LibGuides: MUS 381- Digital Humanities: Project Examples

Sound and Documentary

Sound and Documentary in Cardiff and Miller's Pandemonium

An interactive digital companion to a master's report.

Historical Soundscapes

Paisajes Sonoros Históricos (c.1200-c.1800) / Historical Soundscapes is a website designed to explore historical urban soundscapes in cities around the world, aided by the outreach potential made possible through new technologies. Historical Soundscapes is essentially a cartographic project, since the incorporation of its content, in the form of micro-articles or ‘events’, takes the geolocation of different spaces as its starting-point. This innovative approach will allow users to recreate music of the past in historical locations through the use of online interactive maps with digital resources (documents, videos, sounds, etc.). The contents aim to be inclusive and help achieve a better understanding of urban culture, establishing an aesthetic and intellectual dialogue with their sensorial aural history through an interdisciplinary approach that brings together urban musicology with areas including cultural history and art history, among others. This portal intends to become a useful and innovative tool for educational and cultural leisure institutions, taking a further step towards an effective and real transfer of knowledge that reduces the gap between academic research and public knowledge. (Description from project website)

Braiding Braiding

The African Hair Braiding salon is a transactional space where collaboration, cultural exchange, and image production take place.

This year-long project in collaboration with Recess Activities investigates braiding as a metaphor and rule-based framework for production. The act of braiding informs modes of making where juxtaposition, layering, and repetition produce a range of meanings. (Description from site)

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Mapping Project: Relaciones Geográficas

Relaciones Geográficas
Among the holdings of the Benson Latin American Collection, Joaquín García Icazbalceta's Collection of Relaciones Geográficas of Mexico and Guatemala is consistently a major attraction for visiting scholars. The collection comprises original manuscript accounts and artistic renditions of the local geography with dates ranging from 1578 to 1586. There were 191 responses to this questionnaire, of which the present location of 167 are known, including the 43 held by the Benson Latin American Collection. The other known existing Relaciones Geográficas are held by the Archivo General de Indias, Seville, and the Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid.

Technology used

Getting Started

Presenting Geospatial Research with ArcGIS

Alternatives

StoryMapJS
See Guide to DH Mapping

Umi's Archive

Umi's Archive is a multipart, multimedia research project that digs deep into the life of one woman, Amina Amatul Haqq (1950-2017), neé Audrey Weeks, to explore the meanings of being Black in the world. Umi’s Archive launched as a “(re)claimed space where we remember and dream” in 2021 with a six-part online exhibition series curated by scholar-artist-activist, Su'ad Abdul Khabeer. (Description from Umi's Archive)

Network Visualization: Visualizing Social Networks: Palladio and the Encyclopédistes

Visualizing Social Networks: Palladio and the Encyclopédistes, Pt I
There are numerous digital tools for studying networks that can be of use to humanists. One such tool is Palladio, a digital humanities package developed in the Humanities + Design Lab at Stanford University.[1] Palladio lends itself to qualitative studies because the visualizations that it produces (maps, network diagrams, and tables) are familiar to most humanists, and because it allows for the filtering of data through categories chosen by the user. Digital tools offer an opportunity to pursue such research with lower technical barriers to intervention—including easier communication, tools for sharing data, and collaborating on writing. Visualization tools like Palladio allow academics to produce their own diagrams without necessarily hiring a designer.
Visualizing Social Networks: Palladio and the Encyclopédistes, Pt II
In this post, we will focus on how we can use Palladio to visualize networks. A network can link people, places, books, or any other entities that are connected to one another. People or groups are commonly nodes in graphs of social networks. The Age of Revolutions provides many examples of networks that can be studied from a theoretical or a technical perspective: courts, Masonic temples, literary circles, Jacobin clubs, militias, scholarly and correspondence networks—to name a few.

Technology used

Data transformation and manipulation (exact tools unknown)
Metadata schema
Palladio

Getting Started

Alternatives