MapSwipe and OpenStreetMap

by Shannon MelsDH1002 Digital Tools and Methods, Digital Humanities, Featured Items, Year IPosted on No Comments

There are a range of global initiatives to improve the quality and availability of public geospatial data. Millions of volunteers actively work on making these maps as accurate as possible. Examples of these platforms are MapSwipe and OpenStreetMap. MapSwipe focuses on aiding humanitarian projects by helping organizations to be better informed and prepared. OpenStreepMap main …

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Critical Review of Voyant Tools

by Shannon MelsDH1002 Digital Tools and Methods, Digital Humanities, Year IPosted on No Comments

One of the more prominent methodologies in the studies of digital humanities is distant text analysis. To conduct such analysis there are a wide variety of tools out there to help researchers. In this review, we take a closer look into Voyant Tools (Sinclair & Rockwell, 2024-a) This prominent application allows users to analyse and …

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