INTG 3301/4301 Integrated Studies

For scholars interested in beginning to explore the possibilities for digital tools, programs, and methods to empower and enhance their scholarship in the humanities, from Stanford University.

Shows samples of common types of digital humanities projects (e.g., a gallery of primary sources, a mapping project, etc.), then explains what technical skills are needed and links to tutorials for getting started with those skills.

A primer on working with various free web mapping tools. (New York Public Library)

The Geospatial Historian is a tutorial-based open access textbook, modeled on the Programming Historian, for historical scholars and digital humanists. It is designed to teach practical digital mapping and GIS skills that are immediately useful to real research needs.

The Programming Historian 2 (PH2) is a tutorial-based open access textbook designed to teach humanists practical computer programming skills that are immediately useful to real reasearch needs.

"This blog will introduce text capture by describing the different methods with a focus upon historical documents. I will introduce the basics of OCR and rekeying with discussion of handwriting and voice recognition." From Simon Tanner of King's College London

Tutorial on how to use myHistro, a free multimedia timeline creation tool, to create a timeline and then display events on a map. (Free Technology for Teachers)

Python works with textual data. See the language and learn to program basic algorithmic procedures.