When it comes to my digital humanities work, I’ve learned that I’m most likely to follow through with my aspirations when I assign myself deadlines and hold myself accountable to others. During my first semester, for example, I took a class on DH that required completing a substantial project, an undertaking that became my Scalar… Continue reading Chesapeake DH Consortium
Category: Digital Humanities
Scalar Book: The Roswell Museum Federal Art Center
As you know from my post about my DH semester project, I made a Scalar book about the Roswell Museum’s WPA archive. Scalar was still quite new to me at the time, so I hadn’t discovered all the cool things I could do with it yet. Today then, I’d like to take another look at that project and… Continue reading Scalar Book: The Roswell Museum Federal Art Center
Computing for the Humanities
Semester breaks are for rest and relaxation, but they’re also a great time to learn new skills through workshops and other opportunities. Such was the case with the Digital Humanities bootcamp I took last week, which I’ll be talking about today. This intensive workshop met from 9-4 Monday through Friday. Each day focused on a… Continue reading Computing for the Humanities
Semester Project 2: Digital Humanities
Last week I talked about what I’ve been doing in my Intro to American Studies class. Today I’ll talk about my main project in Digital Humanities. The first part of this project is something you’ve already been looking at: this website. Since I had already made a website for myself over the summer to document… Continue reading Semester Project 2: Digital Humanities