Introductions to Doing Digital History

• Ryan Cordell, “How to start tweeting and why you might want to” Profhacker (April, 2010), http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/how-to-start-tweeting-and-why-you-might-want-to/26065; and “From the Archives: Using Twitter,” Profhacker (February 2014), http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/from-the-archives-using-twitter/55775.
• A quick text explanation of the Internet for our purposes
• How the Internet Works in 5 Minutes
• RSS in Plain English

Finding, Organizing, and Analyzing Sources

• SI List of Alternatives to Photoshop
• Digital Preservation Q&A
• Mat Honan, “Kill the Password,” Wired(November 15, 2012).
• Passwords Under Assault
• Dan Russell, “Digging in with Google,”http://dmrussell.net/presentations/IRE2013-Digging-into-Google.pdf
• Zotero Guide to Archival Research,http://guides.library.harvard.edu/zotero_archival_research

Building Digital Collections

• Collaborators’ Bill of Rights
• Criteria for reviewing websites, Journal of American History http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/submit/websitereviews.html
• On choosing for your users and your content, Downgrading your Website, CooperHewitt Labs: http://labs.cooperhewitt.org/2014/downgrading-your-website-or-why-we-are-moving-to-wordpress/
• Steven Krug, “How We Really Use the Web,”Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (2005, 2nd Edition).
• Introduction to HTML, Mozilla Developers Network
• Sample digital history evaluation criteria
• “Site Planning Tips,” Omeka Documentation
• “When Not to Use Drupal,” Drupal for Humanists, http://drupal.forhumanists.org/book/when-not-use-drupal
• Jeffrey Zeldman, “Understanding Web Design,”A List Apart (November 20, 2007). http://alistapart.com/article/understandingwebdesign

Working with Non-Textual Sources

• Fair Use Checklist, Cornell, http://copyright.cornell.edu/policies/docs/Fair_Use_Checklist.pdf
• Guide to Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States, Cornell: http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm
• Loudness War, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
• Alessandro Portelli, “What Makes Oral History Different,” (PDF) The Oral History Reader(London: Routledge, 1998 [1977])
• Rosenzweig and Cohen, “Owning the Past?,” Digital History, http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/copyright/
• Andrew J. Salvati, “DIY Histories: Podcasting the Past,” Sound Studies Blog, April 14, 2014, http://soundstudiesblog.com/2014/04/14/diy-histories-podcasting-the-presenting-of-the-past/
• R. Murray Schafer, “The Soundscape,” in Jonathan Sterne, ed., Sound Studies Reader, Routledge, 2012, PDF of Article

Introduction to Visualizations

• “Principles of data visualization: what we see in a visual.” Fusion Charts. http://www.fusioncharts.com/whitepapers/downloads/Principles-of-Data-Visualization.pdf

Introduction to Spatial History and Mapping

• Jo Guldi, “What is the Spatial Turn?,” Spatial Humanities (Scholars’ Lab, University of Virginia), http://spatial.scholarslab.org/spatial-turn/
• Lincoln Mullen, “These Maps Show How Slavery Expanded Across the United States,” Smithsonian.com, http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/maps-reveal-slavery-expanded-across-united-states-180951452/?no-ist

Introduction to Text and Data Mining

• Shlomo Argamon et al., “Gender, Race, and Nationality in Black Drama, 1950-2006: Mining Differences in Language Use in Authors and Their Characters,” Digital Humanities Quarterly, 3:2 (2009), http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/2/000043/000043.html
• Basic introduction of text mining principles and terminology: http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/legacy/teaching/av1000/textanalysis/method.html
• John Burrows, “Textual Analysis,” A Companion to Digital Humanities, http://nora.lis.uiuc.edu:3030/companion/view?docId=blackwell/9781405103213/9781405103213.xml&chunk.id=ss1-4-4&toc.depth=1&toc.id=ss1-4-4&brand=9781405103213_brand
• Fred Gibbs, “Getting Started in Text Mining”,http://fredgibbs.net/courses/etc/getting-started-with-text-mining
• Lauren Klein and Jacob Eisenstein, “Reading Thomas Jefferson with TopicViz: Towards a Thematic Method for Exploring Large Cultural Archives,” Scholarly and Research Communications 4, no. 3 (2013), http://src-online.ca/index.php/src/article/view/121/259
• Miriam Posner, “Very Basic Strategies for Interpreting Results from the Topic Modeling Tool,” http://miriamposner.com/blog/very-basic-strategies-for-interpreting-results-from-the-topic-modeling-tool/

Shared Authority and the Community

• Sheila A. Brennan and T. Mills Kelly, “Why Collecting History Online is Web 1.5″ (2009), http://chnm.gmu.edu/essays-on-history-new-media/essays/?essayid=47
• Jeff Howe, “The Rise of Crowdsourcing,” Wired (June 2006), http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/14.06/crowds.html
• Trevor Owens’s posts on crowdsourcing, http://www.trevorowens.org/tag/crowdsourcing/
• Project Planning Resources
• Roy Rosenzweig, “Can History be Open Sourced? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past,” (June 2008), http://chnm.gmu.edu/essays-on-history-new-media/essays/?essayid=42
• Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody (2009) and Cognitive Surplus(2011), http://www.shirky.com/

Digital Pedagogy

• Michelle Moravec, “Teaching with Pinterest,”http://historyinthecity.blogspot.com/2014/01/teaching-students-in-pinterest.html
• The Visible Knowledge Project, https://blogs.commons.georgetown.edu/vkp/, https://blogs.commons.georgetown.edu/vkp/library/

Trends in Scholarly Communication

• 19th Century Art Worldwide, example of digital scholarly article, Pamela Fletcher and Anne Helmreich, “Local/Global: Mapping Nineteenth-Century London’s Art Market,” http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/index.php/autumn12/fletcher-helmreich-mapping-the-london-art-market
• Melissa Terras,”The Impact of Social Media on the Dissemination of Research: Results of an Experiment,” Journal of Digital Humanities, Vol. 1, No. 3 (Summer 2012), http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-3/the-impact-of-social-media-on-the-dissemination-of-research-by-melissa-terras/
• Joan Fragaszy Troyano, “Discovering Scholarship on the Open Web: Communities and Methods,” April 1, 2013,http://pressforward.org/discovering-scholarship-on-the-open-web-communities-and-methods/

Digital Humanities Training Resources

• DH Answers, (forum for asking questions about using DH tools, project planning), http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/
• Digital Humanities Commons (for finding collaborators and new projects), http://dhcommons.org/
• Digital Humanities Summer Institutes, University of Victoria,http://dhsi.org/
• DIRT Tool Wiki, http://dirtdirectory.org/
• Humanities Intensive Training and Learning, MITH, University of Maryland, http://www.dhtraining.org/hilt/
• NEH, Office of Digital Humanities, Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, http://www.neh.gov/divisions/odh/institutes
• Programming Historian
• Lisa Spiro, “Getting Started in Digital Humanities, Journal of Digital Humanities, vol 1, no. 1 (2011): http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-1/getting-started-in-digital-humanities-by-lisa-spiro/
• THATCamps, http://thatcamp.org