J.C. Stribiling Barn (Sleepy Hollow)

Exploring your Landscape with the Mobile Digital Public History Site “The Clio”

The Clio https://www.theclio.com/ Urban humanist, Mark Tebeau has examined the possibilities that mobile technologies offer to curators and historians as they reach out to audiences, stating: “Although humanists, including oral historians, have embraced these technological trends, sometimes slowly, broad publics have incorporated mobile computing into their daily lives.” (25) With the use of GPS, mobile…

“Territorio no incorporado”: Progress Report 3 (Module 7)

The “Territorio no Incorporado” platform is taking more shape with the creation of the new Exhibit: “Puerto Ricans in the Anderson-Pickens-Oconee County Area, Upstate South Carolina.” So far, this exhibit revolves around the story of Julio Rosado, an elite hairstylist living in the town of Anderson. Successes #1. The First Storyteller has Emerged This exhibit…

View of Santurce, PR. Lithographic postcard. Creator, Gonzalez Padin, Hnos. Contributors, Gleach/Santiago-Irrizarry.

Doing Digital Humanities: A Reflection from a Newbie

Aim of EnRoutes With EnRoutes: Markers & Makers in 1900s’ Puerto Rico, I wanted to create a space where the audience can establish relationships with visualized images and annotations. I have great interest in how road system projects that took place in 1900s transformed social networks in Puerto Rico. In Puerto Rico, considered to be…

Voyant, kepler.gl, and Palladio: A Tale of Three Visualization Tools

Introduction There are web-based digital platforms that empower users to upload data and explore it with the generation of visualizations. These are free of charge and fairly easy to use. Tools like Voyant, kepler.gl, and Palladio help examine digital sources in very distinct fashions. Voyant, for instance, focuses on corpus analysis, kepler.gl will do mapping…