards_glossary_pamphlet.pdf]
• Dublin Core Metadata http://dublincore.org
  • Guide to using Dublin Core http://dublincore.org/documents/usageguide/
• Encoded Archival Description http://www.loc.gov/ead
  • Guide to using EAD http://www.loc.gov/ead/ag/aghome.html
• Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) http://loc.gov/standards/mets
  • METS primer and encoding guidelines http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/METS%20Documentation%20final%20070930%20msw.pdf
  • MODS Metadata Object Description Schema (Library of Congress) http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/mods-overview.html
• Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines http://www.tei-c.org
  • TEI P5 Guidelines http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines/P5/
• Unicode http://unicode.org

Online digitization journals

• DDQ: Digital Document Quarterly http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq.htm
• DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/index.html
• D-Lib Magazine (focused towards library issues) http://www.dlib.org/
• Journal of the Association for History and Computing http://mcel.pacificu.edu/jahc/
• Journal of Digital Information http://journals.tdl.org/jodi
• Journal of Electronic Publishing http://www.journalofelectronicpublishing.org/
• Academic Hack (Tech Tools for Academics) http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/

Online discussion lists and blogs

• Humanist Discussion Group http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/
• Lisa Spiro's blog http://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/
• Dan Cohen's blog http://www.dancohen.org/
• Digitization 101 blog [http://networkedblogs.com/6POEh]
• Digital History Hacks, list of Digital history blogs [http://digitalhistoryhacks.blogspot.com/2006/06/roundup-of-digital-history-blogs.html]
• Spellbound Blog [http://www.spellboundblog.com/]
• The Secret Mirror [http://thesecretmirror.com/about] on archives, libraries and information technology.
• Doing Digital History [http://doingdigitalhistory.wordpress.com/]
• ArchivesNext, Web. 2.0 for archivists [http://www.archivesnext.com/]
• AudioVisual Preservation Solutions' Blog [http://www.avpreserve.com/avpsresources/blog/]
• British Library Manuscripts Digitization Blog [http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/]
• New England Digital Humanists Blog [http://dhnewengland.wordpress.com/]
• Digital Events and Conversation (Southern California) [http://dhsocal.blogspot.com/]
• Digital Humanities Now [http://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/]
• The HUMlab Blog [http://blog.humlab.umu.se/]
• Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities blog [http://mith.umd.edu/blog/]
• Blog of the Hyperstudio at Massachusetts Institute for Technology [http://hyperstudio.mit.edu/blog/]
• Scholarly Kitchen [http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/]
• Online shopping advisor [http://www.digperformance.com/]

Oral History

• Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, Library of Congress American Memory http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/diplomacy/
• Jon van der Veen, “Lost in Transcription: Oral and Textual Readings of Interviews from Bruce County,” working paper http://megaprojects.fims.uwo.ca/transcription/

Organizations

• Association for Computers and the Humanities http://www.ach.org/
• Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing http://www.allc.org/
• Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations http://digitalhumanities.org/

Preservation Issues

• 2008 issue of Digital Document Quarterly (DDQ) devoted to digital preservation, http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_7_4.htm .
• Attributes of a Trusted Digital Repository: Meeting the Needs of Research Resources http://www.rlg.org/longterm/attributes01.pdf
• Digital Preservation, Library of Congress http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/
• Digital Preservation, Digital Library Federation http://diglib.org/preserve.htm
• Digital Preservation Management, Cornell University Library http://www.library.cornell.edu/iris/tutorial/dpm/eng_index.html
• Abby Smith, "Preservation," in Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth, eds. A Companion to Digital Humanities. (London, 2004). http://nora.lis.uiuc.edu/xtf/view?docId=blackwell/9781405103213/9781405103213.xml&chunk.id=ss1-5-7&toc.depth=1&toc.id=ss1-5-7&brand=default

Primary Source Help

• James Curtis, "Making Sense of Documentary Photography, History Matters http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/photos/
• Tom Gunning, "Making Senses of Films," History Matters, http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/film/
• Gary Kornblith, "Making Sense of Numbers," History Matters http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/numbers/
• Linda Shopes, "Making Sense of Oral History," History Matters http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/oral/
• David T. Stephens, "Making Sense of Maps," History Matters http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/maps/
• Steven Stowe, "Making Sense of Letters and Diaries," History Matters, http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/letters/

Quality Control/User Testings

Jakob Nielsen, "Usability Testing with 5 Users," Mar. 19, 2000. [http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000319.html]

Social Networking

• "Profiling Social Networks: A Social Tagging Perspective" by Ying Ding and Elin K. Jacob, Indiana University; James Caverlee, Texas A&M University; Michael Fried, University of Innsbruck, Austria; and Zhixiong Zhang, Chinese Academy of ScienceD-Lib Magazine http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march09/ding/03ding.html

Tools

• NYU Personal Website instructions for mounting documents that you can link your project to [http://www.nyu.edu/its/nyuhome/web/]
• DiRT wiki of Digital Research Tools, maintained by Lisa Spiro. [http://digitalresearchtools.pbworks.com/]
• John Bradley, "Text Tools" in Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth, eds. A Companion to Digital Humanities. (London, 2004). http://nora.lis.uiuc.edu/xtf/view?docId=blackwell/9781405103213/9781405103213.xml&chunk.id=ss1-5-3&toc.depth=1&toc.id=ss1-5-3&brand=default
• Center for History and New Media (George Mason University) has some neat (and free) tools here for surveys, polls, scrapbooks and timelines http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/index.php
• Dataformat.com's PubMan User Guide (Content management system) http:///www.dataformat.com/local/PubMan_User'sGuide.html
• Google Developer's Tools http://code.google.com/
• Toy Chest (Online or Downloadable Tools for Building Projects) [http://wiki.english.ucsb.edu/index.php/Toy_Chest_%28Online_or_Downloadable_Tools_for_Building_Projects%29]
• Sophie Project - On-line authoring tools http://sophieproject.org/
• Digital Methods Initiative [http://www.digitalmethods.net/Digitalmethods/WebHome] a Dutch think tank on digital methods.
• "A Very Simple Page Turner" Sept. 12, 2010 [http://mith.info/tile/2010/09/12/a-simple-page-turner/]
• TILE: A Text-Image Linking Environment [http://mith.umd.edu/tile/blog/]

Web Tools

• Site map generator http://www.scriptol.com/seo/simple-map.html
• University of Nebraska Lincoln Tool Reviews [http://digitalhistory.unl.edu/t-reviews.html]

Website Reviews

• University of Nebraska Lincoln reviews [http://digitalhistory.unl.edu/p-reviews.html]
• * Public History Resource Center— Evaluating History Web Sites [http://publichistory.org/evaluation/index.html]
• Evaluating Historical Sources on the Web [http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm]

WikiDot Help

• Wiki Syntax http://www.wikidot.com/doc:wiki-syntax

XML Encoding

• Erik T. Ray, Learning XML (2003). http://safari.oreilly.com/0596004206?cid=orm-cat-readnow-0596004206h