https://johnstewart.me/tags/digital-humanities/Recent content in Digital Humanities on John StewartHugoen-usMon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500https://johnstewart.me/history/transcribing-historical-documents-with-ai/Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500https://johnstewart.me/history/transcribing-historical-documents-with-ai/A handwritten page from an eighteenth-century chemistry lecture set shows how quickly AI transcription is changing what historians can do with manuscript archives.https://johnstewart.me/it-edtech/code-ocean/Mon, 26 Mar 2018 17:50:53 +0000https://johnstewart.me/it-edtech/code-ocean/Sarah Clayton in the libraries organized a demo for Code Ocean today. The company offers reproducibility as service allowing you to upload or import code and data in a variety of open source langua…https://johnstewart.me/it-edtech/fake-news-and-fact-checking/Fri, 16 Feb 2018 16:36:03 +0000https://johnstewart.me/it-edtech/fake-news-and-fact-checking/Keegan is wrapping up the first week of his Information Literacy Faculty Learning Community as I type. The FLC, especially for weeks 1 & 2, draws heavily on Mike Caulfield’s work on media…https://johnstewart.me/it-edtech/game-design-as-project-based-learning/Tue, 06 Feb 2018 11:29:50 -0600https://johnstewart.me/it-edtech/game-design-as-project-based-learning/2016 still sounds more like a made up year in the distant future than that time “a couple of years ago.” Nonetheless, a couple of years ago, Scott Wurdingerhttps://johnstewart.me/it-edtech/omeka-html5up/Mon, 04 Dec 2017 16:50:45 -0600https://johnstewart.me/it-edtech/omeka-html5up/I have been working on a couple of Omeka sites this semester. I really like the Omeka system for its handling of meta data and the Neatline map extension forhttps://johnstewart.me/history/time-for-r/Fri, 03 Nov 2017 15:17:53 +0000https://johnstewart.me/history/time-for-r/Here at OU, there are at least 4 or 5 that teach introductory R. You can take a statistics class, an economics class, a biological stats class, or a class just on R as a programming language. R has…https://johnstewart.me/it-edtech/visualizing-connections-in-the-sea-of-information/Tue, 24 Oct 2017 15:07:03 -0500https://johnstewart.me/it-edtech/visualizing-connections-in-the-sea-of-information/Between podcasts, newspapers, blogs, journals, books, and video, I have access to far more media than I could possibly consume. Rather than having to searchhttps://johnstewart.me/it-edtech/omeka-of-ones-own/Tue, 19 Sep 2017 14:16:27 -0500https://johnstewart.me/it-edtech/omeka-of-ones-own/One of the recurring concerns/complaints surrounding the Domain of One’s Own project is the inescapability of WordPress. Most students and faculty on OUhttps://johnstewart.me/history/i-am-open-and-so-can-you/Wed, 12 Jul 2017 01:14:35 -0500https://johnstewart.me/history/i-am-open-and-so-can-you/For the next few weeks, I will be taking a history course, something I thought I would never do again after I finished my dissertation. Shawn Graham ishttps://johnstewart.me/it-edtech/digital-note-taking-in-the-history-classroom/Mon, 06 Feb 2017 17:20:05 +0000https://johnstewart.me/it-edtech/digital-note-taking-in-the-history-classroom/One of the projects I’ve been most excited about this semester revolves around an effort to teach history students how to take notes using an online database. The central point of my own digi…https://johnstewart.me/history/situating-chemistry-creating-a-database-of-18th-c-chemists/Wed, 21 Sep 2016 13:14:02 +0000https://johnstewart.me/history/situating-chemistry-creating-a-database-of-18th-c-chemists/*This post is the first section of a talk I gave at the 7th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science. In 1756, fifty-nine students attended William Cullen’s (1710…https://johnstewart.me/history/recap-of-the-3rd-digital-humanities-day-at-ou/Fri, 09 Sep 2016 18:44:01 +0000https://johnstewart.me/history/recap-of-the-3rd-digital-humanities-day-at-ou/Today I attended the 3rd Digital Humanities Day at OU. Below I’ve identified a couple of the emergent themes and given my thoughts. Below that, I included notes on each talk. Making as a Mean…https://johnstewart.me/it-edtech/duplicating-drupal/Tue, 28 Jun 2016 11:31:21 -0500https://johnstewart.me/it-edtech/duplicating-drupal/One of my big ongoing projects is an online Drupal database for the History of Chemistry called Situating Chemistry. The database connects the sites wherehttps://johnstewart.me/history/open-notes-for-deep-maps/Thu, 09 Jun 2016 20:39:22 +0000https://johnstewart.me/history/open-notes-for-deep-maps/For the last couple of years, I have been working with my colleague John Perkins on building a database called Situating Chemistry. With this database we have been collecting information about the …https://johnstewart.me/it-edtech/hypothes-is-collector/Wed, 18 May 2016 16:25:38 +0000https://johnstewart.me/it-edtech/hypothes-is-collector/One of my favorite online tools is Hypothes.is. It allows you to annotate web pages as you would a book. When you’re using Hypothes.is you can highlight text on a webpage or add notes. The to…