Digital Humanities Courses

This site hosts Elisa Beshero-Bondar's courses in coding for the Digital Humanities. Either of these courses fulfills a core requirement for the Digital Studies Certificate at Pitt-Greensburg. The other may serve as an elective for the certificate, offering students an option to pursue a concentration in coding within the certificate. The courses may be taken in any order. (Pursuing the second course allows students a review of fundamentals learned in the first one, but offers experience with a different set of processing tools for humanities research).

Course Projects

In alternating semesters, the two coding courses will either involve students contributing to faculty-led research projects or building their own proposed research projects. All projects investigate a research question using digital methods.

Explanatory Guides Used in Courses

Introduction to XML
- XML Exercise 1
- Other XML exercises are more open-ended, listed in the opening weeks on the current syllabus.
Guide to GitHub and Git Shell with our DHClass-Hub
- Git Exercise 1
- Git Exercise 2
- The book-chapter that former student student instructor Rebecca J. Parker co-authored with me about our use of GitHub in this class: A GitHub Garage for a Digital Humanities Course published in New Directions for Computing Education (Springer Books, 2017) pp. 259-276
Orientation to the TEI
- Document Analysis and TEI Exercise, Part 1 of 2
- Document Analysis and TEI Exercise, Part 2 of 2
Guide to Schema Writing with Relax NG
- Relax NG exercises involve writing schemas and revising XML from the XML exercises.
Introduction to XHTML (and HTML) and Introduction to Cascading Stylesheets (CSS)
- HTML and CSS Exercise 1
- HTML and CSS Exercise 2
Regular Expression Matching (Regex) and Up-Conversion to XML
Follow the XPath!
Guide to Schema Writing with Schematron
- Schematron Exercise 1
- Schematron Exercise 2
Examples from our projects
- Digital Mitford Project Schematron
- GitHub: Amadis-in-Translation Project Schematron
Introduction to XSLT Coding and Digital Archives Sequence of Exercises:
Coding and Data Visualization Sequence of Exercises
Introduction to XQuery and the eXist XML Database (Coding and Data Visualization course)
SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) Tutorials, Editors, and Ideas:
- Jakob Jenkov’s SVG Tutorial: very thorough and handy reference
- w3 schools SVG tutorial: a quick introduction, but not so thorough at the Jenkov tutorial
- The ultimate guide to SVG: helpful material on using SVG in site design for banners and more.
- SVG Cheat Sheet
- Obdurodon: How to Embed SVG in an XHTML Page
- carto:net: Using XSLT to create SVG Content: We do all this in oXygen, but this shows an alternative command-line processing of XSLT.
- Geometry of a Circle (for help if you want to plot points or wedges on a circle).
Coding and Digital Archives Sequence of Exercises:
- SVG Exercise 1
- SVG Exercise 2: XSLT to line graph
- SVG Exercise 3: XSLT to stacked bar graph
Coding and Data Visualization Sequence of Exercises:
- SVG Exercise 1
- SVG Exercise 2: Plotting a timeline with XQuery, part 1
- SVG Exercise 3: Plotting a timeline with XQuery, part 2
- SVG Exercise 4: Bar graph or choice, with XQuery
SVG Editors:
- Google Code Online SVG Editor
- Inkscape: free SVG software
Inspiration:
- Wikipedia’s page on diagrams
- Wikipedia on charts
Introduction to Network Analysis and Cytoscape for XML Coders (Coding and Data Visualization Course)
- XQuery to Network Analysis Exercise, part 1
- XQuery to Network Analysis Exercise, part 2
Javascript Tutorials
- newtFire JavaScript Intro (under development)
- Introduction to Javascript
- Javascript Toggling with classList and switch
Exercises
- JavaScript Exercise 1 (with Server Side Includes)
- JavaScript Exercise 2
- JavaScript Exercise 3 (CDA)
- JavaScript Exercise 3 (CDV)
Python for Natural Language Processing and Web Scraping Resources
- Wordnet Sandbox: Python Notebook tutorial by David Birnbaum, used in Obdurodon's Victorian Ghost Stories project and newtFire's Eldritch project
newtFire House Style