Description

Our guest today is Dr. Vincent F. Scalfani. Vincent serves as the director of research computing services at the University of Alabama Libraries, providing leadership and support for the newly evolving research computing services across the disciplines. Additionally, he serves as subject liaison for chemical sciences and mathematics. Before joining the University of Alabama in 2012, he earned a PhD in chemistry from Colorado State University.

His research interests include chemical information and cheminformatics. Today, we’re going to be talking about a project that has been ongoing, a project that I am just absolutely in love with. It’s the University of Alabama Libraries Scholarly API Cookbook, which is an open-access online book featuring concise code examples or recipes that illustrate how to interact with various scholarly web service APIs.

These APIs enable researchers to automate search queries, customize data sets, and more easily integrate their information workflows into downstream data analysis processes. Launched in 2022, the cookbook is continually enhanced and updated by student programmers at the libraries. Vin and I have been on faculty here at the university libraries for about 13 years.

Season: 5

Episode: 2

Date: 3/2025

Presenter: Vincent Scalfani

Topic: Scholarly API Cookbook

Tags: Coding; Scholarly API research; research computing

The post ADHC Talks Podcast: A Conversation with Vincent Scalfani (5.2) appeared first on Alabama Digital Humanities Center.

Description

Today our guest is Dr. Jeff Turner. Jeff, I’m going to share what I’ve prepared about you and then you’re welcome to fill in the gaps. So Jeff received his PhD in US history from the University of Utah. His expertise lies in digital humanities, American religious history, and migration. And his research traces the ways migration and immigration inspectors and policymakers construct religion at the US border in the late 19th century and early 20th centuries.

Professor Turner’s digital work spans a variety of digital humanities methods. He entered DH along with Grassroots Graduate Student Group at the University of Utah, who taught themselves to topic model and published an article together.

His subsequent experience came from wanting to understand the relationship between critical theory, and project building, and also a desire to pay the rent. So you’re very practical. He’s worked on public humanities projects such as the Century of Black Mormons, Native Places Atlas, and the Wilford Woodruff Papers Project. And he works in Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and a little bit of R in SQL.

Season: 5

Episode: 1

Date: 3/2025

Presenter: Jeffrey Turner

Topic: Religion at the American Boarder, early twentieth century

Tags: OCR; Machine Learning; History; Digital Humanities

The post  ADHC Talks Podcast: A Conversation with Jeff Turner (5.1) appeared first on Alabama Digital Humanities Center.

Description

Our guest today is Dr. Lauren Cardon. Lauren is Associate Professor and Director of graduate studies in the Department of English here at the University of Alabama. She specializes in 20th-century and contemporary American literature, cultural studies, and critical pedagogy. Lauren has a long history of partnering with the ADHC to give her students the opportunity for multimodal research in the literature classroom.

Today she is joined with one of her undergraduate students, Maylee Hamlet, who was enrolled in EN 361 and worked on the project that we’re going to talk about today. Welcome, Lauren and Maylee.

Season: 3

Episode: 4

Date: 3/2024

Presenter: Lauren Cardon and Maylee Hamlet

Topic: Building a collaborative TimelineJS for Special Topics in American Literature

Tags: American Literature; Digital Projects; TimelineJS

The post ADHC Talks Podcast: A Conversation with Lauren Cardon (3.4) appeared first on Alabama Digital Humanities Center.

Description

Our guest today is Kathleen Lewis. Kathleen is the first in a series of graduate student spotlight guests, which is a way for us to highlight the digital humanities work being done by our amazing graduate students here at the University of Alabama. Kathleen is a doctoral candidate in the composition and rhetoric in English studies program in the Department of English. Her research uses new materialism to explore recomposition and circulation of the pride flag on social media platform Tumblr.

Season: 3

Episode: 3

Date: 3/2024

Presenter: Kathleen Lewis

Topic: LGBTQ Flag on Tumbler

Tags: Social Media Studies; Digital Rhetoric ; Rhetorical Velocity

The post ADHC Talks Podcast- Graduate Student Spotlight: A Conversation with Kathleen Lewis (3.3) appeared first on Alabama Digital Humanities Center.

Description

Our guest today is Dr. Jenny Shaw. Jenny is an associate professor in the department of history here at the University of Alabama. Her research focuses on transatlantic race, labor, and religion. As a member of the University of Alabama’s task force on slavery and civil rights, she served as the project manager for the website, The History of Enslaved People at UA, 1828 through 1865. This website, hosted by the Alabama Digital Humanities Center, curates documentation of enslaved people who labored on the campus of the University of Alabama.

Season: 3

Episode: 2

Date: 02/2024

Presenter: Jenny Shaw

Topic: University of Alabama History

Tags: Historty; Omeka S; Archives

The post ADHC Talks Podcast: A Conversation with Jenny Shaw (3.2) appeared first on Alabama Digital Humanities Center.

Description

Our guest today is Dr. Jennifer Feltman. Jennifer is associate professor of medieval art and architecture. Her research focuses on the design, interpretation, and preservation of Gothic sculpture. She is directing “Notre Dame in Color,” which is hosted by the Alabama Digital Humanities Center.

“Notre Dame in Color” investigates, documents, and virtually recreates the vibrantly painted sculptures of the Gothic cathedral of Paris. This project has received funding from the Face Foundation, Transatlantic Research Partnership, a program of the French embassy in the United States, the NAH, and the UA Collaborative Arts Initiative.

Season: 3

Episode: 1

Date: 11/2024

Presenter: Jennifer Feltman

Topic: Scultural Art History

Tags: Notre Dame Cathedral; Art History; Sculture; 3D modeling; collaborative research

The post ADHC Talks Podcast: A Conversation with Jennifer Feltman (3.1) appeared first on Alabama Digital Humanities Center.

The post Omeka S Guide 06: Build a Page in Omeka S appeared first on Alabama Digital Humanities Center.

The post Omeka S appeared first on Alabama Digital Humanities Center.

The post Omeka S Guide 05: Adding a New Site appeared first on Alabama Digital Humanities Center.

The post Omeka S Guide 04: Create a New Item appeared first on Alabama Digital Humanities Center.

The post Omeka S Guide 03: Create a New Item Set appeared first on Alabama Digital Humanities Center.

The post Omeka S Guide 02: Create a New Resource Template appeared first on Alabama Digital Humanities Center.

The post Omeka S Guide 01: Welcome to Omeka S appeared first on Alabama Digital Humanities Center.

This workshop is about digitizing features from a georeferenced map, which is the second step in creating a GIS map file of the embedded geographic data in a paper map for the purpose of research and analysis. This tutorial follows our tutorial on georeferencing, so if you have not completed that step, check out the previous tutorial. 

As with the Georeferencing tutorial, Digitizing is a complex technical task. This tutorial will focus on the practical steps that you need to take to complete the task. Digitizing is the process of creating GIS layers of the features depicted on a paper map. Using the GIS software QGIS, we will identify features from the georeferenced map and trace them onto a new GIS layer, separating them for later analyses and visualization. 

Below, you will find a series of step by step guides to help you learn this process. When you have completed this tutorial, you will be more familiar with the tasks of Digitizing features on a georeferenced map which will be ready for display. 

The post Mapathon Day 03: Digitizing in QGIS appeared first on Alabama Digital Humanities Center.

This workshop is about Georeferencing, which is the first step in our Introduction to GIS series. GIS means “Geographic Information System.” Georeferencing is a very technical activity but we are going to focus on the practical elements that will allow you complete the georeferencing task on a scanned image of a map. 

Georeferencing, in the most simplistic terms, is layering a scanned map (likely a print map that has been scanned and saved as an image file or a pdf file) on top of a satellite map and locating reference points (known as “Ground Control Points”) on both maps in order to align the scanned map accurately with the satellite map. By using as little as three of these Ground Control Points, you can begin to locate the scanned map on the satellite map, which is the first step to creating and embedding geographic data to that map for comparison and analysis. 

The post Mapathon Day 02: Georeferencing Maps in QGIS appeared first on Alabama Digital Humanities Center.

The post Mapathon Day 01: QGIS Basics appeared first on Alabama Digital Humanities Center.

Learning Objectives: change the background map using a different map from the StorymapJS map library; upload a new custom map marker.

The post Storymap Guide 06: Selecting a Map and Changing Your Map Marker appeared first on Alabama Digital Humanities Center.

Learning Objectives: apply html tags to text to create headings; numbered lists, and unnumbered lists; and paragraph breaks.

The post Storymap Guide 05: Custom Text Formatting appeared first on Alabama Digital Humanities Center.

Learning Objectives: share map with a public URL; share map as an embed on a website; share map by exporting as a file.

The post Storymap Guide 04: Share Your Storymap appeared first on Alabama Digital Humanities Center.

Learning Objectives: Create a new Storymap Slide; add a location to a Storymap Slide using an address; add a location to a Storymap Slide using a GIS reference.

The post Storymap Guide 03: Adding Location Slides appeared first on Alabama Digital Humanities Center.