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  • Teaching with Omeka

    Is Omeka the right tool for my class? Although Omeka is a polyfunctional software, it’s not the best tool for all purposes. If you are looking to create a website for your students to engage class material, write blog posts, and interact with one another, a WordPress course site on the Commons is often a better and more flexible option. […]

  • Using Audacity for Interviews

    I recently ran a workshop on using Audacity for interviews which builds on my previous blog post, Getting the Best Recording (within your budget) for your Interview. I began with a general overview of digital audio recording before discussing some strategies for “cleaning” interview audio. The workshop was structured to provide a general idea of the process from recording an […]

  • Build Your Academic Website Using R

    It’s a new year and a great time to revamp your academic website!  You do have one, don’t you? While there are many options for creating a personal website, including our very own CUNY Commons, you might be interested in learning how to create something more personalized that can travel with you to other institutions.  If you’re an #rstats geek […]

  • Interactively Explore Geographic Data in R Using Leaflet

    Note: An interactive version of this tutorial is available at https://connor-french.com/post/leaflet-tutorial/ Why leaflet? Making a data visualization interactive opens up a host of opportunities for new insights. This is especially true for geographic data. While a static map is preferable for publication in a journal or a book, an interactive map is suitable for exploring data or packing more information […]

  • A Legible Digital Archive: Displaying and Sorting Content on Your Omeka Site

      How do you organize content on public facing Omeka websites? This is among the most recurring questions raised by attendees of the Introduction to Omeka workshop offered by GCDI over the past two years. For example, one student working on a digital archive of European sculptures wanted to provide an artist directory for users to browse. Another student, working on […]

  • Toward the End of a Digital Project: Reflections on Starting Over

    This issue is probably more common than I think. Over the past year I’ve been working on an ambitious digital project: to modify a digital annotation tool, hypothes.is, so that the user can highlight text in multiple colors, rather than just yellow. While that doesn’t sound very ambitious, the theoretical underpinnings of the project and technical obstacles involved have made […]

  • GCDI is Here for You!

    *Note that this blog post is revised and updated every semester, typically in early September or February. Links in this post may be outdated. For up to date information, please check the most recent “Welcome to GCDI”/”What is GCDI?”/”GCDI is Here For You!” post.* Greetings Digital GC – Welcome back! As you’re transitioning (back) into the academic year, take a […]

  • Finding the Right Tools for Mapping

    Given the wide array of mapping tools available, it could be hard to know which ones will best suit the needs of a given project. This post will review and compare six of the most popular mapping tools available so you can find the right tool for you. If you don’t currently have a mapping project in mind, this guide […]

  • Transforming TEI for the Web

    Last month, I led a workshop for the GC Digital Initiatives on “Getting Started with TEI.” For those who don’t know, TEI (short for Text Encoding Initiative) is a method for encoding, or “tagging,” texts in such a way that both humans and computers can make sense of them. It is a set of guidelines used for electronic editing and […]

  • What is GCDI? (Spring 2019 edition)

    Note that this blog post is revised and updated every semester, typically in early September or February. Links in this post may be outdated. For up to date information, please check the most recent “Welcome to GCDI”/”What is GCDI?”/”GCDI is Here For You!” post. Dear Digital GC, This post aims to review information about the GC Digital Initiatives (GCDI), upcoming […]
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