Spotlight on the Digital is a co-design project which is exploring barriers to the discovery of digitised resources. To this end we have been drawing up a list of useful literature surrounding these topics. We hope that you might be able to help us by adding to the list as we feel the crowd will […]
Cite a blog post, YouTube video, tweet, Facebook post, or email. See Chart Here
These are Geoffrey Rockwell’s conference notes on a Digital Environmental Humanities Network workshop. This workshop was help Sept. 7th and 8th, 2013 in Montreal and organized by Stephanie Posthumus and Stefan Sinclair. There isn’t a web site for the workshop, but there is a web site for the emerging area, Canadian Environmental Humanities. philosophi.ca : […]
The Geospatial Historian is a tutorial-based open access textbook, modeled on the Programming Historian, designed to teach humanists practical digital mapping and GIS skills that are immediately useful to real research needs. Geospatial Historian | beta website.
My publisher Bloomsbury Academic made available Open Access edition of my new book Software Takes Command. The edition contains complete text of the book. It uses a new digital publishing software from Issuu. This link will take you directly to the book (you may need to wait a few seconds before it loads): Software Takes Command […]
Many students tell me that in order to get started with digital humanities, they’d like to have some idea of what they might do and what technical skills they might need in order to do it. Here’s a set of digital humanities projects that might help you to get a handle on the kinds of […]
This animated thematic map narrates the spatial history of the greatest slave insurrection in the eighteenth century British Empire. To teachers and researchers, the presentation offers a carefully curated archive of key documentary evidence. To all viewers, the map suggests an argument about the strategies of the rebels and the tactics of counterinsurgency, about the […]
We’ve been doing a lot of work lately using Gephi to visualise connections between authors, creative works, critical writing and events in the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Base. It’s pretty easy to get started, and here’s a writeup of the quick tutorial we gave participants in our Visualising Electronic Literature workshop last week. View Tutorial Here
It’s that time of year when educators and instructors are planning like mad for the coming semester or quarter, so we are highlighting some resources to help you get started using Omeka in your class. http://omeka.org/blog/2013/08/20/back-to-school-edition-use-omeka-in-your-class/
What does a code-focused digital dissertation look like when it’s done? And without chapters to divide the work ahead of you, how do you keep your doctoral research on track? I’m sharing the list of deliverables I’m creating for my dissertation, as well as some practices that have helped me keep being excited about my […]
