ABSTRACT

Transformative Digital Humanities takes a two-pronged approach to the digital humanities: it examines the distinct kinds of work currently being undertaken in the field, while also addressing current issues in the digital humanities, including sustainability, accessibility, interdisciplinarity, and funding.

With contributions from humanities and LIS scholars based in China, Canada, England, Germany, Spain, and the United States, this collection of case studies provides a framework for readers to develop new projects as well as to see how existing projects might continue to develop over time. This volume also participates in the current digital humanities conversation by bringing forward emerging voices that offer new options for cooperation, by demonstrating how the digital humanities can become a tool for activism, and by illustrating the potential of the digital humanities to reexamine and reconstitute existing canons.

Transformative Digital Humanities considers what sorts of challenges still exist in the field and suggests how they might be addressed. As such, the book will be essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of information science and digital humanities. It should also be of great interest to practitioners around the globe.

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

part I|47 pages

Interventions

chapter 2|14 pages

“Throughlines”

Social injustice and activism in Los Angeles

chapter 3|20 pages

Digital humanities and critical engagement

The case of the Scottish Corpus of Texts & Speech and Wee Windaes

part II|37 pages

Architecture/infrastructure

part IV|33 pages

Discovery and recovery

chapter 11|11 pages

Blending approaches and methodologies

The Bibliographical Database for the Historiography of Ottoman Europe (HOE)

chapter 12|9 pages

Work from where you are

Lessons from an online anthology of early Florida literature

chapter 13|11 pages

Growing up digital

European women’s writing and digital resource development