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Digital Mapping with Kepler.gl
Digital mapping offers a host of possibilities for Digital Humanists to visualize many forms of data in a geospatial context. Utilizing digital maps have become an integral part of our everyday lives in the modern world, so it only makes sense that as researches, we should seek to integrate them into how we present our…
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Text Mining with Voyant
Text mining of primary resources is one of the most valuable assets available to Digital Humanists in the modern world, but the question remains; how do we utilize this technology in a way that allows for new ways of thinking about the past, fundamentally changes our understanding of history, or leads to the possibility for…
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Creating Data from Humanities Sources
As Digital Humanists, our obligation is to find new way to interact with pre-existing sources, derive new information from those sources, and use that information to draw new connections. By approaching our sources as potential opportunities for data extraction we begin to see both the benefits and drawbacks of this method of research. Humanists’ relationship…
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What is Metadata?
Metadata, in simplest terms, is data which describes other data. It is used by historians and archivists to provide context for digitized artifacts, and facilitates the discovery of new materials. In my opinion, the most important type of metadata is information that the viewer would not be able to discern from simply viewing a photograph…
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greenFILE Database Review
greenFile is a comprehensive online database that provides free access to documents which concern the impact of humans on the environment. There are a number of advanced search options at the users disposal which help make discovering new material both easier and faster. These include selecting the document type, time period, publisher type, and language.…
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Usefulness of Digitization
The inherent limitations of digitizing objects are not always apparent to Digital Humanists beforehand, and oftentimes it is only after the fact when shortcomings of recording specific aspects become evident. While the practice of digitization is able to capture qualities of shape, size, and color quite well, it falls strikingly short at conveying others such…
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NASA Commons Flickr
Rights Statement- https://www.flickr.com/people/nasacommons/ NASA on the commons is an online database of photographs available to the public, which focuses on the history of space travel and NASA as an organization. It consists of nearly 4000 photographs that document everything from the the first humans on the moon, to the international space station as it is…
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What is Digital Public Humanities?
Digital Public Humanities (DPH) is a method of interpreting historical information as data through software and modeling systems, and creating platforms to share those findings with a larger audience. It seeks to find new ways of understanding the past and our relationships with one another through the use of technologies that were previously thought to…