After what felt like a very long spring, summer and fall seemed to fly by! Despite the fast passage of time, the CDRH team has quite a bit of news to share with you about our activities of the past few months. Personnel Changes After 40 years at the university, Kay Walter is retiring from…
Read More Summer and Fall 2020 in the CDRHAre you thinking of digital humanities (DH) as a career? There are many different routes you can use to get into DH, including lots of non-academic positions in museums, genealogy research, art, and public history. In academia, DH is often a team effort undertaken by faculty and staff. Today, we’re going to talk to you…
Read More The Career Paths of CDRH StaffJust as it impacted so many people and organizations this spring, Covid-19 has fundamentally changed how the CDRH team works with each other day to day. In mid-March, carrying houseplants and microfilm readers and in some cases entire desktop computers, we vacated the CDRH and set up home workstations. Despite the new circumstances, we’ve been…
Read More Spring 2020 (not) in the CDRHUntil late 2019, the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) had no multilingual sites. Despite creating and maintaining dozens of sites with content spanning disciplines, the only projects that even came close were the Omaha & Ponca Digital Dictionary, and The Good Person: Excerpts from the Yorùbá Proverb Treasury. Though both of these…
Read More Cartas a la Familia: A Lesson in InternationalizationIt’s hard to believe that DH Afternoons, a forum celebrating digital humanities work being done at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, is already in its second year. It’s harder yet to believe that the second year is halfway over! Over the past year and a half we have seen great presentations from wonderful scholars in our…
Read More DH Afternoons Recap: Fall 2019In September 2015, we launched the O Say Can You See: Early Washington D.C., Law & Family website (OSCYS) [http://earlywashingtondc.org]. The site had an interactive network component, where users could easily see how a petitioner not only had relationships to attorneys and defendants, but to a web of family members and social connections involved in…
Read More Land of Confusion: A Relationship Visualization ExperimentThe Quest to Remake Maps We have had a looming problem on our hands for a while at the center: what we should do about our aging map projects living on a dying server. We have many projects that rely heavily on maps, from Cuban Battlefields to Civil War Washington, all previously living their lives on…
Read More Exporting Vector Data from ArcMap to GeoJSONThe Death of the Old Site Search When it was announced that Google Site Search was shutting down, we were faced with the unfortunate reality that several of our older sites were no longer going to have a commercial free site search unless we worked on an alternative. Since we have used Solr for many…
Read More Experimenting with Solr Cell[This post is also available on the Day of DH’s blog] Hello! My name is Jessica Dussault and I am a programmer at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). Let me tell you a little about my Day of DH 2017 which was, if you can tell from…
Read More Day of DH: Data Data Data[Originally posted by Jessica Dussault, September 12, 2016 on Github Pages] I’ve been sitting on this blog post for several months now, so my apologies for a rather late update! In May the dev team (Karin, Greg, and I) headed to Kansas City for the Ruby on Rails 2016 conference. Most of our dev team…
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