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…
Category: Student Projects
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…
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,…
Rand Bibliography Visualizations
This project explores citation transcriptions of Benjamin Rand’s Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology, originally published in 1905. The initial dataset seeks to explore publications by philosophers and psychologists and how such publications were categorized by Rand.