When I started my oral history project two years ago, I knew very little about microphones and recorders. I knew I had to get a decent quality recording so that …
Getting the Best Recording (within your budget) for your Interview
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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 …
Finding the Right Tools for Mapping
Given the wide array of mapping tools available, it could be hard to know which ones will best suit the needs of a given project. This post will review and …
How I Organize My Digital Library
There might not be a Netflix original series about it, but organizing our digital life is today at least as important as organizing any other aspects of our life—if not …
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 …
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 …
What is GCDI? (Fall 2018 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 Links in this post may be outdated.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 …
