UCC Library: Digital Humanities: Getting Started

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[e-book] Digital curation presents an important framework for the continued preservation of digitized and born-digital collections, given the ephemeral and device-dependent nature of digital content. With the emergence of analog and digital media formats in close succession (compared to earlier paper- and film-based formats) came new standards, technologies, methods, documentation, and workflows to ensure safe storage and access to content and associated metadata.

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Background Reading

A Companion to Digital Humanities
E-book from Blackwell (2004)
Digital history : a guide to gathering, preserving, and presenting the past on the Web
by Cohen and Rosenzweig (2006). E-book
Digital Humanities Now
From the Center for New Media and History this aggregated content about DH showcases the best of digital humanities scholarship
The Digital Scholar:How Technology Is Transforming Scholarly Practice
by Martin Weller. Open access e-book from Bloomsbury (2011)

Some Key Resources

JSTOR
JSTOR provides a comprehensive digital archive of important schorlarly journals. It offers multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections that include complete runs of journals as well as select monographs, transactions, and conference proceedings.

Access is available to the following collections: Ireland Collection, Arts and Sciences I to XI, and the Life Sciences Collection.
Project MUSE
Project MUSE was launched in 1995 by the Johns Hopkins University Press to offer the full text of JHUP scholarly journals via the Web. In 1999, Muse expanded to become a unique partnership of not-for-profit publishers, increasing its ability to
offer essential periodicals in the humanities, the arts, and the social sciences.

This resource provides access to the full text of over 650 journal titles.
Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is a scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database.

The database features PDF content dating back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in searchable PDF format.

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Subject Guide

Claire O'Brien

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Liaison Librarian: Arts & Celtic Studies
Boole Library
University College Cork

+353 (21) 490-2984

Subjects:Archaeology, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Culture, Digital Humanities, Drama & Theatre, English, English Literature, Film Studies, Geography, History of Art, Humanities, Language & Linguistics, Languages & Literature, Literary Studies, Literature, Medieval Studies, Music

Special Collections & Archives

Special Collections and Archives offer a predetermined number of collections for use in digital projects. Please contact Crónán Ó Doibhlin for further information.

Digital Humanities: Getting Started