Digital humanities is a broad term that encompasses multiple disciplines within the humanities, including history, art history, African and African American studies, women and gender studies, English language and literature, writing and rhetoric, and more. At the most basic level, digital humanities simply refers to the use of digital tools and methods to further scholarship. At its more complex, digital humanities involves re-imagining the way we approach sources and data, research, narrative, and the publication and interpretation of scholarship.
DiSC and GMU University Libraries support digital humanities research and scholarship in a variety of ways:
- access to and support for digital humanities tools such as ProQuest TDM Studio, Constellate, Voyant, Google Ngram Viewer, StoryMapJS, TimelineJS, Palladio, and Gephi
- support for Omeka S and Omeka Classic users
- workshops and research guides on digital humanities platforms, software, and skills
- access to content from selected full text primary source databases in a form that can be data mined
- access to Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software such as ABBYY FineReader
- access to flatbed and document scanners, and to a document camera
Resources for the Digital Humanities:
- Digital Humanities
- Learn R
- Network Analysis
- Omeka Classic
- ProQuest TDM Studio
- Social Media Data and Tools
- Software for Digital Scholarship
- Text & Data Mining Sources
- Text Analysis Tools
- Tropy
GMU Digital Humanities Projects:
- Anthologies of African American Writing, Alok Yadav, Department of English
- Appalachian Trail Histories, Mills Kelly, Department of History and Art History
- Black Lives Next Door, student and faculty researchers, Center for Mason Legacies
- BLND: Geographies of Inequity, student research projects
- Chile 1988, Jennifer Ashley, Department of Global Affairs
- East German Poster Database, Samuel Clowes Huneke, Department of History and Art History
- Lord Fairfax Community College Herbarium (LFCC) Specimen Collection and Accession Records, Andrea Weeks, College of Science
- Mason Family Papers: The Digital Edition, student and faculty researchers, Center for Mason Legacies
- Musical Practices of Early Black Americans, Emily Green, School of Music
Digital Humanities at GMU:
- Center for Mason Legacies
- Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
- Undergraduate minor in digital humanities
- Graduate certificate in digital public humanities