I have been long curious about the exciting functionality of using historic maps for layering various types of information in digital humanities projects. However, I’d been putting off actually doing it until now, when several of my students in Introduction …
Earlier this month, Bobby Smiley and I gave a workshop called “Introduction to Data Visualization” as part of the Michigan State University Digital Humanities Workshop series for Fall 2015. Attendees came from an especially wide range of units across campus, …
I archive hashtags on Twitter pretty frequently. (See #kzoo2014, #babel15, #hastac2015, here, and here, for example) Whether it’s to provide a record of a conference or to see how a particular community uses the rhetoric of a particular hashtag over time, this …
I am working on collecting data and creating visualizations of the Roman de la Rose Digital Library, a joint venture from Johns Hopkins and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Below is the abstract I submitted to will be presenting at Kalamazoo 2016, …
Introduction to Digital Humanities, AL285 Michigan State University, Fall 2015, T/TH, 10:20-11:40am http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6H34B See the course syllabus in Trello Selected student final projects (permission granted by the creators): Dogs of New York, Jessica Kukla – kuklajes.github.io/DONY On the Road Again, Olivia Ramos …
I recently presented at the International Medieval Congress (#IMC2015) at the University of Leeds in a session entitled “The Twitterati: Using Twitter in Medieval Studies Scholarship and Pedagogy.” It was a quick moving jaunt through the different ways that academics …
The Twitterati: Using Twitter in Medieval Scholarship and Pedagogy International Medieval Congress (Roundtable) July 8, 2015 – Leeds, UK See Jonathan Hsy’s Storify of the session here.
As over 2000 medievalists (myself included) prepare for the International Medieval Congress at University of Leeds (UK), I want to share a list I have compiled of digital humanities related and digitally inflected sessions and papers at the conference. This year, …
As thousands of medievalists (myself included) prepare for the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan), aka Kzoo, I want to share a list I have compiled of digital humanities and digitally inflected sessions and …
School of Information (Panelist) April 6, 2015 – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI