What is Digital Humanities?
Digital Humanities (DH) most often refers to the application of digital technology to the concerns and practices of the humanities, but it can also encompass the application of humanistic methods to the study of technology. Through research and pedagogy, digital humanists have developed a distinctive set of methods, tools, and approaches that have proved relevant to a wide variety of disciplines, opening up possibilities for interdisciplinary and collaborative research.
Who is this research guide for?
This guide is primarily for students, faculty, and staff who are embarking on digital humanities work for the first time, or who are curious about what all the fuss is about.
At the King Library we embrace an expansive and inclusive definition of DH. We aim to support faculty and students in the arts, humanities, ethnic studies, and allied disciplines who are exploring the use of digital tools and methods in their pedagogy and RSCA.
If you have a project or idea and want to learn more about how the library might be able to help, feel free to reach out to our Digital Scholarship Librarian Nick Szydlowski at nick.szydlowski@sjsu.edu.
Getting Started in DH
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Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models and Experiments
A peer-reviewed, curated collection of reusable and remixable resources for teaching and research. Edited by Rebecca Frost David, Matthew K. Gold, Katherine D. Harris, and Jentery Sayers, with contributions from dozens of practitioners.
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The Digital Humanities Coursebook
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The Digital Humanities Coursebook provides critical frameworks for the application of digital humanities tools and platforms, which have become an integral part of work across a wide range of disciplines. Written by an expert with twenty years of experience in this field, the book is focused on the principles and fundamental concepts for application, rather than on specific tools or platforms. Each chapter contains examples of projects, tools, or platforms that demonstrate these principles in action. The book is structured to complement courses on digital humanities and provides a series of modules, each of which is organized around a set of concerns and topics, thought experiments and questions, as well as specific discussions of the ways in which tools and platforms work. The book covers a wide range of topics and clearly details how to integrate the acquisition of expertise in data, metadata, classification, interface, visualization, network analysis, topic modeling, data mining, mapping, and web presentation with issues in intellectual property, sustainability, privacy, and the ethical use of information. Written in an accessible and engaging manner, The Digital Humanities Coursebook will be a useful guide for anyone teaching or studying a course in the areas of digital humanities, library and information science, English, or computer science. The book will provide a framework for direct engagement with digital humanities and, as such, should be of interest to others working across the humanities as well.
ISBN: 9781003106531Publication Date: 2021-03-24
Digital Humanities Center
SJSU King Library, the SJSU College of Humanities and Arts, and the San José Public Library are working together to bring a Digital Humanities Center to SJSU, with the support of a challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Digital Humanities Events at SJSU
