Section: UNIT 3 | DH in History, Archaeology & Social Sciences | Digital Humanities and Library Professionals | LnF

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- Select activity Mapping the past, networking ideas — computational methods transform historical and social inquiry
  
  Unit Learning Outcomes
  
  •         Evaluate DH applications in historical research and archaeological documentation
  
  •         Explain how network analysis illuminates historical correspondence and social structures
  
  •         Identify major digital history projects and their methodological approaches
  
  •         Apply historical GIS concepts to an Indian or South Asian research context
- Select activity 📚 CONTENT TOPICS
  
  📚 CONTENT TOPICS Page
  
  1.       Digital history — scope, methods, major projects (Valley of the Shadow, Europeana, DPLA)
  
  2.       Historical GIS: mapping migrations, trade routes, disease spread, administrative boundaries
  
  3.       Prosopography: structured biographical databases of historical persons
  
  4.       3D archaeological reconstruction: Pompeii, Mohenjo-Daro, Hampi, Sanchi
  
  5.       Mapping the Republic of Letters — correspondence network analysis (Stanford)
  
  6.       Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) — Transkribus, open HTR, applications for Indian manuscripts
  
  7.       Oral history digitisation — methodology, tools, ethical considerations
  
  8.       Computational social science — digital demography, digital ethnography
  
  9.       India: district gazetteers, Census digitisation, colonial records, National Archives of India