“DH is sometimes portrayed as a recent development”, Nyhann and Flynn reported in the beginning part of their introduction. They go ahead with more details concerning why DH is not necessarily very recent. In 1949, Father Roberto Busa, together with IBM, launched a project of digitizing 11,000,000 Latin words. This project could be qualified as…
Module 9: Digital humanities in digital classrooms.
“When we think about using new technologies in the classroom, the hardest part is getting started.” I read this very first sentence of Battershill-Ross narrative and paused for a second. Classrooms? What classrooms? Where? Do you mean Zoom or the Blackboard Collaborate Ultra? So, I looked at the book’s title and decided to paraphrase it a bit:…
Owens 16
A Repository is not a piece of software, it was the first axiom (commandment) by Trevor Owens. Considering how my video-archives on external memory drives or DVDs sometimes might unexpectedly go bad, I was almost ready to add: a repository is not a piece of hardware as well. In other words, a single DVD is…
Module 7.5 (optional): Network analysis and analyzing networks.
Network Analysis was another subject that in the beginning sounded intimidating. However, the very first part of Weingart’s “Demystifying Networks” was very helpful: I cover more of the conceptual issues here, hoping to reach people with little-to-no background in networks or math, and specifically to digital humanists interested in applying network analysis to their own…
Module 7: Data Visualization
One thing that distinguished Module 7 from perhaps all previous ones: this week’s reading (watching) sources teach about the psychology of humans, sociology, cultural differences, disabilities, mental-health-related issues, how our attention works, what’s happening to us in the subconscious level, preattentive processing, etc. This was not something we have focused on earlier. If someone reads…
Module # 6: Life in an algorithm culture*
Sharon Block introduces Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble as “One of the most influential media and library information scholars.” The video we watched mainly reflects Noble’s expertise in media and search-engines (mainly Google). Still, her book makes it clear: she has really done a lot of research in library cataloging, classifying, reclassifying, etc. After some meditation,…
Module 5.5: Hey, Try My Language (HTML)
During this optional class related to HTML, XML,TEI and other weird acronyms, I accidentally came across a site telling that HTML besides from well known Hyper Text Markup Language has a variety of other meanings (see the snapshot); from Hey, Try My language to How To Meet Ladies. This is for the fun beginning of…
Module 5: Game high.
This week was fun*: games, podcast, YouTube-learning, not too many mandatory readings… We study digital history and it’s appropriate to learn more about digital and digitized tools, even if that’s a game, because “History and archaeology are fascinating subjects for video game developers: many video games revolve around historical settings, characters or ideas. as a…
Module 4: Copy rightly.
Similar to other classmates I also think Copyright Basics was both informative, but also slightly confusing. More than that, I think, Stan Muller who appears in that Crash Course Intellectual Property video (created by GMU) was also somewhat confused. He even confused his own name. Stan, does that seem biased? Oh, I am Stan. Mark…
Module 3.5 (optional) Digital vs Digitized.
We are having a small anniversary this year: The International Journal for Digital Art History turned five in June. I learned from Bishop’s article about the anniversary. Congratulations, DAHJ! DAHJ.org is where three of this week’s readings (Drucker, Bishop and Zweig) were published. I have to acknowledge: I did not know much about this journal…
