Discussion Topic

What is humanities data? How do we work with data in DH? How do we create or discover datasets? What does it mean to transform historic and cultural objects into data?

Core

  • Miriam Posner, “Humanities Data: A Necessary Contradiction” (2015), external resource
  • Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein, “What Gets Counted Counts” and “The Numbers Don’t Speak for Themselves,” Data Feminism (2020), library resource
  • Benjamin Lee, “Compounded Mediation: A Data Archaeology of the Newspaper Navigator Dataset” (2021), external resource
  • Ted Underwood, Laura McGrath, Richard Jean So, and Chad Wellmon, “Cuture, Theory, Data: An Introduction” (2023), library resource

Penumbra

  • Sarah Allison, “Other People’s Data: Humanities Edition” (2016), external resource
  • Melissa Terras and Julianne Nyhan, “Father Busa’s Female Punch Card Operatives,” Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016, external resource
  • Ryan Cordell, “‘Q i-Jtb the Raven’: Taking Dirty OCR Seriously” (2017), library resource
  • Jessica Marie Johnson, “Markup Bodies: Black [Life] Studies and Slavery [Death] Studies at the Digital Crossroads,” Social Text (2018), library resource
  • Lee Skallerup Bessette and Quinn Dombrowski, DSC Multilingual Mystery /#1: Lee and the Missing Metadata (2020), external resource
    • Optional but: I would recommend looking at DSCM #2 and #3 also at some point, particularly if you appreciate the Data-Sitters Club approach to this topic!
  • Jennifer Mahoney, Roopika Risam, and Hibba Nassereddin. “Data Fail: Teaching Data Literacy with African Diaspora Digital Humanities” (2020), external resource
  • James A. Hodges and Ciaran B. Trace, “Preserving Algorithmic Systems: A Synthesis of Overlapping Approaches, Materialities and Contexts,” Journal of Documentation (2023), library resource
  • Katherine McDonough, “Maps as Data” (2024), external resource

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