Research Librarian for English and Digital Humanities
Getting Help with DH Tools and Methods
The Scholars' Lab, part of UVA Library's DH Center, is a community lab for the practice of experimental scholarship in all fields, informed by digital humanities, spatial technologies, and cultural heritage thinking.
Wherever you are in your DH project - from just starting out to already deep into tools and methods - the staff in the Scholars' Lab can help! Set up a consultation in areas including: digital humanities, code + design, spatial technologies, and using the makerspace, by emailing scholarslab@virginia.edu. More details about their mission and values can be found on the Scholars' Lab website.
Other Guides of Interest
This guide has been created to help introduce digital humanities to those new to the discipline and suggest starting points for conducting research into and learning more about DH.
Research Help
Need research help? I am available for meetings in person throughout the year. Please email me to set up a time to meet.
To schedule a virtual research consultation, click the button in my information box to the left, select a day/time on my Make an Appointment page, or contact me directly at slb4kt@virginia.edu. When you make an appointment, you will be sent a Zoom link for us to meet.
DH Timeline
References:
Bush, V. (July 1945) As we may think. Atlantic Monthly. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/
Hockey, S. (2004). The history of humanities computing. In Schreibman, S., Siemens, R., & Unsworth, J. A Companion to Digital Humanities (pp. 3-19). Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Jones, S. E. (2016). Roberto Busa, S.J. And the Emergence of Humanities Computing: The Priest and the Punched Cards. New York: Routledge.
Kirschenbaum, M. (2012). What is digital humanities and what’s it doing in English departments? In M. K. Gold (Ed.) Debates in the Digital Humanities (pp. 3-11). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
What is Digital Humanities?
“We know DH in large part because it names itself, yet what it names seems increasingly malleable and at times difficult to grasp” (Klein & Gold, 2016, p. xiv).
“[U]sing information technology to illuminate the human record, and bringing an understanding of the human record to bear on the development and use of information technology” (Schreibman, Siemens, & Unsworth, 2004, p. xxii).
”Ultimately, disciplines are defined not by their methods but by the questions they ask. The development of new methods however, can often make it easier to pursue certain questions. Conscientious scholars focus on the questions, then acquire whatever tools best allow them to address those questions” (Huron, 2013, p. 9).
“[T]he digital humanities is in principle associated with as many methods and tools as there are
intersections between texts and technologies” (Alvarado, 2012, pp. 52-53).