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    • Announcements Forum
      Due: Sunday, 17 May 2026, 12:04 PM

      An Eight-Unit Professional Development Course for Moodle LMS

    • Offered by

      Department of Library & Information Science, University of North Bengal

      Target Learners

      Practising Librarians, LIS Students, Information Professionals

      Duration

      8 Units | 40 notional learning hours

      Format

      Moodle LMS — Online / Blended Delivery

      Credit

      Non-credit Professional Development | SWAYAM/NDLI compatible

      Language

      English
    • Course Overview Page

      Digital Humanities (DH) represents a convergence of computational methods with humanistic inquiry that is already reshaping how libraries digitise, describe, preserve, curate, and provide access to cultural heritage. This eight-unit course provides a structured, activity-rich introduction to DH tailored specifically for library and information professionals — grounded in Indian and South Asian institutional contexts, built around active participation, and designed to produce immediately transferable professional competencies.

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    UNIT 1 | Introduction to Digital Humanities

    • 📌  Unit Learning Outcomes

      •         Define Digital Humanities and distinguish it from Humanities Computing

      •         Identify key scholars, founding texts, and landmark DH projects

      •         Explain the 'big tent' debate and its implications for LIS

      •         Recognise the relevance of the digital turn for Indian LIS practice

       

        📚  Content Topics

      1.       The Humanities as a knowledge domain — scope, epistemology, methods

      2.       Defining Digital Humanities — competing definitions (Schreibman/Siemens/Unsworth 2004; Berry 2012; Burdick et al. 2012)

      3.       From Humanities Computing to DH — historical arc 1949–present

      4.       Key figures: Busa, McGann, Moretti, Drucker, Hayles, McPherson, Nyhan

      5.       Landmark projects: Index Thomisticus, Rossetti Archive, Stanford Literary Lab, Valley of the Shadow

      6.       DH organisations: ADHO, ACH, ALLC, DHd, centerNet, GO::DH

      7.       Digital Humanities Quarterly and key DH publication venues

      8.       DH in India: NDLI (IIT Kharagpur), NMM, IGNCA, IIT Madras Digital Heritage Centre

    • Basics of Digital Humanities Page
    • 💬 DISCUSSION FORUM
      Due: Sunday, 17 May 2026, 12:55 PM
    • HANDS ON ACTIVITY Workshop

      ⚙ Activity 1: Hands-On Task

      Tool: Google Ngram Viewer — books.google.com/ngrams (free, no login required)

      Task: Search for 'digital humanities', 'humanities computing', 'digital library', 'information science' in the English corpus (1950–2019).

      Step 1 — Run the search; screenshot the resulting graph. ands-On Activity-On Activity 

      Step 2 — Write 150–200 words: When does 'digital humanities' emerge? How does it track alongside 'digital library'? What does this suggest about the DH-LIS relationship?

      Step 3 — Share your screenshot and interpretation in the Unit 1 Forum discussion.

    • 📝 Quiz 1 — Knowledge Check
      Opened: Sunday, 17 May 2026, 1:04 PM

      MCQ Quiz for knowledge testing

    • Assignment 1: Mapping Your DH Awareness — Reflective Journal
      Opened: Wednesday, 20 May 2026, 12:00 AM
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    UNIT 2 | 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

    • Core Content Page
    • DISCUSSION FORUM
      Due: Monday, 25 May 2026, 7:53 PM

      Forum 2: Discussion Task

    • 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.

    • 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

    • ✅ UNIT QUIZ
      Opened: Monday, 25 May 2026, 8:03 PM

      Quiz 2 — Knowledge Check (10 MCQ | 15 min | 2 attempts | Pass: 60%)

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    UNIT 3 | DH in History, Archaeology & Social Sciences

    • 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

    • 📚 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

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