DH Lab
A curated list of guides to the software installed in the Digital Humanities Lab (Alexander Library, Room 406-407).
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DH Lab
- Digital Humanities LabA collaborative research lab for use in project consultations, teaching, workshops and lectures. Questions about its use? Email us at dhlab@libraries.rutgers.edu.
Recommended Resources for Learning about DH
- The Digital Humanities Literacy Guidebook"The DHLG is your slim guidebook into this world, like the tourist map they give you when you check in at a hotel. Use it to get your bearings, plot your course, and find the resources that will help you explore further."
- The Programming HistorianPeer reviewed, open access tutorials on a variety of digital methods of importance to historians.
- Reviews in Digital Humanities"[A] peer-reviewed journal and project registry that facilitates scholarly evaluation and dissemination of digital humanities work and its outputs."
Related Rutgers Links
- Digital Humanities Initiative (RU–NB) The Digital Humanities Initiative supports digital humanities projects in research, teaching, and public outreach at Rutgers
- Digital Studies Center (Rutgers-Camden) DiSC is research center that conducts and supports research at the convergence of digital technologies and the various disciplines of the Rutgers-Camden College of Arts and Sciences
- Digital Humanities LibGuide A resource guide for learning about and starting projects in the Digital Humanities
- NBL Graduate Specialist Program The New Brunswick Libraries Graduate Specialist Program provides opportunities for Rutgers-NB graduate students to use and develop their skills in a variety of methodologies while working with the Libraries to deliver consulting, workshops, and training.
New DH Books in the Libraries
Black Girl Autopoetics : Agency in Everyday Digital Practice by
Exploring the intersections of digital humanities and African diaspora studies How can scholars use digital tools to better understand the African diaspora across time, space, and disciplines? And how can African diaspora studies inform the practices of digital humanities? These questions are at the heart of this timely collection of essays about the relationship between digital humanities and Black Atlantic studies, offering critical insights into race, migration, media, and scholarly knowledge production. The Digital Black Atlantic spans the African diaspora's range--from Africa to North America, Europe, and the Caribbean--while its essayists span academic fields--from history and literary studies to musicology, game studies, and library and information studies. This transnational and interdisciplinary breadth is complemented by essays that focus on specific sites and digital humanities projects throughout the Black Atlantic. Covering key debates, The Digital Black Atlantic asks theoretical and practical questions about the ways that researchers and teachers of the African diaspora negotiate digital methods to explore a broad range of cultural forms including social media, open access libraries, digital music production, and video games. The volume further highlights contributions of African diaspora studies to digital humanities, such as politics and representation, power and authorship, the ephemerality of memory, and the vestiges of colonialist ideologies. Grounded in contemporary theory and praxis, The Digital Black Atlantic puts the digital humanities into conversation with African diaspora studies in crucial ways that advance both. Contributors: Alexandrina Agloro, Arizona State U; Abdul Alkalimat; Suzan Alteri, U of Florida; Paul Barrett, U of Guelph; Sayan Bhattacharyya, Singapore U of Technology and Design; Agata Bloch, Institute of History of Polish Academy of Sciences; Michal Bojanowski, Kozminski U; Sonya Donaldson, New Jersey City U; Anne Donlon; Laurent Dubois, Duke U; Amy E. Earhart, Texas A&M U; Schuyler Esprit, U of the West Indies; Demival Vasques Filho, U of Auckland, New Zealand; David Kirkland Garner; Alex Gil, Columbia U; Kaiama L. Glover, Barnard College, Columbia U; D. Fox Harrell, MIT; Hélène Huet, U of Florida; Mary Caton Lingold, Virginia Commonwealth U; Angel David Nieves, San Diego State U; Danielle Olson, MIT; Tunde Opeibi (Ope-Davies), U of Lagos, Nigeria; Jamila Moore Pewu, California State U, Fullerton; Anne Rice, Lehman College, CUNY; Sercan Sengün, Northeastern U; Janneken Smucker, West Chester U; Laurie N.Taylor, U of Florida; Toniesha L. Taylor, Texas Southern U.
ISBN: 1478027738Publication Date: 2024
By the Numbers: Numeracy, Religion, and the Quantitative Transformation of Early Modern England by
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, English numerical practices underwent a complex transformation with wide-ranging impacts on English society. At the beginning of the early modern period, English men and women believed that God had made humans universally numerate, although numbers were not central to their everyday lives. Over the next two centuries, rising literacy rates and the increasing availability of printed books revolutionized modes of arithmetical practice and education. Ordinary English people began to use numbers and quantification to explain abstract phenomena as diverse as the relativity of time, the probability of chance events, and the constitution of human populations. These changes reflected their participation in broader early modern European cultural and intellectual developments such as the Reformation and the Scientific Revolution. By the eighteenth century, English men and women still believed they lived in a world made by God, but it was also a world made--and made understandable--by numbers.
ISBN: 9780197608784Publication Date: 2024-01-04
Computing Taste by
Meet the people who design the algorithms that capture our musical tastes. The people who make music recommender systems have lofty goals: they want to broaden listeners' horizons and help obscure musicians find audiences, taking advantage of the enormous catalogs offered by companies like Spotify, Apple Music, and Pandora. But for their critics, recommender systems seem to embody all the potential harms of algorithms: they flatten culture into numbers, they normalize ever-broadening data collection, and they profile their users for commercial ends. Drawing on years of ethnographic fieldwork, anthropologist Nick Seaver describes how the makers of music recommendation navigate these tensions: how product managers understand their relationship with the users they want to help and to capture; how scientists conceive of listening itself as a kind of data processing; and how engineers imagine the geography of the world of music as a space they care for and control. Computing Taste rehumanizes the algorithmic systems that shape our world, drawing attention to the people who build and maintain them. In this vividly theorized book, Seaver brings the thinking of programmers into conversation with the discipline of anthropology, opening up the cultural world of computation in a wide-ranging exploration that travels from cosmology to calculation, myth to machine learning, and captivation to care.
ISBN: 9780226822976Publication Date: 2022-12-06
The Values in Numbers by
Ideas about how to study and understand cultural history--particularly literature--are rapidly changing as new digital archives and tools for searching them become available. This is not the first information age, however, to challenge ideas about how and why we value literature and the role numbers might play in this process. The Values in Numbers tells the longer history of this evolving global conversation from the perspective of Japan and maps its potential futures for the study of Japanese literature and world literature more broadly. Hoyt Long offers both a reinterpretation of modern Japanese literature through computational methods and an introduction to the history, theory, and practice of looking at literature through numbers. He weaves explanations of these methods and their application to literature together with critical reflection on the kinds of reasoning such methodologies facilitate. Chapters guide readers through increasingly complex techniques while making novel arguments about topics of fundamental concern, including the role of quantitative thinking in Japanese literary criticism; the canonization of modern literature in print and digital media; the rise of psychological fiction as a genre; the transnational circulation of modernist forms; and discourses of race under empire. Long models how computational methods can be applied outside English-language contexts and to languages written in non-Latin scripts. Drawing from fields as diverse as the history of science, book history, world literature, and critical race theory, this book demonstrates the value of numbers in literary study and the values literary critics can bring to the reading of difference in numbers.
ISBN: 9780231193504Publication Date: 2021-06-15
Command Line
- Introduction to the Bash Command Lineby Ian Milligan and James Baker
- The Command LineFrom the Praxis Program at the Scholars' Lab (UVA)
Content Management
- Up and Running with Omekaby Miriam Posner
- Creating an Omeka.net Exhibitby Miriam Posner
Data Clean-Up
- Cleaning Data with OpenRefineby Seth van Hooland, Ruben Verborgh and Max De Wilde
- From OMBD to Gender Data on Film Directors: How to Clean Data with Open Refine and Google SheetsFrom Silk Webinars. More at http://silk-webinars.silk.co/
- Understanding Regular Expressionsby Doug Knox
Geospatial Analysis
- A Workshop on Maps and TimelinesBy Francesca Giannetti. This tutorial gives an overview of spatial and temporal approaches in the arts and humanities, with hands-on exercises using CartoDB and Palladio.
- Installing QGIS and Adding LayersBy Jim Clifford, Josh MacFadyen and Daniel Macfarlane
- Creating New Vector Layers in QGISBy Jim Clifford, Josh MacFadyen and Daniel Macfarlane
- Georeferencing in QGISby Jim Clifford, Josh MacFadyen and Daniel Macfarlane
- Mapping with QGISby Daniel McGlone, GIS Analyst at Azavea
- Geocoding for Neatline - Part Iby Wayne Graham
- Geocoding for Neatline - Part IIby Wayne Graham
- Finding Spatial DataCanadian focus, with some sources of historical U.S. and global datasets
Network Analysis
- Introduction to Network Visualization with Gephiby Martin Grandjean
- Get your Data into Gephiby Amanda Visconti
- Literary NetworksWorkshop by Hoyt Long and Richard So (University of Chicago). Notes by Andrew Goldstone (Rutgers University).
- Gephi Tutorialsby Clement Levallois
- R Network Visualization; Basics to Advancedby Katya Ognyanova
Text Analysis
- Counting for Humanistsby Andrew Goldstone
- Counting and mining research data with Unixby James Baker and Ian Milligan
- Basic Text Analysis with Command Line Tools in Linuxby William J. Turkel
Web Scraping
- Automated Downloading with Wgetby Ian Milligan
- Applied Archival Downloading with Wgetby Kellen Kurschinski
- Approaches to Web Scraping in RAn introductory workshop covering some techniques for collecting content from public websites, otherwise known as webscraping.