Digital Tools for the Arts and Humanities: students’ presentations (University of Florida) (April 20)

Digital Tools for the Arts and Humanities: students’ presentations (University of Florida) (April 20)

April 20, 2016: 18h00-19h15 CEST

Eleni Bozia and her students (University of Florida)

• Slides
• Live Broadcast

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Digital Tools for the Arts and Humanities: Students’ Presentations

The purpose of the course is to expose students of different fields to interdisciplinary research by introducing the importance of digital tools for enhanced study and research in the humanities and the arts, as well as the significance of understanding digital humanities concepts and how they affect the design of tools. The course implements collaboration between digital scientists, artists, and humanists.

During the course of the semester we discussed Humanities, Digital Humanities, and Human-centric computing. We explored text-, image-, and audio-based tools and projects. Furthermore, we worked with visualization tools, Treebank annotation, using the Arethusa framework, 3D digitization, stylo, xml, and html.

The students were free to select their own project according to their research interests, either exploring further the tools that we discussed in class, or marking their own trajectory showcasing the concepts of interdisciplinarity and collaboration that we fostered throughout the semester.

Projects:

Nicole Reyes

For my last project I want to create a timeline chronicling racism and immigration in America by the government since the late 1700s using timelines. I plan on using html to showcase this with maps, links to documents and other visual components with tools we’ve used throughput the semester. The idea is the drill down all the events in U.S. history to show the most influential and important events that shaped racial issues since the United States became a country up until modern times. I am planning on starting from 1790 to 2005.

Mary Johnson

For my final project I want to focus on using text visualization tools to statistically analyze the Pauline letters from The Bible. Since the authors of some of these books are disputed, it will be interesting to compare them in various ways using different text analysis tools. For the purposes of this project, I will use both the Online-Utility Text Analyzer and the Tapor Text Analyzer since both analyze texts and display their findings in different ways. The Online-Utility Text Analyzer shows strings of words that appear commonly as well as individual words and the text’s Lexical Density, while the Tapor Text Analyzer only shows the frequency of the single words but also shows the areas at which the most common words appear throughout the text.

Liliana Lovo

For my final project I have decided to create a website with the html platforms we have learned in class. My goal will be to create a coffee website for my dad because he has three coffee farm back in Nicaragua. I plan to create this website, using html, so people can learn where the coffee actually comes, also show the different types of coffee there exist in the farm. Coffee consumers will be able to read about the farms and learn how the farms are treated to produce quality coffee.

Michael Amish

Interactive Map of Musical Instruments Around the World, using html, and javascript.

The map will include: instrument origin, what it is made from, tonal system used, range, links of instrument being played.

Caleb Milligan

I will use Twine, an open-source tool for telling interactive, non-linear stories. Twine publishes directly to HTML, so you can post your work nearly anywhere.

You Mo, Shan Yan, Sandeep Bedadala, Alberto De Simoni

Silk Road: Yesterday and Today The Silk Road constituted a route of goods, ideas, and cultures throughout the centuries. Connecting the furthest ends of the known world, from East to West it has been an invisible, yet concrete network, which fostered intercultural encounters, and economical exchanges, in what could be considered the first stages of modern globalization.

Nowadays, the Silk Road does not exist anymore as a trade route as it was before. Nonetheless, its existence perpetuates in the form of a framework to interpret the world. Recent events have highlighted once more how important the Silk Road is in the awareness of the people who live in the areas touched by it. Migrants who are crowding the European shores follow the same path that goods from the furthest Eastern regions would do in their last leg into the Old Continent.

The One Belt, One Road plan proposed by the Chinese government, traces the original Silk Road to form a continuous trade and investment network to promote a transcontinental economic development zone among numerous emerging markets stretching from East, Central and South Asia to the Middle East and Africa.

The project will try to offer a multilayer representation of the Silk Road for what it meant in the past, and for what it offers to the understanding of current events.

The project will be presented in the form of a webpage created with html, javascript, google map API.

Nikhil Johns

I decided to make an interactive map about some of the historic places connected to the Underground Railroad. I will be using Story map-esri.

Scott Willis

Who is this King of Glory? The Early Church's Christological Interpretation of Psalm 24: A Historical-Grammatical and Canonical Analysis with an Evaluation

Scott attempts to a profound reading of Psalm 24 through historical evidence as well as analysis of syntactical constructions and phrasing, using treebanking through the Arethusa framework.