CIRCA:Learning Digital Humanities
From CIRCA
Generally speaking there are four ways to learn about the digital humanities:
- Read about it off the web, in magazines and in books
- Apprentice on a project and learn on the job
- Take courses
- Attend conferences
Given that you will read about it (that's why you are wandering around this wiki), what is the most efficient way to get up to speed? I would strongly recommend the following:
- Go to a conference. Ideally you should go to the annual Digital Humanities conference put on by ADHO. See http://www.digitalhumanities.org/conference
- If you can't afford DH, then you might go to a regional conference like SDH-SEMI in Canada. See http://sdh-semi.org
- Training institutes can be an excellent way to learn particular skills while also meeting others. The best is DHSI at the University of Victoria.
- Subscribe to Humanist so you familiarize yourself with the community.