Digital humanities

What is Digital Humanities ?

                              

Digital humanities (DH) is an area of scholarly activity at the intersection of computing or digital technologies and the disciplines of the humanities. It includes the systematic use of digital resources in the humanities, as well as the analysis of their application. ... DH is also applied in research.

The Harvard course is divided into 5 different chapters. So let's discuss whatever I have learnt from each of them. 

• First thing is that I don’t have any idea what  Digital Humanities is ? So the first thing I learnt is what Digital Humanities is. 

• Another thing is how digital libraries work. 

• metadata and what is the digital library concept.  

• Also aware about digital museums and arts and first project of the three pairs of shoes. 

2nd Chapter : 

In this chapter we come to know about project tools and the questions they support. Project is Visualizing Broadway. These projects are very useful for academic purposes. 

In this entire section we come across such a things like 

• Gephi Demonstration 

• Explorina Medieval Mery

• TEI ( Text Encoding Initiative ) and XHL

• Imperial : Mapping the Russian 

• Tools for Geographical Analysis. 

3rd is pretty tough to understand for me

It consists of topics like Data can be stored in a variety of different file types. Read on to learn about the major file types that you will encounter in Digital Humanities projects, along with the advantages and limitations of using each one. Specifically, we will cover plain text, CSV, Text, JSON, HTML, XML, Binary, MP3, and WAV file types. 

This entire chapter has topics like 

-Plain Text

-Comma Separated Value (CSV)

-JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)

-Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

-eXtensible Markup Language (XML)

-Binary Files

Chapter 4 is quite difficult. In this chapter I have learnt how to do commands. Also come across some of the interesting words like 

command language interpreter (CLI)

character user interface (CUI)

The whole chapter is about how to add commands in a particular session. Last chapters two chapters are very tough because it is for practice. It helps to understand how to do commands. 

Activity 17.4 The speech of Austen’s characters

1. Go to the CLiC concordance tab (http://clic.bham.ac.uk/concordance?).

2. Type Austen into the corpora box and select each of Austen’s novels.

3. Choose the subset “Quotes”.

4. Search for one more cluster from the cluster lists in 17.1 and 17.3 above. How

is it used in context?

Activity 10.1 Keywords comparing Austen and Dickens :- 

1. Go to the keywords tab either directly here (http://clic.bham.ac.uk/concordance) or by selecting the “Keywords” box on the right side of CLiC. 

2. Select all of Austen’s novels as “Target corpora” (you will have to enter each one separately from the scroll-down list; if you start typing “Aus” into the Target box, then Austen’s novels will be collected at the top, which will save a bit of time). And select all Dickens’s novels as “Reference corpora” (easily done by selecting “DNov”). 

3. Select “All text” from the option box “...within subset” and keep the default settings (which will give you words as 1-gram, and so on), as follows. 

4. This will give you a list of keywords for Austen (in comparison with Dickens) down the left hand side, ordered by their degree of difference from the Dickens corpus. 

5. To find the keywords in Dickens, compared with Austen, simply reverse the choices you entered in the “Target” and “Reference corpora”. 

6. Compare the two keyword lists and try to find words that seem relevant to setting and atmosphere.