<oo>→<dh> Digital humanities

Maintained by: David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com) Last modified: 2012-05-15T19:08:31+0000

Course materials

General

• Course description, spring 2012 (2124) (last modified: 2012-02-08T18:23:07+0000)
• Can humanities undergrads learn to code? (Guest posting by undergraduate teaching assistants Janis Chinn and Gabrielle Kirilloff on Techne, the blog site of the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education [NITLE], 2012-01-31)
• Syllabus, spring 2012 (2124) (last modified: 2012-03-27T00:24:43+0000)
• Course blog and discussion board (enrolled students only)
• An even gentler introduction to XML (last modified: 2012-04-15T17:35:09+0000)
• Interesting digital humanities projects (last modified: 2012-01-15T17:59:19+0000)
• Digital humanities organizations, conferences, and publication venues (last modified: 2012-01-15T17:59:19+0000)
• Hamlet (XML) and Bad Hamlet (XML Hamlet with bad markup)
• Putting content online (last modified: 2012-01-17T06:53:42+0000)
• Configuring <oXygen/> for XSLT development and debugging (last modified: 2012-02-08T17:15:34+0000)

Relax NG

• Introduction to Relax NG (last modified: 2012-01-15T17:59:19+0000)
• Test #2: Relax NG (administered 01-23; last modified: 2012-02-08T18:24:40+0000)

HTML

• HTML basics (last modified: 2012-01-15T17:59:18+0000)

Cascading style sheets (CSS)

• Introduction to Cascading style sheets (CSS) (last modified: 2012-01-15T17:59:18+0000)
• The CSS zen garden
• CSS example: Testimony from the Oscar Wilde trials
  • XML file, with CSS attached (download or view source to see the raw xml) (last modified: 2012-01-15T17:59:19+0000)
  • CSS file (last modified: 2012-01-15T17:59:19+0000)
  • Relax NG schema (last modified: 2012-01-15T17:59:19+0000)
• W3C on-line CSS validator

XPath

• What can XPath do for me? (last modified: 2012-02-08T18:24:58+0000)
• The XPath functions we use most (last modified: 2012-02-08T18:23:54+0000)
• XPath class activity #1 (last modified: 2012-01-27T17:48:33+0000)
• XPath assignment #1 (assigned 01-30, due 02-01; last modified: 2012-01-29T18:09:36+0000)
• XPath assignment #2 (assigned 02-01, due 02-03; last modified: 2012-01-29T18:12:02+0000)
• XPath assignment #3 (assigned 02-03, due 02-06; last modified: 2012-02-11T23:13:03+0000)
• XPath assignment #4 (assigned 02-06, due 02-08; last modified: 2012-02-12T01:34:00+0000)
• Solution to XPath assignment #4 (last modified: 2012-02-12T01:30:43+0000)
• Test #3: XPath (administered 02-13; last modified: 2012-02-13T19:22:47+0000)

XSLT

• XSLT basics (last modified: 2012-02-08T18:26:13+0000)
• The XSLT paradigm (slide set from TEI XSLT workshop at Brown University)
• Default template rules (slide set from TEI XSLT workshop at Brown University)
• Modal XSLT (last modified: 2012-02-08T18:25:16+0000)
• Attribute Value Templates (AVTs) (last modified: 2012-02-08T18:20:54+0000)
• Transforming XML with XSLT (last modified: 2012-01-15T17:59:19+0000)
• XSLT assignment #1 (assigned 02-08, due 02-10; last modified: 2012-02-08T18:23:02+0000)
• XSLT assignment #2 (assigned 02-10, due 02-13; last modified: 2012-02-11T21:19:49+0000)
• XSLT assignment #3 (assigned 02-13, due 02-15; last modified: 2012-02-14T03:55:53+0000)
• XSLT assignment #4 (assigned 02-15, due 02-17; last modified: 2012-02-16T19:54:04+0000)
• XSLT assignment #5 (assigned 02-17, due 02-20; last modified: 2012-02-17T23:35:53+0000)
• Test #4: XSLT (administered 02-20; last modified: 2012-02-25T03:09:39+0000)
• XSLT, part 2: conditionals and push and pull (last modified: 2012-02-21T03:51:27+0000)
• XSLT assignment #6 (assigned 02-20, due 02-22; last modified: 2012-02-21T04:20:38+0000)

Regular expressions

• The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Blithedale Romance, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (plain text: utf8)
• Useful regex expressions
  • Blank line (two new-line characters): \n\n
  • Quotation (non-greedy text inside quotation marks): "(.*?)"
  • Chapter titles in Blithedale (after conversion): //p[matches(.,"^[IVX]+\. [A-Z \-,']+$")]
  • Empty paragraphs in Blithedale (after conversion): //p[matches(.,"^$")]
  • Paragraphs in Blithedale that contain no lower-case letters (after conversion): //p[matches(.,'^\P{Ll}*$')]
• Regex tutorial (last modified: 2012-01-15T17:59:19+0000))
• <xsl:analyze-string> tutorial (last modified: 2012-01-15T17:59:18+0000)
• Regex assignment #1 (assigned 02-22, due 02-24; last modified: 2012-02-23T07:25:10+0000)
• Regex assignment #2 (assigned 02-24, due 02-27; last modified: 2012-02-25T03:00:09+0000)
• Regex test (administered 02-29; last modified: 2012-02-25T04:22:15+0000)

Schematron

• Introduction to Schematron (last modified: 2012-02-29T19:55:00+0000)
• Schematron assignment #1 (assigned 02-27, due 02-29; last modified: 2012-02-27T02:04:36+0000)
• Schematron assignment #2 (assigned 02-29, due 03-02; last modified: 2012-02-27T02:03:55+0000)
• Schematron test (administered 03-12, due 03-02; last modified: 2012-03-12T17:24:57+0000)

XQuery

• Getting started with XQuery (last modified: 2012-03-23T15:27:20+0000)
• XQuery assignment #1 (assigned 03-12, due 03-14; last modified: 2012-03-12T21:32:08+0000)
• XQuery assignment #2 (assigned 03-14, due 03-16; last modified: 2012-03-14T17:25:21+0000)
• XQuery assignment #3 (assigned, 03-21, due 03-23; last modified: 2012-03-22T19:10:51+0000)

SVG

• w3schools introductory SVG tutorial
• SVG cheat sheet (Washington State University)
• SVG translate and scale (living with the unintuitive SVG coordinate system)
• On-line SVG editor
• Software: Inkscape (open-source vector graphics editor)
• SVG assignment #1 (assigned 03-26, due 03-28; last modified: 2012-03-27T00:23:33+0000)
• Using XSLT to generate SVG (stooge bar graph from class 03-28; last modified: 2012-04-01T23:05:11+0000)
• SVG assignment #2 (assigned 03-28, due 03-30; last modified: 2012-03-29T03:29:22+0000)

The R statistical package for digital humanists

• R for digital humanities (Jeff Rydberg-Cox; general tutorial)
• The Sound and the fury stylizer tool (Caitlin Crandell, Emily Gong, Rachel Kraus, Jacob Mason-Marshall, and Tiffany Lieu; application)
• Executing R in php (Matthew Jockers; how-to, based on the preceding tool)
• Sample R script to generate scatterplot from CSV input (last modified: 2012-01-15T17:59:19+0000)

Geographic information systems (GIS)

• The Google Geocoding API
• Geolocation Extraction and Mapping of Nineteenth-Century U.S. Fiction (Matthew Wilkens, 2011)

Course projects

The book of Revelation and its imageries

Jenn Stampfel and Sebastien Xu (Spring 2012)

The canonization of digitial humanities through John Donne

Cynthia Wilson (Autumn 2011)

Finding the difference in innocence and experience: a comparison of mirroring poems in William Blake’s Songs of innocence and experience

Eva Jiang, Charles Mietzner (Autumn 2011)

Finnegans wake

Elliot Halpern, Mackenzie Shivery (Spring 2012)

Lotus sutra: literary features as teaching tools objective

Shipra Kumar, Samuel Suzuki (Spring 2012)

My immortal

Janis Chinn, Jacob Deitloff, Eric Gratta (Autumn 2011)

Die neuen Leiden des jungen W.

Brandon Wilson, Julia Yingling (Spring 2012)

The O. Henry project

Cordelia Cayten, Margaret Norbeck, Sungmoon Woo (Spring 2012)

Print media usage of marked features in Serbian and Croatian

Glyn Cozart, Diane Manovich (Autumn 2011)

Russian secret tales

Valeria Pinchuk, Jean Romanowski (Spring 2012)

Tale of the trader and the jinni

Christopher Gursky (Autumn 2011)

Who paid the bill?

Rachel Asher (Autumn 2011)

Photograph of Whitby Abbey by Mike Peel (http://www.mikepeel.net).