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What is digital humanities (DH)?

Digital Humanities brings humanities inquiry into dialogue with digital tools, platforms, databases and other informational structures in order to advance knowledge and develop solutions for complex problems. Digital Humanities is praxis oriented and emphasizes collaborative, team-based projects that engage in the building blocks of digital activity, such as archiving, curation, analysis, coding, editing, visualization, mapping, modelling, versioning, prototyping, and failing. At the University of Toronto, we have an inclusive agenda that encompasses interpretive or theoretical work on digitality.

To learn more about the many definitions of DH, visit the Hunter Library Research Guide or the Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0 by Todd Presner and Jeffrey Schnapp.

What is critical digital humanities?

Critical Digital Humanities is an emerging, intersectional field that emphasizes questions of power, social justice, and critical theory in making and analyzing digital technologies. This is a version of digital humanities that places antiracist, decolonial, feminist, and queer/trans/non-binary work at its core, and which understands our current historic shift in digital technology as an opportunity for social and political transformation. Critical Digital Humanities foregrounds creative praxis, co-creation, public engagement, and community-based research.

What does a DH project involve?

A DH project can take many different forms. When applying digital technology to humanities scholarship, some of the most common methods include data visualization, text editing or analysis, transcription, digital publishing, digitization of archival material or mapping. A DH project could also involve bringing humanities methodologies to the digital world in order to study video games, digital representation, accessibility, algorithmic bias, or artificial intelligence. In almost all cases, digital humanities research requires collaboration with programmers, archivists, digital scholarship librarians, data scientists, and/or others.

What are some platforms and software I might find helpful?

ArcGIS Story Maps ↪

Platform that combines narrative storytelling and mapping visualization. Offers a simple map-making interface that allows the researcher or student to incorporate text, image, and video to create interactive research.

Omeka ↪

Digital archive maker. Especially useful for uploading and curating texts, creating databases. Dr. Alexandra Bolintineanu at UofT has made a page that helps researchers explore the archiving and teaching capabilities of Omeka at https://omekagym.omeka.net/

Scalar ↪

Scholarly version of WordPress that allows researchers to publish articles/monographs for public audiences. Allows for non-linear exploration and the inclusion of video and images.

Voyant ↪

Web-based platform for generating statistical information about text corpora that may offer preliminary information about your text(s).

Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool ↪

Checks the accessibility of your site.

Where can I find DH-related spaces and equipment?

We have compiled a comprehensive list of spaces and equipment that will help you carry out your DH project. See also our list of digital scholarship librarians.

Where can I find training or professional development opportunities?

Tri-Campus Library Schedule ↪

Provides a schedule of upcoming workshops and training events such as introductions to R/Python/HTML coding; orientations for platforms such as the Gale Digital Scholar Lab, RefWorks, and Zotero; and information sessions about Open Access publishing.

The Carpentries at U of T ↪

Modular workshops that introduce participants to data skills, software/programming, and library and information science roles. Workshops emphasize an inclusive learning community for novice learners to acquire data and computational skills in a supportive and collaborative environment.

Digital Humanities Summer Institute ↪

Offers a number of week-long training workshops from GIS to text encoding with R.

DH@Guelph ↪

Offers workshops, seminars, and talks through DigiCafe and DH@Guelp Summer Workshops.

What kind of funding is available?

Training Scholarships ↪

The CDHI provides scholarship support for graduate students and faculty who wish to develop specific skills at prominent sites such as the Digital Humanities Summer Institute or DH@Oxford.

Research Alerts ↪

Allows you to stay current with all research activities at the University of Toronto. You will receive emails about the latest funding opportunities and awards, partnership opportunities, commercialization activity, new technologies and start-ups, etc.

Chief Librarian Innovation Grant

Allows you to stay current with all research activities at the University of Toronto. You will receive emails about the latest funding opportunities and awards, partnership opportunities, commercialization activity, new technologies and start-ups, etc.

CDHI Emerging Projects Fund ↪

The CDHI’s Emerging Project Incubator offers funding for time-limited, faculty digital humanities project planning, international partnership networking, and/or tool-building through competitive seed grants. Each award of $4,000 is designed to support a faculty research in the form of a critical DH project in its initial stages. The Emerging Projects Incubator particularly seeks to foster collaboration with the expectation the research team will submit to SSHRC for Partnership Development Grants and Partnership Grants.

Undergraduate Student Fellowships ↪

In collaboration with divisional partners, the CDHI awards undergraduate fellowships each year valued at $5000 each. These fellowships are designed to support undergraduate students working on faculty DH projects.

Graduate Student Fellowships ↪

In collaboration with divisional partners, the CDHI will be awarding 12 graduate fellowships ranging from semester-length RAships of $4000 to longer term $10,000 fellowships. These fellowships are designed to support graduate students working on faculty DH projects and/or, in some instances, to support PhD students in completing their dissertations.

JHI/CLIR Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow

The Jackman Humanities Institute (JHI) at the University of Toronto, with support from the Council of Library and Information Resources (CLIR), offers a twelve-month Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities with a project that fits the JHI’s annual theme. The call for applications typically releases in the fall.

JHI-UTSC DH Faculty Fellowship ↪

The Jackman Humanities Institute, with the support of UT-Scarborough, the UTSC Library, the Dean, UTSC and the Office of the Vice-Principal Research, supports an 18-month Digital Scholarship project each academic year. The JHI-UTSC DH early career faculty fellow leads a team of undergraduate and graduate students and library staff, to produce the following outcomes: participation in JHI’s Digital Humanities Network (DHN), curricular innovation, advancement on a scholarly project, and a grant proposal (SSHRC, Early Researcher Award, or other). The call for applications typically appears in late winter.

Can you help me with my DH project?

Yes, we are here to help! Email Dr. Elizabeth Parke to set up a consultation.

UTSG

Critical DH Co-Working Space: JHI 222

U of T faculty members, from any unit, who are leading digital humanities research projects are invited to apply to use this space to meet with collaborators, students, and others working with them on DH projects. This is a shared space (with other DH projects), with a BYOE (bring your own equipment) policy. 

For more information, visit our Critical DH Co-Working Space page.

iSchool

Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI)-Semaphore:

“The Knowledge Media Design Institute works at the frontier of design and technology, concerned with the ever-evolving interaction between humans and technology. Its mission is to carry out research and education that will inform the design of devices, systems, and applications to enhance and ameliorate the role of humans in a world of embedded, supporting, and sometimes controlling, technologies. KMDI approaches this role from a multidisciplinary, collaborative, and human-centred perspective, combining science, technology, arts and design in its response to technological opportunity and change.”

Visit: http://kmdi.utoronto.ca/
Email: admin.kmdi@utoronto.ca

 

Labs/Spaces affiliated with KMDI ↪

Makerspace

“Located in the Faculty of Information, at the University of Toronto’s St. George campus, the KMDI-Semaphore Makerspace provides faculty and students from across the Tri-Campus with a creative space where they can explore different technologies, be creative, and make things within a collaborative and safe environment. The KMDI-Semaphore Makerspace has a variety of equipment available for members of the UofT community to use for research projects and related activities, including: 3D printers and scanners, Arduinos, Raspberry Pis, MakeyMakeys, knitting, sewing, and embroidery machines (and materials), soldering irons, HTC Vive headsets, adaptive gaming controllers, and more. Part of the Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMD) and Semaphore Lab, our Makerspace provides a place for people to learn, interact, and create with technology. The goal of the KMDI-Semaphore Makerspace is to critique and enhance the relationship between technology, media and society at large, all with the hope of creating and making things that improve the lives and enjoyment of others.”Booking: http://kmdi.utoronto.ca/labs-makerspace/booking-makerspace-vr-room-417/

Labs

Digital Curation Institute ↪

 

Gerstein Library

Centre for Innovation and Research Support (CRIS):

“The mandate of the Centre for Research & Innovation Support (CRIS) is to provide researcher-centered, practical and coordinated supports to faculty and divisional research offices. CRIS is a partnership, launched by the Division of the Vice-President, Research & Innovation, the University of Toronto Libraries and Information Technology Services.”

Resource Hub (videos, links, guides to research tools):
Visit: https://cris.utoronto.ca/resource-hub/
Email: cris@utoronto.ca

Redcap

“REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) is a free and secure data-management web application for building and managing online surveys and databases. While REDCap can be used to collect virtually any type of data, it is specifically geared to support online or offline data capture for research studies and operations.” Visit: https://act.utoronto.ca/redcap/

MADlab:

“The MADLab is a student-centric facility, at the heart of the downtown campus, devoted to accelerating mobile software development at University of Toronto.The Lab hosts equipment, collaborative workspace, user groups and workshops, and is open to all University of Toronto students, staff and faculty.”

Mobile application development support; Two 3D printers, HTC- Vive VR Studio; consultations with:
Visit: https://mobile.utoronto.ca/
Email: mad.lab@utoronto.ca

Robarts

GIS installed computers on St. George campus ↪

UX Lab ↪

Equipment: https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/ux-lab/use-space
UX toolkit: https://connect.library.utoronto.ca/display/UXTOOLS

Map and Data Library (MDL) ↪

Email: mdl@library.utoronto.ca

Help with data (finding, cleaning, citing, storing); Research Data Management plans: https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/researchdata. Visualizing data, Statistical support, Government data support:

Digital preservation ↪

Steve Marks, Digital Preservation Librarian ↪ (drive.accession@utoronto.ca)

Digital Scholarship Unit ↪

“The Digital Scholarship Unit focuses on faculty partnerships to design and develop web resources, the creation and maintenance of digital collections; and digitization and curation.”

Research Data Management ↪

Dylanne Dearborn, Research Data Management Librarian and Coordinator
Phone: (416) 978-5589; dylanne.dearborn@utoronto.ca

Choosing an online survey tool ↪

Media Production Services ↪

Bookings contact: Frank Scornaienchi (frank.scornaienchi@utoronto.ca)
Post-production services available. Billing done through uSource, rates on website.

3d printers ↪

“The Robarts Digital Studio has 2 LulzBot TAZ 6 3D printers. Students, faculty, and staff with a valid TCard can get certified to use the printers.”

Archaeology Centre ↪

Contact: Ken Holyoke (ken.holyoke@mail.utoronto.ca) or
Philip Sapirstein (phil.sapirstein@utoronto.ca)

Scanning and digital photo equipment list ↪

“The Digital Innovation lab (AP134) was renovated in 2020 with the generosity of the CRANE project. Computer equipment has been upgraded to include five high-powered workstations, including one “supercomputer” with dual high-end Intel CPUs and Nvidia GPUs, 384 Gb of RAM, and a pair of 4K displays. Two other high-performance machines have a single CPU, GPU, and 4K display, and 128 Gb of RAM.”

 

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What is digital humanities (DH)?

Digital Humanities brings humanities inquiry into dialogue with digital tools, platforms, databases and other informational structures in order to advance knowledge and develop solutions for complex problems. Digital Humanities is praxis oriented and emphasizes collaborative, team-based projects that engage in the building blocks of digital activity, such as archiving, curation, analysis, coding, editing, visualization, mapping, modelling, versioning, prototyping, and failing. At the University of Toronto, we have an inclusive agenda that encompasses interpretive or theoretical work on digitality.

To learn more about the many definitions of DH, visit the Hunter Library Research Guide or the Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0 by Todd Presner and Jeffrey Schnapp.

What is critical digital humanities?

Critical Digital Humanities is an emerging, intersectional field that emphasizes questions of power, social justice, and critical theory in making and analyzing digital technologies. This is a version of digital humanities that places antiracist, decolonial, feminist, and queer/trans/non-binary work at its core, and which understands our current historic shift in digital technology as an opportunity for social and political transformation. Critical Digital Humanities foregrounds creative praxis, co-creation, public engagement, and community-based research.

What does a DH project involve?

A DH project can take many different forms. When applying digital technology to humanities scholarship, some of the most common methods include data visualization, text editing or analysis, transcription, digital publishing, digitization of archival material or mapping. A DH project could also involve bringing humanities methodologies to the digital world in order to study video games, digital representation, accessibility, algorithmic bias, or artificial intelligence. In almost all cases, digital humanities research requires collaboration with programmers, archivists, digital scholarship librarians, data scientists, and/or others.

What are some platforms and software I might find helpful?

ArcGIS Story Maps ↪

Platform that combines narrative storytelling and mapping visualization. Offers a simple map-making interface that allows the researcher or student to incorporate text, image, and video to create interactive research.

Omeka ↪

Digital archive maker. Especially useful for uploading and curating texts, creating databases. Dr. Alexandra Bolintineanu at UofT has made a page that helps researchers explore the archiving and teaching capabilities of Omeka at https://omekagym.omeka.net/

Scalar ↪

Scholarly version of WordPress that allows researchers to publish articles/monographs for public audiences. Allows for non-linear exploration and the inclusion of video and images.

Voyant ↪

Web-based platform for generating statistical information about text corpora that may offer preliminary information about your text(s).

Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool ↪

Checks the accessibility of your site.

Where can I find DH-related spaces and equipment?

We have compiled a comprehensive list of spaces and equipment that will help you carry out your DH project. See also our list of digital scholarship librarians.

Where can I find training or professional development opportunities?

Tri-Campus Library Schedule ↪

Provides a schedule of upcoming workshops and training events such as introductions to R/Python/HTML coding; orientations for platforms such as the Gale Digital Scholar Lab, RefWorks, and Zotero; and information sessions about Open Access publishing.

The Carpentries at U of T ↪

Modular workshops that introduce participants to data skills, software/programming, and library and information science roles. Workshops emphasize an inclusive learning community for novice learners to acquire data and computational skills in a supportive and collaborative environment.

Digital Humanities Summer Institute ↪

Offers a number of week-long training workshops from GIS to text encoding with R.

DH@Guelph ↪

Offers workshops, seminars, and talks through DigiCafe and DH@Guelp Summer Workshops.

What kind of funding is available?

Training Scholarships ↪

The CDHI provides scholarship support for graduate students and faculty who wish to develop specific skills at prominent sites such as the Digital Humanities Summer Institute or DH@Oxford.

Research Alerts ↪

Allows you to stay current with all research activities at the University of Toronto. You will receive emails about the latest funding opportunities and awards, partnership opportunities, commercialization activity, new technologies and start-ups, etc.

Chief Librarian Innovation Grant

Allows you to stay current with all research activities at the University of Toronto. You will receive emails about the latest funding opportunities and awards, partnership opportunities, commercialization activity, new technologies and start-ups, etc.

CDHI Emerging Projects Fund ↪

The CDHI’s Emerging Project Incubator offers funding for time-limited, faculty digital humanities project planning, international partnership networking, and/or tool-building through competitive seed grants. Each award of $4,000 is designed to support a faculty research in the form of a critical DH project in its initial stages. The Emerging Projects Incubator particularly seeks to foster collaboration with the expectation the research team will submit to SSHRC for Partnership Development Grants and Partnership Grants.

Undergraduate Student Fellowships ↪

In collaboration with divisional partners, the CDHI awards undergraduate fellowships each year valued at $5000 each. These fellowships are designed to support undergraduate students working on faculty DH projects.

Graduate Student Fellowships ↪

In collaboration with divisional partners, the CDHI will be awarding 12 graduate fellowships ranging from semester-length RAships of $4000 to longer term $10,000 fellowships. These fellowships are designed to support graduate students working on faculty DH projects and/or, in some instances, to support PhD students in completing their dissertations.

JHI/CLIR Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow

The Jackman Humanities Institute (JHI) at the University of Toronto, with support from the Council of Library and Information Resources (CLIR), offers a twelve-month Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities with a project that fits the JHI’s annual theme. The call for applications typically releases in the fall.

JHI-UTSC DH Faculty Fellowship ↪

The Jackman Humanities Institute, with the support of UT-Scarborough, the UTSC Library, the Dean, UTSC and the Office of the Vice-Principal Research, supports an 18-month Digital Scholarship project each academic year. The JHI-UTSC DH early career faculty fellow leads a team of undergraduate and graduate students and library staff, to produce the following outcomes: participation in JHI’s Digital Humanities Network (DHN), curricular innovation, advancement on a scholarly project, and a grant proposal (SSHRC, Early Researcher Award, or other). The call for applications typically appears in late winter.

Can you help me with my DH project?

Yes, we are here to help! Email Dr. Elizabeth Parke to set up a consultation.

UTM

Anthropology Labs

Scanning and 3D printing. Resources for department.
Lab technician: trevor.orchard@utoronto.ca

CDRS ↪

Bookable flexible space for workshops, lab meetings, seminars. Consultations available with Senior Research Associate Dr. Elizabeth Parke. For more information see: utm.utoronto.ca/cdrs or email cdrs.admin@utoronto.ca.

Library

Digital Scholarship Unit ↪
Librarians: Chris Young, Nelly Cancilla. Consultations and Project support email: utml.cds@utoronto.ca.
Digital Scholarship Toolkit: Digitization Studio, Omeka S, Murtuku, Quartex: Workshops ↪

ICube ↪ (Co-working space)

“ICUBE Studio’s students are talented consultants, marketers, business individuals, designers, and software developers who have undergone a screening process and are supervised by faculty and staff who have extensive business experience. Students work individually or in small creative teams and take responsibility for all project stages — design, production and implementation.”

Finance Library ↪

“The following software are available in the Li Koon Chun Finance Learning Centre and can only be accessed on site and in person, with the exception of FactSet.”
For more information: https://library.utm.utoronto.ca/flc/software

Finance datasets ↪

Finance librarian: Helen Kula (helen.kula@utoronto.ca)

Computer labs at UTM and software available on campus ↪

IT support

IITS ↪
Research computing support ↪

Biomedical Communications

 

Your Title Goes Here

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What is digital humanities (DH)?

Digital Humanities brings humanities inquiry into dialogue with digital tools, platforms, databases and other informational structures in order to advance knowledge and develop solutions for complex problems. Digital Humanities is praxis oriented and emphasizes collaborative, team-based projects that engage in the building blocks of digital activity, such as archiving, curation, analysis, coding, editing, visualization, mapping, modelling, versioning, prototyping, and failing. At the University of Toronto, we have an inclusive agenda that encompasses interpretive or theoretical work on digitality.

To learn more about the many definitions of DH, visit the Hunter Library Research Guide or the Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0 by Todd Presner and Jeffrey Schnapp.

What is critical digital humanities?

Critical Digital Humanities is an emerging, intersectional field that emphasizes questions of power, social justice, and critical theory in making and analyzing digital technologies. This is a version of digital humanities that places antiracist, decolonial, feminist, and queer/trans/non-binary work at its core, and which understands our current historic shift in digital technology as an opportunity for social and political transformation. Critical Digital Humanities foregrounds creative praxis, co-creation, public engagement, and community-based research.

What does a DH project involve?

A DH project can take many different forms. When applying digital technology to humanities scholarship, some of the most common methods include data visualization, text editing or analysis, transcription, digital publishing, digitization of archival material or mapping. A DH project could also involve bringing humanities methodologies to the digital world in order to study video games, digital representation, accessibility, algorithmic bias, or artificial intelligence. In almost all cases, digital humanities research requires collaboration with programmers, archivists, digital scholarship librarians, data scientists, and/or others.

What are some platforms and software I might find helpful?

ArcGIS Story Maps ↪

Platform that combines narrative storytelling and mapping visualization. Offers a simple map-making interface that allows the researcher or student to incorporate text, image, and video to create interactive research.

Omeka ↪

Digital archive maker. Especially useful for uploading and curating texts, creating databases. Dr. Alexandra Bolintineanu at UofT has made a page that helps researchers explore the archiving and teaching capabilities of Omeka at https://omekagym.omeka.net/

Scalar ↪

Scholarly version of WordPress that allows researchers to publish articles/monographs for public audiences. Allows for non-linear exploration and the inclusion of video and images.

Voyant ↪

Web-based platform for generating statistical information about text corpora that may offer preliminary information about your text(s).

Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool ↪

Checks the accessibility of your site.

Where can I find DH-related spaces and equipment?

We have compiled a comprehensive list of spaces and equipment that will help you carry out your DH project. See also our list of digital scholarship librarians.

Where can I find training or professional development opportunities?

Tri-Campus Library Schedule ↪

Provides a schedule of upcoming workshops and training events such as introductions to R/Python/HTML coding; orientations for platforms such as the Gale Digital Scholar Lab, RefWorks, and Zotero; and information sessions about Open Access publishing.

The Carpentries at U of T ↪

Modular workshops that introduce participants to data skills, software/programming, and library and information science roles. Workshops emphasize an inclusive learning community for novice learners to acquire data and computational skills in a supportive and collaborative environment.

Digital Humanities Summer Institute ↪

Offers a number of week-long training workshops from GIS to text encoding with R.

DH@Guelph ↪

Offers workshops, seminars, and talks through DigiCafe and DH@Guelp Summer Workshops.

What kind of funding is available?

Training Scholarships ↪

The CDHI provides scholarship support for graduate students and faculty who wish to develop specific skills at prominent sites such as the Digital Humanities Summer Institute or DH@Oxford.

Research Alerts ↪

Allows you to stay current with all research activities at the University of Toronto. You will receive emails about the latest funding opportunities and awards, partnership opportunities, commercialization activity, new technologies and start-ups, etc.

Chief Librarian Innovation Grant

Allows you to stay current with all research activities at the University of Toronto. You will receive emails about the latest funding opportunities and awards, partnership opportunities, commercialization activity, new technologies and start-ups, etc.

CDHI Emerging Projects Fund ↪

The CDHI’s Emerging Project Incubator offers funding for time-limited, faculty digital humanities project planning, international partnership networking, and/or tool-building through competitive seed grants. Each award of $4,000 is designed to support a faculty research in the form of a critical DH project in its initial stages. The Emerging Projects Incubator particularly seeks to foster collaboration with the expectation the research team will submit to SSHRC for Partnership Development Grants and Partnership Grants.

Undergraduate Student Fellowships ↪

In collaboration with divisional partners, the CDHI awards undergraduate fellowships each year valued at $5000 each. These fellowships are designed to support undergraduate students working on faculty DH projects.

Graduate Student Fellowships ↪

In collaboration with divisional partners, the CDHI will be awarding 12 graduate fellowships ranging from semester-length RAships of $4000 to longer term $10,000 fellowships. These fellowships are designed to support graduate students working on faculty DH projects and/or, in some instances, to support PhD students in completing their dissertations.

JHI/CLIR Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow

The Jackman Humanities Institute (JHI) at the University of Toronto, with support from the Council of Library and Information Resources (CLIR), offers a twelve-month Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities with a project that fits the JHI’s annual theme. The call for applications typically releases in the fall.

JHI-UTSC DH Faculty Fellowship ↪

The Jackman Humanities Institute, with the support of UT-Scarborough, the UTSC Library, the Dean, UTSC and the Office of the Vice-Principal Research, supports an 18-month Digital Scholarship project each academic year. The JHI-UTSC DH early career faculty fellow leads a team of undergraduate and graduate students and library staff, to produce the following outcomes: participation in JHI’s Digital Humanities Network (DHN), curricular innovation, advancement on a scholarly project, and a grant proposal (SSHRC, Early Researcher Award, or other). The call for applications typically appears in late winter.

Can you help me with my DH project?

Yes, we are here to help! Email Dr. Elizabeth Parke to set up a consultation.

Your Title Goes Here

Your content goes here. Edit or remove this text inline or in the module Content settings. You can also style every aspect of this content in the module Design settings and even apply custom CSS to this text in the module Advanced settings.

What is digital humanities (DH)?

Digital Humanities brings humanities inquiry into dialogue with digital tools, platforms, databases and other informational structures in order to advance knowledge and develop solutions for complex problems. Digital Humanities is praxis oriented and emphasizes collaborative, team-based projects that engage in the building blocks of digital activity, such as archiving, curation, analysis, coding, editing, visualization, mapping, modelling, versioning, prototyping, and failing. At the University of Toronto, we have an inclusive agenda that encompasses interpretive or theoretical work on digitality.

To learn more about the many definitions of DH, visit the Hunter Library Research Guide or the Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0 by Todd Presner and Jeffrey Schnapp.

What is critical digital humanities?

Critical Digital Humanities is an emerging, intersectional field that emphasizes questions of power, social justice, and critical theory in making and analyzing digital technologies. This is a version of digital humanities that places antiracist, decolonial, feminist, and queer/trans/non-binary work at its core, and which understands our current historic shift in digital technology as an opportunity for social and political transformation. Critical Digital Humanities foregrounds creative praxis, co-creation, public engagement, and community-based research.

What does a DH project involve?

A DH project can take many different forms. When applying digital technology to humanities scholarship, some of the most common methods include data visualization, text editing or analysis, transcription, digital publishing, digitization of archival material or mapping. A DH project could also involve bringing humanities methodologies to the digital world in order to study video games, digital representation, accessibility, algorithmic bias, or artificial intelligence. In almost all cases, digital humanities research requires collaboration with programmers, archivists, digital scholarship librarians, data scientists, and/or others.

What are some platforms and software I might find helpful?

ArcGIS Story Maps ↪

Platform that combines narrative storytelling and mapping visualization. Offers a simple map-making interface that allows the researcher or student to incorporate text, image, and video to create interactive research.

Omeka ↪

Digital archive maker. Especially useful for uploading and curating texts, creating databases. Dr. Alexandra Bolintineanu at UofT has made a page that helps researchers explore the archiving and teaching capabilities of Omeka at https://omekagym.omeka.net/

Scalar ↪

Scholarly version of WordPress that allows researchers to publish articles/monographs for public audiences. Allows for non-linear exploration and the inclusion of video and images.

Voyant ↪

Web-based platform for generating statistical information about text corpora that may offer preliminary information about your text(s).

Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool ↪

Checks the accessibility of your site.

Where can I find DH-related spaces and equipment?

We have compiled a comprehensive list of spaces and equipment that will help you carry out your DH project. See also our list of digital scholarship librarians.

Where can I find training or professional development opportunities?

Tri-Campus Library Schedule ↪

Provides a schedule of upcoming workshops and training events such as introductions to R/Python/HTML coding; orientations for platforms such as the Gale Digital Scholar Lab, RefWorks, and Zotero; and information sessions about Open Access publishing.

The Carpentries at U of T ↪

Modular workshops that introduce participants to data skills, software/programming, and library and information science roles. Workshops emphasize an inclusive learning community for novice learners to acquire data and computational skills in a supportive and collaborative environment.

Digital Humanities Summer Institute ↪

Offers a number of week-long training workshops from GIS to text encoding with R.

DH@Guelph ↪

Offers workshops, seminars, and talks through DigiCafe and DH@Guelp Summer Workshops.

What kind of funding is available?

Training Scholarships ↪

The CDHI provides scholarship support for graduate students and faculty who wish to develop specific skills at prominent sites such as the Digital Humanities Summer Institute or DH@Oxford.

Research Alerts ↪

Allows you to stay current with all research activities at the University of Toronto. You will receive emails about the latest funding opportunities and awards, partnership opportunities, commercialization activity, new technologies and start-ups, etc.

Chief Librarian Innovation Grant

Allows you to stay current with all research activities at the University of Toronto. You will receive emails about the latest funding opportunities and awards, partnership opportunities, commercialization activity, new technologies and start-ups, etc.

CDHI Emerging Projects Fund ↪

The CDHI’s Emerging Project Incubator offers funding for time-limited, faculty digital humanities project planning, international partnership networking, and/or tool-building through competitive seed grants. Each award of $4,000 is designed to support a faculty research in the form of a critical DH project in its initial stages. The Emerging Projects Incubator particularly seeks to foster collaboration with the expectation the research team will submit to SSHRC for Partnership Development Grants and Partnership Grants.

Undergraduate Student Fellowships ↪

In collaboration with divisional partners, the CDHI awards undergraduate fellowships each year valued at $5000 each. These fellowships are designed to support undergraduate students working on faculty DH projects.

Graduate Student Fellowships ↪

In collaboration with divisional partners, the CDHI will be awarding 12 graduate fellowships ranging from semester-length RAships of $4000 to longer term $10,000 fellowships. These fellowships are designed to support graduate students working on faculty DH projects and/or, in some instances, to support PhD students in completing their dissertations.

JHI/CLIR Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow

The Jackman Humanities Institute (JHI) at the University of Toronto, with support from the Council of Library and Information Resources (CLIR), offers a twelve-month Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities with a project that fits the JHI’s annual theme. The call for applications typically releases in the fall.

JHI-UTSC DH Faculty Fellowship ↪

The Jackman Humanities Institute, with the support of UT-Scarborough, the UTSC Library, the Dean, UTSC and the Office of the Vice-Principal Research, supports an 18-month Digital Scholarship project each academic year. The JHI-UTSC DH early career faculty fellow leads a team of undergraduate and graduate students and library staff, to produce the following outcomes: participation in JHI’s Digital Humanities Network (DHN), curricular innovation, advancement on a scholarly project, and a grant proposal (SSHRC, Early Researcher Award, or other). The call for applications typically appears in late winter.

Can you help me with my DH project?

Yes, we are here to help! Email Dr. Elizabeth Parke to set up a consultation.