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ART 2701 - Media Arts, Performance, and Sound: Intersections (Wednesday)
ART 2701 - Media Arts, Performance, and Sound: Intersections (Monday)
ENGL 1168 - FWS: The Social Fabric of Latinx Sci-Fi
ASRC 2322 - Black Religion and Pop Culture
ASRC 3422 - Gospel and The Blues: A Black Women’s History II, 1973-2023
SHUM 4699 - Mapping the Black Pacific(s): Afro-Asian Encounters
ENGL 3565 - Black Ecoliterature
Tools for displaying and commenting on collections of data and digital objects.
- CollectionBuilder: A collection tool for making a site with groups of objects, art pieces, etc. that automatically populates a map, timeline, and subject cloud. You can also add additional pages with text, information about your exhibits, essays, links, or whatever you want using Markdown. Free, open-source, web-based, and easy to use! See an example here.
- Storiiies: A platform for creating digital exhibits of images and audio from URLs, with text alongside each image. Just pop in your image URLs and your email and Storiiies will email you a link to edit your exhibit and collection. Free, web-based, and open-source!
- Omeka: A software for creating aesthetic digital exhibits of a collection of artworks, museum objects, or images. You’ll need to contact the CoLab to get an Omeka account, but it’s super easy to use. Free, open-source, and hosted by the CoLab! See an example here.
Tools for creating interactive maps with accompanying audio, video, text, and images.
- StoryMapJS: The free, open-source version of ArcGIS StoryMaps for created map-based narratives with images, text, audio, and video. StoryMapJS is recommended over ArcGIS because it is more user-friendly, accessible, and ethical. See an example here.
- ArcGIS StoryMaps: A platform for creating interactive narratives based around text, maps, images, video, and audio. Not the most ethical; run by a big corporation which has control over the data you add. But it’s easy to use and creates beautiful, clickable narratives.
Tools for creating primarily text essays, but with accompanying video, audio, images, hyperlinks, and other digital stuff.
- Scalar: A platform for creating digital editions and digital books, with network visualizations and tags pre-built into the platform. Free, open-source, and web-based! See an example here.
- ArcGIS StoryMaps: You can also use StoryMaps to create narratives based around text, maps, images, video, and audio without any actual map component. Not the most ethical; run by a big corporation which has control over the data you add. But it’s easy to use and creates beautiful, clickable narratives. See an example here.
- Google Sites: A platform for creating a freely-hosted website incorporating text, images, Slides, and Drawings from your Google Drive or across the Internet. Connected to your Google account. Google in general can be sketchy and will take any data you add onto the site, but Sites is so easy to use and creates a clean, public-facing project. See an example here.
AMST - 1101 Introduction to American Studies
Dataset questions to consider:
- Who created the data set? Who is the data set about?
- In what context/why was the data created or gathered?
- What kinds of data are in the dataset?
- What could you use this data for?
- How is the data formatted?
- If you wanted to use this dataset, how would you get access to it?
- If you had to find a similar dataset to this one, how would you search?
- How does this dataset compare to another dataset on the list? How are they different and how are they similar?
Project questions to consider:
- Who created the project? Why did they create it?
- Who is the audience of this project?
- What platforms or tools are being used to create and/or host this project?
- What kind of data does the project use or showcase? Who created the dataset?
- Do you like the project? What do you like about it and why? What do you not like about it and why?
- Is the project accessible?
- Is it financially accessible (i.e. are there paywalls? Is it subscription-only?
- Is the content accessible (i.e. how is it written? Could a non-expert understand the content?)
Introduction to Black Digital Humanities by Iliana Burgos and Kiran M-W.