This tutorial covers how to resize an image with the online tool Waifu2x and digitally clean a scanned image in Adobe Photoshop. The example image that I chose to use for this tutorial is a map, as I feel like old maps are a good example of images that Digital Humanists would want to clean […]
Adobe Premiere Pro is a video editing application that supports high resolution video editing, Audio Sample level editing, and Surround Sound mixing. Beyond that, Premiere also has the ability to support 3D video editing utilizing 2D monitors. Audition is a supplement to Premier in that it allows for more extensive and technical audio modification. They […]
Data visualization is increasingly becoming a vital resource in presenting data and evidence in the humanities and social sciences (hence the subject area of digital humanities), where technology has traditionally not been used. For my group’s final project for the course, we knew that data visualization would be a key element to the completion of […]
Or: “The Tutorial the RIAA Doesn’t Want You to Have” by Gin Coffin Introduction If you have a computer, chances are that you listen to audio on it. Probably you listen to even more than you realize: audio is an ever-present part of the internet, computer games and programs, and even many operating systems. But […]
For this tutorial, I selected Stanford’s Palladio tool. I was interested in learning about this tool for my final project and also because I find the mapping aspect of the digital humanities very interesting. Palladio can be used for many different data displays. It can show movement between points on a map, link maps together, […]
There are many organizational and collaborative apps out there, but from my experience, one that changes the way you work – as a team or on your own in projects is Trello. At first look, Trello seems like any ordinary organizational software, but Trello is such a powerful tool of collaboration especially in the context […]
Recogito is a new text annotation software used to analyse and critique text without the messy brackets. It is useful for a variety of students who require to analyze relationships between people mentioned, places named and more. I firstly used the sample text to annotate names, words and places. Then I downloaded a txt file […]
WordPress makes creating a website much easier by removing the programming barrier. By using blocks, widgets, and menus one can customize various aspects of a webpage without ever having to interact with HTML or CSS. That being said, this comes with some creative limitations being that you are forced to adhere to the templates and […]
Gephi is free network creation and visualization software available on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux operating systems. It also provides infrastructure for network analysis and the Java-based code is open-source and available on GitHub. It has been used in a wide variety of academic projects and is especially popular in digital humanities work. A […]
ArcGis storymap is a web-based application that allows the user to create a narrative with the use of a map. Using this application can help to visualize information and tell a story in an engaging and interactive way. With the option of including videos and images, ArcGis storymap is the perfect place to engage an […]
Needed: ArcGIS online subscription and working knowledge of the software. If you are a Carleton student, you can get access to ArcGIS by going to this link. Austin Mason and Wei-Hsin Fu are also great resources to learn more about ArcGIS. Why StoryMap Journal? Alongside other built in Web App that come on board the […]
For the tutorial project, I chose to demonstrate how to use WordPress plugins that help website creators translate their websites into different languages for a diverse, international audience. The first option, Google Language Plugin, requires almost no effort on the part of the website creator. It automatically translates all information in an original language into […]
I am in charge of the GIS story map in our project. I used the ArcGIS Story map to generate our presentation template. We decided to use the sidecar to present the whole project. At the first page, we’ll have an overall introduction of his life, including the places he had been and the poems […]
Annotation Studio is a web based application designed to engage its users with a hands-on digital approach to analyzing texts. Users have the ability to practice and develop skills that pertain to a humanities standpoint by annotating readings and primary sources while also sharpening their proficiency of online web use. With an indefinitely growing digital […]
Progress I have written all the descriptive content for our blog with some paired images and poems’ translations. Problems (and proposed solutions) Some poems do not have clear English translations. So we would find other kinds of visual content to enrich our blog Tools and techniques I basically searched through both English and Chinese Wikipedia […]
