This course introduces students to a range of issues involved in the design, creation, management and use of electronic resources in the humanities. Topics may include humanities resources on the Web, creating electronic resources, digital imaging, metadata systems, encoding and markup systems, electronic dictionaries, text analysis, user needs, scholarly electronic publishing in the humanities.

The overall aims are to:

familiarize students with the computing technologies and applications that are used in humanities research and teaching;
	to provide a basis for making informed choices in the design, management and use of digital resources in the humanities;
	to promote understanding of the areas where access, manipulation and analysis of digital resources can benefit research and teaching in the humanities.
Learning outcomes: By the end of the module, students will be able to

identify and evaluate Web-based and other sources in electronic form for humanities research and teaching;
	create electronic resources as transcriptions and digital images, and understand the benefits and implications of these methodologies;
	assess the advantages and disadvantages of different delivery and publishing methods for electronic resources;
	understand how computers can be used for a range of research and teaching applications in the humanities;
	understand the principles and uses of text manipulation programs;
	evaluate electronic scholarly publications in hypertextual form.
The following is an indication of a typical schedule. It is subject to change in line with the international state of the art of Digital Humanities.

Session 1: What is Digital Humanities?
	Session 2: Digitisation of Text, Image and Object
	Session 3: Geographical Information Systems & Crowd Sourcing
	Session 4: Hypertext and markup in the Humanities
	Session 5: Text analysis
Reading Week

Session 6: TEI: Text Encoding Initiative
	Session 7: Digital versus Analog? Excursion to the Petrie Museum
	Session 8: Dictionaries and other Electronic Publishing
	Session 9: Data visualisation and network analysis: an introduction
	Session 10: Collaboration, Interdisciplinarity and collaborative working
Set texts:

A New Companion to Digital Humanities Schreibman, Susan, Raymond George Siemens, and John Unsworth (eds.).(Chichester, West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons Inc) 2016. [Get e-text through the library]
	Computation and the Humanities: towards an oral history of Digital Humanities. Julianne Nyhan an Andrew Flinn. Springer 2016. Open access version: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-20170-2
	Terras, M., Nyhan, J, and Vanhoutte, E. (eds). Defining Digital Humanities: a reader. Ashgate 2013.
Compulsory for: MA and MSc in Digital Humanities

Optional for: This module is an option for Information Studies students.