On February 8th, I attended a NYCDH Week affiliated workshop led by Dr. Heidi Knoblauch (digital projects coordinator at Bard College) entitled Public Participation in Humanities Research: Using APIs and Crowd Sourcing Platforms. At this workshop we saw how scripts in iPython notebooks accessed through DHBox’s Jupyter Notebook plug-in can be used to pull images from a collection on the Internet Archive and converted into a more easily usable format. We were shown how the platform crowdcrafting.org could have these images uploaded to it so that someone conducting a study could use crowdsourcing in the sorting and classification of the images.
Author: lparadis
Women Behind the Page and On the Page in Comics: No Longer in Refrigerators?
Questions of the representation of women in mass media both as their portrayal in works in the public eye and their representation behind the scenes are increasingly being asked in today’s society. For this project, I decided to look at the medium of mass-marketed comic books to see if women are increasingly telling stories through this medium and if that is causing an evolution…
“The Lexicon of DH”
“The Lexicon of DH” was a workshop held at CUNY on October 27,2015 to help newcomers to digital humanities (DH) come up with a resource center of tools to be used and an understanding of the vocabulary and methods of the field. It was presented by Mary Catherine Kinniburgh, a GC Digital Fellow, with assistance by Patrick Sweeney, also, a…