If you’re familiar with a content management system (CMS) such as WordPress, Drupal, or the myriad other options, then you’re familiar with content types and how they allow you to define and organize information. Or, in Rachel Lovinger’s definition, they describe “the various configurations of content that are distinct enough to be unique types in […]

On October 4th, with a lot of the students attending our DH praxis seminar (and, of course, other people not attending it), I participated to the workshop “Databases Part I”, with the two digital fellows Ian Phillips and Tahir Butt. The workshop was nice and very useful: Ian and Tahir were very nice and always available to […]

During last weeks, I was reading Alan Liu’s “From Reading to Social Computing” as part of the requirement of our class and I was struck by a passage in his essay that I found very interesting to define one of the most important change the DH environment is producing into the literature field. Alan Liu briefly sketches […]

Last week, I attended a workshop provided by the Mina Rees Library. Two librarians, from the excellent library staff, walked participants through the installation and basic use of the citation management program, Zotero. It was an incredibly helpful session, and I am excited about the ways this new tool might assist in my research. There […]

In the past week, the Museum of Modern Art unveiled expanded offerings on its website, transforming online collections beyond a selection of items to include information and materials from all of its past exhibitions. The recent additions are part of the institutional archive of the museum, including some behind the scenes materials, like lists of […]

One of the most vocal criticisms of the digital humanities is their supposed lack of interpretation. As interpretation remains the bedrock of the humanities, the argument goes, the digital humanities represent, at best, a degradation of the humanities or, at worst, something antithetical to them. For a recent example of this criticism, consider the words […]

During our last class, much of the discussion—about Google Books, funding for projects, the potential need for advertising—gravitated towards questions of producing and publishing scholarship in the contemporary digital environment. This prompted me to think more about the difference between “producing” and “publishing” and how the digital humanities can illuminate and maybe even change it. […]