DHM 280

https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football

When I first saw the title, it captured my attention. As I entered the site with the story. I was rather confused but still intrigued to continue to read the story.

Sources that I ve gathered so far has been about communicating with each other. It started out on a calendar and when they would communicate with each other again after months of no communication. It was due to battery life. But the person on the other side who is waiting to get more informations was also confused as well. It was emphasized greatly that battery life was very important to conserve energy on the phone to received further messages. As I m reading along, I m still rather confused but it still kept me in the story. Im trying to figure out where the football in the future comes in.

Process, As Im reading along, it got me thinking that perhaps this is what the future would be like. How people communicate with each other. The transition of what football games would look like and how people would watch the game in different way.

Presentation, The way the story was written had kept me reading even though it was and still is confusing as Im still reading it. I still need to collect more informations and sources to understand exactly where this story is going.

The Digital Humanities project that I found interesting to look into was a project from the University of Toronto: Mississauga titled “Visualizing the America’s”. The project is based on the history of capitalism and wealth extraction from Latin America by pointing to the history of the banana, a fruit that we as Americans generally take for granted thanks to this economic imperialism. The project claims to “decolonize knowledge” by presenting research on Latin America in “simple and compelling terms”. On the home page there is a condensed timeline of the history of banana cultivation in Latin America and the webpages under “Themes” and “Key Moments” provide more in depth articles. Its’ sources on the historical events can be found at the bottom of the website’s articles and generally uses secondary sources, photographs, and United Fruit Company documents to construct its’ narrative.

Something the project is currently working on is the digitization of documents, letters, and photographs from the United Fruit Company that was found in an attic of one of their plantations by Philippe Bourgois. They are also working on the digitization of the photographs of Rafael Platero Paz’s who documented the lives of the working class in a banana town in Honduras. Currently the documents are not freely available to the public without a login, however it does state its’ intention to make them publicly available to all once the digitization process is complete.

https://visualizingtheamericas.utm.utoronto.ca

The project I decided to look at was the American Theatre Archive Project. I found it on Lehigh universities page underneath the performing arts section. The purpose of the project is to protect archived pieces from American theatre and preserve American theatre’s. The project does this by running 4 different committees that help to seek funding, partnerships, etc. The website has a page dedicated to all the sources used towards their site. The sources include different documentaries, case studies, papers, museums, etc that help support their cause. The sources are used as a way to show their audience the importance of preserving archives in the theatre and also show the some theatre’s they have helped. Now the processing done on this project is confusing. The project’s website never analyzed the sources, instead they just listed them on the sources page. Now the website does have a monthly newsletter that you can sign up for and I am assuming that the sources could be discussed in the newsletter. The project discusses the importance of archiving pieces in theatre to preserve the history in the theatre and will help their audience understand the importance of funding and keeping theatre around.

The Collective Biographies of Women: Preface

The Collective Biographies of Women lists all the books published in English from 1830 to 1950 that present three or more women’s biographies and, is approximately 1200 items. Sources

After watching Miriam Posner’s “How did they make that” I found that the processed in The Collective Biographies of Women would be in the Main Bibliographies because, it includes the publication data of every known edition or reprint.

Although they have not attempted to complete histories of each work. The list is as complete as possible through 1950 with plans to round out more listings from later decades. What I have summarized here is what I think would fit into the presented

To give some background on this it started with a complete list of all prosopography’s of women that were published in the English 1830-1940, with a very selective list of some before 1830. Female prosopography increasingly got more popular in the 1830’s but didn’t boom until the later nineteenth century.

https://worldofdante.iath.virginia.edu/criteria.html

The World of Dante is a digital humanities project aimed at showcasing Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. The website features all three parts of the epic poem, and also includes illustrations, maps, charts, and music related to the poem.

The actual poem can be accessed through the larger buttons at the top of the website. Each part of the poem has its own landing page, and once on the landing page, a dropdown menu labeled “Canto” can be accessed to find each chapter of the larger parts. The actual poem is displayed with both the original Italian text side-by-side next to the translated version in English.

This copy of the Comedy that this website uses was edited through XML, which, as stated in the “about” section, is unlike other versions of this poem presented online. Also, there are links to the different characters, places, and deities mentioned within the poem and they lead to different pages to help describe them. In some cases, when Dante is being a bit ambiguous, the links will still appear. To clarify and quote from the “about” section: “Hence a character such as Farinata has been tagged not only when he is mentioned by his proper name, but also when Dante refers to him as quell’altro magnanimo (“that great-hearted one”) (Inf.10.73).” Also in the “about” section, it includes with which sources the timeline was created.

Hi there! Welcome to the Fall 2025 Edition of Introduction to Digital Humanities (DHM 280) at West Chester!

We’ll use this site for the blog assignment and for the Digital Humanities Project list, along with a few other things. Most class content will be on the class D2L site.

Tune back in soon to see your classmate’s blog posts!