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  • Learn Bootstrap Part 1: Getting Acquainted with Bootstrap

    By on November 5, 2013

    This is the first in a series of posts that will serve as a mini-course in using the Bootstrap web framework to eventually build a custom WordPress theme. What is Bootstrap? Bootstrap is an open-source project to create flexible design and layout components for the web. It is basically...

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  • Technically Speaking

    By on October 28, 2013

    Recently in our Digital Fellows weekly meetings we’ve been talking about doing skill shares with each other. A great idea, sure, but I was immediately gripped with anxiety at the idea. As the fellow with arguably the least amount of technical skills, sometimes I feel a touch of imposter...

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  • All That is Digital Melts into Code

    By on October 25, 2013

    The world of DH is one in which lofty dreams and visions of the digital transforming the social are frequently confronted by the challenges of coding, the limitations of the real, and the contradictions--perhaps fallacies--of modernity and modernization. This analogy lends caution to DH undertakings ignorant of the realities...

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  • Linking Outside the Box (Linked Data for the Uninitiated, Part 2)

    By on October 21, 2013

    My last post, “Linked Data for the Uninitiated,” was designed to introduce the concept of Linked Data, a philosophy that constructs information to be readable and useful for both machines and humans on the internet.* As a follow up, I had intended to write a review of good Linked Data...

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  • Tool refresh: a crash course

    By on October 14, 2013

    It’s one thing to start playing around with the tools and methods associated with the Digital Humanities, it’s quite another to get a grip on the best digital practices to help you organize your research and pedagogy.  Even if you prefer to approach your academic tasks with nothing more...

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