Category Archives: Digital Humanities at Stanford

Maps, Graphs and Workshops

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

In preparation for tomorrow’s Introduction to Gephi Workshop, I’ve put up a PDF of the short presentation up.  The full workshop will focus on hands-on use of Gephi with examples of spigots and filters and analytics and all the rest … Continue reading →

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The Digital Humanities as a Day

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

Today is the 3rd Annual Day of the Digital Humanities, where DH practitioners describe a typical day in the community. Along with myself, Matt Jockers, Glen Worthey, Ben Albritton and Jon Christensen and Susan Rojo are all representing Stanford.

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Authorial London, the Poetry Foundation and Posters

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

I suppose I’ve been remiss in pointing out a few things that have happened recently in relation to the work I’ve been doing.  The first, and least important, is the creation of a couple Cafepress posters based on the Digital … Continue reading →

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Stanford Digital Humanities Brown Bag

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

Every second Wednesday, the Stanford Humanities Center hosts a DH brown bag so that interested scholars, staff and students can discuss their latest projects and just get the pulse of the DH community at Stanford. The next one is this … Continue reading →

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The Digital Humanities as Ecosystem

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

I had the opportunity to present the DH@Stanford graph to my colleagues, yesterday, during our monthly Digital Humanities roundtable, where along with spirited discussion I met Katja Zelljadt, the incoming director of the Stanford Humanities Center, as well as Jake … Continue reading →

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Old Projects and New in the DH@Stanford Graph

Posted on January 7, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

I’ve started receiving more and more help with describing the Digital Humanities landscape here at Stanford, and so I suppose it’s time to update the DH@Stanford Map. Glen Worthey, the digital humanities librarian in Green Library, was particularly helpful in … Continue reading →

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Testing out Flash on an iPad

Posted on December 21, 2010 by Elijah Meeks

Stanford is closed for the end of the year, and so during that time I’m going to repost some (slightly amended) material that I posted elsewhere (such as at HASTAC during my time as a HASTAC scholar).  Here is a … Continue reading →

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Chinese Civilization in Time and Space

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Elijah Meeks

Fan I Chun was here at Stanford yesterday, visiting from Academica Sinica where he’s busy developing GIS datasets for China based on aerial photos, historical maps, gazetteers and atlases.  Stanford has had authorized access to the Chinese Civilization in Time … Continue reading →

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Spatiality and Slavery

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Elijah Meeks

On Friday I had the opportunity to sit in on Zephyr Frank’s presentation for the Virtual Cities/Digital Histories symposium.  His work, Terrain of History: Spatial History of Rio de Janeiro, 1840s-1930s, continues to produce beautiful visualizations and analyses.

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Networks and Perspective

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Elijah Meeks

I’ve been digging into Alexis Jacomyal’s new network graph viewer SiGMa, which is still in development but the source is available at github. One of the features he’s developing is a fisheye viewer, which is fun and frustrating and affords … Continue reading →

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