#60 Digital Publishing for DH: Strategies, Tools & Workflows

Will Luers and Lai-Tze Fan

Digital Humanities scholars combine research and practice in digital forms that are quite removed from the traditional humanities. This presents a problem of where to publish born-digital research and multimodal writing. This online course focuses on the platforms, tools, production workflows and design strategies for researchers, scholars, teachers, and practitioners in the digital humanities who want to start an online academic journal, create an open education resource textbook or publish multimodal scholarly texts. With hands-on activities, participants will learn the basics of popular publishing platforms (Scalar and WordPress) and gain practical experience in how to use Markdown to easily turn text files or Word docs into HTML files, epub/Kindle files, PDFs and print-on-demand books. Class topics will also include open education resources (OER), peer-review, credentialing, digital object identifier system (DOI), copyright and open source practices, structured data, site design and social media promotion. We will also discuss practical issues relating to funding and institutional support (or the lack thereof) and the invisible labour of publishing.

Duration: 2-3 hours

Auditor Option: Available

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