As part of my course in Digital Public Humanities (DPH…or just DH), my semester ends with project that is meant to showcase my ability to use a digital tool to produce a piece of scholarship. Yet, what good would such a piece of scholarship be if it were meant only for the eyes of my...
Archive - November 2019
For this post, I will be discussing another assignment of mine from my course in Digital Public Humanities (DPH, though I also use just DH). In my last post, I discussed crowdsourced aspect of Wikipedia and provided a guide on how to evaluate the content of a page conjured up by editors of the...
In my course on Digital Humanities (DH), I was asked to essentially do what I would reckon most people who have gone through a college course (of any level) in the last couple decades have done–study a Wikipedia article. I found this task to be quite enjoyable because while I have definitely...
My last three posts concern three very distinct digital tools I learned how to use for my course in Digital Public Humanities (DPH). I practiced with each of these tools using a set of files provided by my instructor that contained content pertaining to interviews conducted in the 1930s with former...
While embarking on my journey into the land of Digital Humanities, my course on Digital Public Humanities (DPH) has ensured that I am not low on provisions. Yet another tool I have explored in this course to make sense of the data and information spread throughout the digital landscape is one...
Further exploring the tools that my Digital Public Humanities (DPH) course has to offer, I took a dive into the world of geographical information systems (GIS) to better my understanding of how datasets can be analyzed and reconstructed into visualizations that facilitate research through...
