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…
Tropy is a freely licensed and open-source software tool that allows researchers to collect and organize the digital photographs that they take in their research, add information to those photos individually or in bulk, using customizable templates, and export both photographs and associated information to other platforms. Tailor-made for researchers, Tropy also makes it possible…
[vimeo 802540 w=640 h=360] Cristóbal Vila and his 3D-computer-rendered fly-over show the environment, structure, and design of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater. There is no substitution for experiencing the iconic house situated in its natural landscape, but if you can’t get to rural Pennsylvania it’s a close second. Read more at Triblive; to know more about…