Digital Benin: bringing together scattered historic Benin objects
The kingdom of Benin, in what is now central Nigeria, was a powerful African state from the Middle Ages until…
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RAWGraphs: The New Way to Visualize Data
(This is a guest post by Özge Eda Kaya.) Data analysis and visualization are very important in the modern world,…
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The Digital Cold War and Decolonization: Archives, Methods, and Tools
Introduction Up until a few years ago, the history of the Cold War was dominated by interpretations that focused solely…
Transforming the way we interact with digital (text) collections with IIIF
If you are interested in digital humanities, cultural heritage, or any field that involves working with images and audio/visual materials…
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Saving, organizing, and sharing data with Wakelet
“For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned,” Benjamin Franklin wrote. Personally, lack of organization has always been…
Digital Architecture in Dunhuang—and beyond: an interview with Dr Zhenru Zhou
In this post, I continue my exploration of digital reconstructions in Asian art historical practice. I virtually sat down for…
Knight Lab JS and Storytelling Tools
Knight Lab, produced by Northwestern University, is a community of designers, developers, students, and educators working on experiments designed to…
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Accessibility of Texts and Tools in Ancient Studies: Reframing the Discussion
This is a guest post by Sarah Blake LaRose. As a scholar of biblical studies who is blind, I often…
Procreate and the power of visualization tools
Reconstruction has always been part of the practice of art historians, archaeologists, and artists. Even as far back as the…
Genius loci (Part 2): Mapping places from Japanese texts
This guest contribution is written by Anna Oskina. Introduction In my previous post, I showed how to extract proper names…