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Zachary Veith's profile was updated 6 years, 2 months ago
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Zachary Veith wrote a new blog post A Tour of the Historic Wadsworth Homestead in the group Digital Humanities: 6 years, 3 months ago
Historical Homestead is an examination of the Wadsworth Homestead and its connection to larger historical contexts through the use of virtual reality technology.
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Zachary Veith wrote a new blog post Historical Homestead in the group Digital Humanities: 6 years, 4 months ago
As the homepage of my Omeka site states, the overall goal of Historical Homestead is to utilize “virtual representations of the objects and rooms of the Wadsworth Homestead” to ” illustrate a larger con […]
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Zachary Veith edited the blog post A Vision of Britain through Time in the group Digital Humanities: 6 years, 6 months ago
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A Vision of Britain through Time, a digital project based at the University of Portsmouth, aims to illustrate social and geographic changes in Britain’s counties over time by utilizing records and maps. To quote their official mission statement, the project “brings together historical surveys of Britain to create a record of how…[Read more]
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Zachary Veith replied to the topic Vannevar Bush's Memex in the forum Digital Humanities 6 years, 6 months ago
- These challenges that Bush describes are twofold; access to information and retrieving that information in a streamlined manner. Access to information is the most obvious challenge. Instead of scouring for new research (taking longer to find it than it would take to read it), the current thought on any subject could be right at one’s f…
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Zachary Veith replied to the topic Gleick on Information in the forum Digital Humanities 6 years, 6 months ago
- Unlike, say, a typewriter, I never really thought of a computer as a physical, mechanical machine. For me, they were always just this box that contained a virtual realm outside the physical world. But reading Gleick’s descriptions of Turing’s and Shannon‘s early “computers,” built to perform mechanical tasks, changed that. I can view computers…
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Zachary Veith replied to the topic Gleick on Words in the forum Digital Humanities 6 years, 6 months ago
- Cawdrey’s book, and the long history leading up to the modern OED, really interested me. What I found most surprising was the egalitarian nature of Table Alpabeticall. In such a class orientated society as early-modern Britain, this book was written for women and unskilled workers just as much as aristocratic gentlemen. This sort of u…
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Zachary Veith joined the group Digital Humanities 6 years, 7 months ago
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Zachary Veith became a registered member 7 years, 4 months ago