As I mentioned before, the Digital Humanities program is still very small and in the process of developing into a grander program here at BYU. However, the university has made significant progress. Here's a link to the blog that is available on current projects and insight to developments on campus:
http://digitalhumanities.byu.edu/blog/
This blog details several different projects within the digital world as well as prospective projects and tools that researchers are using.
Jarom McDonald detailed exceptional examples of digital studies:
Folger's Shakespeare Library:
Nine Rivers and A Mountain:
https://dhs.stanford.edu/hgis/nine-rivers-and-a-mountain/
Collocate Cloud:
This project uses the British National Corpus to establish an alphabetical word cloud that shows
A second version allows the user to enter two words to find the collocational relationship between them:
http://www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/corpus/bnc/compair.php?word1=wine&word2=water&maxentries=250
Both are part of the SCOTS Project (Scottish Corpus of Texts & Speech)
This site projects 3-D renderings of statues from the Roman Forum onto Google Earth making it possible to visualize the civic ritual space that these statues occupied. Click on the crosshairs icon at the top-right of each descriptive panel to walk through the different perspectives. The rendering is somewhat slow, so be patient. Requires Google Earth Plugin.
"The tool will allow users to create maps of places related to books, and each point on each map will be linked back to specific pages in the books. Users will be able to browse all books that mention a certain time and place, and to browse all the maps created by users that are linked to a specific book. Geo-Scribe emphasizes multiple mappings and multiple perspectives and will add a social, participatory component to the mapping projects that have already been undertaken by Google Book Search."
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection:
This is a growing collection of historical maps made available for detailed consultation on the web.
"The historical map collection has over 27,000 maps and images online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North American and South American maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia, and Africa are also represented."
There are several ways of viewing the maps. For example, you can see the maps overlayed on Google Maps or Google Earth, where you can even change the transparency of the map so you can see both modern and historical maps at the same time. Some maps can even be consulted in Second Life.
Finding the maps for areas you are interested in is easiest in the MapRank Search. Simply zoom in to the location of interest and a list of available maps for that area appears in the right panel.
Home Page:
http://www.davidrumsey.com/
http://digitalhumanities.byu.edu/blog/
This blog details several different projects within the digital world as well as prospective projects and tools that researchers are using.
Jarom McDonald detailed exceptional examples of digital studies:
Folger's Shakespeare Library:
An ongoing project and lecture series on text analysis in Shakespeare's manuscripts.
http://www.folger.edu/template.cfm?cid=3988Nine Rivers and A Mountain:
A simple yet elegant example of using the Google Books API in Digital Humanities.
Collocate Cloud:
This project uses the British National Corpus to establish an alphabetical word cloud that shows
- (a) how frequently a word appears close to the node word (larger text)
- (b) how strongly a word collocates with the node word (brighter text)
A second version allows the user to enter two words to find the collocational relationship between them:
http://www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/corpus/bnc/compair.php?word1=wine&word2=water&maxentries=250
Both are part of the SCOTS Project (Scottish Corpus of Texts & Speech)
This site projects 3-D renderings of statues from the Roman Forum onto Google Earth making it possible to visualize the civic ritual space that these statues occupied. Click on the crosshairs icon at the top-right of each descriptive panel to walk through the different perspectives. The rendering is somewhat slow, so be patient. Requires Google Earth Plugin.
Visualizing Statues in Late Antique Rome:
The project uses the HyperCities platform, which allows maps and data to be plotted in layers on to Googe Maps and Google Earth
HyperCities is also developing an extension tool for geotagging texts: Geo-ScribeThe project uses the HyperCities platform, which allows maps and data to be plotted in layers on to Googe Maps and Google Earth
"The tool will allow users to create maps of places related to books, and each point on each map will be linked back to specific pages in the books. Users will be able to browse all books that mention a certain time and place, and to browse all the maps created by users that are linked to a specific book. Geo-Scribe emphasizes multiple mappings and multiple perspectives and will add a social, participatory component to the mapping projects that have already been undertaken by Google Book Search."
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection:
This is a growing collection of historical maps made available for detailed consultation on the web.
"The historical map collection has over 27,000 maps and images online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North American and South American maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia, and Africa are also represented."
There are several ways of viewing the maps. For example, you can see the maps overlayed on Google Maps or Google Earth, where you can even change the transparency of the map so you can see both modern and historical maps at the same time. Some maps can even be consulted in Second Life.
Finding the maps for areas you are interested in is easiest in the MapRank Search. Simply zoom in to the location of interest and a list of available maps for that area appears in the right panel.
Home Page:
http://www.davidrumsey.com/
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