For my final project, I came across a great way to create interactive images of all kinds. Image mapping is a somewhat ancient method of making interactive images or fields of a webpage. In my final project for class, I… Continue Reading
The Project We’re doing a project studying the medium of microfiche. Microfiche is an outdated method of storing information – they are pieces of film which contain tiny images of documents/pictures that people wanted to save or reference in the… Continue Reading
I created a visual catalog alongside a table for the uncanny xmen issues given as a dirty dataset. My project can be found here. Link: https://midterm.yorkd.sites.carleton.edu/cards.html
Web Mapping in ArcGIS was a new and interesting activity for me. I definitely saw the benefits of layering different features on top of each other to create a whole picture or removing layers to create a simpler, clearer picture.… Continue Reading
Walking through the georeferencing lab, I found a french map of Africa from 1784 titled, L’Afrique. Created by a french map maker, I saw this project and georeferencing to be beneficial for showing desparities in understanding of the world. I… Continue Reading
As a Nebraskan, I had to choose the project provided that analyzed the required postings of homesteaders in the state In this project, the network is made up of homesteaders and their witnesses(nodes) and their socio-legal relationship built off of… Continue Reading
The latest DGAH 110 adventure involved creating and setting up our own website for future use! My website is very early in the dev stage and unfinished in many ways, but I am more than excited to learn more about… Continue Reading
The topic of debate in Digital Humanities classes across the country is whether or not those studying the humanities ought to have experience and knowledge coding? (at least I think it is… I have a small study sample) There are… Continue Reading
Georgetown University’s Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation initiative launched the Georgetown Slavery Archives in 2016, using the archives of the Jesuit university to educate, make reparations and acknowledge the labor and impact that African American slaves played in the creation and success… Continue Reading
In her recent scholarship, Nakamura examines the exploitation of indigenous women’s labor in the construction of digital devices. Far from saying people of color are not engaged in digital humanities, Nakamura’s work begs for a recentering of the conversation on… Continue Reading
