The Companion to Digital Humanities in Practice

Herausgeber: Crompton, Constance; Lane, Richard J.; Estill, Laura

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Companion to Digital Humanities in Practice offers international perspectives on how we teach and research in and with digital humanities today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 554
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 1124g
• ISBN-13: 9781032333854
• ISBN-10: 1032333855
• Artikelnr.: 71594241

Autorenporträt

Constance Crompton is a white, queer, able-bodied settler and Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities. They are a member of several research project teams: Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada, Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship, the Implementing New Knowledge Environments Partnership, and the Transgender Media Portal. She is the co-editor of two volumes, Doing Digital Humanities and Doing More Digital Humanities, with Ray Siemens and Richard J. Lane (Routledge 2016, 2020). They live and works on unceded Algonquin land. Laura Estill is Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities and Professor of English at St. Francis Xavier University in Mi'kma'ki (Nova Scotia). Her works include Digital Humanities Workshops (2023), with Jennifer Guiliano, and a special issue of Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities (IDEAH, 2023), with Constance Crompton and Ray Siemens. She directs the Canadian Certificate in Digital Humanities, ccdhhn.ca. Richard J. Lane is Professor of English and Director of the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) funded MeTA Digital Humanities Lab at Vancouver Island University, Canada. His research interests include the intersection of literary theory, philosophy and the digital humanities, with recent projects on DH and AI, big data, machine reading, machine learning, and topic modelling. He collaborates on research with the VIU Canadian Letters and Images Project, with the support of CFI, VIU and the British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund. Ray Siemens FRSC is Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria, Canada, in English and Computer Science, and past Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing; in 2019, he was also Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Loughborough University and, 2019-22, Global Innovation Chair in Digital Humanities in the Centre for 21st Century Humanities at University of Newcastle.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: 1.
Digital Humanities in Practice, Across Data, Tools and Techniques,
Communication and Engagement, and Pedagogy; Section 1: Data - 2. From a
"bag of names" to a "name index": Using Wikipedia and Wikidata to create an
enriched list of person names; 3. Databasing As Research: new paradigms for
the long tail...; 4. Unicorns, Janitors, Ninjas, Wizards, and Rock Stars;
5. Editing mundane texts across the digital divide: The case of Arabic
periodicals from the late nineteenth-century Eastern Mediterranean; 6.
Sharing Data for Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR); 7. Digital Public
Health Advocacy in Nigeria: A Multimodal Study of WhatsApp-mediated
COVID-19 Posts; 8. Why Digital Humanists Should Emphasize Situated Data
over Capta; Section 2: Tools and Techniques - 9. Digitizing the container:
books as objects in the digital medium; 10. Modeling cultural heritage
materials for discovery and analysis; 11. IIIF for Digital Humanities; 12.
What is Humanities Mapping?; 13. Mapping and 3D Modelling: Expanding
19th-century New York City Bookstore Geographies; 14. Enacting Our Values:
Practical Applications of Ethics in the Transgender Media Lab; 15. Against
Violent Quantification: Lessons from the Bellevue Almshouse Project; 16.
Thinking-Through the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence; Section 3:
Communication and Engagement - 17. Community and Digitality in/of Indian
DH: Exploring Legacies, Presents and Futures; 18. Valuing and Evaluating
Digital Scholarship as a Social Justice Practice; 19. Effect, Affect,
Engagement: Digital Storytelling as Personal Process; 20. The influence of
communication on digital humanities training; 21. Some Things Can't be
Measured: Rethinking Context, Metrics and Disciplinarity in the Digital
Humanities; 22. Public Works: Ecological Inspiration for Equitable
Knowledge Production; Section 4: Pedagogy - 23. Intersectional Ethics of
Care and Co-Creation in Digital Humanities Pedagogy; 24. Student-led
Digital Projects in Cultural Heritage Sector Collaborations; 25. Digital
Pedagogy as Topoi: Assignments that Encourage 'Play' within the History of
Race, Space and State Power in Apartheid South Africa; 26. Creative Writing
and Digital Humanities: Between Literature and Technology; 27. Assembling
Body, Mind, and Spirit in Digital Humanities Teaching Praxis; 28. Two ways
to engage students in a digital project, an experience in Mexico; 29. The
Risks and Rewards of Implementing Digital Humanities Methodologies in
Modern Language Graduate Research; Index.