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
From 30 to 31 October 2017 we had a DTU skills training on Digital Source Criticism, organised by Prof. Dr. Andreas Fickers, Dr. Stefania Scagliola, and Andy O’Dwyer. In this report we reflect on the lecture, exercises and demonstration of several digitisation tools. Dealing with meta-sources in the age of big data (Lecture Prof. Andreas … Continued
DTU PhD researcher Sytze Van Herck published an article entitled “Visualizing Gender Balance in Conferences“. The paper appeared in the fifth number of the journal Umanistica Digitale, containing a selection of papers given at the AIUCD2017 Conference (12-18 January 2017, Sapienza University, Rome). Abstract “Data visualization is a powerful tool for digital scholarship yet not … Continued
Mass digitisation and born digital sources have changed the work of historians, archivists and museologists. Many historians spend less time in the archives, instead photographing or scanning sources on short research visits. In other cases archivists and museologists create online repositories to make sources more accessible. But what happens to all the photographs researchers make? … Continued
Virtual reality (VR) is a paradox. Donning a headset can transport the senses to other worlds, while the body remains firmly planted on the ground (well, most of the time). VR affords us the ability to fly, teleport, and transform the virtual world around us, but has also achieved notoriety for its less desirable tendency … Continued