The naval losses during the First World War
By Andrea Siotto This past summer I spent quite some time collecting and organizing data on the ships lost during the First World War. The final objective was to create a video and the result of the...
View ArticleThe Process of Turning a Print Book into a Machine Readable Text
Before I can start using R to look for patterns in Jon Krakauer’s body of work, I need to take the written text and turn it into a form that allows me to work with the text in R. For the sake of my...
View ArticleDigitizing Alternate History Narratives
By James Kopaczewski As introduced in Alex Wermer-Colan’s latest blog, the Digital Scholarship Center in collaboration with Temple University Libraries’ … The post Digitizing Alternate History...
View ArticleReverse Image Search and Biometric AI in Art History Research
By Bethany Farrell Sometimes museum visits seem like a twenty-first century gauntlet run—huge crowds, near misses with selfie sticks (which … The post Reverse Image Search and Biometric AI in Art...
View ArticleDemystifying our Digital Scholarship Center: A Conversation with the Temple...
By Urooj Nizami I had the opportunity to sit down with Jennifer Grayburn and Alex Wermer-Colan, Temple University’s postdoctoral CLIR … The post Demystifying our Digital Scholarship Center: A...
View ArticleWorking Around Some Limitations in OpenRefine
By Luling Huang I’ve been using OpenRefine (OR; OpenRefine Development Team, 2013) for data cleaning for a while. The experience … The post Working Around Some Limitations in OpenRefine appeared first...
View ArticleDemystifying our Digital Scholarship Center: A Conversation with the Temple...
By Urooj Nizami Welcome back to the second installment of Demystifying our Digital Scholarship Center and of our conversation with … The post Demystifying our Digital Scholarship Center: A Conversation...
View ArticleVirtual Reality is in Six Flags, Colombia and the NBA
By Crystal Tatis Oculus Rift, Playstation VR, HTC Vive, Google Cardboard, Samsung Gear VR—- words that people thought were part of a bad Mad-lib … The post Virtual Reality is in Six Flags, Colombia and...
View ArticleDemystifying our Digital Scholarship Center: A Conversation with DSC...
By Urooj Nizami This installment of “Demystifying our Digital Scholarship Center” delves into the idea of critical making and gaming … The post Demystifying our Digital Scholarship Center: A...
View ArticleCan the Digital Scholarship Center Recycle 3D Prints?
By Emily Logan The plastic recycling machine project is well underway at the Digital Scholarship Center! I have vertically mounted … The post Can the Digital Scholarship Center Recycle 3D Prints?...
View ArticleDemystifying our Digital Scholarship Center: A Conversation with DSC...
By Urooj Nizami Welcome to the final installment of our conversation with Matt Shoemaker, Librarian and Coordinator of Temple University’s … The post Demystifying our Digital Scholarship Center: A...
View ArticleExploring Hierarchical Clustering in R – Grouping Ideologies
By Luling Huang Problem defined: I have a set of 17 user-provided political ideological labels (e.g., Libertarian, Moderate, Liberal, Centrist, … The post Exploring Hierarchical Clustering in R –...
View ArticleModeling the New Wave: On Learning to Use Machines to Read Sci-Fi Lit
By Alex Wermer-Colan Their education at this point is heavily practical: how to run machines, how to get along … The post Modeling the New Wave: On Learning to Use Machines to Read Sci-Fi Lit...
View ArticleReconstructing Renaissance Lisbon
As part of my research on charity in early modern port cities, I have been studying how the city of … The post Reconstructing Renaissance Lisbon appeared first on Temple University Digital Scholarship...
View ArticleLocating the American Dream in Digital Newspapers
By Rachel Wildfeuer Overview For my research project at Temple University’s Digital Scholarship Center, as part of the Digital Scholars … The post Locating the American Dream in Digital Newspapers...
View ArticleCiting Misinformation: A Lifecycle Case Study
By Ania Korsunska We live in an age when there is unprecedented access to information through the Internet. Though this … The post Citing Misinformation: A Lifecycle Case Study appeared first on Temple...
View ArticleAnalyzing Language Attitudes on Facebook: “Nos Dushi Papiamento/u”
By Keisha Wiel As part of my dissertation research, my project for the Digital Scholars Program looked at language attitudes … The post Analyzing Language Attitudes on Facebook: “Nos Dushi...
View Article“That Belongs in a Museum”: Curation and DH Data as Cultural Heritage
By Bethany Farrell Of all the discipline-specific words co-opted by the larger public the word curate irks art historian me … The post “That Belongs in a Museum”: Curation and DH Data as Cultural...
View ArticleTrolling for regime change in Iran
What is a troll? Unlike bots, trolls are actual people using social media to sow discord or spread false information. … The post Trolling for regime change in Iran appeared first on Temple University...
View ArticleThe Index is Your Friend: A Material Lesson in the Future of Digital History
By Gary Scales With the digital realm providing such inestimable opportunities, time and again I come back to the question … The post The Index is Your Friend: A Material Lesson in the Future of...
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