Research Guides: Digital Humanities Projects in Music: Defining Digital Humanities

Defining the Digital Humanities

The term "digital humanities" is broad and difficult to pin down, but typically refers to projects and endeavors that harness digital tools, be they analytical, visual, presentational, or publication-related, to create and disseminate information and research in the humanities fields. Those related to the field of music specifically engage in this work as it relates to composers, performers, musical works, corpus studies, analysis, catalogs, and institutions. The following resources can continue to build your understanding of the field of digital humanities and the place of music studies within this growing field.

Journal of Digital Humanities

This open-source online journal publishes scholarly work beyond the traditional research article as well as discussion of the digital humanities field, and facilitating peer-to-peer reviews.

Day of DH: Defining the Digital Humanities

A Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities is hosted by The University of Alberta annually to document the work of digital humanists all over the world. This particular resource collocates many definitions of the digital humanities.

Digital Humanities @ Duke University Libraries

This LibGuide at Duke University collects and presents resources on defining the field of digital humanities, alongside a timeline or major research advances, celebrated projects, datasets, and ongoing DU projects and resources.

Digital Humanities Resources at the UMD Libraries

A New Companion to Digital Humanities by Susan Schreibman (Editor); Ray Siemens (Editor); John Unsworth (Editor)
ISBN: 1118680642
Publication Date: 2016-01-26
This highly-anticipated volume has been extensively revised to reflect changes in technology, digital humanities methods and practices, and institutional culture surrounding the valuation and publication of digital scholarship. A fully revised edition of a celebrated reference work, offering the most comprehensive and up-to-date collection of research currently available in this rapidly evolving discipline Includes new articles addressing topical and provocative issues and ideas such as retro computing, desktop fabrication, gender dynamics, and globalization Brings together a global team of authors who are pioneers of innovative research in the digital humanities Accessibly structured into five sections exploring infrastructures, creation, analysis, dissemination, and the future of digital humanities Surveys the past, present, and future of the field, offering essential research for anyone interested in better understanding the theory, methods, and application of the digital humanities
Debates in the digital humanities by Matthew IK Gold, Lauren F Klein
Call Number: AZ182 .D44 2016
ISBN: 9781452951485
Publication Date: 2016
Pairing full-length scholarly essays with shorter pieces drawn from scholarly blogs and conference presentations, as well as commissioned interviews and position statements, Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016 reveals a dynamic view of a field in negotiation with its identity, methods, and reach. Pieces in the book explore how DH can and must change in response to social justice movements and events like #Ferguson; how DH alters and is altered by community college classrooms; and how scholars applying DH approaches to feminist studies, queer studies, and black studies might reframe the commitments of DH analysts. Numerous contributors examine the movement of interdisciplinary DH work into areas such as history, art history, and archaeology, and a special forum on large-scale text mining brings together position statements on a fast-growing area of DH research. In the multivalent aspects of its arguments, progressing across a range of platforms and environments, Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016 offers a vision of DH as an expanded field--new possibilities, differently structured.
Intersectionality in Digital Humanities by Barbara Bordalejo (Editor); Roopika Risam (Editor)
ISBN: 1641890517
Publication Date: 2019-11-30
Coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in the late1980s, intersectionality makes the case thatdimensions of identity, such as gender andrace, cannot be understood in isolation fromeach other because they work together toshape lived experience. As digitalhumanities has expanded in scope andcontent, questions of how to negotiate theoverlapping influences of race, class, gender,sexuality, nation, and other dimensions thatshape data, archives, and methodologieshave come to the fore. Taking up theseconcerns, the authors in this volume explore their effects on the methodological, political,and ethical practices of digital humanities.Essays examine intersectionality from arange of positions: the influence ofoverlapping identities on scholars within thedigital humanities community; how the fieldsin which they work are subject to competingtensions created by intersecting powerstructures within digital humanities andacademia; and the methodologicalpossibilities and scholarly potential forintersectionality as a framing theory in digitalhumanities scholarship.
Digital Humanities in Practice by Claire Warwick (Editor); Melissa Terras (Editor); Julianne Nyhan (Editor)
ISBN: 9781856049054
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
This title offers a cutting-edge and comprehensive introduction to this vibrant and increasingly important global field drawing together a broad spectrum of disciplines. Each chapter interweaves the expert commentary of leading academics, analysis of current research and practice and several exciting international case studies, exploring the possibilities and challenges that occur when culture and digital technologies intersect. It covers key topics that include: social media and crowd sourcing; digital images and digitisation; 3D scanning and museums; studying users and readers; electronic text and corpora; archaeology and GIS; open access and online teaching of digital humanities; and, books, texts and digital editing. This is an essential practical guide for academics, researchers, librarians and professionals involved in the digital humanities. It will also be core reading for all humanities students and those taking courses in the digital humanities in particular.
Defining Digital Humanities by Melissa Terras; Julianne Nyhan; Edward Vanhoutte
ISBN: 9781409469643
Publication Date: 2013-12-23
This reader brings together the essential readings that have emerged in Digital Humanities. It provides a historical overview of how the term OCyHumanities ComputingOCO developed into the term OCyDigital HumanitiesOCO, and highlights core readings which explore the meaning, scope, and implementation of the field. To contextualize and frame each included reading, the editors and authors provide a commentary on the original piece. There is also an annotated bibliography of other material not included in the text to provide an essential list of reading in the discipline."

Digital Humanities Projects in Music

Defining the Digital Humanities

Digital Humanities Resources at the UMD Libraries

The Digital Humanities within the Field of Music