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I attended Loyola University Maryland and received my Bachelor’s of Arts Degree in History, but was unsure of what career direction to take. Eventually I decided to teach and worked towards my 7-12 certification in Social Studies while teaching US History in a Catholic grammar school. I am currently enrolled as a graduate student at…

In reviewing my initial definition of Digital Humanities from the first module, I would keep the overall description of who is involved in working with digitization, how it can be more easily shared with the general public, and that it requires diversity. I would add how digitization has created opportunities for expanded new scholarship through…

I love podcasts. I have been listening to them for the last few years, because of the flexibility and mobility that mobile devices allow for listening at my leisure. I enjoy listening to podcasts while out walking, gardening, and doing household chores. There are a few podcast shows that I have been listening to for…

Crowdsourcing is a term that was first used in a 2006 Wired Magazine description of how the idea of outsourcing work adapted to the World Wide Web. With crowdsourcing, a collective group of people can contribute to projects through their ideas and experience. Because of the internet, there are opportunities to tap into vast, global resources of…

Over the past few years, the prevalence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has grown exponentially, as technology corporations are competing with each other for users, and therefore, profits. However, their goals have come into conflict with one of the most popular websites on the internet, the online, global encyclopedia known as Wikipedia.  Wikipedia began in January,…

When working in the field of Digital Humanities, there are three computer based tools that can be indispensable for assisting with vast quantities of textual analysis, for digitized data sets that would be too time consuming and cumbersome to read through individually. Voyant Tools, Kepler.gl, and Palladio are all web based, easy to use, interactive…

Network graphing tools allow users to discover the ways in which people and ideas are interconnected through charts, graphs and maps. It assists users in finding patterns or trends in large volumes of data that are too cumbersome and time consuming to discover through reading or individual analysis alone.  The network graphing tool Palladio, developed…

Digital mapping tools can be used with any documents that include descriptions or pictures of place or location anywhere on earth. Digital mapping tools can provide users with visualizations of location and place in order to connect the past with the present, and to show if a particular place has changed over time, or stayed…

Text data mining allows users to discover which terms are used with the most frequency in a large body of text, such as a collection of newspapers or magazines over decades of publication, and where those terms can be found. It allows users to study and analyze texts by using a variety of quantitative measures,…

What is metadata? Simply put, metadata is data about data. It is an organizational tool for all the relevant information necessary for assisting a user in finding digitized items during a search, by using key identifiers. It is comparable to the information found in a library when using a card catalog, where one can find…