Reading
The material on the following site is important and should be read either before or after the text in this section.
Bit Lit
Brian Hayes
American Scientist, Vol. 99 No. 3, 2011, p. 190.
This article, written in non-technical language, summarizes the research and results presented in (Michel et al., 2011) on constructing a large corpus from over five million books to quantitatively analyze cultural trends. The work was performed by a collaborative team of researchers from Harvard University, Google, and elsewhere.
Read: Brit Hayes
Mapping the Republic of Letters
Mapping the Republic of Letters is a large scale digital humanities project for visualizing the connections between correspondents in the intellectual world of early modern Europe. Voltaire, John Locke, and Benjamin Franklin are among some of the members of this network. The website for the project, hosted at Stanford University, features many research projects that comprise the larger Mapping the Republic of Letters initiative, and provides several interactive visualizations associated with these projects.
View: Mapping the Republic of Letters
View: Mapping the Republic of Letters
Institutional Models for Digital Humanities
Claire Warwick
This weblog article, based on Chapter 9 in Warwick et al., 2012, discusses small and large scale digital humanities projects within the context of academic institutions. Two case studies are presented. Educational aspects of these projects are discussed.
Source: Warwick, C., Terras, M., & Nyhan, J. (Eds.). (2012). Digital humanities in practice. Facet Publishing
Read: Institutional Models for Digital Humanities
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH)
A large number of projects in diverse areas in the digital humanities are associated with the Center. Among the wide-ranging topic are “Birds of Nebraska: Newspaper Accounts, 1854-1923”, “The Archaic Sanctuary at Mon Repos, Corfu”, “The History Harvest”, and “The Great Plains During World War II”.
View: Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) and List of Projects
Culturomics
Although the research on this topic was published in 2011, the website for the project is still online and maintained (as of October, 2021), although it does not appear to be updated frequently. The Google n-gram viewer is featured.
View: Culturomics
Six Degrees of Francis Bacon
Six Degrees of Francis Bacon is a large project in digital scholarship devoted to the featuring advanced interactive network visualizations. Graphical user interfaces facilitate navigation through Bacon’s professional and social networks. Connections can be filtered by many different categories, such as “Judges”, “Diplomats”, “Composers”, and “Historians.” The site is hosted by Carnegie Mello University Libraries. Datasets are also available for download.
View: Six Degrees of Francis Bacon
Linguistic Atlas Project
This is the web site for the Linguistic Atlas Project, an early digital humanities initiative. Although most of the site appears to be from 2011 based on the News link, users can gain valuable knowledge about English as it is spoken in the United States, and how its usage varies across different geographical regions and how it evolved over time. The site features both interactive textual and visual content, including map visualizations, with a user interface, named “LICHEN”, to facilitate navigation. Many datasets are available for download as CSV (comma-separated values) format.
View: Linguistic Atlas Project
Python Code
The figures in this section were generated with the Python code: EpidemicSimulation_FigureSizeSimulation.py