ABSTRACT
The resources listed in this chapter are meant to highlight the extensive work that has already been done in the digital humanities and interrelated fields; the literature, labs, centres, applications, and tools are varied and widespread, and reveal, I suggest, that we have reached the threshold that leads to the Big Humanities. Obviously, these lists of resources are incomplete and function as a representative sample; for people new to the field, digitally exploring the DH centres and labs leads to an amazing series of resources: statements concerning how these centres and labs were formed, links to projects and application/ tools, and further research, as well as the usual additional hypertext linked resources. In a digital age it is sometimes necessary to remind people that Googling is not always the best way of going on a journey through a field of study. I suggest choosing some of the DH centres and labs below and exploring every aspect of the digital environment that they provide and the rich resources that can be illuminating and educational. I have followed this list with some suggested reading, that is to say, books that not only concern the digital and Big Humanities, but also related and intersecting fields. Several of these books are available in open-source editions,
such as Burdick et al., Digital_ Humanities (https:// mitpress.mit.edu/ sites/ default/ files/ titles/ content/ 9780262018470_ Open_ Access_ Edition. pdf); Gold, ed., Debates in the Digital Humanities (https:// dhdebates. gc.cuny.edu/ debates), and Susan Schreibman, Raymond G. Siemens, and John Unsworth, eds., A Companion to Digital Humanities (www. digitalhumanities.org/ companion/ ). In many respects, the open source tools list is harder to negotiate and explore since it contains such a varied mixture of digital tools and applications; my suggestion to those new to the Big Humanities is simply to jot down the titles of tools and applications found on the labs/ centres web sites or read about in the books, and to then intentionally explore each of those tools in more detail. This can be an intensely frustrating experience, which in many respects confirms the fact that enormous resources are needed for training (and retraining) students and faculty in the use of these technologies! Nonetheless, I believe that many of the digital tools and applications listed below could be fruitfully added to a typical digital workflow with a reasonable level of investment of time and talent in learning how they work, and that the results can be quite spectacular in terms of reorienting current thinking and leading to productive new areas of inquiry and exploration in the humanities. Finally, then, I would like to acknowledge here the extensive work put into this resources chapter by my lead MeTA Digital Humanities lab research assistant, Nathan Bolton, who has also ensured that all of the links are current at the time of writing.
