Do historians use digital tools in the same way? This question will be central in this blog. As historians of medicine, working with digitised medical journals and digital tools, with an interest in the development of discourses, concepts and ideas, we took the opportunity to compare our research methods. In her PhD, Eva Andersen (University … Continued
Archives and edited sources have traditionally represented crucial resources for historians. In the digital age, their function has been partly taken over by online databases. Databases allow the storage, categorisation and management of data. If they are online, they also make the data accessible to a large number of researchers. But working with databases can … Continued
In this blog post I am going to give an overview of Netlogo, an agent-based modeling environment. The first part will consist of a very brief introduction to some elements of the Netlogo environment. This is not intended to be an extensive tutorial but rather a first glimpse into some of the basic features of … Continued
In this tutorial we are going to install Strapi on your computer. We will then setup a database complete with forms for easy content management and creation. The dataset we are going to build for this example is a collection of paintings, artists and museums but anything will do. Disclaimer: this tutorial is written for … Continued
Annotation platforms are tools that facilitate the procedure of transferring external information to any type of raw resources. The information we add varies from one case to another. Images can be annotated by adding meta-data such as the date of creation or name of items depicted in them. Text documents can be enriched by linguistic … Continued
The aim of this blogpost is to review data analysis software. None of the qualitative software (nVivo, Atlas.ti, Maxqda, dedoose.) actually “analyse” the data for you in the way that quantitative software does. They are more applicable in systematically organising, coding, annotating, visualising, etc. rather than data analysis. In essence, the analysis is still the … Continued
Thoughts on a promising relationship Originally developed by the Adler Planetarium in Chicago in 2007 to map the stars with the help of internet users on a global scale, the crowdsourcing platform Zooniverse now hosts more than 110 peer-reviewed projects and has 1.7 million users worldwide. Zooniverse calls its concept “people-powered research”; its aim … Continued
Some general thoughts for starting a Tool Criticism Blog The pervasiveness of technology and digital tools poses new forms of challenges that can seldom be addressed by a single discipline alone. Through our series on tool criticism we would like to consider opportunities to leverage on the digital as an opportunity to bridge disciplines that … Continued