Digital Humanities
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Inquiries into culture, meaning, and human value meet emerging technologies and cutting-edge skills at Pratt Institute's School of Information

Category: Projects

Curating dh+lib

The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) has shown an interest over the past several years in encouraging discussion and resource sharing in the field of digital humanities. dh+lib was inspired by this desire to create a community for people to discuss the present and future of digital humanities and libraries. dh+lib has a unique method of choosing which…

Hidden Worlds: Masking Gender in Science Fiction

This project conducted network analysis research on an online database of female-identified science fiction writers who wrote under pseudonyms, focusing particularly on those that used pseudonyms that were gender-neutral or masculine. Database includes authors, pseudonyms, biographical info, works, and visualizations of the editorial and publishing networks the authors were part of. All info was scraped from other websites and connected…

Historical GIS: Exploring and georectifying historical maps

Many digital humanities and cultural heritage projects use mapping techniques to situate and analyze materials in spatial ways. Many of these projects also use freely available tools, such as Google Maps and OpenStreetMap, that plot historical data onto contemporary maps, thereby distorting users’ perceptions of past spatial arrangements, especially shifting geopolitical boundaries over time. Though a few commercial vendors provide…

DH Skillshare

DH Skillshare is an open-access knowledge resource for digital humanists. The goal of this website is to provide a set of written or recorded (video or audio) instructional posts covering tools that digital humanists might find of value, regardless of their field or institution. Student-created instructional posts may do one or more of the following: teach beginners an important, useful,…