Contact Information

Office: LI 029
Office Hours: 8:30-10:30am Wednesday and by appointment
Phone: 856-0707
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Web: http://www.slis.indiana.edu/faculty/jawalsh/

Course Description

This course is an introduction to the use of information technology in literary and humanistic study. We will survey the field of digital humanities, or humanities computing as it is sometimes called, from electronic scholarly editing, to the computational analysis of style, theme, and structure, to considerations of the cultural impact of information technology on scholarly discourse, publishing, and the academy. We will also study several specific technologies in detail, including eXtensible Markup Language (XML) and the Text Encoding Initiative. Students will be expected to generate critical work on subjects related to digital humanities and to perform some hands-on exercises using technologies common in digital humanities research.

Texts

O'Gorman, Marcel. E-Crit: Digital Media, Critical Theory, and the Humanities. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2006.

Schreibman, Susan, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth, eds. A Companion to Digital Humanities. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.

The above text will be supplemented by online and reserve readings.

Assignments & Participation

Your grade will be based on 1000 points, distributed as follows:

Assignments
Assignment	points/percentage	Due Date
Reading Reactions Each student should make at least ten substantive posts to the class LISTSERV (s604-dh-l), spaced out over the course of the semester, on current readings, during the course of the semester. These should be posted by sometime on Tuesday, so we have a little time to read and react before Thursday's class.	100/10%	Posted to course LISTSERV s604-dh-l
Mid-term Exam	200/20%	2008-02-28
Text Encoding Exercise and Reaction Paper An exercise in encoding a literary work in TEI/XML and a short (250-500 word) paper reflecting on the exercise.	150/15%	2008-03-07
Term Paper Substantial (2500 word) paper on a topic of your choosing (approved by instructor).	250/25%	250-500 word proposal on or before 2008-03-21. Final paper due 2008-04-25
Final Exam	200/20%	Tuesday, 8-10am 2008-04-29
Participation	100/10%

Students are expected to attend and participate in class discussions, and turn in assignments on time. One absence or one late assignment is permitted during the course of the semester. In this first instance, no explanation is required; on the other hand, no excuses will be accepted for subsequent absences or late assignments, and a half-grade penalty will be assessed for each absence or late assignment after the first, on the grade for the semester.

Letter Grade Definitions

All grades will be assigned according to the Indiana University School of Library and Information Science Definitions of Letter Grades.

Schedule

Date	Topics	Readings
R 2008-01-10	Introductions. Overview of syllabus. Tour of example digital humanities projects. Tour of digital humanities resources.
R 2008-01-17	History, Part 1	Read in the Companion at least through Foreword, Introduction, Hockey, Eiteljorg, Greenhalgh. Also: Willard, McCarty. “Humanities Computing” Unsworth, John. “Forms of Attention: Digital Humanities Beyond Representation”
R 2008-01-24	History, Part 2	Read in the Companion at least through Fujinaga and Weiss. Also: Readings from the Chymistry of Isaac Newton project.
R 2008-01-31	History, Part 3	Read in the Companion through Ess. Also: Rockwell, Geoffrey. “Multimedia, Is It a Discipline? The Liberal and Servile Arts in Humanities Computing” Orlandi, Tito. “Is Humanities Computing A Discipline?"” Unsworth, John. “What Is Humanities Computing and What Is Not?” Moulthrop, Stuart. “Computing, Humanism, and the Coming Age of Print”
R 2008-02-07	Principles, Part 1	Read in the Companion at least through Ramsay.
R 2008-02-14	Principles, Part 2	Read in the Companion at least through McCarty.
R 2008-02-21 Class meets in Lindley Hall 023	Text Encoding Workshop	Sperberg-McQueen, Michael and Lou Burnard. “A Gentle Introduction to XML.” from the TEI Guidelines . Vanhoutte, Edward. An Introduction to the TEI and the TEI Consortium Chapers 1-4 and 7 of the TEI Guidelines
R 2008-02-28 Class meets in Lindley Hall 023	Mid-Term Exam / Text Encoding Workshop	Chapters 13, 16, and 17 of the TEI Guidelines
R 2008-03-07	Applications, Part 1	Read in the Companion at least through Burrows.
R 2008-03-14	Spring break. No class.
R 2008-03-21	Applications, Part 2	Read in the Companion at least through Lancashire.
R 2008-03-28	Applications, Part 3	Read in the Companion at least through Winders
R 2008-04-04	Dissemination, Part 1	Read in the Companion at least through Bradley.
R 2008-04-11	Dissemination, Part 2	Read in the Companion at least through Smith.
R 2008-04-18	E-Crit, Part 1	Read in O'Gorman at least through the introduction, chapter 1, and chapter 2.
R 2008-04-25	E-Crit, Part 2	Read in O'Gorman through chapters 3, 4, and 5.
Tuesday, 8-10am 2008-04-29	Final Exam

Resources

See my digital humanities resources.