Assignment 1


Assignment #1: Evaluating a Mature DH Project:

Due Week 4:  A collaboratively authored review of a Digital Humanities project (selected in consultation with the instructor).  You will pair up with one other person in the class who is from a different discipline than you and compose a detailed review of the project, focusing on: The ambitions and aim of the project, the contribution to knowledge, the design of the project, its methods and technologies, its relationship to the field, and so forth. It should be published on our class blog, with appropriate links and documentation.


  • Describe and evaluate the significance of the scholarship for the Humanities
  • How does the project push forward (or fail to push forward) the state of knowledge of a discipline?
  • Describe and evaluate the project's design and interface. Evaluate the interactivity and modes of navigation of the project. 
  • What technologies does the project employ (both front-end and back-end) and how does the scholarship make use of these technologies? 
  • What do you consider to be the successes and failures of the project? 
 
  1. Perseus Digital Library (Greg Crane): http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/#
  2. Any projects from Vectors Journal: http://www.vectorsjournal.org/
  3. Any projects from Stanford Humanities Lab: http://www.stanford.edu/group/shl/cgi-bin/drupal/
  4. Any projects not already discussed from UVA's Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Humanities: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/
  5. Homer Multitext Project (Gregory Nagy): http://www.homermultitext.org/
  6. Virtual Peace (Tim Lenoir): http://www.virtualpeace.org/
  7. Women Writers Project (Julia Flanders): http://www.wwp.brown.edu/
  8. Voice of the Shuttle (Alan Liu): http://vos.ucsb.edu/
  9. St. Gall Project (Patrick Geary): http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/projects/st_gall.html
  10. The Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library: http://www.thlib.org/

10 comments:

  1. Evan N. JohnsonFebruary 3, 2012 at 3:48 PM

    Here is a link for Lance and Evan's assignment on Google Docs. Let me know if there are any problems viewing the document: Assignment One

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  2. ScholickFebruary 3, 2012 at 6:46 PM

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  3. ScholickFebruary 3, 2012 at 6:48 PM

    Here's a link to Jennie and Grant's assignment. Please download as a Word Doc rather than opening in Google Docs. http://bit.ly/wWkmbP

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  4. Sarah PromnitzFebruary 3, 2012 at 8:06 PM

    Here is a link to our project (Sarah and Ines) on Google Docs. Please let us know if there are problems with accessing it.
    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HahTnycqk6JMnoIfSyC_1XlA9leuB63Mixz7Gd7Abuk/edit

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  5. AnonymousFebruary 3, 2012 at 9:43 PM

    Allen Zhang, Diana Price - Review of 3rd World Farmer

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  6. MoonFebruary 3, 2012 at 10:26 PM

    Here's Kathryn and Moon's Digital Karnak:
    https://docs.google.com/open?id=1X_hT2c3Lx6xqGPS-N1c8tCEaA4W_gQEEvCd54acL04_yuDFvXgWpbpflO90b

    And Kathryn also made a demo video. Check it out here:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlu5Ggud3SU

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  7. andrew.dewaardFebruary 3, 2012 at 11:19 PM

    Andrew and Alice, on "Narrating Bits": https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RoX8sudtSpWedczxT622qZImOgR9rdqQBUigDLlwAAU/edit

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  8. S. SommersFebruary 3, 2012 at 11:46 PM

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  9. S. SommersFebruary 3, 2012 at 11:51 PM

    Jen Berman and Sam Sommers, Evaluation of Women Writers Project

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  10. ZephaniahFebruary 6, 2012 at 9:26 PM

    Tim Edwards, Evaluation of Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and Author's Proposal for Radiant Expansion of the Project

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rMuTRuf0tI-uFOts16JjfRt1wcyBQtvUOIYnp_gOmaI/edit?hl=en_US

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