Category: Digital Humanities
Last week, news circulated widely that two artists (Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles) had surreptitiously scanned the bust of Nefertiti in the Neues Museum in Berlin and publicly, freely released the 3-d scanning code […]
I’m working now on an article about early Coptic and Syriac on the web. Websites from the 1990s and very early 2000s. I’m interested in how these sites functioned as digital cultural heritage sites and […]
I had a long phone conversation Wednesday morning with John Kutsko, executive director of the Society of Biblical Literature, about my letter regarding the decision to make the Review of Biblical Literature a resource available only […]
I sent my letter in to the RBL and SBL last night. Thank you so much to everyone who read it and shared it. I am especially grateful to folks like Rebecca Lesses, Chuck Jones, […]
The Bryn Mawr Classical Review and the Review of Biblical Literature (RBL) are my first stops for information about new or new-to-me books in biblical studies or late antiquity. I do not work at an institution […]
Our unit in Intro DH right now is on mapping. In class we’ll be working on creating maps with Palladio. We also had a preliminary introduction to data, tables, and maps by experimenting with Google […]
Digital Humanities, Teaching, University of the Pacific
Digital pedagogy and student knowledge production
The past two weeks in my Introduction to Digital Humanities course, students have been using the open-source content management system Omeka to create online exhibits related to the early Christian text, the Martyrdom of Perpetua and […]
Back when we were a two-person show, Coptic SCRIPTORIUM (er, I) posted release updates and news here on this blog. Now Coptic SCRIPTORIUM has its own blog. Check it out.
Sinclair, Stéfan and Geoffrey Rockwell. “Voyant Tools: Reveal Your Texts.” Voyant. 31 Aug. 2015 <http://voyant-tools.org/> In my Introduction to Digital Humanities course, my students are conducting very basic text analysis using Voyant and AntConc. One […]
I spent two weeks at DHSI this year. Week 2 I took Liz Losh’s and Jacque Wernimont’s Feminist DH, which was incredible and I highly recommend to everyone. Check out the #femdh stream on Twitter […]
This fall, as I have been trying to finish up my book project, Monks and Their Children, I have been asked more than once: What’s your next project? When I start describing copticscriptorium.org, I frequently […]
We’ve got a new release of material at www.copticscriptorium.org. New stuff: Additional texts: more Sayings from the Coptic Apophthegmata Patrum chapters of 1 Corinthians additional chapters of the Gospel of Mark Updated and corrected annotations […]