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Grad Studies Fall 2020 Summary

I am not entirely sure if I have come to terms with the loss of a year and half of my graduate studies the way I had envisioned it when I applied to universities in the winter of 2018, but I tried to make the best of it.

This post details my experience of the virtual Fall 2020 semester as an International student taking up two highly demanding courses, AIT 590: Natural Language Processing and CSI 777: Principles of Knowledge Mining at George Mason University in the United States of America, during the tumultuous times of Election 2020, while working as a Digital Scholarship Digital Humanities Specialist Graduate…

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Silk Road Simulation and Visualization: Part 1 - How to get Started on a Digital Humanities Project

Silk Road Simulation and Visualization: Part 1 – How to get Started on a Digital Humanities Project

You and I walk through a city street, sweating in the dry heat, the billowing colorful clothes our protection against gusts of oddly piercing cold that bring in musty aroma of cinnamon bark and ginger infusions. It gets a little overpowering but we gawp at the reams / sheets of the off-white, translucent, softest material we have ever seen flowing from the blocky pillars of the funduks /…

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Digital Humanities in Songs and Baudelaire

Digital Humanities in Songs and Baudelaire

Cultural Mechanics of The Baudelaire Song Project

In the quiet of October 2018, I was listening to a podcast, Cultural Mechanics. Shout out to James O’Sullivan for coming up with such a cool name for a podcast on digital culture and arts. That’s how I came across The Baudelaire Song Project.

When I was younger and winning multiple creative writing competitions, I remember quoting this one line…

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Role of digital humanities in western art and museums

Role of digital humanities in western art and museums

In 2014, Twitter stormed and raged on about a bunch of kids sitting on their mobile phones while Frans Banning Cocq from Rembrandt’s The Night’s Watch at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam looked on.

@wijdopenogen @PieterSteinz @rijksmuseum hoi, ik was er ook vanmiddag. Zag dit ademloos luisteren: http://t.co/wfjC5LqXiD— Jan Postma (@j_postma) November 27, 2014

The photo by Gijsbert van der Wal…

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Using Digital Technologies in Archaeology

Hey Internetpeople!

I wanted to bring to your attention a real cool (and famous) application of digital technologies to explore subjects in the humanities: in this case archaeology. Digitial Satellite mapping technologies such as Google Earth have made visible long-forgotten ruins, which would be of great interest to archaeologists but are invisible on the ground, or even from an airplane only so high about the surface of Earth.

Using Google Earth, the burried foundations of ancient Egyptian pyramids have been made visible as well as another project (using radar), in which an archaeologist used Google Earth to map out the streets of an unexcavated ancient Egyptian city. I think this is mind boggling! Using technologies in space to find what lies underneath the earth's surface: saving money and time which guess work when it comes to finding archaeological sites and conducting survey work based on the composition of the soil and how ancient structures changed the soil structure. 

How digital technologies further advance the humanities!

Google Earth Pyramids found: http://gizmodo.com/5934205/lost-egyptian-pyramids-appear-on-google-earth

Radar finding ancient Egyptian City: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10367930