Histories of Culture & Computing

How and when did we first start representing culture as data?

In-Class Agenda

• Discuss the assigned readings.
• Start first group in-class assignment on Digital Collections & Libraries
• Time permitting work on topic selection and review Advanced GitHub and Git Features for working collaboratively

Assigned Materials

Read the following:

• Kahle, Brewster. “Universal Access to All Knowledge.” The American Archivist 70, no. 1 (2007): 23–31. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40294448. Please follow the instructions on how to annotate local PDFs if you are using Hypothesis.
• Besser, Howard. “The Past, Present, and Future of Digital Libraries.” In A Companion to Digital Humanities. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2004. https://companions.digitalhumanities.org/DH/content/9781405103213_chapter_36.html

Explore the following:

• Hennessey, Amardeep Singh and Kate. “African American Periodical Poetry (1900-1928) – Responsible Datasets in Context.” Responsible Datasets in Context, July 1, 2024. https://www.responsible-datasets-in-context.com/posts/african-american-periodical-poetry/aa-periodical-poetry.html?tab=data-essay.

Additional Materials

• Mcpherson, Tara. “Why Are the Digital Humanities So White?: Or Thinking the Histories of Race and Computation.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities, edited by Matthew K. Gold, NED-New edition., 139–60. University of Minnesota Press, 2012. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttv8hq.12.
• Section 2 Libraries and Database, Milligan, Ian. The Transformation of Historical Research in the Digital Age. Cambridge Elements in Historical Theory and Practice, August 2022. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009026055.
• Milic, Louis T. “The Next Step.” Computers and the Humanities 1, no. 1 (1966): 3–6. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30199191.