The Companion to Digital Humanities in Practice

The Companion to Digital Humanities in Practice offers international perspectives on how we teach and research in and with digital humanities today.

Building on the foundation of earlier publications that focused on practice in the field, this Companion provides a significant treatment of pertinent issues and contexts, extending breadth and depth, as well as reach, in terms of geographical diversity of topics and contributors. Divided into four sections, each with a high-level practice-oriented focus, the volume covers data; tools and techniques; communication, dissemination, and engagement; and pedagogical practices. Contributors to the volume include both established and emerging scholars. Foregrounding and critically reviewing the emergence and development of standards-based communities of practice, the Companion provides an overview of core competencies; conceptualized case studies; and links to further reading, training materials, and exercises.

The Companion to Digital Humanities in Practice will appeal to academics, researchers, and postgraduate students working in DH, literary studies, history, and the humanities more broadly. It should also be of interest to professionals working in DH and galleries, libraries, archives, and museums.

Constance Crompton is a white, queer, able-bodied settler and Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities. She is a member of several research project teams: Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada, Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship, the Implementing New Knowledge Environments Partnership, and the Transgender Media Portal. She is the co-editor of two volumes, Doing Digital Humanities and Doing More Digital Humanities, with Ray Siemens and Richard Lane (Routledge 2016, 2020). She lives and works on unceded Algonquin land.

Dr. Laura Estill is a Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities and Professor of English at St. Francis Xavier University in Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia). Works include Digital Humanities Workshops (2023), with Jennifer Guiliano, and a special issue of Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities (IDEAH, 2023), with Constance Crompton and Ray Siemens. She directs the Canadian Certificate in Digital Humanities, ccdhhn.ca.

Richard J. Lane is Professor of English and Director of the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) funded MeTA Digital Humanities Lab at Vancouver Island University, Canada. His research interests include the intersection of literary theory, philosophy and the digital humanities, with recent projects on DH and AI, big data, machine reading, machine learning, and topic modelling. He collaborates on research with the VIU Canadian Letters and Images Project, with the support of CFI, VIU and the British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund.

Ray Siemens FRSC is Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria, Canada, in English and Computer Science, and past Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing; in 2019, he was also Leverhulme Visiting Professor at U Loughborough and, 2019-22, Global Innovation Chair in Digital Humanities in the Centre for 21st Century Humanities at U Newcastle.