University of Victoria – Transgender Archives The University of Victoria has committed itself to the preservation of the history of pioneering activists, community leaders, and researchers who have contributed to the betterment of transgender people. The UVic Archives have been actively acquiring documents, rare publications, and memorabilia of persons and organizations associated with transgender activism…
We’re a visual species, we humans. History is often learned best when its words are accompanied with charts and maps, diagrams and photos. I love looking at these pictures to get different perspectives about the events they document. I’m a software developer rather than an historian, but I think the simulation software I’ve developed can…
The folks at Datavisualization.ch highlight most of the best tools for making maps and charts, or processing data.
The guide is meant to describe not only how to run a hackathon but why we run them the way we do. Our intention is that our participants walk away from our events inspired and with a new understanding of what open data is and how it can be used to inform, and add value….
Participad integrates an Etherpad Lite install into your WordPress installation, enabling realtime collaboration on the WordPress Dashboard or the front end of your WP site.
(New) Humanist Discussion Group. The online world is now simply part of what most humanists in the developed world do, so much so that we may wonder if the digital humanities, like the state in Marxist theory, will soon wither away. The same question might be asked about Humanist, since the Web is now populated by…
Five Tips for Getting Started on a Digital Humanities Dissertation | Literature Geek. As you might have noticed from this blog and my tweets, I’m in the opening act of what promises to be an exciting and non-traditional doctoral literature dissertation. I’ll be blogging the actual content of the dissertation in the months to come, but…
T-PEN: A New Tool for Transcription of Digitized Manuscripts « Early Modern Online Bibliography. T-PEN (Transcription for Paleographical and Editorial Notation) seeks to address both the accessibility and usability of digital repositories. Developed by the Center for Digital Theology of Saint Louis University, in collaboration with the Carolingian Canon Law Project of the University of Kentucky, this new digital tool is a…
As I wrote in one of the early ProfHacker blog posts, it’s always a good idea to have a backup plan. This truth was brought home to me this semester in my teaching. About a month ago, students in my course on “Writing in Digital Environments” began experimenting with Storify, a social media curation tool we’ve covered before…
Hello Digital Historians, This year is flying by! With roughly two months left in the semester, we aim to stimulate discussion about the ways historians are engaging in the digital humanities through a series of eight blog posts. Over the next eight weeks we will cover Digital History topics divided into a two-part series. Series…