Interest in using digital tools in qualitative social science research is not necessarily new, but appears to be steadily increasing. For example, this year’s International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry has …
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Open science and the digital humanities
Though technical skills and and scientific expertise are obviously fundamental to scientific research, their effects can only be as strong as the community in which they circulate.
Treebanking with Arethusa
Treebanks are text corpuses which have had their syntactic structures annotated in a machine-readable format. They are used by computational linguists and others to conduct syntactic and stylometric studies of …
Resource Round-Up: Digital Scholarship at The GC
The digital humanities. Digital scholarship. Digital research methods. Do these phrases cause you to think of a vibrant community of scholars, critical methods, and projects–perhaps one that is already your …
Beyond the Same Old Static Course Website
The possibilities for using the web for structuring a course extend well beyond the unidirectional model of the online syllabus or the semi-multidirectional model that includes student interactions in forums or blog posts.
The Digital GC: Year-End Showcase
The Digital GC: Year-End Showcase Please join us on May 19th 2015 for a special event at the Graduate Center showcasing the innovative and diverse digital projects initiated during the …
Intro to Mapping with CartoDB
CartoDB is a web-based open source mapping platform. This tutorial will demonstrate creating a really simple map that will teach you the basics of importing data, applying different visualizations, using filters, and creating data interactivity, using the 2014 NYPD Stop, Question, and Frisk dataset.
Announcing the launch of the Islamic History Commons
It’s with great excitement that I announce the launch of the Islamic History Commons (IHC), a scholarly community site dedicated to the study of Islamic history. IHC makes use of …
