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Victoria Slonosky: Canada’s Climate History: Weather Observations from the St-Lawrence Valley, 1742-2010

matthew milner on Sep 18, 2014 16:17

Posted in Events, Spaces & GIS, Talks

Casey Wood Collections Project

shoshana.schwebel on Apr 25, 2014 11:52

Tagged with: collections, digital archives, libraries, manuscripts
Posted in Cultural Archives & Curation, Projects

In its current state, the Casey Wood Collections Project is a blog run by Nick Whitfield (Postdoctoral Fellow, Social Studies of Medicine), Anna Winterbottom (Postdoctoral Fellow with the IOWC), and Anna Dysert (PhD student, Department of History, and liaison librarian…

Visualization Workshop

matthew milner on Feb 18, 2014 14:04

Posted in Talks, Visualization

We’re running a short series of Workshops on Visualization for Humanities Scholars this week at McGill. This page is our quick go-to-guide for the sessions, but it isn’t exhaustive by any means. On Tuesday we focused on thinking through Visualization,…

SET: Simulated Environment for Theatre

shoshana.schwebel on Aug 29, 2013 15:56

Tagged with: theatre, virtual environments
Posted in Audio / Visual, Projects, Resources

SET is an ideal resource to experience a theatrical production in a virtual environment. Either for studying a play, creating a play, or even rehearsing a play, the digital system of SET allows the user to interact simultaneously with…

Data Mining with Criminal Intent

shoshana.schwebel on Aug 13, 2013 19:19

Tagged with: digital archives, Old Bailey, Voyant, Zotero
Posted in Cultural Archives & Curation, Projects, Tools Research, Visualization

London’s Old Bailey was a courthouse that saw at least 197,000 trials between 1674 and 1913. The records of these trials have been preserved digitally in an archive called The Proceedings of Old Bailey, one of the world’s largest…