Are academics alone responsible for the evolution of the digital humanities, and its future? Will the future of digital humanities be shaped by pieces in collections such as this, typically written for other academics? We think not, or at least, not entirely. Rather, we begin with the premise that, while the exact future of the digital humanities…[Read more]

The Pennsylvania State University Libraries serve 24 distinct campus locations around the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and one online distance-learning programme. Each campus has their own feel, purpose, and expertise. In this talk I discuss two case studies which illustrate the range of technical needs for doing digital pedagogy across a range of…[Read more]

The term community of practice (CoP) has been applied to segments of work in the digital humanities in numerous ways over the years: as library training initiatives (Green 2014), as work around a specific encoding practice (Flanders and Jannidis 2015), and even to the DH community as a whole (Siemens 2016). This term, coined in 1991, was…[Read more]

This course will begin with an introduction to Digital Humanities as a practice, a toolset, and a community. We will focus on the role of digital methods in historical and cultural research: the tools you learn in class, as well as those you investigate as part of the assignments, will help you to ground a topic of your choice (be it a person, an…[Read more]