Tag Archives: digital history
NEH Digital Humanities Project Directors’ Meeting
Almost a week has passed since I attended the Project Directors’ Meeting at the offices of the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington DC, and I’m struggling a bit to recall the joy I was feeling after four days … Continue reading
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User-Friendly XML
As I continue to think through how I do history digitally, I note both that historians have been using computers for a long time and that what I do differs from the statistics-heavy social science computing people were learning when … Continue reading
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Learning ArcGIS
Decades ago when I was still taking math classes, I got appallingly accustomed to the moment when I stopped being able to keep up. Math pedagogy at that time focused on modeling how to work through problems, practice working through … Continue reading
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Good News
This is a good day. There is real joy in receiving a phone call from a granting agency, and today that call came from the Office of Digital Humanities at the National Endowment for the Humanities. Here at the Wheaton … Continue reading
Creating Reference Files for an Expanding Project
I spent much of Labor Day 2010 in the land of XML/TEI Continue reading
Is It Out There?: Undergraduate Research as Digitization at Analog Pace
So, no. The data we are producing is not out there yet. Digital methods offer important learning opportunities for our students. They do little to speed the pace of careful archiving and scholarship as yet. I do remain convinced that eventually there will be significant research value in the data that we will produce. Especially if we can manage to tolerate the incremental (analog) within the digital. Continue reading
From Flogging Shoggoths to Blogging Clio
This blog will address topics in digital history and digital humanities, including my current project in which I am writing introductory essays for transcriptions of letters, pocket diaries, and a travel journal written by Eliza Baylies Wheaton, who was the primary force behind the founding of Wheaton Female Seminary in 1834. Continue reading
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