It seems that almost every month now a new application appears that makes it easier and easier to mash up historical and geographic information. Two that I’ve taken notice of this week are Weaving History and HistoryPin, both still in their beta versions, and so still a little quirky. WeavingHistory lets the user build “factlets”…
Tag: Visualizations
Visualizing Millions of Words
One of the very first posts I wrote for this blog was about visualizing information and some of the new online tools that had cropped up to make it a little easier to think about the relationships between data–words, people, etc. Interesting as they were, those tools were all very limited in their scope and…
History Collages and Image Mining
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about how students can begin to sort through the huge databases of historical images now available online. Image mining is still in its infancy, although already we are starting to see some interesting work being done in the field. This work promise to eventually let us do…
New NEH Digital Start Up Grants
Last week the Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) at the National Endowment for the Humanities announced the most recent winners of funding from the Digital Humanities Start Up grant competition (including a team here at CHNM). Three things jump out at me as I look at the list of new projects. The first is a…