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Editors’ Choice: The Amateur in the Archive: Toward a Wider Audience for Your DH Project

Changing my form of communication reminds me of my audience. The challenges of communicating through the digital highlight the corresponding issues faced by readers of this non-traditionally presented content. My master’s thesis involved a user study evaluating the use of well-established digital humanities archives by a wider audience, a group I still refer to as […]

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Editors’ Choice: View DHQ: Visualizing Data from Digital Humanities Quarterly

Last week, I finished up a small project funded by a 2012 ACH Microgrant: visualizing the flow of DH knowledge as captured by citation networks and other measures from Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ). You can view some of the products of the project here, read more about the initial proposal here, or read about how to make DH visualizations in Part Two […]

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Editors’ Choice: “How Can You Love a Work If You Don’t Know It?”: Six Lessons from Team MARKUP

Team MARKUP evolved as a group project in Neil Fraistat’s Technoromanticism graduate seminar (English 738T) during the Spring 2012 term at the University of Maryland; our team was augmented by several students inthe sister course taught by Andrew Stauffer at the University of Virginia. The project involved using git and GitHub to manage a collaborative encoding project, practicing […]