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2012

Sinclair, Stéfan, Rockwell, Geoffrey

Introduction: One can think through a digital humanities curriculum in three ways. One can ask what should be the intellectual content of a program and parse it up into courses; one can imagine the skills taught in a program and ensure that they are covered; or one can ensure that the...

2012

Rockwell, Geoffrey, Sinclair, Stéfan

Introduction: One can think through a digital humanities curriculum in three ways. One can ask what should be the intellectual content of a program and parse it up into courses; one can imagine the skills taught in a program and ensure that they are covered; or one can ensure that the...

2014

Chu, Man-Wai, Holmes, David, Blimke, Simeon, Gouglas, Sean, Lucky, Shannon, Rockwell, Geoffrey, Gee, Domini

The videogame industry is a considerable market: in 2012, the industry was worth over $86 billion USD and about seventy-two percent of American households play videogames. It is unsurprising, then, that commercial and educational developers and/or researchers have sought to capitalise on...

2012

Quamen, Harvey, Gouglas, Sean, Rockwell, Geoffrey, Smith, Victoria, Hoosein, Sophia

In his book Humanities Computing, in a chapter fittingly titled \"Discipline,\" Willard McCarty attempts to define the discipline of Humanities Computing by understanding what is happening within the discipline. According to McCarty it is through this understanding that \"we may get to the...

2014

Yu, Joyce, Engel, Maureen, Rockwell, Geoffrey, Day, Shawn

In the digital humanities we specialize in imagining and launching digital projects, but we rarely consider how to end them. In this paper we propose to discuss the ends of a particular digital project as a case study for the planning of ending. The project we focus on is the Globalization and...

2013

Gutierrez, Lucio, Gouglas, Sean, deJong, Erick, Uszkalo, Kirsten, Stroulia, Eleni, Henry, Calen, Lucky, Shannon, Rockwell, Geoffrey, Boechler, Patricia, Illovan, Mihaela

The Campus Mysteries project developed an augmented reality game platform called fAR-Play and a learning game called Campus Mysteries with the platform. This paper reports on the development of the platform, the development of the game, and a assessment of the playability of the game. We conclude...

2012-01-01

Rockwell, Geoffrey

The phrase “Web 2.0” is supposed to have been coined at a conference brainstorming session about the new types of websites emerging after the dot.com collapse.1 Web 2.0 sites, like the Wikipedia and Flickr, are often characterized by broad participation in content creation. They leverage the web...

2010-01-01

Rockwell, Geoffrey

Text of a presentation given on "Cyberinfrastructure for Research in the Humanities: Expectations and Capacity.", as part of a panel on "Academic Capacity in Canada’s Digital Humanities Community" at the SDH/SEMI 2010 conference at the HSSFC Congress at Concordia University, Montreal and later at...

2012

Moroz, Ashley, Sellmer, Megan, Radzikowska, Milena, Arazy, Ofer, Rockwell, Geoffrey, Ruecker, Stan, Brown, Susan

This article addresses the design of a dynamic repository interface to support numerous scholarly activities. Starting with the four fundamental functions associated with persistent storage — create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) — we tested, as an organizing rubric for the interface, the...

2009

Rockwell, Geoffrey

Enthusiasm for digitization hides the complexity of processes involved and the significance of the cultural changes achieved in our time. Itʹs worth examining again the ways in which we usually see the digital, often considered as an interruption of the continuous flow into discrete intervals....