Section: UNIT 2 | Scope and Coverage of Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities and Library Professionals

Section outline

- Select activity Scope and Coverage of Digital Humanities
  
  Scope and Coverage of Digital Humanities Page
  
  Methods, tools, and the global landscape — from text mining to Historical GIS
  
  📌 Unit Learning Outcomes
  
  •         Analyse the thematic, methodological, and geographic scope of DH
  
  •         Categorise core DH methods: text analysis, GIS, network analysis, 3D modelling, image/audio analysis
  
  •         Demonstrate basic use of Voyant Tools for text corpus analysis
  
  •         Evaluate geographic unevenness of DH and its implications for Indian LIS
- Select activity Core Content
  
  Core Content Page
- Select activity DISCUSSION FORUM
  
  DISCUSSION FORUM
  
  Due: Monday, 25 May 2026, 7:53 PM
  
  Forum 2: Discussion Task
- Select activity Questions & Answers
  
  After completing the Unit 2 reading and Voyant Tools activity, respond to ONE prompt (minimum 200 words):
  
  Prompt A: Share your Voyant Tools analysis — what text did you analyse, what three interesting patterns did you discover, and what questions does computational analysis raise that close reading alone cannot address?
  
  Prompt B: Which DH method from Unit 2 would be most transformative for your library context? Describe a specific scenario.
  
  Prompt C: Critically evaluate the geographic unevenness of DH. What specific barriers exist for Indian LIS institutions? Propose two concrete strategies.
  
  Peer engagement: Reply substantively to at least TWO peers.
- Select activity HANDS-ON ACTIVITY
  
  HANDS-ON ACTIVITY Workshop
  
  Activity 2: Hands-On Task
  
  Tool: Voyant Tools — voyant-tools.org (free, browser-based, no installation)
  
  Step 1 — Select a text: a Wikipedia article on a subject in your library's collection area, or a public domain text from Project Gutenberg (gutenberg.org).
  
  Step 2 — Go to voyant-tools.org, paste or upload your text, click 'Reveal'.
  
  Step 3 — Explore: Cirrus (word cloud), Trends (frequency graph), Contexts (KWIC), Collocates (word co-occurrence).
  
  Step 4 — Write 200 words: the most frequent significant terms; one unexpected pattern; what the tool reveals that reading alone would not.
  
  Step 5 — Copy the Voyant 'export URL' and share it with your 200-word interpretation in the forum.
  
  n ActivityHands-On Activity
- Select activity ✅ UNIT QUIZ
  
  ✅ UNIT QUIZ
  
  Opened: Monday, 25 May 2026, 8:03 PM
  
  Quiz 2 — Knowledge Check (10 MCQ | 15 min | 2 attempts | Pass: 60%)