Category: Clio Wired

Reading Time: 3 minutes “While proliferating definitions can be a good offset to gate-keeping, they can also lead to a sense of whiplash for those interested in entering the field.” “The Push and Pull of Digital Humanities: Topic Modeling the ‘What is digital humanities?’ genre” I have always liked that there are no definitions of, or rather, a million […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes After reading Trevor Owen’s book The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation and perusing resources found at NDSA’s Levels of Digital Preservation and The Socio-Technical Sustainability Roadmap (a wonderful resource meant for a team to sit down and go through the modules to assess needs for their project), I have a better idea of what […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes TLDR: I worked a lot on the accessibility of my website using the Wave Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool, though I found the undertaking confusing and will need to work on it longer to implement changes. The goal then would be to continue to have more accessible content as the baseline for my website.  I am […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes “The public generally trusts information found in search engines” (38). To fully grapple with and potentially disentangle my thoughts from all of the readings this week I would have to write a longer essay. To save my classmates (and maybe myself?) from the endeavor, I am primarily focused on the monograph assigned this week. Noble’s […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes TLDR: I believe digital storytelling, video games, and other digital content can be very useful for teaching, and that this will actually be ubiquitous eventually, but there are some downsides to discuss. As aways. Twine Project: A Culinary Tour of the 1893 Chicago World Fair. The thought of using video games as an educational tool, […]

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, […]