DH Call for Papers: Digital Reconstructions of Medieval Italian Buildings
By Kaelin Jewell At next year’s International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Amy Gillette and I are co-chairing a session on digital reconstructions of...
View ArticleInterested in Working in the DSC this Fall?
Applications for graduate student workers for fall 2016 are now open! https://temple.taleo.net/careersection/tu_in_student/jobdetail.ftl?job=16002253
View ArticleDigital Scholars Program Fall 2016
Temple Digital Scholars Program Application deadline for 2016-17 is September 12, 2016 The Digital Scholars Program is a collaboration between the Center for the Humanities at Temple and the Digital...
View Article3D Printing and Laser Cutting Now Available!
Have you ever wanted to learn how to use a 3D printer or a laser cutter? Now you can in the DSC! Beginning this fall 2016 semester we have the resin based Form 2 printer and the filament based Big...
View ArticleMapping the ships lost during the First World War.
By Andrea Siotto This is the introductory chapter to a series of articles on web scraping and data analysis in Python and C#: If you are interested only in one section you can find the articles on the...
View ArticleStereoscopic spherical images in Oculus Rift
By Hocheol Yang Hi, I’m Hocheol Yang and this page introduces my summer 2016 project at the DSC. Many people report how amazing it is to wear HMDs (Head Mounted Displays) to play VR software, but only...
View ArticleUploading a stereoscopic spherical video on YouTube
By Hocheol Yang In this post, I will guide you through uploading some stereoscopic spherical videos that you can watch on your Oculus Rift or any other HMD device. The good news is that YouTube has...
View ArticleWeb scraping with Python
By Andrea Siotto This article is the second of a series on the project of making a map with all the ships sunk during the First World War In creating the map of the ships lost during the First World...
View Article3D printing from MAYA 2016 files
By Hocheol Yang There are tons of free 3D objects that people share. Although some of them are interesting and exemplary, it is hard to find objects that are exactly what you need or what you think is...
View ArticleMaking a Program in C# to find the coordinates.
By Andrea Siotto This article is the third of a series on a project of mapping the ship lost during the First World War. We explored the data collection with web scraping in Python here. Once the data...
View ArticleArchaeological Site Plans with Omeka and Neatline
By Kaelin Jewell As the Fall semester kicks into gear, I’m interested in new ways to visualize datasets related to my dissertation, “Architectural Decorum and Aristocratic Power in Late Antiquity: The...
View ArticleDisco, The Robot Dog
By Emily Cornuet I would like everyone to meet Disco, the newest member of the Digital Scholarship Center community! No cats allowed… Disco is an Arduino Mega 2560 powered robot dog. complete with 12...
View ArticleScraping for Studying Online Political Discussion
By Luling Huang My first blog (1) briefly introduces my research plan at the DSC and (2) describes the data I am gathering. What does the project look like? I am studying the relationship between...
View ArticleStarting in Stylometry for Philosophy
By Michael Glass The digital humanities do not have a central place in philosophy, and so much of my work starting out has been learning the tools of stylometric analysis and also trying to see what...
View ArticleExploring the Development in an Author’s Style Over Time
teBy Jillian Benedict I have been trying to develop a project for this semester at the Digital Scholarship Center that is related to my area of study. As an M.F.A. in creative writing, developing a...
View ArticleAnalyzing the change in public opinion, gender biasness based on news framing
By Ritomaitree Sarkar Mass media plays an important role in interpreting policy intervention for societal change and influences discourse among the general public. Being a media student I have always...
View ArticleWhy Digital Scholarship? An Art Historian’s Perspective
By Kaelin Jewell A couple of weeks ago, we had an open house where I had the opportunity to chat with visitors from all over Temple’s campus. The most frequent question posed to me was along the lines...
View ArticleTeaching Cultural Heritage through Creative Making
By Jennifer Grayburn Cross-posted on my personal blog. Over the past year, I’ve been following the use of digital tools to reconstruct destroyed or politically charged monuments. Blog posts concerning...
View ArticleThe Many Styles of Søren Kierkegaard
By Michael Glass Søren Kierkegaard was, to say the least, an enigmatic author. He deliberately obfuscated his work by using what he called his “pseudonyms.” However, unlike many pseudonyms, his were...
View ArticleScraping for Studying Online Political Discussion Part 2: Python
By Luling Huang In my last post, I started to collect my data with the Chrome extension Web Scraper. I have included an expanded demonstration of how I used Web Scraper here (opens in new window). The...
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