Resources

We believe in sharing digital knowledge. Here are resources we’ve collected and created over the years:

DAHVC Lab Resources

NEW in 2026! Digital Humanities Specialist Aaron Kutnick has created a series of learning and development resources for the DAHVC Lab. Visit https://docs.dahvc.org/.

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 by Hannah L. Jacobs.
Project Planning Worksheet – create an outline of your project from start to finish. Created June 2017 by Hannah L. Jacobs.
Fair Use for the Visual Arts – resources from the College Art Association 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. From JISC.
Digital Publishing Platforms at Duke – A guide by Duke Libraries’ ScholarWorks.

3D Modeling

Architecture

SketchUp

Wired! Introduction to SketchUp – created by members of the Wired! Lab; updated December 2016 by Hannah L. Jacobs.
Organizing & Cleaning your SketchUp Model – created by members of the Wired! Lab; created February 2015 by Hannah L. Jacobs.
Applied: Pavilion – created by members of the Wired! Lab; updated January 2016 by Hannah L. Jacobs.
Applied: Portal – created by members of the Wired! Lab; updated February 2016 by Hannah L. Jacobs.
Modeling with Solid Tools – created February 2015 by Hannah L. Jacobs.
Applied: Modeling from Photographs – created by members of the Wired! Lab; updated by Hannah L. Jacobs.
Modeling from Floor Plans & Elevations – created January 2015 by Hannah L. Jacobs.
Adding Textures – created by members of the Wired! Lab.
Animation: Scenes & Sections – created by members of the Wired! Lab.
Animation and Video export – created by members of the Wired! Lab; updated February 2016 by Hannah L. Jacobs.
Other SketchUp resources: sketchUcation & YouTube Playlist

Objects

Blender – YouTube Playlist

Cheetah3D – YouTube Playlist

Sculptris – YouTube Playlist

Texturing

YouTube Playlist

Tutorials from Dig@Lab

3D modeling for real-time visualization – created by Nevio Danelon with Hannah L. Jacobs.
From 2D Architectural Drawings to 3D Models in a CAD Environment – created by Nevio Danelon with Hannah L. Jacobs.

Virtual Reality

Unity3D – Unity Tutorials & YouTube Playlist

Dig@Lab‘s Vulci 3000 Project – 3D Data Collection

3D Printing

3D printing with Makerbot from SketchUp – Created in 2013 by sarah goetz.

Omeka & Neatline

Omeka

Introduction to Omeka – created & updated June 2017 by Hannah L. Jacobs.
Guide to Omeka.net – created & updated August 2016 by Hannah L. Jacobs.
Omeka/Dublin Core Data Dictionary – created & updated June 2017 by Hannah L. Jacobs.
Importing Items into Omeka Using CSV Import – created & updated June 2017 by Hannah L. Jacobs.
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 – blog post by Hannah L. Jacobs & Amanda Lazarus, January 30, 2017.
Reflection on Assessing Omeka/Neatline student projects – by Adrian Linden-High, July 26, 2017.

Neatline

Introduction to Neatline — created by members of the Wired! Lab & updated June 2017 by Hannah L. Jacobs.
Neatline FAQs — created by members of the Wired! Lab & updated June 2017 by Hannah L. Jacobs.
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; created by members of the Wired! Lab.

Omeka & Neatline Video Tutorials – created Spring 2017 by Hannah L. Jacobs.

Image Editing

Photoshop

Wired! Introduction to Photo Editing for Art History – created March 2015 by Hannah L. Jacobs.
Taking Scaled Measurements of Historic Maps – created March 2015 by Hannah L. Jacobs.
Gilding Images – created by members of the Wired! Lab.
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 by Hannah L. Jacobs.

TimelineJS

Wired! Guide to TimelineJS – created & updated January 2018 by Hannah L. Jacobs.