Because of my internship, I have gained a greater understanding of the nature of digital public humanities (DPH) and its intersections with various disciplines. I got to explore digital tools and platforms for text analysis and content creation, developed a working knowledge of methods and practices applied in DPH, and build a bridge between the…
RRCHNM Internship: Successes & Challenges of Reviewing Digital Public History Sites
My experience and training as an academic librarian have equipped me with the skills to assess different types of content, including websites. One of the many criteria that I have presented to students in library instruction sessions is the CRAAP test, an acronym that stands for Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, and Purpose. This test has served as a…
Identifying and Developing New Skills Through Digital Public Humanities Projects
During my internship this semester with RRCHNM, I have been reviewing websites for the World History Commons project. Such activity can be effectively done by making use of a review criteria that guides me through the process of conceptualizing online history sites, assessing the quality of the sources they present, and guide instructors of history…
GMU-DPH Internship: Things I enjoy the most and things I do to enhance my experience at RRCHNM
During the second part of my internship at RRCHNM, I get to work with the World History Commons project and create content for this site. The World History Commons is a free OER platform that offers high school and college teachers and students of world and global history access to high quality tools and sources…
“Because of my internship at RRCHNM, I am….” (Part IV)
…entering the complex and dynamic realm of digital humanities. Through my text mining and visualization work at RRCHNM, I have gained an understanding of how historians can make use of some of these tools to approach humanistic research related to the Appalachian Trail. My goal has been to engage with hands-on textual analysis tools to…
Application of Skills and Knowledge from GMU Coursework to RRCHNM Internship (Part III)
During my work with the RRCHNM, I have had the opportunity to (1) apply skills and knowledge learned through my DHP graduate certificate coursework and gain a great appreciation of the diverse projects of digital humanists that are currently underway. Here are the main two the constructs I have carried with me throughout my internship…
Eye-Opening Experience During my Internship at RRCHNM (Part II)
What about your internship at RRCHNM has been an eye-opening (new or unexpected) experience? What were your initial expectations? Have these expectations changed now that you are half-way through? How? Why? In the past few weeks, I have been concentrated on exploring topic modeling possibilities offered by Voyant Tools and MALLET to quantitatively study data…
Reflections on my internship with RRCHNM (Part I)
The mission of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media RRCHNM develops projects centered around digital history, historical research, and education. The websites and open-source digital tools created by CHNM aim to preserve history, innovate humanities scholarship methods, enhance history education, and advance historical thinking. These initiatives—many of them done in collaboration with…
AT Project: Initial Text Analysis of ATN using Voyant Tools
Introduction: Here are some initial comparisons between an unclean OCRd batch of ATN vols. 20.1-21.2 and a batch of the same volumes, but with clean OCRd data). This preliminary analysis will help us determine if we need to go through the extra step of preparing the data of each volume or if we could just…
Final Project: Reflections on the Process of Creating the 1898 War Cartoons Prototype Site
Incorporation of Historical Thinking Research The “More to This Than Meets the Eye” prototype site serves as a student guide to explore American perceptions of the Caribbean during the period of U.S. expansionism at the turn of th 20th century. Through the examination of 1898 War political cartoons as primary sources, the site is geared…
