Labs

In the spirit of learning by making and diving in head first, we are starting with some relatively easy 3D modeling. This course's collective projects in the past have revolved around Carleton's built environment and building histories, and fabricating...

Digital Humanities as Community, or Making Relationships Debates over the definition of the Digital Humanities are by this point very clichéd , to the point that many people have begun arguing that we stop worrying about it altogether.  There is...

Today we are going to dive into what Burdick et al. call "The Basic Unit" of Digital Humanities, the project . We will examine the various component parts and learn how to analyze them effectively. One of the most common reactions to seeing finished...

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 structural markup that tells your browser what to do...

The Database Back End 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 user experience to the database “back end” on the server side, where all the...

We’ve spent the first few weeks of term getting a crash course in the technical infrastructure of web-based digital projects, and we have looked at how Content Management Systems like the WordPress platform this site runs on process and present data. ...

This week we are going to explore the basic principles, and some concrete examples, of data visualization. You might think that data viz is something only scientists and quantitative social scientists are allowed to do, but there are an increasing...

Over the past few weeks we have discussed and seen how the modern dynamic web—and the digital humanities projects it hosts—comprise structured data (usually residing in a relational database) that is served to the browser based on a user request whe...

Spatial Humanities 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 currently undergoing a “spatial turn” akin ...

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 referenced data, but until recently, if you wanted to do any sort...

Immersive environments are one of the newest areas of DH experimentation. 3D simulation, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality were until recently only accessible with high end hardware and produced end products that were so large they were hard to deliver...

In groups: spend 5 minutes exploring each of the following 3D modeling/printing projects: Loveden Hill Cremation Urn Virtual Hampson Museum Museum in a Box Consider these projects along with the Book of Fortresses I asked you to explore...

First, congrats on completing your midterm mini-projects! They look great so far and I’ll be giving you detailed feedback by Thursday, posted in Moodle. Second, I have commented on each of your group posts on this website with some suggestions f...

Assignment Tutorial Blog Post (Due Thursday, 3/4) For this assignment, create a step-by-step tutorial as a blog post demonstrating a particular technique, tool, or other helpful how-to discovery you’ve made over the past several weeks in this c...

Catching up on past work I've thrown a lot at you this term, in a different format than you're probably used to, so let's take stock and make sure you are all caught up. Here are the assignments that you should have completed so far: SketchUpHouse...

Agenda: Tutorial Lightning Round I will share my screen and click through the tutorials in the order posted. Give us a <1 minute overview of what you wrote about. Tutorial Feedback Take 20 minutes to do 3 tutorials and leave a comment...