Now that the internship program is coming to a close for me, I wanted to reflect on what the experience has been like for the past year. If I could describe the entire program with one word, it’d be freedom. Yes, I did have an overall goal, and I didn’t just come in and do […]
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Space and Place in Literature: Reflections on Mapping the Medieval Icelandic Outlaw Sagas
Hello, fellow digital humanists and scientists, In my quest to learn more about digital methodologies and their application in humanities research, my project has been through numerous twists, turns, and rogue experiments during the past few months. I began my project with the intent to map the animals and monsters of the medieval Icelandic Sagas, […]
ELN Presentation
Since the presentations got cancelled a couple of weeks ago, I thought I might share my presentation in a blog post and summarize what I was going to say for each slide. This outlines some of the major goals of my project. Overall, I wanted to research some of the electronic lab notebooks on the […]
Islamic Africa in Search of a Database
Just as the emergence of a digital paradigm is transforming other fields of scholarship and providing new approaches to old questions as well as new questions altogether, Islam in Africa, a field that is at the intersection of African studies and Islamic studies faces new openings in research. However, scholars of Islam in Africa have […]
DH: The Data Turn or Back to Texts?
The discussion around the Digital humanities often seems to be focused on transforming texts into data. Turning language to information, humanists are told, renders their increasingly archaic materials available to a range of computational methods. The majority of these methods, however, are not a part of their training and humanists look towards the other side […]
Updates, updates, updates
Long time no see! Lots of (exciting) things have happened since I last posted, so get ready for updates. One of the biggest piece of news is that I got appointed as a graduate research assistant. This gave me the opportunity to work with a lot of brilliant people on very engaging projects. Due to […]
Choosing an ELN
Last semester I spent the majority of my time deciding on what was important in research and how that could be incorporated into the ideal ELN. Starting this semester, my goal is to choose 3-5 ELNs that are currently on the market and have different research groups across Columbia test them out and choose which […]
An Introduction and Early Reflections
Dear fellow readers, My name is Andrei Papancea and I am an international student from Romania, pursuing a Master’s in Computer Science. When I first came to New York and more specifically to Columbia, I was overwhelmed with the amount of things that I could and had to do. Slowly though, I got to realize […]
ELN Incorporation Into Research
Over the course of about 2 months, I have been researching not only currently available electronic lab notebooks (ELN’s), but comparing and contrasting the characteristics of these notebooks to learn more about how they will fit in to the overall flow of an experimental design. My first step in finding an ideal ELN was to […]
Mapping the Medieval Perspective
Greetings, digital scholars, I’m Mary Catherine Kinniburgh, and am delighted to introduce myself as a Digital Centers Intern for the Digital Social Sciences Center this year. I just arrived at Columbia from the University of Virginia, where I studied English Literature and Medieval Studies with a focus on Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic texts. I caught the […]