Computational methods in the humanities

Accessibility

W3C xWeb Accessibility Initiative (WAI) http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tools/.
W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/.
Understanding WCAG 2.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/.

Annual conferences

Digital humanities conference. http://digitalhumanities.org/conference. (Sponsored by ADHO.)
Balisage: the markup conference. http://www.balisage.net.
Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science. http://chicagocolloquium.org.
TEI conference and members’ meeting. http://www.tei-c.org/Membership/Meetings/.

Cascading style sheets (CSS)

SitePoint CSS reference http://reference.sitepoint.com/css.
Brown University Women Writers Project CSS crib sheet. http://www.wwp.brown.edu/outreach/seminars/xslt_2011-03/handouts/basic_css_cribsheet.xhtml. .
w3schools CSS tutorial. http://www.w3schools.com/css/.
“CSS pseudo-frames (tutorial).” http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/misc/css-frames.xhtml.
W3C CSS validation service. http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/.

Course description and syllabus

Course description (goals, policies, requirements, etc.)
Syllabus (schedule, assignments, etc.)
Where to start: “What is XML and why should humanities scholars care? An even gentler introduction to XML.” http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/humcomp/what-is-xml.php.

Digital humanities (general)

A companion to digital humanities. By Susan Schreibman, Raymond George Siemens, and John Unsworth, ed.. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. ISBN-10: 9781405168069. ISBN-13: 978-1405168069. Available in Hillman library at AZ105 .C588 2004. Available at Amazon (also for Kindle). Freely available at http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/.
A companion to digital literary studies. By Ray Siemens and Susan Schreibman, ed.. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2008. ISBN-10: 9781405148641. ISBN-13: 978-1405148641. Available in Hillman library at PN56.I65 C66 2007. Available at Amazon. Freely available at http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companionDLS/.
Selected digital humanities projects and publications by your instructor. http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/resources/.

Digitization

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Document type definition (DTD)

Mulberry Technologies “XML 1.0 Syntax Quick Reference card.” http://www.mulberrytech.com/quickref/XMLquickref.pdf.

Human factors and interface design

About face 3: The essentials of interaction design. By Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, and David Cronin. 3rd edition. Indianapolis, IN: Wiley, 2007. ISBN-10: 9780470084113. ISBN-13: 978-0470084113. Freely available to members of the Pitt community through Safari books online. Available at Amazon (also for Kindle).
Designing for the digital age: How to create human-centered products and services. By Kim Goodwin. Indianapolis, IN: Wiley, 2009. ISBN-10: 0470229101. ISBN-13: 978-0470229101. Freely available to members of the Pitt community through Safari books online. Available at Amazon (also for Kindle).
Designing interfaces for patterns. By Jenifer Tidwell. 2nd edition. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2011. ISBN-10: 1449379702. ISBN-13: 978-1449379704. Freely available to members of the Pitt community through Safari books online. Available at Amazon (also for Kindle).
Designing web interfaces: Principles and patterns for rich interactions. By Bill Scott and Theresa Neil. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2009. ISBN-10: 9780596516253. ISBN-13: 978-0596516253. Freely available to members of the Pitt community through Safari books online. Available at Amazon (also for Kindle).
Designing with the mind in mind: Simple guide to understanding user interface design rules. By Jeff Johnson. Amsterdam and Boston: Elsevier / Morgan Kaufmann, 2010. ISBN-10: 9780123750303. ISBN-13: 978-0123750303. Freely available to members of the Pitt community through Safari books online. Available at Amazon (also for Kindle).
Don’t make me think: A common sense approach to web usability. By Steve Krug. 2nd edition. Berkeley, CA: New Riders Press, 2005. ISBN-10: 9780321344755. ISBN-13: 978-0321344755. Freely available to members of the Pitt community through Safari books online. Available at Amazon (also for Kindle).
GUI Bloopers 2.0: Common User Interface Design Don’ts and Dos. By Jeff Johnson. 2nd edition. Amsterdam and Boston: Elsevier / Morgan Kaufmann, 2007. ISBN-10: 9780123706430. ISBN-13: 978-0123706430. Available in Hillman library at QA76.9.U83 J63 2008. Freely available to members of the Pitt community through Safari books online. Available at Amazon (also for Kindle).
A list apart. http://www.alistapart.com.

Hypertext markup language (HTML), XHTML, and HTML5

SitePoint HTML reference. http://reference.sitepoint.com/html.
Brown University Women Writers Project XHTML crib sheet. http://www.wwp.brown.edu/outreach/seminars/xslt_2011-03/handouts/basic_xhtml_cribsheet.xhtml.
w3schools XHTML tutorial. http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/.
W3C markup validation service. http://validator.w3.org/.
html5 validator. http://html5.validator.nu/.

Javascript and DHTML

SitePoint JavaScript reference http://reference.sitepoint.com/javascript.
w3schools Javascript tutorial. http://www.w3schools.com/js/.
“Manipulating the className value with Javascript (tutorial).” http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/misc/classname.xhtml.
“Attaching event handlers to web pages (tutorial).” Under development; watch this space.
DHTML utopia: modern web design using Javascript & DOM. By Stuart Langridge. Collingwood, AU: Sitepoint, 2005. ISBN-10: 0957921896. ISBN-13: 978-0957921894. Available in Hillman library at K5105.888 .L36 2005. Freely available to members of the Pitt community through Safari books online. Available at Amazon (also for Kindle).
ppk on JavaScript By Peter-Paul Koch. Berkeley, CA: New Riders Press, 2006. ISBN-10: 0321423305. ISBN-13: 978-0321423306. Available at Amazon (also for Kindle). See also his Javascript pages at quirksmode. http://www.quirksmode.org/js/contents.html.
Clean up your Javascript with JSLint. http://www.jslint.com/.

Journals

Digital humanities quarterly. http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/.
Digital medievalist journal. http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/.
Digital studies. http://www.digitalstudies.org.
Literary and linguistic computing. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/.

Licensing

Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org.
- Academic projects, including those by your instructor, frequently use the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/.
- Creative Commons buttons and logos to include in your sites. http://creativecommons.org/about/downloads/.
Creative Commons licenses are primarily for content. For software, academic projects frequently use the GNU General Public License (GPL). http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html.

Namespaces in XML-related technologies

W3C recommendation: Namespaces in XML 1.0 (Third Edition). http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-names/.

PHP

w3schools PHP tutorial. http://www.w3schools.com/php/.

Professional associations and communities

Alliance of digital humanities organizations (ADHO). http://digitalhumanities.org.
- Association for computers and the humanities (ACH). http://www.ach.org.
- Association for literary and linguistic computing (ALLC). http://www.allc.org.
The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). http://www.tei-c.org.
Discussion list: Humanist. http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/.
Digital medievalist. http://www.digitalmedievalist.org.

Python

Watch this space

Regular expressions

Mulberry Technologies “Regular expressions in XSLT 2.0, XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 quick reference card.” http://www.mulberrytech.com/quickref/regex.pdf.
zvon Regular expressions tutorial. http://zvon.org/comp/r/tut-Regexp.html#Pages~Contents.
zvon Regular expressions reference. http://zvon.org/comp/r/ref-Regexp.html.

Relax NG

Relax NG. By Eric van der Vlist. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly & Associates, 2003. ISBN-10: 0596004214. ISBN-13: 978-0596004217. Available in Hillman library at QA76.76.H94 V54 2004. Available at Amazon. Freely available at http://books.xmlschemata.org/relaxng/.
Relax NG home page. http://relaxng.org.

Required course materials

XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 programmer’s reference. By Michael Kay. 4th edition. Indianapolis: Wiley/Wrox, 2008. ISBN-10: 0470192747. ISBN-13: 978-0470192740. Available at the Pitt Book Center. Available at Amazon (also for Kindle). No other edition is acceptable.
<oXygen/> XML editor. Available for download at http://www.oxygenxml.com. The University has purchased a site license for students enrolled in this course, which permits you to download, install, and use the software (for educational purposes only) on your own computers (PC, Mac, Linux). You can obtain the license code from the course instructor. No other editor is acceptable.

Sample XML texts

Shakespearean plays. http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/examples/shakespeare/.
Shakespearean sonnets. http://app.shakespearegeek.com/files/sonnets.xml.
The Book of Mormon. http://www.cafeconleche.org/examples/religion/bom/bom.xml.
The New Testament (KJV). http://www.cafeconleche.org/examples/religion/nt/nt.xml.
The Old Testament (KJV). http://www.cafeconleche.org/examples/religion/ot/ot.xml.
The Quran. http://www.cafeconleche.org/examples/religion/quran/quran.xml.
Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). Sample projects. http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/Samples.

Sample projects

Projects developed by your instructor. http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/resources/.
External projects. http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/humcomp/projects.php.

Scalable vector graphics (SVG) and graphic visualization of XML data

SVG Programming: The Graphical Web. By Kurt Cagle. Berkeley, CA: Apress, 2002. ISBN-10: 1590590198. ISBN-13: 978-1590590195. Available at Amazon (also for Kindle).
SVG Essentials. By J. David Eisenberg. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly & Associates, 2002. ISBN-10: 0596002238. ISBN-13: 978-0596002237. Available in Hillman library at T385 .E38555 2002. Freely available to members of the Pitt community through Safari books online. Available at Amazon.
W3C recommendation: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 Specification. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-SVG11-20030114/.
Software: inkscape (open-source vector graphics editor) http://inkscape.org.

Schematron

Mulberry Technologies “Schematron Resources.” http://www.mulberrytech.com/papers/schematron.html.
Mulberry Technologies “ISO Schematron quick reference card.” http://www.mulberrytech.com/quickref/schematron1.pdf.
Wendell Piez and Debbie Lapeyre. “Introduction to Schematron.” http://www.mulberrytech.com/papers/schematron-Philly.pdf.
ISO Schematron tutorial. http://www.dpawson.co.uk/schematron/index.html.
zvon Schematron reference. http://zvon.org/comp/r/ref-Schematron.html.

Software engineering

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Stylometrics and authorship attribution

Watch this space

The Text encoding initiative (TEI)

TEI home page. http://www.tei-c.org/index.xml.
TEI guidelines (P5). http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/index-toc.html.
TEI-L discussion list. http://listserv.brown.edu/?A0=tei-l.

Tutorial and reference portals

Unicode

The Unicode consortium. http://www.unicode.org/.

W3C Schema

Definitive XML schema. By Patricia Walmsley. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002. ISBN-10: 0130655678. ISBN-13: 978-0130655677. Freely available to members of the Pitt community through Safari books online. Available at Amazon (also for Kindle).
XML Schema: The W3C’s Object-Oriented Descriptions for XML. By Eric van der Vlist. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly & Associates, 2002. ISBN-10: 0596002521. ISBN-13: 978-0596002527. Freely available to members of the Pitt community through Safari books online. Available at Amazon.
W3C main page: XML Schema. http://www.w3.org/XML/Schema.
W3C recommendation: XML Schema Part 0: Primer Second Edition. http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-0/.
“A Simple Overview of W3C XML Schema.” http://www.codalogic.com/lmx/xsd-overview.html. By Codalogic.

XForms and XRX

Watch this space

XML-related technologies reference and tutorials

Where to start: “What is XML and why should humanities scholars care? An even gentler introduction to XML.” http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/humcomp/what-is-xml.php.
“A gentle introduction to XML.” http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/SG.html. From TEI P5.
W3C XML technology. http://www.w3.org/standards/xml/.
Mulberry Technologies quick reference cards. http://www.mulberrytech.com/quickref/index.html.
w3schools. http://www.w3schools.com.
zvon. http://www.zvon.org.

XPath

Where to start: What can XPath do for me? http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/humcomp/introduction-xpath.xhtml.
Brown University Women Writers Project “Tutorial on walking the tree (paths and axes).” http://www.wwp.brown.edu/outreach/seminars/xslt_2011-03/presentations/xslt/xml_and_xpath_00.xhtml.
W3C recommendation: XML path language (XPath) 2.0 (second edition). http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/.
W3C recommendation: XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 functions and operators (second edition). http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/.
Mulberry Technologies “XPath 2.0 quick reference card.” http://www.mulberrytech.com/quickref/xpath2.pdf.
Mulberry Technologies “XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 functions and operators quick reference card.” http://www.mulberrytech.com/quickref/functions.pdf.
zvon XPath 2.0 reference. http://zvon.org/comp/r/ref-XPath_2.html.
Software: BaseX. The XML database. http://basex.org/. Excellent browsing environment for exploring XPath and XQuery.
Software: XPath expression testbed http://www.whitebeam.org/library/guide/TechNotes/xpathtestbed.rhtm. On-line environment for exploring XPath.
The XPath butterfly. http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/humcomp/xpath-butterfly.xhtml. Interactive site for exploring the XPath axes.

XProc

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XQuery and XML databases

XQuery. By Priscilla Walmsley. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2007. ISBN-10: 9780596006341. ISBN-13: 978-0596006341. Freely available to members of the Pitt community through Safari books online. Available at Amazon (also for Kindle).
W3C recommendation: XQuery 1.0: An XML query language (second edition). http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/.
W3C recommendation: XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 functions and operators (second edition). http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/.
Mulberry Technologies “XQuery 1.0 quick reference card.” http://www.mulberrytech.com/quickref/xquery1.pdf.
Mulberry Technologies “XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 functions and operators quick reference card.” http://www.mulberrytech.com/quickref/functions.pdf.
Software: eXist-db open source native XML database. http://exist.sourceforge.net.
Software: BaseX. The XML database. http://basex.org/. XML database, as well as excellent browsing environment for exploring XPath and XQuery.
Discussion list: talk - XQuery discussion. http://www.x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk.

eXtensible stylesheet language formatting objects (XSL-FO)

XSL-FO. By Dave Pawson. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly & Associates, 2002. ISBN-10: 0596003552. ISBN-13: 978-0596003555. Freely available to members of the Pitt community through Safari books online. Available at Amazon.
W3C recommendation: Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.1 http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/.

eXtensible stylesheet language transformations (XSLT)

Beginning XSLT 2.0: from novice to professional. By Jeni Tennison. 2nd ed.. Berkeley, CA: Apress, 2005. ISBN-10: 1590593243. ISBN-13: 978-1590593240. Available at Amazon.
XSLT and XPath on the edge. By Jeni Tennison. New York, NY: M&T Books, 2001. ISBN-10: 0764547763. ISBN-13: 978-0764547768. Available in Hillman library at QA76.73.X58 T46 2005. Available at Amazon.
W3C recommendation: XSL transformations (XSLT) version 2.0. http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/.
Mulberry Technologies “XSLT 2.0 quick reference card.” http://www.mulberrytech.com/quickref/xslt2.pdf.
Software: Saxon XSLT and XQuery processor. http://www.saxonica.com. Saxon-HE (home edition) is freely distributable; other versions are commercial. Saxon (including the more sophisticated, commercial versions) is bundled with the <oXygen/> XML editor.
Discussion list: XSL-List – Open Forum on XSL. http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list/.
zvon XSLT 2.0 reference. http://zvon.org/comp/r/ref-XSLT_2.html.

<djb-cmh> Computational methods in the humanities

Contents [-]

About the course [-]

XML, etc. [+]

Digital humanities [+]

The web [+]

Miscellaneous [+]

Accessibility

Annual conferences

Cascading style sheets (CSS)

Course description and syllabus

Digital humanities (general)

Digitization

Document type definition (DTD)

Human factors and interface design

Hypertext markup language (HTML), XHTML, and HTML5

Javascript and DHTML

Journals

Licensing

Namespaces in XML-related technologies

PHP

Professional associations and communities

Python

Regular expressions

Relax NG

Required course materials

Sample XML texts

Sample projects

Scalable vector graphics (SVG) and graphic visualization of XML data

Schematron

Software engineering

Stylometrics and authorship attribution

The Text encoding initiative (TEI)

Tutorial and reference portals

Unicode

W3C Schema

XForms and XRX

XML-related technologies reference and tutorials

XPath

XProc

XQuery and XML databases

eXtensible stylesheet language formatting objects (XSL-FO)

eXtensible stylesheet language transformations (XSLT)