Syllabus and Course Resources

HUM-230-Intro-to-DH-Syllabus-SP2025-1

Resources and Further Reading

As we work through different technologies, I’ll add resources to this page that you can consult if you get stuck or if you’d like to learn more about a particular topic. You can also add things you come across that you find interesting or helpful!

WordPress

• IRIS Center WordPress guide
• Learn WordPress (wordpress.org)

Zotero

• Quick Start Guide

Rapid Response

• https://www.sucho.org/
• https://www.thejustdatalab.com/tools-1/smart-cities-5hdnl
• https://xpmethod.columbia.edu/torn-apart/volume/2/

History of Computing

• Videos
  • The Abacus
  • Napier’s Bones
  • Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine
• Primary sources
  • The Calculator (National Museum of American History)
  • Ada Lovelace’s Notes
• Homework resources
  • TimelineJS
  • Anatomy of a timeline PDF

The Modern Web

• TurtleStitch
  • TurtleStitch workbook – long, step by step guide
  • TurtleStitch cards – printable reference sheets for specific tasks
  • Video of process for exporting and using a design on an embroidery machine
  • Press release about UW TurtleStitch code camp
• SIUE Maker Lab
  • Reserve equipment

AI Fictions

• Lucian’s Trips to the Moon

Final project meetings: https://calendly.com/margars-siue/project-check-ins

“How did they make that?” date sign-up: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/198AcEIwad5Z3wLXrIrlPNNLn0564qkNmSUQ7r_f0J2E/edit?usp=sharing

Digitization

• Digitization activity
• Powerpoint
• Digitization Lab (2/26)
• Sandoval map

Working with Text

• “The New Colossus” Digital Edition
• The Cather Archive
• Hereford Mappa Mundi

Textual Data

• Voyant
• 19th century encyclopedia entries
• Palladio
• Census images
• Census spreadsheet
• Madison County at the Migratory Crossroads video
• Madison County at the Migratory Crossroads storymaps

Critical and Creative Data

• “W.E.B. Du Bois’ Visionary Infographics Come Together for the First Time in Full Color”
• “How W.E.B. Du Bois used data visualization to confront prejudice in the early 20th century”
• Dear Data project

Spatial Data

• Map spreadsheet
• Live map
• Slideshow
• Map examples:
  • Auditory map of DC sounds
  • Textual map: PrairyErth
  • Textual map: Chronotopic Cartographies
  • 3d map: Google Earth
  • 3d map: early modern chorography
• What do maps do?
  • Chronotopes in Cormac MacCarthy’s Blood Meridian
  • Mapping Choices
  • Carbery Crime Depositions
  • Gerald’s Topography: An Ecocritical Perspective
  • Detroit River Story Lab
  • How to Cross a River

Digital Storytelling at the American Confluence

• Slideshow
• Langston Hughes reads “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
• Afua Richardson’s “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” webcomic
• “The Circulation of Langston Hughes’ s ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers'”
• “The 10 Most Anthologized Langston Hughes Poems”

StoryMaps

• StoryMapJS
• Slideshow

Games as Texts

• Slideshow
• Itch.io
• Twine
  • Erstwhile
  • Seedship

Civic Technology

• Slideshow
• Civic Tech Field Guide
• 18F
  • Old FOIA website
  • New FOIA website
• Public Data Tools

Digital Sustainability and Preservation

• Slideshow
• Resources on digital sustainability and preservation
  • The Endings Project, https://endings.uvic.ca/ 
  • Digital Documentation Process, https://digitalhumanitiesddp.com/ 
  • Matt Miller, “Repotting Old Digital Humanities Projects,” https://thisismattmiller.com/post/repotting-old-digital-humanities-projects/ 
  • Socio-Technical Sustainability Roadmap, https://sites.haa.pitt.edu/sustainabilityroadmap/
• National Council on Public History project directory
• Zenodo (digital repository)
• Martin Paul Eve, “Digital Scholarly Journals are Poorly Preserved”

Project Peer Review

• Peer Review Form
• Peer review examples

Defining DH

Spreadsheet