Grass Digital Archive
Trusted friends and colleagues, Find my final project, Here Come the Snails here. I hope that you all find it as enjoyable to read as I found it to build. I wis...
Author: Alex Cole
Maps as Interfaces – Historical GIS
Last Friday, I attended a workshop hosted by Geoff Cunfer, an agricultural historian, concerned with the agricultural history of the Great Plains, on the topic ...
FiveThirtyEight Interactives – Electoral Statistics Made Easy
FiveThirtyEight is a website very near and dear to my heart. Headed by the statistics Wunderkind, Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight is a data-driven news site dedica...
DH and Community Building – Week of April 3
Dear Friends and Colleagues, This week I’ve chosen three articles on the topic of DH Community. Paul Crowther’s Ontology and Aesthetics in Digital A...
History Pin as a Pedagogical Tool
In incorporating DH into the classroom, the DH community offers a plethora of options. The tool that I found most interesting as a pedagogical too was History P...
DH as a Creative Tool: Edgar Berdahl’s Digital Instruments
In thinking of DH projects as “instruments,” it was a pleasant surprise to see a presentation that envisioned DH tools as literal digital musical in...
Snails in the 21st Century: Grass Digital Archive Proposal
Günter Grass, in one of his final interviews, revealed a deep-seated antipathy towards the digital sphere. He says, “I still write my manuscripts by hand. After...
Of Grass and Grammar
This week’s excercise and readings regarding data collection and topic setting is illuminating insofar as it demonstrates the similarities between the Soc...
Experimental Criticism
In using the platforms chosen for today’s activity (Hathtrust and Voyant), I ran into a few, albeit non-insurmountable, problems. The largest problem I ha...
Günter Grass Omeka Collection
Continuing from my last foray into the digital humanities, I decided to collect ten interviews with Günter Grass conducted by various groups and individuals thr...
