When I first enrolled in a course on Digital Humanities, I thought I might learn how about a few tools that I could use in…
Social media, it’s safe to say, is outside my comfort zone. I, like most other Americans, have a Facebook page, I’ve experimented with tweeting, and…
Crowdsourcing, or taking work that would usually be performed by an employee and outsourcing it to the general public, did not begin with the advent…
Wikipedia, the free online crowdsourced encyclopedia, has become one of the most visited sites on the worldwide web in the years since it was founded…
For my Introduction to Digital Humanities class, for the past several weeks I been wrestling with a variety of different digital humanities tools as a…
Palladio is a web-based platform that allows a user to visualize the connections within a data set. With this network analysis tool, a user can…
The WPA Slave Narratives are a rich, but complicated, source base for researchers studying the history of slavery or even the history of the oral…
Voyant Tools offers an easy-to-use, accessible web application for performing textual analysis. Users can upload their own corpus of documents in a variety of formats—plain…
Digitization is a powerful and useful process, but it is not without limitations. When an object is digitized, it is converted from analog information into…