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	1 year
Faircite: Who should we cite in collaborative DH Projects?	10	Trevor Owens	3 days
How are you using TEI By Example?	9	MelissaTerras	5 days
What was the book title that Busa couldn't remember?	1	ttasovac	1 week
Recommendations for introducing librarians to DH?	6	maedchenimmond@gmail.com	1 week
Should DH matter to coders?	3	jlmcdonald@gmail.com	1 week
Using YAML to model historical lives or events	5	Conal Tuohy	2 weeks
What tools can be used to create topic model network graphs?	6	rjlewis	2 weeks
Is anyone using the RBMS/ACRL vocabularies Binding Terms or Type Evidence?	2	wynkenhimself	2 weeks
Best way to map & track debates through several little 1920s magazines?	7	Rosvita TEXTWinder	3 weeks
Founding staff for a new DH Center?	7	Ryan Cordell	4 weeks
The human side of content management?	4	Korey Jackson	1 month
Best practice for representing imprecise historical geospatial data on a map?	3	snesbit	1 month
Tips on performing an environmental scan?	5	Ethan Gruber	1 month
Very Busy Topic How do we introduce undergraduates to the digital humanities? - 2	20	Paige Morgan	1 month
What skills/knowledge allowed you to get started doing DH?	6	Paige Morgan	1 month

Category	Questions	Posts
Applications, Tools, Formats – help with using software, suggestions of tools or file formats to use	101	509
Databases & Data Structures – flatfiles? sql? hierarchical data? uml? all these and more	10	57
Interfaces, Design & Usability – all things user-centred	12	56
DH in the Classroom – on teaching DH topics and integrating technology with teaching	37	232
Markup & Metadata – all things encoding (XML, XSLT, TEI, etc.) and information metadata	25	185
Archaeology & Cultural Heritage – visualization, analysis, museum studies: old meets new	12	82
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	8	52
Project Management & DH Professions – project management tools and tips, discussion of DH roles	44	313
About DHAnswers – how to use this site, Twitter integration, etc.	10	78