The Keeper’s Trade
As I carried out my MA in History at the University of Guelph I kept an extensive website with research outputs, presentations and a rich collection of raw materials. The Keeper’s[…]
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The Recipe Metaphor
At the 2006 CASTA conference I delivered my first DH paper – “The Use of the Recipe as a Guiding Metaphor for Flexible and Efficient Self-Guided Computing Instruction.” There are[…]
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Napoleonic Tourist
So…the premise here…back in 1997 was that it would be cool to be able to enjoy an historically informed tourism and be able to engage with the deeper historical context of[…]
Napoleonic Timeline
Experimenting with the Simile product and a complete dataset of Napoleonic events. Like many of the references here. Embryonic.
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PhD Candidate at McMaster
During my 4 year tenure at MacMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, I maintained an active (static) website. Lots of fun stuff there.
RDI – A Collaborative Editing Environment
During 2006-2007 we explored the evolution possibilities for a new generation of CEE emerging from the Victorian Women Writer’s Project. As part of this exploration an extensive environmental scan led[…]
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Autumn Digital Humanities Workshops at Queen’s
DigitalHumanities@TheLibrary and the Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities invite you participate in our autumn workshops specifically targeted at humanities and social science scholars curious and eager to accelerate[…]
The Big Screen Gets Better
In March of 2014 I wrote about the excitement of launching the Robert Hart Digital collection on the new 42 inch kiosk in the McClay Library at Queen’s. Today I[…]
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Learning OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap is an example of a phenomenon known as Volunteered geographic information (VGI) – the harnessing of tools to create, assemble, and disseminate geographic data provided voluntarily by individuals. OSM[…]
New Engagement with the Sanskriti Stories
Northern Bridge doctoral candidate Rachel Hanna, shares two new additions to the Sankriti History Archive developed at ArtsEkta. A TimeMapJS driven timeline and an interactive geospatial presentation using StoryMapJS provide unique lenses on[…]