Recommended Reading

Several journals publish a range of scholarship and discussion across the digital humanities, including Digital Humanities Quarterly, and the Journal of Digital Humanities. The readings and reports below explore the impact of various digital tools and technologies on research and knowledge production in the humanities.

• Bobe, K. Reading by the Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field. London, New York: Anthem Press, 2012.
• Bobley, B. Why the Digital Humanities? Office of Digital Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2008. 

• Crane, G. "What Do You Do with a Million Books?" D-Lib Magazine, 2009.

• Drucker, J. SpecLab: Digital Aesthetics and Speculative Computing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.

• Friedlander, A. Promoting Digital Scholarship: Formulating Research Challenges in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Computation (A Workshop Co-Sponsored with the National Endowment for the Humanities by the Council on Library and Information Resources). Council on Library and Information Resources, 2008. 

• Frischer, B, J. Unsworth, A. Dwyer, A. Jones, L. Lancaster, G. Rockwell, and R. Rosenzweig. Summit on Digital Tools for the Humanities: Report on Summit Accomplishments, 2005. 

• Gugerli, D. "The World as Database: On the Relation of Software Development, Query Methods, and Interpretative Independence." Information & Culture: A Journal of History 47.3: 288-311, 2012.
• Harley, D., S.K. Acord, S. Earl-Novell, S. Lawrence, C.J. King, Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication: An Exploration of Faculty Values and Needs in Seven Disciplines, Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley, 2010. 

• Online Humanities Scholarship: The Shape of Things to Come, University of Virginia, 2010.  
  

• O’Donnell, J. J. “Engaging the Humanities: The Digital Humanities.” Daedalus 138 (1): 99-104, 2009.

• Our Cultural Commonwealth: The Report of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences, ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2006.  

• Reinvigorating the Humanities:  Enhancing Research and Education on Campus and Beyond (PDF), AAU Report.
• Rumsey, A. Smith. Spatial Technologies and the Humanities, Scholarly Communication Institute 7 (SCI7), 2009.   

• Schreibman, S., R. Siemens, and J. Unsworth, eds. A Companion to Digital Humanities. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.

• Spiro, Lisa. 2009. Examples of Collaborative Digital Humanities Projects. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. [blog] June 1.

• Switching Codes: Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts, Thomas Bartscherer and Roderick Coover (eds), Uiversity of Chicago Press, 2011.

• The Digital Humanities: Beyond Computing. Special issue of Culture Machine, edited by F. Frabetti, vol. 12, 2011.
• Unsworth, J. "Scholarly Primitives: What Methods Do Humanities Researchers Have in Common, and How Might Our Tools Reflect This?" Paper presented at the Humanities Computing: Formal Methods, Experimental Practice, May 13, King's College, London, 2000. 
• Unsworth, J.  "What is Humanities Computing & What is Not?" Forum Computerphilologie, 2002.

• Waters, D. J. Archives, Edition-Making, and the Future of Scholarly Communication. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Working Paper, 2009.

• Williford, C., C. Henry, and A. Friedlander. One Culture: Computationally Intensive Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences (A report on the experiences of the first respondents to the digging into data challenge).  Washington, D.C.: Center for Library and Information Resources (CLIR), 2012.

• Working Together or Apart: Promoting the Next Generation of Digital Scholarship, Report of a Workshop Cosponsored by the Council on Library and Information Resources and The National Endowment for the Humanities, 2009.