Today Google and Google Art & Culture are highlighting Heritage on the Edge – 5 heritage sites with 1 common threat: climate change. Researchers worldwide are using technology to protect cultural sites against climate change and advocate for saving the world’s shared cultural heritage.
It will be DH Friday on October 11 when we host Smith College’s Andrew Maurer who will give two hands-on workshops on 3D Visualization for the Humanities: Photogrammetry Basics (9:00am-12:00pm) – Photogrammetry, the process of using still images to produce digital 3D models, provides new possibilities for visualizing and interpreting cultural objects. In this hands-on…
As the start of the new academic year approaches, already there are a couple of upcoming digital-scholarship related events in the UCSB Center for Black Studies Research to get on your calendar now! “Surveying the Terrain“: Session 1 of Race, Space, and Place Workshop, Tuesday, October 8, at 12:00pm. This is the first session of…
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwqNn1x7OoE] An added bonus: Lumion is free for students in the US, but many comments point out you could use Google Earth images as well.
The Digital Scholarship Lab at University of Rochester’s River Campus Libraries outlines the process and outcome of the final course project for History 252: Immigration in the Americas, where students created Dynamic Maps Using CSV, Google Earth, KML and ArcGIS Online. In the project, “…[s]tudents developed original research based on archival and primary sources to…
This year, the IRC DIL lecture series has focused on Mapping, culminating in a hands-on map-making workshop. However, sometimes we’re looking for historical maps and ways to work with them. A magnificent resource for the study and research about and with historical atlases and maps is David Rumsey’s Map Collection. At his last count, there…