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Coding the Humanities

Humanities scholars have no ownerships over their tools, use pre-fabricated and often inappropriate tools. The aim of the Coding the humanities project is to build intermediate level tools to help humanities scholars build their own research tools.

We are developing a platform where scholars can learn programming and build small research tools that support individual steps in their research processes. 

With this platform we adopt techniques from the software development community, which has tackled several problems for collabaration, sharing of resources. Platforms like GitHub and Codepen support people in learning from others and to present and share their research. 


Programming and computers are great thinking tools. A programmatic approach to research forces you to make your arguments explicit, which makes it easier to critique them, but also to reuse, share and extend them.

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Coding the Humanities

Jan Hein Hoogstad - University of Amsterdam Marijn Koolen - University of Amsterdam

Humanities scholars often use pre-fabricated and often inappropriate tools.The aim of the Coding the humanities project is to help humanities scholars gain ownership of research tools by building their own.

For this project, we are currently developing a platform where scholars can learn programming and build small research tools that support individual steps in their research processes. With this platform we adopt techniques from the software development community, which has tackled several problems for collabaration, sharing of resources. Platforms like GitHub and CodePen support people in learning from others and to present and share their research.

Programming and computers are great thinking tools. A programmatic approach to research forces you to make your arguments explicit, which makes it easier to critique them, but also to reuse, share and extend them.

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# Road Map Coding the Humanities

## Activities

Scheduled activities

+ Pilot logistics - March 2014
  + booking location
  + scheduling Q/A meetings
  + recruiting students

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Collections as Interfaces

Partners: Robin Boast (UvA), Jan Hein Hoogstad (UvA), Katja Kwastek (VU), Sabrina Sauer (UvA), Ginette Verstraete (VU)

Additional partners:

Project Description

Main Research Question:

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Coding the Humanities

Vision

Students and scholars in the humanities generally rely on prefabricated tools to guide and instruct their research and are reluctant to engage with computers and technology through coding. At the moment, there are no broadly available academic programming courses aimed at humanities scholars. In the future, however, these coding skills will become increasingly important: to understand the various technologically mediated objects that we are studying, to the actual practice of our research, and to meet an ever-growing demand in the public and private sector for academics who can code

At the same time there is a development towards online academic education. Currently this is mainly in the form of MOOCs, which focus on massive numbers of students who can participate in these courses. There is a reasonable fear, however, that the lack of individual attention will lead to a decay of quality of education and scholarship. We believe, however, that a different, more creative use

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Humanities Dimension of our Course

Examples

Bosch project

• imaging
• translation
• mapping

New York Times Guantanamo project