Resources in Digital Humanities Research
From Digital Americanists
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Digital Libraries
- Besser, Howard (2002). The Next Stage: Moving from Isolated Digital Collections to Interoperable Digital Libraries, First Monday 7:6, June http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_6/besser/
- Brogan, Martha L. "Contexts and Contributions: Building the Digital Library" (Digital Library Federation, 2006). http://www.diglib.org/pubs/dlf106/
- Digital Library Federation. http://www.diglib.org
- Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections, 2nd ed. (Bethesda, MD: NISO Press, 2004.) See http://www.niso.org/framework/framework2.pdf
- RLG DigiNews. A great online resource covering up-to-date issues concerning digitization in libraries/archives. http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews
Selection and Copyright
- Hazen, Dan, Jeffrey Horrell, and Jan Merrill-Oldham, Selecting research collections for digitization. Washington DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 1998. http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub74.html.
- U.S. Copyright Office website has much useful information. http://www.copyright.gov
- Electronic Freedom Forum. Intellectual Property section of site. http://www.eff.org/IP
Preservation
- Attributes of a Trusted Digital Repository: Meeting the Needs of Research Resources at http://www.rlg.org/longterm/attributes01.pdf
- Rothenberg, Jeff. Avoiding Technological Quicksand: Finding a Viable Technical Foundation for Digital Preservation. Washington DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 1999. http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub88abst.html
- See Howard Besser’s website at http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/~howard “Digital Libraries, Standards, and Longevity” section.
Metadata and Markup Standards
- Dublin Core Metadata. http://dublincore.org/
- Encoded Archival Description Official Web Site. http://www.loc.gov/ead
- eXtensible Mark-up Language. http://www.w3.org/XML
- Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets
- Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding. http://www.tei-c.org
- Unicode. http://www.unicode.org
Digital Scholarship
- Alonso, Carlos J., et al. "Crises and Opportunities: The Futures of Scholarly Publishing." http://www.acls.org/op57.pdf
- Bosak, Jon and Tim Bray. "XML and the Second-Generation Web." http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0008C786-91DB-1CD6-B4A8809EC588EEDF&pageNumber=1&catID=2
- Casati, Fabio et al. "Publish and Perish: Why the Current Publication and Review Model Is Killing Research and Wasting Your Money," Ubiquity 8.3 (January 2007). http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i03_fabio.html
- Cronin, Blaise. "Scholarly Communication and Epistemic Cultures." The New Review of Academic Librarianship 9 (2003):1-24. http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13614533.asp
- D'Arms, John H. "The Electronic Monograph in the 21st Century." http://www.acls.org/jhd-aha.htm
- Davidson, Cathy. "Understanding the Economic Burden of Scholarly Publishing." http://chronicle.com/free/v50/i06/06b00701.htm
- Hockey, Susan. "Towards a Model for Web-based Language Documentation and Description: Some Contributions from Digital Libraries and Humanities Computing Research." http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/exploration/expl2000/papers/hockey/hockey.htm and http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/exploration/expl2000/papers/hockey/hockey.ppt
- Kattwinkel, Susan. "Issues of Validity and Technology: Publishing Scholarship on the Web." http://www.cofc.edu/~kattwins/ATHE2001.html
- Lynch, Clifford A. "Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age," ARL Bimonthly Report 226 (Feb 2003). http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/br/index.shtml/226/ir.html
- McGann, Jerome. "Culture and Technology: The Way We Live Now, What is to be Done" http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/%7Ejjm2f/nlh04web.htm
- McGann, Jerome. "Marking Texts in Many Dimensions" http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/%7Ejjm2f/blackwell.htm
- McGann, Jerome. "The Rationale of Hypertext." http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/public/jjm2f/rationale.html
- McGann, Jerome. "Textonics." http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/%7Ejjm2f/old/textonics.html
- McGann, Jerome and Johanna Drucker. "Interpretation in a New Key, with Special Reference to Byron’s 'Fare Thee Well!'". http://www.rc.umd.edu/pedagogies/commons/innovations/mcgann3.html
- Modern Language Asssociation Ad Hoc Committee on the Future of Scholarly Publishing. "The Future of Scholarly Publishing," Profession (New York: MLA, 2002):172-86. http://www.mla.org/resources/documents/issues_scholarly_pub
- Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions. "Guidelines for Editors of Scholarly Editions with Guiding Questions for Vettors, a Glossary, and an Annotated Bibliography." http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/cse/CSEguidelines.html
- Morrison, Alan, et al. "Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts: A Guide to Good Practice." http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/documents/creating/
- Mueller, Martin. "A Very Gentle Introduction to the TEI markup language." http://www.tei-c.org/Sample_Manuals/mueller-main.htm
- Nunberg, Geoffrey. "The Places of Books in the Age of Electronic Reproduction." http://www-csli.stanford.edu/%7Enunberg/places3.html
- Price, Kenneth M. "Dollars and Sense in Collaborative Digital Scholarship" http://www.unl.edu/Price/Dollars.htm
- Schreibman, Susan, Ray Siemens and John Unsworth, eds. Blackwell Companion to Digital Humanities (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004). http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/
- Tabbi, Joseph. “Toward a Literary Semantic Web: Setting a Direction for the Electronic Literature Organization's Directory.” Electronic Literature Organization. http://eliterature.org/pad/slw.html
- University of Texas System Office of General Counsel. "Electronic Journal Startup Materials." http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/INTELLECTUALPROPERTY/contract/journal.htm
- Unsworth, John M. "The Crisis in Scholarly Publishing in the Humanities." http://www.arl.org/newsltr/228/crisis.html
- Unsworth, John. "Electronic Scholarship." http://www.iath.virginia.edu/%7Ejmu2m/mla-94.html
- Unsworth, John, Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, and Lou Burnard, eds. Electronic Textual Editing. http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/ETE/
- Unsworth, John. "The Humanist: 'Dances with Wolves' or 'Bowls Alone'?" http://www.arl.org/scomm/disciplines/Unsworth.doc
- Unsworth, John. "The Importance of Failure." http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-02/unsworth.html
- Unsworth, John. "Not-so-Modest Proposals: What Do We Want Our System of Scholarly Communication to Look like in 2010?" CIC Summit on Scholarly Communications, 2 December 2003. http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/CICsummit.htm
- Wheeler, Brad. "Open Source 2007: How Did This Happen?" http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERM0440.pdf
