Slides from: Lecture at Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland MA in Digital Humanities 2014/2015 AFF615A: Doing Digital History Doing Digital History (introduction)

1. DOING DIGITAL HISTORY
Karolina Badzmierowska | @karolinabadz | badzmiek@tcd.ie

2. What is Digital Humanities?
What sits at the intersection of computational method and the
traditional pursuits of the humanities — Ray Siemens
Um ... anything in the humanities that has a digital aspect —
Alastair Dunning
Using or making digital tools, and methods do humanities
scholarship — Sharon M. Leon
http://whatisdigitalhumanities.com/

3. Doing Digital History?
Doing History Digitally?

4. Digital Resources
ANALYZEFIND ORGANIZE
Image:AndrewCrawford

5. Digital Resources
FINDING

6. Wikipedia

7. Wikipedia

8. Wikipedia

9. Wikipedia

10. Google
Advanced Search
Images
Books
Scholar
Maps

11. Google Images
http://images.google.com/

12. Google Images
The same image but
different sizes and
sources
Visually similar images

13. Google Images

14. Europeana

15. Europeana
http://www.europeana.eu/

16. Your priorities:
reading list, recommended
online resources and
consultations with tutor /
librarian / supervisor
Information (digital) literacy:
finding, assessing, evaluating,
using and referencing
information
Be critical about online
resources.
Digital resources online
Images: @LegoAcademics

17. Digital Resources
ORGANIZING

18. Dropbox

19. Google Drive & docs
Image: GCFLearnfree

20. Reference manager

21. Trello

22. Images

23. Digital Resources
ANALYZING
Image:AndrewCrawford

24. Analysing
Excel / Wordle / Google
Fusion Tables / Google Maps
/ World Map Warp /
Versioning Machine /
Photoshop / Gimp / Thinglink
/ Viewshare / StoryMap / n-
gram Viewer / Voyant and
more…Image: @LegoAcademics

25. DIGITAL OUTPUT
Wordpress
Omeka
Scalar
Infographics
Data Visualisations
Image: HotButterStudio

26. DIGITAL NETWORKING
academia.edu
Facebook
Twitter
Google +
LinkedIn
forums
blogs
and more…
Image: CensoredPixel

27. What is
crowdsourcing?

28. Crowdsourcing
is the process of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by
soliciting contributions from a large group of people, and
especially from an online community, rather than from traditional
employees or suppliers. While this definition from Merriam
Webster is valid, a more specific definition is heavily debated.
Wikipedia entry for “Crowdsourcing”
• - 905 editors
• - 1805 revisions
• - edits made by the top 10% of editors: 745 (41.3%)
• - page viewed 50685 times in the last 30 days

29. I don’t think Wikipedia can be described as
‘crowdsourcing’. The word comes from outsourcing – from
cheap off-shore labour; even cheaper, get the public to do it
for free – and it disrespects and misunderstands what
people are doing.
Jimmy Wales
Wikipedia’s co-founder
2011

30. What is
crowdsourcing?
More than just free labour!
Actively engaging the public
in our collection development
Work we could never resource ourselves
Crowdsourcing at the National Library of Scotland
Presentation by Ines Byrne
National Library of Scotland

31. Carletti, Laura, Gabriella Giannachi, Dominic Price, Derek McAuley, ‘Digital Humanities and Crowdsourcing’. MW2012: Museums and the Web 2013. Online
Crowdsourcing types

32. Oral History Network Ireland
http://www.oralhistorynetworkireland.ie/
Cymru 1900 Wales
http://www.cymru1900wales.org/
What was there
http://www.whatwasthere.com/
DIY History
http://diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu/
Micro-pasts
http://crowdsourced.micropasts.org/
National Library on Flickr Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/
Citizen Archivist
http://www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist/
Ancient Lives
http://www.ancientlives.org/
History Pin
https://www.historypin.org/
Transcribe Bentham
http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/transcribe-bentham/
Trove
http://trove.nla.gov.au/
The War Graves Photographic Project
http://twgpp.org/
Europeana 1914-1918
http://www.europeana1914-1918.eu/
The Great War Archive
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/

33. Project launched on 27 September 2013
Timespan of the letters:
1 Nov 1915 - 31 Oct 1916
Historical significance in
the “Decade of Centenaries (2012 - 2022)”

34. Project launched on 27 September 2013
Timespan of the letters:
1 Nov 1915 - 31 Oct 1916
Historical significance in
the “Decade of Centenaries (2012 - 2022)”

35. Digital tools

36. 1591 letters uploaded to the system,
of which 1490 made public to date
458 registered users to date
Letters from 27 private family
collections and 13 institutions

37. How
did
we
get
here?

38. Social Media & Outreach

39. DOING DIGITAL HISTORY
Karolina Badzmierowska | @karolinabadz | badzmiek@tcd.ie