This issue is probably more common than I think. Over the past year I’ve been working on an ambitious digital project: to modify a digital annotation tool, hypothes.is, so that …
Toward the End of a Digital Project: Reflections on Starting Over
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How to Get the Most Out of Office Hours
The Graduate Center Digital Fellows are here to help provide support for your digital projects and digital research methods. One way that we do this is by holding office hours …
GCDI is Here for You!
*Note that this blog post is revised and updated every semester, typically in early September or February. Links in this post may be outdated. For up to date information, please …
Transforming TEI for the Web
Last month, I led a workshop for the GC Digital Initiatives on “Getting Started with TEI.” For those who don’t know, TEI (short for Text Encoding Initiative) is a method …
Create A Rich Multimedia Narrative with ESRI Story Maps
A few years ago when I was taking a class in advanced cartography, I was introduced to ESRI Story maps, a webapp that allows you to blend text, maps, 3D …
What is GCDI? (Spring 2019 edition)
Note that this blog post is revised and updated every semester, typically in early September or February. Links in this post may be outdated. For up to date information, please …
A Conceptual Guide to Digital Academic Identity
In November of 2015, shortly after beginning my career as a doctoral student at the Graduate Center, I received an email from Victor Papa, president of the Two Bridges Neighborhood …
Finding Data for Mapping: Tips and Tricks
In the mapping workshops that we offer, a recurrent question refers to where to get the data. Every time students attend one of these workshops, all the datasets are given …
Using Voyant-Tools to Formulate Research Questions for Textual Data
What do you know about text analysis (also known as text mining)? If you’re familiar with data mining, or extracting information or patterns from data sets, you can probably imagine …
Uses of tech while drafting my second exam bibs: taxonomies and track changes
Kelsey’s image: A photo of the GC anthropology program’s bookshelf in the lounge, while the books were still organized according not to author or topic but color. Impractical, yes, but …
