Skills

Omeka is a free open-source content management system for digital collections. I use Omeka often to build digital museums for history courses or display special collections for the library, and I’ve written several tutorials on how to use it.

WordPress is a website-building platform that is free, open-source, and easy to use. WordPress is the official website provider of Carleton, and I have used it both in my work and in my courses. I have also created a number of websites in WordPress for faculty and students to publish their work.

Scalar is a free open-source publishing software designed for authors to write long-form digital content online. I have used Scalar in collaboration with Carleton librarians to produce websites that host texts from Special Collections.

ArcGIS is a digital mapping platform that allows users to build interactive maps and then turn those maps into stories with ArcGIS StoryMaps. As a powerful form of data visualization, maps demonstrate patterns, fluctuations, and clusters within data. Maps can also create a sense of spatial awareness, tying people and events to a specific place, and visualize communities.

TimelineJS allows users to create and publish interactive multimedia timelines. These timelines situate the viewer within a specific period and provide important contextual information. By placing multiple events on a single timeline, the viewer can visualize how these moments intersected and influenced one another.

Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive nonlinear stories, like a digital choose-your-own-adventure. Its hypertextuality allows for the creation of complex, intricate narratives that readers can navigate with ease. By presenting the reader with a series of choices, Twine puts the reader in the author’s shoes and creates a more dynamic, active, and nuanced reading experience.

Unity is a cross-platform game engine for designing and creating video games. As technology inspires new educational methods, many classrooms have integrated video games as a way for teachers to connect with students in a fun and accessible manner. I have used Unity in a digital public history project with the goal of creating a hands-on and immersive educational experience.

WebScraper.io is a browser extension designed to scrape websites in a user-friendly way. Web scraping refers to a process of extracting data from websites and exporting it to a file. This data can then be cleaned and analyzed for academic research.

OpenRefine is an open-source data cleaning software that helps organize and transform messy data. After importing a data file, users can perform several functions to standardize data, delete unwanted rows and characters, combine and separate data, and create filters.

Voyant is a textual analysis tool that creates data visualizations for any text. After uploading a text to Voyant, users can see the frequency of specific terms, look at where certain words occur throughout the text, view which words are often paired together, and many other functions. I’ve used Voyant throughout my time at Carleton to analyze the use of language throughout a text.

Almost all of my digital humanities projects have involved collaboration, whether that be with other students, faculty, or staff across Carleton. As a result, I have become adept at working with other people, communicating across platforms, and managing various schedules and deadlines.

As a teaching assistant, I created tutorials for different digital tools and taught students how to use them. I provided critical feedback to students on their digital projects and worked with them to brainstorm ideas, troubleshoot issues, and refine their work. I have served as a mentor to other Digital Humanities Associates at Carleton, working alongside new hires to demonstrate technologies and pass on knowledge.

As a Digital Humanities Associate, I have had to juggle multiple projects and deadlines at the same time, often in coordination with other people’s schedules. I have become proficient at using tools like Trello, Google Calendar, and Slack to track responsibilities, communicate needs, and schedule meetings.