Resources
We believe in sharing digital knowledge. Here are resources we’ve collected and created over the years:
Digital Humanities Bibliography
In February 2019, John Taormina launched the Digital Humanities Bibliography with assistance from Alexander Strecker, Katherine McCusker, and Michael O’Sullivan.
The idea for this bibliography came about during 2014-2015 as the Digital Humanities Special Interest Groups were being formed in the Visual Resources Association and the Art Libraries Society of North America. With the recent flurry of publications in the digital humanities over the past five years, and increasing interest in digital humanities in academic disciplines, a comprehensive bibliography seemed all the more important. Under the direction of John Taormina, director of the Visual Media Center in the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, the project began in earnest during the 2017-18 academic year and continued over the course of three semesters with the assistance of a graduate student or undergraduate each semester for data entry.
Various bibliographies from digital humanities publications (books and journals) were identified, selected, and collated into this new bibliography. The first version of this document was released in February 2019. Additions to this type of compilation are ongoing and updates will be released quarterly. A filterable online version is in development.
Tutorials
The following are resources that we have developed over the years for our teaching and research, along with resources we have found useful. Many of these are licensed under Creative Commons. If you reuse them in your teaching and research, let us know. We’d like to hear how they have helped you and what we can improve. Write to hannah dot jacobs at duke dot edu.
General Resources
- Digital Art History Project Planning – questions to help you focus your ideas and develop your project. Created March 2015.
- Project Planning Worksheet – create an outline of your project from start to finish. Created June 2017.
- Fair Use for the Visual Arts – resources to help you navigate copyright law and fair use in digital art history projects.
- Using assistive and accessible technology in teaching and learning – A guide to the assistive technologies that can support learners with special educational needs.
- Digital Publishing Platforms at Duke
3D Modeling
Architecture
SketchUp
- Wired! Introduction to SketchUp – updated December 2016
- Organizing & Cleaning your SketchUp Model – created February 2015
- Applied: Pavilion – updated January 2016
- Applied: Portal – updated February 2016
- Modeling with Solid Tools – created February 2015
- Applied: Modeling from Photographs
- Modeling from Floor Plans & Elevations – created January 2015
- Adding Textures
- Animation: Scenes & Sections
- Animation and Video export
- Other SketchUp resources: sketchUcation & YouTube Playlist
Objects
Blender – YouTube Playlist
Cheetah3D – YouTube Playlist
Sculptris – YouTube Playlist
Texturing
Tutorials from Dig@Lab
- 3D modeling for real-time visualization
- From 2D Architectural Drawings to 3D Models in a CAD Environment
Virtual Reality
Unity3D – Unity Tutorials & YouTube Playlist
Dig@Lab‘s Vulci 3000 Project – 3D Data Collection
3D Printing
Omeka & Neatline
Omeka
- Introduction to Omeka – updated June 2017.
- Guide to Omeka.net – updated August 2016.
- Omeka/Dublin Core Data Dictionary – updated June 2017.
- Importing Items into Omeka Using CSV Import – updated June 2017.
- Omeka/Neatline Rubric & Grading Sheet – Created by Adrian Linden-High & Hannah L. Jacobs in spring 2017 for VMS 334 Roman Spectacles (Jimenez).
- An Experience as a Wired! Lab DH TA – Hannah L. Jacobs & Amanda Lazarus, January 30, 2017.
- Reflection on Assessing Omeka/Neatline student projects – Adrian Linden-High, July 26, 2017.
Neatline
- Introduction to Neatline — updated June 2017.
- Neatline FAQs — updated June 2017.
- Complete Introduction to Neatline — covers nearly everything you might ever need to know about Neatline, taken from docs.neatline.org.
- Neatline & Non-Linear Arguments — a philosophical approach to creating projects in Neatline & Omeka.
Omeka & Neatline Video Tutorials – Created Spring 2017
Image Editing
Photoshop
- Wired! Introduction to Photo Editing for Art History – created March 2015
- Taking Scaled Measurements of Historic Maps – created March 2015
- Gilding Images
- YouTube Playlist
Maps & Timelines
ArcGIS
- Introduction & Resources — from Duke LibGuides.
- Introduction to ESRI StoryMaps — created Spring 2023 by Mariko Azuma.
StoryMapJS
- Wired! Guide to StoryMapJS — created August 2016, revised August 2018.
TimelineJS
- Wired! Guide to TimelineJS – updated January 2018.