Digital Humanities Questions & Answers

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We're building a community-based Q&A board for digital humanities questions that need (just a little) more than 140 character answers.

@DHAnswers is a collaborative project of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Chronicle of Higher Education's ProfHacker.

Question	Posts	Last Poster	Freshness
Sticky Topic So, what is this Q&A forum, and what can I do here?	7	Bethany Nowviskie	2 years
3D Printers	4	Jentery Sayers	2 days
Virtual Lightbox? (or, what are some good image comparison tools?)	4	Trip Kirkpatrick	1 week
What is Digital Humanities?	3	DigitalHumanitiesScholar	2 weeks
collaborative software for transcribing digital images of handwritten documents	14	Patrick Murray-John	3 weeks
Digital Art	1	DigitalHumanitiesScholar	3 weeks
Methods to process a plain text collection into a bimodal graph...	8	Scott Weingart	3 weeks
What exists as an open platform for editorial management?	5	kevin.s.hawkins	4 weeks
Seeking a generalizable metadata mapping tool	6	jennriley	1 month
Licenses and IP Agreements for DH Projects	11	kevin.s.hawkins	1 month
What are some models for governance/editorial oversight for DH projects?	1	David Michelson	1 month
How might DH take advantage of "Heads Up Displays" (i.e. Google Glass)?	1	jlmcdonald@gmail.com	1 month
History and theory question: lexicography / discourse analysis / text mining	1	gwijthoff	1 month
Undergraduate DH Training, Transferable Skills, and Employment Prospects	3	scottkleinman	1 month
Automatically Preparing Edge/Node Data for Gephi	7	Michael Widner	1 month
Art(-history) and Artificial Intelligence - Which Questions are Most Pressing?	4	Ethan Gruber	1 month

Category	Questions	Posts
Applications, Tools, Formats – help with using software, suggestions of tools or file formats to use	136	698
Databases & Data Structures – flatfiles? sql? hierarchical data? uml? all these and more	13	69
Interfaces, Design & Usability – all things user-centred	16	70
DH in the Classroom – on teaching DH topics and integrating technology with teaching	47	270
Markup & Metadata – all things encoding (XML, XSLT, TEI, etc.) and information metadata	29	202
Archaeology & Cultural Heritage – visualization, analysis, museum studies: old meets new	13	88
New Media & Games – interactive arts, game studies, etc.	1	9
Programming – any programming language (PHP, Ruby, Java, Lisp, etc.) or about which language to use	11	66
Project Management & DH Professions – project management tools and tips, discussion of DH roles	52	355
About DHAnswers – how to use this site, Twitter integration, etc.	11	83