HIST429B Digital Methods in Historical Research | Lapin
Fields: North Africa, Middle East, and Central Asia; Religion and Society
This course provides introductions and hands-on experience to a variety of digital approaches to historical analysis. Students will be able to plan and execute a basic digital historical project of their own and to identify resources for further development.
Tu 3:30 - 6:00 | TLF 2103 | Spring 2023
Material covered in this course includes:
- State-of-the-art projects on campus and off.
- Wrangling text, csv, and xml data
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software and methods
- Semantic markup (Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)/xml)
- Minimal computing (static web pages on GitHub.com)
- Stylometrics and author identification
- Text reuse (“plagiarism detection”)
- Building corpora with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and textual
analysis - Social Network Analysis
- Topic modeling
- Semantic vector space embedding
Instructor for the Course
Hayim Lapin
Professor, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies
Professor, Classics
Professor, History
2101B Francis Scott Key Hall
College Park
MD,
20742