Please read the following short articles and blog posts. Please keep in mind that these are all texts I have assigned to my students and would encourage you to assign to yours. These are not Israel Studies related, but instead are meant to introduce you to methods that may be unfamiliar. Please bring a laptop with you to this session.
Start here:
Miriam Posner, “What’s Next: The Radical, Unrealized Potential of Digital Humanities,” Debates in Digital Humanities (2016)
Focus on Mapping:
Stephen Robertson, “Putting Harlem on the Map,” Writing History in the Digital Age (2013)
Alberto Giordano, Anne Kelley Knowles, and Tim Cole, “Geographies of the Holocaust,” Geographies of the Holocaust (2014)
Focus on Metadata and Text:
Anne Gilliland, “Setting the Stage,” Introduction to Metadata (Getty 2016)
Ryan Cordell, “‘Q i-jtb the Raven’: Taking Dirty OCR Seriously” (2016)
