Category: Student Projects
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.