Diego Valle-Jones maps homicides and trafficking routes in Mexico. To unclutter the map and following the lead of the paper …
For more details on calendar pages or the Hours of Joanna of Castile, please see the entry for January 2012. Calendar pages for February, Hours of Joanna of Castile, Bruges, between 1496 and 1506, Additional 18852, ff. 2v-3 The opening for February shows two scenes of vine-trimming. The left-hand miniature shows a group of men at work under a threatening February sky. On the right, beneath the astrological sign of Pisces, is a similar group finishing their work and heading home (perhaps because of the snow which is just beginning to fall).
You would think that something so concrete, carefully recorded by authorities, wouldn’t be too tough to tabulate, even if at …
Congrats to everyone at Emory involved with the launch of the Research Commons in the Robert W. Woodruff Library. It looks like an amazing space with a number of interesting Digital Humanities projects. Keep us posted! Alt-Ac
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I’m trying to figure out which camera to go for: the GoPro or the Contour. When I search on Google for help in finding some way to compare, it was suggested to me to ask on Google+: I then waited…
Last week I was at the Horizon New Media Consortium 10 Year Retreat – The Future of Education. It was a fascinating glimpse into the world of bright-eyed educators and a few museum people who want the future of education to be something far better than it is now. If that sounds a little utopian, [...]
This is a page of draft project ideas generated by the 4Humanities@UCSB local chapter. “Partners are not just followers” (.pdf) (by Jen Hammerschmidt)
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A recent NITLE Digital Scholarship Seminar, “Teaching DH 101: Introduction to the Digital Humanities” prompts a response from two undergraduates at the University of Pittsburgh.
We were surprised to hear during the December 16, 2011 NITLE web semin…
What makes students successful? As this is an age old question with students, teachers and professors; but more importantly what is the true answer to this question? If you take this question to the streets and ask students, teachers and professors; th…
Spot [neoformix.com] by Jeff Clark is a comprehensive real-time Twitter visualization that uses a particle metaphor to represent unique tweets.
According to a set of user-defined keywords, the visualization gathers and displays the latest 200 tweets….
I’m going to interrupt my regularly-scheduled biological literary critical programming with a comment on the recent Supreme Court decision United States v. Jones (565 U.S. [2012]). For those of you who may have missed the news, the Supreme Court…
The “” celebrates the 158-year novel history of African American literature. Using the “100 Novels” bibliography, I analyze over 8 dozen assorted factors related to each particular novel as well as the author who wrote it.
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From the ALA TechSource blog (which also includes the slides from the panelists) : The 2012 ALA TechSource Midwinter Tech Wrap-up was a huge success. We had great presentations from our panel, and great participation from our audience. If you…
