Digital humanities

Maintained by: David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com) Last modified: 2013-12-11T07:50:46+0000

Course materials

Administrative

Course description, auturmn 2013 (2141)
Syllabus, autumn 2013 (2141)
Course blog and discussion board (enrolled students only)

General

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
Interesting digital humanities projects
Digital humanities organizations, conferences, and publication venues
Hamlet (XML) and Bad Hamlet (XML Hamlet with bad markup)
Uploading your project files
- Putting content online
- If you use SSH Secure Shell (that is, if you are on a Windows machine) make the configuration changes described in SSH Secure Shell file permissions
Configuring <oXygen/> for XSLT development and debugging
A short tutorial on how to give good peer feedback on writing (Christian Schunn)

XML

An even gentler introduction to XML

Relax NG

HTML

Cascading style sheets (CSS)

Introduction to Cascading style sheets (CSS)
Using <span> and @class to style your HTML
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)
- CSS file
- Relax NG schema
W3C on-line CSS validator

XPath

XQuery

Getting started with XQuery
XQuery Wikibook (general and eXist-specific XQuery documentation and examples)
XQuery: a guided tour (excerpted from from XQuery from the experts: a guide to the W3C XML query language; see especially the discussion of FLWOR expressions at the Combining and Restructuring Nodes in XQuery subsection)
Listing the cast of Shakespearean plays
XQuery assignment #1 (answers)
XQuery assignment #2 (answers)
XQuery assignment #3
XQuery test (answers)

Regular expressions

regexpal (on-line regular expression tester)
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Shakespeare’s sonnets (plain text: utf8)
The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Blithedale Romance, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (plain text: utf8)
Useful regex expressions
- Regex tutorial (based on Blithedale)
- 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}*$')]
<xsl:analyze-string> tutorial
Regex assignment #1 (answers)
Regex assignment #2 (answers)
Regex test (answers)

XSLT

XSLT basics
The XSLT paradigm (slide set from TEI XSLT workshop at Brown University)
Default template rules (slide set from TEI XSLT workshop at Brown University)
Dr. Who, Terror of the Autons (episode 8, season 1)
- XML (from The UNIT dating crisis: Investigating shipping choices in Doctor Who’s UNIT era)
- HTML (at the Doctor Who transcript project)
How to convert Bad Hamlet from XML to an HTML tables that counts the number of speeches in each act
Thinking in algorithms (how to conceptualize an XSLT transformation before you begin to write the code)
Modal XSLT
Attribute Value Templates (AVTs)
- Tutorial
- Sample text for practice: Testimony from the Oscar Wilde trials (XML, with linked CSS)
Transforming XML with XSLT
XSLT conditionals and push and pull
XSLT assignment #1 (answers)
XSLT assignment #2 (answers)
XSLT assignment #3 (answers)
XSLT assignment #4 (answers)
XSLT assignment #5 (answers)
XSLT assignment #6
XSLT test (answers)

Schematron

Introduction to Schematron
Examples of schematron from our projects
Using Schematron in editing
Schematron assignment #1 (answers)
Schematron assignment #2 (answers)
Schematron test (goes live at test time)

SVG

w3schools introductory SVG tutorial (good, basic introduction; start here for a quick initial overview with brief examples of the most common features)
Jakov Jenkov SVG tutorial (also introductory, but longer and with more detail than the preceding; start here for something more comprehensive)
SVG cheat sheet (Washington State University)
On-line SVG editor
Software: Inkscape (open-source vector graphics editor)
SVG assignment #1 (answers)
XSLT stylesheet to generate SVG (generates stooge bar graph from class, with enhancements)
SVG assignment #2 (answers)
SVG test (answers)
Embedding SVG in XHTML

JavaScript

Introduction to JavaScript
Dropdown menu sample
Highlighting text sample (2009 Obama inaugural address)
Using JavaScript to change text (2012 US election results; illustrates JavaScript show/hide and innerHTML, as well as embedding SVG in XHTML)
JavaScript toggling with classList
Setting a value based on two dropdown lists
Show/hide and styling with JavaScript
Popups that permit markup, including clickable links

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

Topic modeling

Mallet (MAchine Learning for LanguagE Toolkit; software for topic modeling)
Mining the Dispatch (Topic modeling in action)
Getting Started with Topic Modeling and MALLET (Topic modeling tutorial)
David M. Blei’s introductory and teaching materials
Modeling science: dynamic topic models of scholarly research (Google lecture by David M. Blei, 2007-05-24; video, duration 1:09)

Social network analysis

Introduction to social network methods (Robert A. Hanneman and Mark Riddle)
Gephi
Pajek (pronounced PAH-yeck)

Geographic information systems (GIS)

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

Music encoding initiative (MEI)

Course projects

Aesop’s fables: Chloe Regan, Catherine Walsh, and Reihana Wilson (Autumn 2013)
Akhmatova through the ages: Sam Depretis, Erin Harrington, Elise Thorsen (Autumn 2012)
The Alice project: Rachel Peters and Peter Webb (Spring 2013)
The book of Revelation and its imageries: Jenn Stampfel, Sebastien Xu (Spring 2012)
The canonization of digitial humanities through John Donne: Cynthia Wilson (Autumn 2011)
Digital archives and Pacific cultures: Elisa Beshero-Bondar, Greg Bondar, Megan Hughes, and Scott Morgan (Spring 2013)
Exploring Homestuck: Kate Pigliacelli, Mary Zuzack (Autumn 2012)
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)
Gallic wars: Bryon Becker and Alex Scott (Spring 2013)
Language in English civil war title pages: Simon Brown, Ariel Hammel, and Anthony Verardi (Autumn 2013)
Lotus sutra: literary features as teaching tools objective: Shipra Kumar, Samuel Suzuki (Spring 2012)
The Milton project: Katelyn Antolik, John Eckhardt (Autumn 2012)
My immortal: Janis Chinn, Jacob Deitloff, Eric Gratta (Autumn 2011)
Names of Crime and punishment: Alexandra Brusilovsky and Olga Kim (Spring 2013)
Nationalism in Russian rap: Minas Abovyan, Kristina Miller, and Andrew Nitz (Autumn 2013)
Die neuen Leiden des jungen W.: Brandon Wilson, Julia Yingling (Spring 2012)
The O. Henry project: Cordelia Cayten, Margaret Norbeck, Sungmoon Woo (Spring 2012)
Past tense verb use in Jules Verne’s Vingt-mille lieues sous les mers: Elizabeth DeVito, Sean Stewart (Autumn 2012)
Print media usage of marked features in Serbian and Croatian: Glyn Cozart, Diane Manovich (Autumn 2011)
RuNet: exploring Russian Internet language: Jay Boehmer and Joe Petrich (Spring 2013)
Russian secret tales: Valeria Pinchuk, Jean Romanowski (Spring 2012)
Tale of the trader and the jinni: Christopher Gursky (Autumn 2011)
Tongue twisters from around the world: Joel Blackman-Mathis, Brian Cusimano (Autumn 2012)
Twilight princess: Ashley Bakaitus, Eleanor Bennet, and Daniel Brabender (Autumn 2013)
Twitter parody project: Devon Broglie, Kimaya Padgaonkar, and Sung Wi (Spring 2013)
The UNIT dating crisis: Investigating shipping choices in Doctor Who’s UNIT era: Rachel Folwarczny and Mara Katz (Autumn 2013)
Who paid the bill?: Rachel Asher (Autumn 2011)
Yiddish theatre project: Eric Baldwin and Naomi Borreback (Spring 2013)

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