Digital Humanities: Support

This guide will help you to find out how copyright affects your work, research and study here at the University of Manchester.
Copyright is legal protection for an author/creator which restricts the copying of an original work they have created. The University is committed to acknowledging and protecting the copyright of rights holders and adhering fully to the terms and conditions of the licences it holds.

The University of Manchester Library holds one of the finest collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives in the world. Both The John Rylands Library and Victoria University of Manchester Library had built up outstanding Special Collections. After their merger in 1972, these collections were concentrated in the magnificent Deansgate Building of the John Rylands Research Institute and Library, in the centre of Manchester.

In this archived post we introduced NVivo for analysing the text of a set of documents, using company reports as an example.

The DiRT Directory is a registry of digital research tools for scholarly use. DiRT makes it easy for digital humanists and others conducting digital research to find and compare resources ranging from content management systems to music OCR, statistical analysis packages to mindmapping software.

Hosted by Carnegie Mellon University. A collection of resources and descriptions of many topics covered under Digital Humanities including grants, employment and collaboration.

Digital Humanities Questions & Answers are building a community-based Q&A board for digital humanities questions that need (just a little) more than 140 character answers.

Guides, tools, and other resources for practical work in the digital humanities by researchers, teachers, and students. Curated by Alan Liu, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Free online courses for learning natural language processing, machine learning and deep learning and computational linear algebra.

The LADAL offers introductions to quantitative reasoning, research designs, and computational methods including data visualisation and statistics. It uses the R programming language and is aimed at complete novices as well as expert users.

Adam Geitgey writes an ongoing series about what Natural Language Processing (NLP) is, why you might use it and how to get started with it in Python.

Selected resources for digital humanities praxis and pedagogy.

Hosted by N8 CIR, join Melodee Beals as she introduces and explores how to use Python in the humanities. Learning basic python programming skills can open new and interesting avenues for your research, allowing you to interrogate sources at scale or zoom into finer details than are visible to the human eye!

The UK Data Archive pages on Copyright provide further support on rights matters when creating and managing data.

These introductory level interactive modules are designed for users who want to get to grips with keys aspects of survey, longitudinal and aggregate data.

Social Feed Manager blog post by the project team at George Washington University Libraries, September 2017.

WRDS is a collection of business and financial databases. It includes training toolkits on text analysis, sentiment analysis, named-entity recognition, machine learning and topic modelling. Requires registration.