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ARTHIST 212 Intro to Digital Art History

Introduce students to digital humanities as a way of approaching art history and architecture. Students will learn about these techniques by working with digital tools and exploring existing digital projects.

Data Curation

OpenRefine
OpenRefine (previously Google Refine) is a powerful tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; and extending it with web services and external data.

Image Editing and Presentation

Adobe Photoshop
Professional Photography Tools

Digital Exhibitions

Omeka
Provides open-source web publishing platforms for sharing digital collections and creating media-rich online exhibits

Text Analysis and Mining

Voyant Tools
Voyant Tools is a web-based reading and analysis environment for digital texts.
Topic Modeling Tool

Digital Mapping

Google Maps
Get real-time navigation and more in the Maps app
Palladio
Visualize complex historical data with ease.
Tableau Public
Tableau Public is a free platform to publicly share and explore data visualizations online
QGIS
A Free and Open Source Geographic Information System
StoryMapJS
Maps that tell stories

Photogrammetry

Regard3D
Creates 3D models from photographs

3D Modeling

SketchUp
SketchUp is a 3D modeling computer program for a wide range of drawing applications such as architectural, interior design, landscape architecture, civil and mechanical engineering, film and video game design.