Category: Digital Art History Methods
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Annotation as Accessibility: the way we document non-textual information matters
With this week’s exploration, we took a look at a few of the ways we can attach textual information to visual information. Without being able…
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Maps for Narrative-Building
Many of the visualization methods we’ve been looking at this semester fall under the umbrella of distant viewing, and spatial data is no different. Rather…
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When the tombstone isn’t enough: how we represent uncertain data
The concept of authoritative data is inextricably linked to Western methods of cultural understanding. When we expect data to be clean, neat, and authoritative, we…
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What makes a successful digital collection?
While I had some cursory knowledge about digital collections and exhibits, it was great to take this week’s topic as an opportunity to really dig…
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Balancing Search, Exploration, and Sustainability in Collections Interfaces
This week, we took a more critical look at the process of discovery in collections and what methods are being tested to make it easier…
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Copies of copies of copies
This week’s readings and activities were right up my alley- ever since beginning my career transition to cultural heritage four years ago as a volunteer…
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Examining Jaskot’s “Digital Art History as the Social History of Art”
In his article “Digital Art History as the Social History of Art: Towards the Disciplinary Relevance of Digital Methods,” Paul B. Jaskot outlines the ways…