We spoke with Lauren Michael, a Research Computing Facilitator with CHTC, to learn more about the center and how their role supports researchers at UW-Madison. Can you tell us a little bit about the CHTC? …
Tools
DH Tools Part 1: Off-the-Shelf
You don’t have to learn an entirely new programming language to do cutting edge digital humanities work. There are many sophisticated, useful off the shelf tools that you can use for your research. Many of …
Link Roundup – May 2020
Cameron Cook John Yin, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at UW-Madison, is using computational methods to understand the material conditions viruses use to reproduce themselves. He is hopeful that such an approach will allow …
Link Roundup April 2020
Cameron Cook UW-Madison’s American Family Insurance Data Science Institute has posted a collection of COVID-19 resources that demonstrate the contributions data science can make to better understanding the virus. These resources include projections for the …
Tool: Digital Mappa
Written by Martin Foys and Maxwell Gray What is Digital Mappa? Digital Mappa 2.0 (DM) is an open-source, collaborative digital humanities platform for public or private workspaces, projects and scholarly publications. The platform software can …
Tool: Protégé
What is Protégé? Protégé is an ontology description platform developed at Stanford’s Biomedical Informatics Research (BMIR) for creating, sharing, and visualizing web ontologies and taxonomies. Ontologies and taxonomies are descriptors for use in many instances, …
An Introduction to Web Scraping for Research
Like web archiving, web scraping is a process by which you can collect data from websites and save it for further research or preserve it over time. Also like web archiving, web scraping can be …