The Digital Humanities Coursebook provides critical frameworks for the
application of digital humanities tools and platforms, which have become
an integral part of work across a wide range of disciplines.
Written by an expert with twenty years of experience in this field, the
book is focused on the principles and fundamental concepts for
application, rather than on specific tools or platforms. Each chapter
contains examples of projects, tools, or platforms that demonstrate
these principles in action. The book is structured to complement courses
on digital humanities and provides a series of modules, each of which is
organized around a set of concerns and topics, thought experiments and
questions, as well as specific discussions of the ways in which tools
and platforms work. The book covers a wide range of topics and clearly
details how to integrate the acquisition of expertise in data, metadata,
classification, interface, visualization, network analysis, topic
modeling, data mining, mapping, and web presentation with issues in
intellectual property, sustainability, privacy, and the ethical use of
information.
Written in an accessible and engaging manner, The Digital Humanities
Coursebook will be a useful guide for anyone teaching or studying a
course in the areas of digital humanities, library and information
science, English, or computer science. The book will provide a framework
for direct engagement with digital humanities and, as such, should be of
interest to others working across the humanities as well.
