Month: September 2020

Reading Time: 5 minutes My experiences with Omeka before this class were not nonexistent, but it had been awhile. I took a class at Auburn where we had a week on Omeka where a student gave a roundtable tutorial as we all followed along to learn how to add images to a collection and went through all the different […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes Potentially the most important anecdote from my experience with Open Refine over the last few days is this: it took me over twenty minutes to figure out how to split the columns with the dates into two separate ones. Yes, over twenty minutes, though I didn’t time it exactly. My issue was that I continuously […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes The most interesting part of the readings and the class discussion this week was, of course, defining and discussing “What is Digital Humanities”? Though my perpetually-a-student-self dislikes there being no clear cut answer, I had a fruitful discussion with our breakout room that built off the definition in the AHA article about digital history/humanities. Discussing […]

Reading Time: 5 minutes Our QGIS tutorial began with data from Early Modern England, with two datasets related to populations in London, and information regarding parishes and the plague. Playing around with this data was relatively easy and more fun, in my opinion, especially with the visual aspect and Dr. Otis’s tutorial that felt clearer than last week (though, […]