Digital Maps and Mapping

Abstract. This chapter surveys the history, technological advances, and application of digital mapping within the field of digital classics. It looks at ho

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The OMB Guidance Revision Threatens All Research - The Scholarly Kitchen

The OMB proposed revision is about all research — and humanities research is just as vulnerable as STEM.

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ACLS Names 2026 Finalists for ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards

Thirty titles advance to final round for six $50,000 prizes for open access books in the humanities and social sciences

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The 2026 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History - Digital History Seminar

SUBMIT YOUR NOMINATION HERE BEFORE 31 MAY Richard Deswarte (1965-2021) was one of the founding convenors of the Digital History seminar at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of Lon...

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The 2026 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History - Digital History Seminar

SUBMIT YOUR NOMINATION HERE BEFORE 31 MAY Richard Deswarte (1965-2021) was one of the founding convenors of the Digital History seminar at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of Lon...

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Partnering to Advance Access & Equity: Three Case Studies from Brown University Digital Publications

Brown University Digital Publications (BUDP) is a novel, library-based born-digital publishing program focused on robust author support and intentional content development. BUDP sees itself not as a…

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Digital Humanities Salon: Lightning Talks

Please join the Center for Digital Scholarship for the Digital Humanities Salon series on select Thursdays at noon in person at the Patrick Ma Digi...

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Stealing America: The Hidden Story of Indigenous Slavery in U.S. History

Stealing America: The Hidden Story of Indigenous Slavery in U.S. History [Fisher, Linford D.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Stealing America: The Hidden Story of Indigenous Slavery in U.S. History

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Associate professor’s book highlights history of Indigenous slavery

Linford Fisher’s work on the project started with considering New England’s connection to the Atlantic slave trade.

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Teaching with the DH Awards · Brandon Walsh

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Digital Humanities Salon: Contemporary Monuments to the Slave Past and Black Family Displacement on the East Side

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Designing Our Digital Past: Anchoring Digital-History Tool Development in the Historical Method Through Design-Based History Research

Many of the tools digital humanists use have come from a variety of disciplines outside of history. As a consequence, many digital-history methods sections focus on how a tool developed by non-historians might support, or need to be adapted for, particular historical questions. Few digital tools have been developed by and for historians with a specific eye to the methodological and theoretical explorations of design principles that are necessary to anchor digital-history-specific tool development in historiographic practices. This article introduces Design-Based History Research (DBHR) as a methodological bridge between the practices of digital-history tool design, the use of digital methods to create historical argumentation, and social-science-inspired methodological innovation. Design-Based Research (DBR) is an educational-research approach to studying learning theory that supports theory building by integrating theory into the design of new tools and environments, in a manner that allows the designers to rigorously study the theory, and the relationship between the theory and the tools that embody it (Puntambekar, 2018; Sandoval, 2013). In practice, this means that DBR focused on software design incorporates theoretically motivated decisions about user interface features, user activities, and data-structure choices into an initial tool/software-package design and then studies the design package in use as a way of iteratively refining the theoretical principles in each of the tool's design phases. DBHR is an adaptation of the DBR approach, with a theoretical approach grounded in the unique needs of historians and historiographic practices. We aim to illustrate DBHR by describing the design and use of Net.Create, a user-focused network-analysis tool that prioritizes historiographic practices (evidence interpretation, citation preservation, and historiographic debate) in its feature development and user-interface choices (Craig & Danish, 2018). We document how the needs of digital historians shaped the current design of Net.Create, explore the connections between specific tool features and their operation, and delineate how those tool features support the digital-history needs we identified. As part of this iterative-design process, we will also address some of the human-computer-interaction observations, user-entered network data, and qualitative-network-analysis approaches that shaped each stage of our feature development around digital history practices. Our DBHR process ultimately led us to prioritize the development of three features that support and encourage sustained historiographic debate at each phase of a network-analysis digital-history project: simultaneous entry and visualization of capta, data that is gathered and contested rather than downloaded or received, in order to support and encourage historiographic debate during the data-gathering phase and prior to a formal analysis phase easy-to-use revision of network taxonomy and network data, to support interpretation, reinterpretation and re-input of evidence and data by many collaborators simultaneously, synchronously or asynchronously, during the initial analysis phase data provenance features that expose the researchers' positionality and preserve the original citations for each network datapoint, to support the integration of close-reading analytical practices both by the research team and by other historians after the communication of results to a public audience By documenting the historiographic roots of each of these features, we hope to offer a systematic articulation of digital history tool design not simply as software development but as a pathway to the concurrent and intertwined development of historical theory, digital-history tools, and collaborative historical methods.

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DH Awards 2025 Voting | Digital Humanities Awards

Note: Nominations are not filtered for quality and resources may self-nominate. If you own the resource and there are errors in your title or URL please email james at dhawards.org and we will correct these.

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