Category: Blog #1
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The Significance of Digital Artifacts
Digital humanities projects, such as the ones on the Digital Humanities Sample Book website use methods such as 3D mapping and literary analysis to display many different archives regarding numerous fields of research. These projects exhibit new types of information regarding humanities research that would not be easily accessible through other means of media. These…
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Digital or Original? Archives, the Deciding Factor.
Archives and digital editions are just two of several categories used to describe DH projects. Although one can be turned into the other, they are two separate categories for a reason. When saying that one can be turned into the other, I am referring to the fact that an archive can be transferred to a…
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The Thing About Digital Artifacts…
Upon accessing the Sample Book website, I noticed all of the categories of Digital Humanities that we discussed in class organized at the top of the page. From left to right, the categories are: Archive, Visualization, Mapping, Digital edition, Network Analysis, Textual Analysis and Audio Analysis. These different categories of Digital Humanities research allow the…
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How Do You Characterize DH Projects?
The projects in the Digital Humanities project Sample Book are organized through tabs that form certain archives into the specific categories that our Humanities 100-01 class has been researching. There are seven (7) different options to locate an archive: Archive, Visualization, Mapping, Digital Edition, Network Analysis, Textual Analysis and Audio Analysis. Once in one of…
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The pros and cons of digital archives
In the DH sample books website, the DH projects are categorized by the major DH approaches that used by the projects. There are seven categories, including archive, visualization, mapping, digital edition, network analysis, textual analysis, and audio analysis. A student or a researcher can easily find a DH project that is appealing to him/her by looking…
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A Fork in the Road; Digital or Archival?
The wondrous abilities of DH tools generate projects that are present day fascinations. In order to identify the varying types of DH projects, it is possible to categorise them according to DH methods used. A clear distinction of two DH methods is between mapping and audio analysis. The Virtual Paul’s Cross Project is a prime example of audio…
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Make a choice on demonstrating the data.
A DH project is basically categorized by its way to demonstrate information. Projects in humanities fields usually have a broader vision than those in literature and science. Researchers need to collect data either from the scientific record (Weather map etc.) or from old literature (old archives etc.). The information density during the process will be significantly…
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Transcription (a beginning)
How do you move from archive to digital artifact? Traditionally the process starts in the archive when you find a document that catches your eye. It’s interesting, it sheds new light on an issue in history, and it’s the only copy in the world!! You have to decide what to do with that document. Nowadays…
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Blog Post #1
Blog #1: “On Material and Digital Archives” Due: 9/5 Prompt: This week you have visited several websites that are based on archival materials. Go to the DH project Sample book that Dr. Jakacki assembled and look at the projects again. How are the projects categorized? Look especially at the ones that are categorized under Archive.…