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 […]
Aaron Forman, Molly Sandweiss, Nacho Rodriguez, and Bia Furtado Since last week, our group has taken significant strides toward the fulfillment of our final project’s goals. Bia acquired data spreadsheets from Dacie Moses house, which contain information pertaining to volunteers, events, donations, Sunday Brunches, and types of food. Nacho worked with Open Refine to clean […]
For my Midterm project, I mapped Charles Cushman’s photographs from the years 1962 and 1963, categorizing them by the state in which they were taken.
Working with ArcGIS took me back to my final project for archaeological methods class, in which my group used ArcGIS to create a map of the Waterford Mill archaeological site in the arboretum. My map depicts squirrel distribution in Central Park along with tree cover data throughout the world. My project demonstrates that there is […]
The title of this post refers to the image I chose as the “logo” for my website… I had a great deal of difficulty setting up my personal WordPress site. First of all, there must be a better way to get to the admin part of the site than by going to Reclaim Hosting, logging […]
I believe that learning to code can be very useful to humanities students, but is not essential in that one can be a strong student of the humanities with no coding knowledge. Similar to learning a foreign language, having an understanding of coding can only be beneficial and would never function as a liability for […]
I selected the “Mappa Mundi” Project, a digital humanities effort by Hereford Cathedral in the United Kingdom to provide access and information on the Mappa Mundi, one of the cathedral’s treasured possessions. The project displays an interactive visual representation of the map, containing thumbprint icons on spots that the research team has identified as being […]
“Digital work takes place in the real world, and humanists once accustomed to isolated or individualized modes of production must now grapple with complex partnerships and with insuring the long-term availability and viability of their scholarship.” Burdick et al. “One: From Humanities to Digital Humanities,” in Digital_Humanities (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012), 21. This passage grasped my attention […]
How easy/hard was it? I found some elements of SketchUp to be easy and some elements to be more difficult. The initial rotation and movement was not intuitive but it felt more natural after a little bit of practice. I mainly worked with the rectangle, push up, and move tools, which generally acted as I […]
