DH Toychest:

Guides and Introductions         (curated by Alan Liu)

 Guides to Digital Humanities | Tutorials | Tools | Examples      See also Data Collections & Datasets

Guides and Introductions to DH

• General Guides & Resources
  
• CUNY Digital Humanities Resource Guide
• Digital Humanities Keywords (in-progress online collection of essays on key concepts and words in DH) 
• Morgan Paige, What Digital Humanists Do ("basic introduction to some of the major DH activities"; organized by project type) (2013)
• Miriam Posner
• "How Did They Make That?" (2013)
• "Tutorials and Introductions" to Digital Humanities (2014)
• Andrew Robichaud and Cameron Blevins, "Humanities 3.0: Tooling Up for Digital Humanities" (2011)
• Simpson Center for the Humanities (U. Washington), Resources for Digital Humanities
• UCLA Center for Digital Humanities, Intro to Digital Humanities (expansive resources based on Johanna Drucker and David Kim's DH 101 course at UCLA; includes concepts & readings, tutorials, exercises, student projects, and advanced topics)
• TaDiRAH. (see also about TaDiRAH) (taxonomy of digital-humanities activities, objects, and techniques)

• Selected Publications Offering Orientation on the Field (online works)
• A Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth (Blackwell, 2004) [full text online]
• A Companion to Digital Literary Studies, ed. Ray Siemens and Susan Schreibman (Blackwell, 2007) [full text online]
• Debates in the Digital Humanities, ed. Matthew K. Gold (U. Minnesota Press, 2012) [full text online]
• DH- and New Media-friendly Journals (journals known for publications related to digital humanities and new media studies)
• History of Digital Humanities Field:
• Susan Hockey, "The History of Humanities Computing" (2004)
• John Unsworth, "What’s 'Digital Humanities' and How Did It Get Here?" (2012)
• Meredith Hindley, "The Rise of the Machines--NEH and the Digital Humanities: The Early Years" (2013)
• Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, "What is Digital Humanities and What's It Doing in English Departments?" [PDF] (2010)

• Getting Started with Digital Humanities
• DevDH.org lessons on getting started in DH
• Mary Axford, Discipline-Specific Tools: Digital Humanities (2014)
• 1 - What’s the Right Toolset for Digital Humanities?
• 2 - Literature
• 3 - History
• Adeline Koh, "Introducing Digital Humanities Work to Undergraduates: An Overview" (2014) ("brief overview of an assortment of digital humanities projects that can be implemented in primarily undergraduate-focused institutions")
• Paige Morgan, "How to Get a Digital Humanities Project Off the Ground" (2014)
• Trevor Owens, "Where to Start? On Research Questions in The Digital Humanities" (2014)
• Lisa Spiro, "Getting Started in Digital Humanities" (2011)
• George H. Williams, "The Question of Inclusion in the Digital Humanities" (includes sections on Starting Places and Readings for beginners in DH)

• Creating and Maintaining an Online Presence
• Josh Honn, "Creating an Online Scholarly Presence" (2013)
• Gerald R. Lucas, "Social Media: Top Ten Practices" (2013) ("My list of best practices for faculty in higher education teaching with social media")
• Kelli Marshall, "How to Curate Your Digital Identity as an Academic" (2015)
• Academic/Professional Blogging
• Tim Hitchcock, "Doing It In Public: Impact, Blogging, Social Media and the Academy" (2014)
• Rohan Maitzen, "Blogging: Accept No Substitutes!" (2013)
• Ernesto Priego, "Some Tips for WordPress.com Beginners" (2014)
• See also: Jenny Davis on citing blogs in academic research (2013)
• Academic/Professional Twitter
• Ryan Cordell, "How to Start Tweeting (and Why You Might Want To)" [paywalled; UCSB students have free access through UCSB Library Proxy server
• Dorothy Bishop, "A Gentle Introduction to Twitter for the Apprehensive Academic
• Christopher Long, "The Tweeting Graduate Student"
• See also these posts and resources on academic tweeting: Tim Hitchcock on the importance of the academic use of Twitter and blogs (2014); Carl Straumsheim, "Twitter Has the Chatter" (2014)

• DH Project-Making
• Johanna Drucker, Workflow for Planning Digital Projects [PDF] (2014)

• Digitization
• Stephanie Routhier Perry, "Digitization and Digital Preservation: A Review of the Literature" (2014) (introduction to concepts, methods, techniques for digitizing resources)