Preliminary Class Business

• No class next Tuesday
• Transcriptions Research Slam, "SynchDH" (May 8th)

1. Thinking Ahead to the Class Project

• Unless we come to a decision today about a corpus, for the next class each student (or pairs or groups of students working in collaboration) should come up with an idea for a corpus of works we can study.  The criteria for a good corpus include some combination of the following features:
• The corpus should have scale.  (The corpus doesn't have to be gigantic, but there should be enough works to make it sensible to use digital humanities methods to study them--say, at least 20 works at a minimum.)
• The corpus should be accessible.
• Ideally the works would be out of copyright or otherwise in the public domain.
• Ideally, we can get digital versions of the works fairly easily, so we don't have to spend a lot of time on that.
• The corpus should have some balance between consistency (e.g., a focus on works of a certain kind from a certain period) and differentiation. (E.g., the corpus could sub-types of works that can be compared, or it can be compared as a whole to another corpus of some sort.)
• Hopefully, the corpus should include works or issues that interest you.

• Continued class discussion of ideas about a corpus to study:
• Ideas mentioned so far:
• Corpus [TBD] -- topic model analysis and comparison
• E.g., Study the 19th-century novels we have and compare novels by women, men, and anonymous.
• Corpus of translations --
• Some possible suggestions from the instructor:
• Study a small set of modern "dystopian" novels if we can get them in digital form; then use text analysis and topic modeling methods to find the nearest matches in the 19th-century corpus of novels.
• Study a corpus where it makes sense to use both topic modeling and social network analysis.

2. Social Network Analysis

• Your practicums.

3. More on the Social Network Paradigm

• Class 8 Powerpoint.pptx

4. Mapping in the Digital Humanities

• Class 8 Powerpoint.pptx (continued)
• Sites to Browse:
• The Spatial History Project (including Richard White, "What is Spatial History?" [2010])
• ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
• HyperCities
• Neatline Projects (see demos on Neatline site)
• Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760-1761
• Google Lit Trips (using the downloadable .kmz files that overlay literary maps over satellite maps requires Google Earth)
• See also Walking Ulysses ("Enter into the world of James Joyce's novel, Ulysses, by following its characters as they walk the streets of Dublin on June 16, 1904")
• Examples of past student projects: 1 | 2 | 3