Digital Humanities

Over the last decade the humanities, by some lights, have undergone a revolution of sorts, or at least have been presented with new opportunities and challenges associated with digital texts and images.  As examples of these opportunities that have affected daily research and teaching in literature, history, and other fields in the humanities are subscription services such as EEBO & TCP, and more recently, EECO.  Early English Books Online, a classic example, has made available every work printed in English to the year 1700; Eighteenth Century Collections Online (EECO) will soon do the same for the 18th century.  In addition to subscription services, a number of free-access website are providing ever wider research opportunities with primary texts, among them, Gallica (Bibliotheque nationale, Paris). Readers may wish to take a few moments to browse some basic sites on digital humanities.

Introductory Essay

John Unsworth:  'What is Humanities Computing & What is Not?'

Primary Texts

• Early English Books Online (EEBO)
• Text Creation Project (TCP)
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
• GALLICA

Organizations

• Digital Collections, UF Libraries
  While the Digital Collections library is currently adding more primary sources like Caribbean Literature and comics and caricature (classics like Punch and newer works), they are also pursuing a number of projects that re-envision the materials with each other, the computer interface, and the spaces from which the works originated.
• The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations
• Association for Literary & Linguistic Computing
• Association for Computers & the Humanities
• UCLA Center for Digital Humanities
• Digital Humanities Blog
• Council on Library & Information Resources

ACLS - Draft Report

• Commision on Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities and Social Sciences (PDF)
• AAU Report - Reinvigorating the Humanities:  Enhancing Research and Education on Campus and Beyond (PDF)