A Notebook on Digital Humanities

The following entries by Kenton Rambsy concentrate on geo-tagging, text-mining, and other topics related to digital humanities and technology. The asterisks (*) connote entries co-written with Howard Rambsy II.
 
Data storytelling 

• Data storytelling and visualization*

DH/technology workshops and projects
• Reflections on Seshat: A DH Initiative at Howard University    
• "Seshat: A Digital Humanities Initiative" at Howard University*
• Reflections on the “Space & Place in Africana/Black Studies” Institute  
• #NEHBlackSpace – Space & Place in Africana/Black Studies  
• On the origins of the HBW Blog
• Toward a History of the Black Book Interactive Project  
• Black Women scholars, Digital Humanities, and the College Language Association Convention, 2018*

Geo-tagging, geo-coding 
• Geo-coding black short stories & Jay Z -- Spring 2016 courses at UTA 
• Edward P. Jones and Literary Geo-Tagging   
• Geo-Coding Black Short Stories

General
• African American Literature and Digital Humanities
• African American literary studies and three research methods using digital tools 
• Jay Z, African American literary studies & digital humanities    

Metadata 
• Jay Z, Metadata, and African American literary studies   

NYTimes Chronicle 
• The Re-emergence of Douglass during the 1960s*

Projects
• The African American Language and Culture Lab*

Rap Genius
• Jay-Z & Zora Neale Hurston on swag: Rap Genius notes
• Follow-up on the 7 Ways Rap Genius encourages participants
• 7 Ways that RapGenius Assists Digital African American Literary Scholarship
• Rap Genius and access to black poetry 

Resources
• A Checklist of Digital Humanities projects*

Text-mining
• Pinpointing recurring themes in coverage of Amiri Baraka's passing
• Text-Mining, Geography, and Canonical African American Short Stories
• Slave narratives and word count* 
• Chronological List of 33 Slave Narratives*
• The word counts of 33 Slave narratives*
• How short and long are African American short stories?
• Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and Text-Mining Experiments
• Zora Neale Hurston & Richard Wright Similarities (In Graphs)
• Zora Neale Hurston & Richard Wright Differences (In Graphs) 
• Voyant Tools Ratios and Language Density
• Stop Words and AAVE
• More on Frederick Douglass's use of "Man" in the Narrative*
• “Man,” “Covey,” and top 10 words in Douglass Narratives*
• "Like" on Reasonable Doubt*
• Jay Z, Reasonable Doubt, and Similes*
• Quantifying Frederick Douglass’s Notorious Mr. Covey*
• Word count and Frederick Douglass's Narrative* 
• African American Literature and Digital Humanities
• Text-Mining, Geography, and Canonical African American Short Stories
• Pinpointing recurring themes in coverage of Amiri Baraka's passing
• Word counts of select short stories by black writers

Tools
• Some Free Digital Software Programs and tools
• Notebook on Voyant Tools 
• Voyant Tools Brief Overview
• Voyant Tools General Features
• Voyant Tools: Data Visualizations

Related:
• Assorted Notebooks
• A notebook on short stories by black writers

A Notebook on Digital Humanities

2018 
• July 2: Matt Daniels, The Pudding, and African American literary studies
• June 16: Black Panther, Riri Williams, and Hip-Hop Variant Digital Collections
• June 11: Frederick Douglass, Octavia Butler, and Digital Collections
• June 9: Digital Devices and African American literary studies

• June 6: The digital turn in slavery studies

• June 4: Eve L. Ewing, Ta-Nehisi Coates, black Studies, and creativity
• May 14: Digital Humanities, side-by-side learning environments for black boys
• April 13: Curating a Malcolm X digital collection
• January 29: Black boys and audio production

2017
• August 7: Digital technologies, black pain, and its abstractions

2016
• November 1: Viewing Andrew Theising's East St. Louis postcards on tablets
• June 18: Why blogging matters

2015
• November 15: Toni Morrison and Metacanon
• October 18: Reading patterns, Digital Culture, and Ta-Nehisi Coates

2014
• July 28: HBCUs, Technology & Vital Interventions 
• January 6: The rise of black poets during the 1970s and then again in the 1990s
• January 5: Shifts of labels concerning "Negro poetry" and "Black" poetry

2013
• November 1: The Growth of Digital Humanities in Sessions and Job Ads at MLA
• April 16: Sistas Rocking Naturals and Digital Humanities  by Briana Whiteside
• April 13: Digital Humanities at CLA 2013
• March 30: Mark Sample's annual DH @ MLA round-ups 
• March 25: An Afrofuturism-based timeline, 1998 - 2013
• January 20: Poetry projects: Digital Humanities or Afrofuturism? 
• January 7: Digital humanities and African American literary study at MLA
• January 6: From Afrofuturism and AfroGeeks to Digital Humanities
• January 5: Representing Race: Silence in the Digital Humanities

2012
• September 23: Imagining Digital Resources for African American Poetry
• May 4: Black Studies & Breaking News in the Digital Age
• April 9: The Twitter Screen at Black Thought 2.0: The Back Channel Up Front

• April 8: Toward a History of Black Digital Intellectual Histories
• March 25: Digital Humanities and the Study of African American literature

2011
• December 5: The EBR Digital Collection
• August 2:  Twitter & B-Ball Legends: Kevin Durant at Rucker Park

2010
• June 15: Black Studies & Technological Possibilities 
• January 1: Black Studies and Digital Humanities
• January 1: Film Studies, Black Studies, & Digital Humanities

2009
• December 30: Digital Humanities as "the Next Big Thing" at MLA?
• December 29: Project on the History of Black Writing

2008
• October 29: The Future of Black Reading
• September 17: Blk Studies, Organizing in the Digital Age
• September 10: Seeking New Dimensions in Blk Studies
• September 3: Black Studies Now

Related:
• Afrofuturism
• Assorted Notebooks
• Digital Humanities (KR)