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
DH and "Democracy in America"	2	Arno Bosse	1 month
What's the DH scene like in the Chicago area?	5	bllestock	1 month
Support for a multi-media poetry translation website?	2	Bethany Nowviskie	1 month
Recommendations on ethnographic software?	5	donna.lanclos@gmail.com	2 months
How can LIS graduates have greater involvement in Digital Humanities?	5	Patrick Murray-John	2 months
Can you do TEI with students, for close reading?	5	frostdavis	2 months
Please recommend collation software?	2	elotroalex	2 months
Digital history speaker recommendation?	3	jennriley	2 months
Recommended course of study for New Media/DH teaching career?	2	Miriam Posner	2 months
Mind-Mapping, Organizing?	6	frostdavis	2 months
How do you display TEI documents online?	8	Patrick Murray-John	2 months
Closed Topic The baroque artistic ideal can be characterized as?	2	Dorothea Salo	2 months
Recommended Pen Scanners?	5	Stéfan Sinclair	2 months
Who are notable individuals or organizations involved in DH in the Boston area?	2	Ethan Gruber	2 months
Examples of active participation of archives/archivists in DH projects?	3	Brett Bobley	2 months

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