Abhishek Amar and Lauren Scutt (Hamilton College) The Sacred Centers in India project, aimed at creating a digital archive, began in April 2013 at the Digital Humanities Initiative (DHI) at Hamilton College. This project seeks to examine the multiple layers of the history of 55 important shrines within the Hindu pilgrimage city of Gaya (known […]
Building Communities of Collaborators at Our Marathon: The Boston Bombing Digital Archive
Alicia Peaker (Middlebury College) and Joanne DeCaro (Northeastern University) In May 2013, students and faculty members at Northeastern University began work on Our Marathon: The Boston Bombing Digital Archive (www.northeastern.edu/marathon), a digital humanities project built with Omeka. Motivated by the Boston community’s interest in sharing stories about the 2013 Boston marathon bombings, Our Marathon is […]
Visualizing Holocaust Testimony
Anne Knowles, Laura Strom and Levi Westerveld (Middlebury College) Oral testimonies by Holocaust survivors are crucial documents of historical events and personal experience. They are also very moving, emotional narratives. In 2014, the Holocaust Geographies Collaborative, an international research group of historians and geographers, shifted their focus from using GIS and conventional mapping to seeking […]