My hope for this project is that it will present us a hands-on, practical survey of many of the tools and techniques that might be involved in working on digital projects with our users. This could be anyone from an undergraduate seeking to incorporate media elements into their paper, to...
I enjoyed the variety of interesting tools that are gathered on Bamboo Dirt, but as I browsed around I noticed that many of the tools dealt with audio from the angle of text transcription, oral histories, etc. There are some music-specific tools, but I noticed that there is currently no...
A follow-up comment on our group discussion of the interesting article suggested by Bob, by Tanya Clement, ‘Half-Baked: The State of Evaluation in the Digital Humanities’ (American Literary History, Volume 24, Number 4, Winter 2012, pp. 876-890; here’s a link via Project Muse) - one point that was raised a...
Subway Tile, detail, 116th St. (image: Paul Lowry) My plan is to look at the development of the subway in Morningside Heights. The date ranges for our overall project have shifted several times, as we move the project forward. Currently, I believe we've defined the date range as ca. 1820-1950,...
My 4 things of note from today’s session on Git and GitHub: Git is the desktop app (local) and GitHub is the web site (service; shared repository) using the command-line version of Git (in the shell) allows for functionality which is not offered by the GUI app version “Rollback” does...
We’ve reached the point in our project where the group is beginning to get into basics of coding. I find this phase of the project very engaging. I think all of us have at some point thought “I could make that (application/database/widget/user experience) better,” and digging into code opens the...
The PHP intro was great. It’s exciting to begin to dig into the code! Four things I took away from this session: PHP runs on the server, and can generate HTML/CSS/JS to feed back to the page in the browser calculations and conditional operations are possible PHP code is embedded...
Today’s session was a more general session, focused on forming teams to move ahead with the work on the site. Four things that I took away from this session: 1. as we move into the "doing" phase of the project, we may perhaps focus the "Four Things" routine on "four...
Four things to take away from today’s session, PHP part two: both built-in and user-defined functions are possible in PHP; arrays can contain lists of data; there are built-in functions which can sort and output specified data within an array; the period is used for concatenation in PHP. Bonus takeaway:...