Web Mapping 101

The past decade has witnessed a proliferation of web mapping tools and platforms.  These tools have long allowed the simple display of and basic interactions with spatially…

Continue Reading... Web Mapping 101

Spatial Humanities: GIS/Mapping 101

For the next two weeks we will be exploring the spatial humanities — a vibrant and increasingly popular area of digital humanities research.   Humanities scholarship is…

Continue Reading... Spatial Humanities: GIS/Mapping 101

Hacking on the Zotero database

This week we have been learning about relational databases and how they work. Database management system like MySQL and PostgreSQL power the back end of many…

Continue Reading... Hacking on the Zotero database

Databases, Classification, and Metadata

In our continuing quest to explore what goes on “under the hood” of digital humanities projects, this week we are moving from the front-end client-side…

Continue Reading... Databases, Classification, and Metadata

Big Data and the Database

Big Data generally refers to extremely large datasets that require demanding computational analysis to reveal patterns and trends, such as the map below generated from…

Continue Reading... Big Data and the Database

JavaScript 101

JavaScript is the lingua franca of the modern responsive web, and almost all the pages you interact with online use it in some form or…

Continue Reading... JavaScript 101

HTML/CSS 101

HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are the bedrock foundations on which the world wide web (and therefore most digital humanities projects) are based. HTML provides the basic…

Continue Reading... HTML/CSS 101
Online identity graphic

Your Digital Identity

One of the goals of this course is to help you develop not just digital literacy but digital fluency. A person literate in a given…

Continue Reading... Your Digital Identity

WordPress 101

Digital Humanities as Community Debates over the definition of the Digital Humanities are by this point very clichéd, to the point that many people have begun…

Continue Reading... WordPress 101

SketchUp and 3D basics

The 3D software with the gentlest learning curve is SketchUp.  Formerly owned by Google, it puts an emphasis on ease of use and compatibility with…

Continue Reading... SketchUp and 3D basics