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Digital Humanities Quarterly

Digital Humanities Quarterly is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal, covering any topic related to digital humanities. DHQ is a digital journal, publishing scholarly articles, case studies, field reports, opinion pieces, experiments, and reviews.

Tags: Digital History, Digital Humanities, Digital Media, Methodology, Peer Review

Can Museums be Neutral or Should They Take a Stance?

This Museums Next blog post discusses museum neutrality and whether or not museums and cultural institutions should remain neutral on current social and political issues as organizations that serve the public.

Tags: Cultural Diversity, History, Museum Exhibits, Museums and Community, Neutrality, Representations of Groups, Social Change, Sustainability

Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web

Digital History, written by Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig. provides an introduction to the web intended for historians, teachers, students, museum professionals, and anyone who wishes to create an online historical work. The book surveys the…

Tags: Computer Programming, Digital History, Digital Humanities, Digital Libraries, Digital Media, History, HTML (Document Markup Langauge), Integrated Services Digital Networks, Programming Languages (Electronic Computers), Web Archives

Doing Digital History

Doing Digital History is a digital project designed to educate scholars and the public about the field of digital history. The project contains interviews with scholars about digital history projects, presentations and essays, syllabi and student…

Tags: Digital History, Digital Humanities, History, Interviews, Lecture Method in Teaching, Outlines, Peer Review, Web Archives

The Data Sitters Club

The Data Sitters Club, created by Lee Skallerup Bessette, Katherine Bowers, Maria Sachiko Cecire, Quinn Dombrowski, Anouk Lang, and Roopika Risam, is a guide to computational text analysis as well as how to apply digital humanities methods to digital…

Tags: American Literature, Computer Programming, Databases, Digital Humanities, Fair Use (Copyright), Feminism, Metadata Crosswalks, Programming Languages (Electronic Computers), Python (Computer Programming Language), R (Computer Programming Language), Regular Expressions (Computer Programming), Text Data Mining, Web Archives

#DLFteach Toolkits: Lesson Plans for Digital Library Instruction

The #DLFteach toolkits is an openly available and peer reviewed set of lesson plans for digital pedagogy. Lesson plans include goals, preparation, and session outlines, for a variety of topics including digital exhibits & archives, text analysis and…

Tags: Computer Programming, Data Curation, Digital History, Digital Humanities, Digital Libraries, Dublin Core, History, Information Storage and Retrieval Systems, Peer Review, Programming by Example (Computer Science), Programming Languages (Electronic Computers), Text Data Mining, Virtual Reality, Web Archives

Python for Everybody

The Python for Everybody (PY4E) website contains free tutorials and materials for learning how to code with Python. PY4E also links to "coursera" (University of Michigan) where users can complete the training course and earn a certificate in Python…

Tags: Computer Programming, Databases, Digital Humanities, Programming by Example (Computer Science), Programming Languages (Electronic Computers), Python (Computer Programming Language), Regular Expressions (Computer Programming), Scripting Languages (Computer Science)

The Programming Historian

The Programming Historian website features peer-reviewed tutorials for a variety of digital tools, techniques, and workflows. Lessons include data management, data manipulation, web scraping, digital publishing, machine learning, as well as…

Tags: Computer Programming, Data Mining, Database Management, Digital Humanities, Electronic Publishing, History, Linked Data, Machine Learning, Metadata Crosswalks, Peer Review, Programming by Example (Computer Science), Programming Languages (Electronic Computers), Python (Computer Programming Language), R (Computer Programming Language), Tutors and Tutoring

Material Culture Blog Post

The Material Culture blog post, written by Professor Rebecca Shrum, details what constitutes material culture, how historians employ material culture studies, and how to analyze material culture, with examples.

Tags: Antiquities, Historians, Historic Sites, Historical Research, Historiography, History, Libraries and Museums, Material Culture, Social History

History Through Material Culture

Leonie Hannan and Sarah Longair's book, History Through Material Culture, serves as a guide for analyzing objects and how it informs historical practice. The book encourages the use of objects as historical sources by highlighting the research…

Tags: Anthropology, Antiquities, Archaeology, Art and History, Curatorship, Historians, Historical Research, History, History- Methodology, Libraries and Museums, Material Culture

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