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Introduction to Digital Humanities. Introduction to the Mac OS X Command Line. This is a command line tutorial primarily conducted in in the OS X command line.

Introduction to the Mac OS X Command Line

Because of OSX’s unix heritage, much of the info here is also useful in other unix inspired systems, like the Linux command line. The command line can be a scary place when you first encounter it. When you read some instructions that tell you to open up a terminal window and type some cryptic words and phrases, it can seem like you’ve been sucked into the matrix, expected to decrypt an endless stream of indecipherable characters. Fear not, it’s really not that difficult to use. In fact, when you see an experienced user looking at a terminal that is scrolling line after line of text faster than you can even read it, they aren’t really reading it either.

Check out our full library of learning courses. How to open the command line. Before you can use it, you need to be able to find it. So what we need to do is open the terminal. Anatomy of the Console First let’s clarify a few terms. Walled world: How walls are springing up to divide populations everywhere. Ask. Answer. Explore. Whenever. Welcome to Open Library (Open Library)

Scalar; Alliance for Networking Visual Culture. Building a Digital Humanities Program: Collaboration Key to Program Growth. This member update was provided by Bonnie Allen, Dean of James E.

Building a Digital Humanities Program: Collaboration Key to Program Growth

Walker Library at Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN. A library does not need a wealth of archival material in its collection to create a digital initiatives program. The demand for access to archival sources to support the curriculum and research can lead a library to take on the role of providing infrastructure to expose collections that would otherwise remain hidden, and to ensure that they are sustained. I have had the opportunity in two institutions to use the expertise and infrastructure of the main library to bring collections held in archives external to the main library into a visible digital environment that contributes to the mission of each institution. When I arrived at Middle Tennessee State University in 2012, as the dean of Walker Library, the digital initiatives had been limited to collaborative projects to create digital collections.

Framing digital humanities: The role of new media in humanities scholarship. US-Iran – Missed Opportunities « HyperStudio – Digital Humanities at MIT. The meaning of statistics and digital humanities. As the number of people using quantitative methods to study "cultural data" is gradually increasing (right now these people work in a few areas which do not interact: digital humanities, empirical film studies, computers and art history, computational social science), it is important to ask: what is statistics, and what does it mean to use statistical methods to study culture?

the meaning of statistics and digital humanities

Does using statistics immediately make you a positivist? Here is one definition of statistics: Wikipedia article drops the reference to "mathematics" and repeats the rest: Without the reference to mathematics, this description looks very friendly - there is nothing here which directly calls for positivism, or scientific method.

But of course this is not enough to argue that statistics and humanities are compatible projects. So let's continue. "Descriptive statistics are used to describe the basic features of the data in a study. Adolphe Quetelet. However, we are not finished yet. Picasso. How Did They Make That? The Video! Digital Humanities Summer Faculty Workshop. Blog Archive » Introduction to Omeka – Lesson Plan. StoryCorps.me. Resources and Tutorials « OHMS: Oral History Metadata Synchronizer. Guides OHMS Getting Started Guide (v.2.1.19) OHMS Viewer Installation Tutorial (Advanced, for an enterprise environment) OHMS Viewer Installation Tutorial (Simple, for use with third party webhosts) Upgrading the OHMS Viewer OHMS Guide to Indexing OHMS Guide to Transcript Formatting Resources OHMS-Import-Template (.csv) Video Tutorials How OHMS Works (2:16) A Brief Introduction to OHMS Indexing (7:02) Using OHMS to Index Oral History: A Detailed Tutorial (25:50) OHMS Indexing Levels: Level 1 (6:35) OHMS Indexing Levels: Level 2 (7:52) OHMS Indexing Levels: Level 3 (8:34) Louie B.

Resources and Tutorials « OHMS: Oral History Metadata Synchronizer

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