Getting started with digital art history
With this post, I am beginning a conversation, mostly intended for colleagues at my own institution, but for anyone else who might be reading, to present small pieces of what we learned at Rebuilding...
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Moving forward…
Rebuilding the Portfolio: DH for Art Historians ended on Friday. After two heady weeks of learning about new tools, experimenting with them, reading a variety of texts in different formats (including...
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Sharing Authority
ŀshak Paşa Palace, Doğubayazıt; Ara Güler; silver gelatin print, 1965; Raymond A. Hare collection, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives, A1989.03.3.9 The topic on Wednesday was...
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This is an exercise in creating data visualizations using a premade set of data about art sales in 2011. Importing clean data from an Excel spread sheet allows the data to be sorted and displayed in a...
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Text mining
The Philadelphia Photographer, Volume 15, 1878. Most common words, presented visually Today we were introduced to data and text mining. Structured data, unstructured data, dirty data, all kinds of...
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Today was about mapping. We played with several different ways to map and to tell stories with maps. This example was produced in an alpha version of a program called StoryMap. I’m not crazy about it,...
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Annotating images
This late-ninteenth century photograph from an album in the Getty Research Institute is a fascinating example of early photo manipulation. In an effort to convey the drama and excitement of...
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Platforms (and we’re not talking about the shoes)
There are a lot of different kinds of platforms in the world, but today the subject was web hosting platforms for art history research projects. As a group, we played with Drupal, Scalar and Omeka,...
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What to do with all the photographs
Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC Artamanoff’s photographs are split primarily between two collections, The Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, and...
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Doing Digital Humanities, Day One
Nicholas V. ArtamanoffSokollu Mehmed Paşa CamiMyron Bement Smith Collection, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives, Smithsonian Institution The story of the discovery and...
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