INTRODUCTION Regardless of type or style, writers cannot help but put themselves on the page, and so none of their biographies would seem complete without drawing attention to their subjects’ craft directly. By the extension of this thought, what could we learn about ourselves if we took all of what we have written down and stored both online and offline…
Category: Student Projects
Grant Proposal for a Historical GIS Study of White Plains, New York
Sara Sheer Grant Proposal For this grant proposal, I have identified the following real funding opportunity – the Levy Grant offered by the Steven D. Levy ’72 Fund for Urban Curricular Programs organization. The Levy Grant is a grant of up to $1,500 that is offered to ”All students undertaking investigations of urban issues for a Trinity [College] course, or…
Mapping Archival Collections of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Background and Goals In learning about network visualizations during Digital Humanities this semester, I often related what I was learning to my job as the archival processing assistant at the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS). I have been working on a grant-funded project to create records in Archivists’ Toolkit and in the Library’s catalog to generate finding aids of our archival…
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…
Protected: From Debut to Vulnicura: A Text Analysis of the Lyrics of Björk
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British Women Writers Network
From Harold Bloom’s The Anxiety of Influence[1]: Weaker talents idealize; figures of capable imagination appropriate for themselves. But nothing is got for nothing, and self-appropriation involves the immense anxieties of indebtedness, for what strong maker desires the realization that [she] has failed to create [herself]? From Shared Experience’s Mary Shelley: She goes to stand before the portrait, and stares…
Dutch Baroque Paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Quantitative Assessment of a Collection
This project functions as a visually based quantitative assessment of one of New York’s most venerated works of art: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection of Dutch Baroque paintings. The goal in generating these graphics is to visualize the metadata that surrounds these precious works in order to gain a more nuanced understanding of their collective history in the context…
DH Jobs Now: Analysis and Visualization of Jobs in 2013
Where are DH jobs located? What types of jobs are being posted? What types of skills are emphasized in these jobs and how do these skills vary according to position type? This visualization attempts to answer these questions by analyzing job postings from DigitalHumanitiesNow. View more at http://infogr.am/dh-jobs-now-83538?src=web.
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…