Tag: coding
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Project: The Oak Bluffs Highlands History Map and the Issue of Too Many Coding “Solutions”
For my fellowship project, I will be creating an interactive, web-based map showing the history of property ownership in the Highlands area of Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. Oak Bluffs was and still is a summer resort community noted for is African American vacationing communities dating to the late 19th and…
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A Quick Trick: How to view the HTML coding for any website
For this week, we had a challenge assigned to create a website. There were several stipulations, the website needed to contain a landing page, several subpages (one for each team member), and a way to navigate between each page. My team, Jon, Santos, and myself, worked together to create our lovely website. The most important thing…
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THAT Camp Caribe and Current DH Conversations
“THAT Camp is like drinking from a fire hose.” – Organizer Marta Rivera Monclova on the first day of workshops. I can attest to the truth of that! I just returned from my first THAT Camp, and I’m still trying to process the many conversations in and out of sessions and what I learned there.…
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Dismantling the Troubling Monolithic Representation of Coding in the Humanities
Coding in the humanities has been the topic of much heated discussion. The conversation has spanned the shoulds-and-should-nots, the whys-and-why-nots, and the who-and-who’s-nots. What troubles me most about the conversations surrounding coding in the humanities is that the notion of coding is constructed as almost monolithic which dangerously lends to the construction of Coding, Coders,…