My work creating a relational database on incidents of racialized violence in the postemancipation South has involved a great deal of thinking about how we define violence and resistance. Too often these terms are loosely defined – if they are…
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The Development of a Localized MediaWiki Server for Digital Archiving Using Community Based Democratic Content Moderation
Systemic marginalization of communities of colour and the mirroring of this marginalization in online and digital spaces is a problem for civic engagement and more generally democratic process. My research seeks to use a Critical Race and Technology theoretical…
Posted in Blog Tagged with: Archives, Content Moderation, Data Sovereignty, DH methodology, Relational Art
DH and Mining History – Lessons from ASEH
This spring, environmental historians from around the world gathered in Columbus, Ohio for the American Society for Environmental History’s annual meeting (ASEH). The historical discipline has a complicated relationship with digital techniques dating back to the high optimism around cliometrics…
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University Classrooms: Difficult to Escape or Tempting to Engage?
It’s unnerving that I have been teaching for 4+ years at a University level but was never taught how to teach. I certainly am competent enough to google “tips for effective lecturing”, and yet that never crossed my mind. Until…
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Documenting the Research Process: Keeping Track of Higher-Order Concerns
In a digital humanities project, the most important task is the one that is also the easiest to neglect: the documentation of the research process. Documenting the process is important because it preserves the hard-won insights, trials, and most importantly,…
Literature Reviews DH-Style!
So you’ve got a new topic and a new project and you’ve no idea how to get started. And by you, I mean me, and by topic, let’s say specifically the ‘novel’ discipline of Digital Anthropology. For my first blog…
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8 Simple Rules for Fixing Your GIS Imposter Syndrome*
*I don’t have eight separate rules, but I was told to create an “engaging title” so here we are. My name is Sam, and I’m a doctoral candidate in the History Department here at McMaster. I specialize in Cold War…
The Importance of Narrative
It has been a year since I first started working on my relational database. For those who have not been following my journey, I have used my time at the Sherman Centre thus far to construct a relational database that…
The new words of English – A computational approach
Imagine that every day, approximately 15 new words are introduced in the English language. And some of them are rapidly adopted by speakers and added to dictionaries. For example, if you have not heard the word “infomania” yet, then check…
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2018-2019 Graduate Residency – Call for Applicants
The Lewis & Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship invites applications for the 2018-2019 Graduate Residency in Digital Scholarship. The residency program is designed to assist outstanding graduate students who are interested in developing digital scholarship as a component of…
Made possible by a generous gift from the Lewis & Ruth Sherman Foundation.
