Digital Humanities at A-State

05/10/2022

Notes from the Search Bar: post by Ally Santos Jones discusses a forum on Reddit
in which women living with build a community to share and learn

Women living with PCOS have found a unique community through the online forum, Reddit, according to Associate Professor of English from University of Delaware, McGuire. Polycystic ovarian syndrome, or PCOS, is a hormonal disorder that affects 1 out of 10 women of child-bearing age, resulting in comp...

04/25/2022

Notes from the Search Bar: post by Emily Neeley discusses grant awarded to launch a digital humanities center.

Dr. Bartholomew Brinkman, professor of English and director of the Modern American Poetry Site, collaborated with others to apply for a grant from the National Endowment of Humanities to launch a digital humanities center at Framingham State University and was awarded $192,000. The Modern American P...

04/14/2022

Notes from the Search Bar: post by Emily Neeley summarizes the continued work of
the Women Writer's Project to Make the writing of early Modern women more accessible

The Women Writers Project (WWP) is a long-term research project that encodes writing from early modern women writers, making them accessible to teachers, students, scholars, and the general public. The project began in the 1980s at Brown University. Its goal was to redirect attention to the writing....

12/13/2021

Check out the amazing digital thesis that Marti Jo Boren completed in Intro to Digital Humanities.

By Marti Jo Boren

12/02/2021

Notes from the Search Bar: post by Laurel Gaither discusses Timeline JS, a tool created by Knightlab which allows for multiple forms of media to be compiled into a timeline.

Scholars, especially historians, are heavily involved with the study of cultural events and concepts throughout time. Digital timelines and interactive media are great ways to display historical events. Timeline JS is a tool created by Knightlab that allows for multiple forms of media to be compiled...

11/30/2021

Notes From the Search Bar: post by Emily Neeley summarizes WWI Immigrant Poetry Project directed by Lorie A. Vanchena

The World War I Immigrant Poetry Project has created an online digital repository to preserve poems written by German Americans within the decade of World War I and make them accessible to a wider audience. While there are many poems from World War I, the number of available poems written by German....

10/13/2021

Notes from the Search Bar: post by Emily Neeley discusses the recent completion of the Online Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

09/07/2021

Notes from the Search Bar: post by Samantha Hostetler discusses Orange,
an open-source data mining, data analyzing, and visualization tool available for download

Data mining is a process of extracting patterns or correlations from larger data sets that are used for analysis. My experience with data mining came from a past project in which I gathered the Inaugural Addresses of the presidents in order to extract common patterns within the speeches. That is whe...