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(Exercise adapted from Lincoln Mullen) Before you make your own map, you need to become familiar with as wide a variety of maps as possible, including digital maps and analog, maps that have been made by scholars and maps that… Continue Reading →

What is Text Analysis? What did you see? What surprised you? (Exercise adapted from Mackenzie Brooks ~Thank you!) Objective: In anticipation of using voyant to conduct a text analysis on an object from one of the campus digital collections, let’s… Continue Reading →

How does a data-driven approach to the Humanities shape the kinds of questions you can ask of source materials? What possibilities does such an approach create and what problems does it create? Think of a source or collection of sources… Continue Reading →

To begin, take a look at the following objects, which are also featured on our Omeka site. Compare the descriptions on their respective pages. What else would you want to know about these objects (or others like them)? How might… Continue Reading →

In Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s “The Humanities, Done Digitally,” she jokingly asks whether the digital humanities includes “every medievalist with a website.” The answer is probably no, but it does raise the question of what sets digital humanities projects apart from websites… Continue Reading →