Author: Katie Faull
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Lightning Talk
On Monday, December 8 (last class ) each research group will present a lightning talk which is 8-10 minutes long. Your lightning talk should focus on your work process, including discussion of data sources (maps, data layers, text), and plan for how data will be gathered/displayed/published with emphasis on tool chosen. You should also describe the…
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A Story Map
Here is the kind of story map you will be developing this week with the map and data layers you have created! http://bit.ly/1uCkOxS
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The Importance of Understanding Visual Rhetoric: thoughts on Johanna Drucker’s Graphesis
Over the last week or so, we have revisited visualization as a technique for interpretation. In our production of networks using Gephi, the process of creating data, preparing it for input into the software, manipulating it once in the software and then interpreting it once entered has been foremost. As we move on to mapping,…
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Powell Diary TEI
Please post the links to your TEI compliant XML encoded Powell files to this page! Duke Repko – http://www.students.bucknell.edu/projects/HUMN10001/Powell/content/Powell1.xml Matt Lucas – http://www.students.bucknell.edu/projects/HUMN10001/Powell/content/Powell2.xml John Edler – http://www.students.bucknell.edu/projects/HUMN10001/Powell/content/Powell3.xml Ryan Clifford – http://www.students.bucknell.edu/projects/HUMN10001/Powell/content/Powell4.xml Madeline Purdy –http://www.students.bucknell.edu/projects/HUMN10001/Powell/content/Powell5.xml Jiayu Huang –http://www.students.bucknell.edu/projects/HUMN10001/Powell/content/Powell6.xml Qijing Zheng –http://www.students.bucknell.edu/projects/HUMN10001/Powell/content/Powell7.xml Sir Nicholas Miller http://www.students.bucknell.edu/projects/HUMN10001/Powell/content/Powell8.xml Claire Maree W O’Bryan http://www.students.bucknell.edu/projects/HUMN10001/Powell/content/Powell9.xml Complete version is here http://www.students.bucknell.edu/projects/HUMN10001/Powell/content/Powell_Compiled.xml
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Contextual Research Assignment and Blog Post #3
Thinking about how we represent history has been a question that has occupied us for millennia. Why does chronology of events matter? What can it show? How can we represent history? In his Introduction, Grafton observes that “Teachers and theorists claimed, over and over again, that chronology and geography were the two eyes of history:…
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Contextual Research
Contextual Research, or, Meanwhile, in the rest of the 1740s In this next section of the course, we will be thinking about how to map time. As a help, read Anthony Grafton’s Introduction to Cartographies of Time (Princeton,2009). Assignment Objective: Contextualize the experience of the Moravian missionaries in the 1740s within a broader historical landscape that…
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How to Read Distantly
Instructions: Go to the Voyant Tools home page: http://voyant-tools.org/ Upload the file of the Powell diary draft compilation using the “Upload” button, then “Reveal” (the .txt files are available for download on the “Sources and Resources” page). You should now see a dashboard with several panels. In the top left panel is a “Cirrus” or word…
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On Distant Reading
In class last week we discussed the differences between distant reading and close reading and how they can complement each other as we analyze texts. Clearly the mass digitization of libraries and archives has given the reader access to previously under accessed resources. With tools such as Voyant a reader can now perform new ways…
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How to convert a Word .docx to .txt file
How to convert a Word .docx to .txt file In Word docx, choose “Save As” and then choose “Plain Text (.txt)” format ** make sure that you give your file a new name, just in case it overwrites your existing Word document (it shouldn’t, but just in case ..) You should get a pop-up window…
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Transcription (a beginning)
How do you move from archive to digital artifact? Traditionally the process starts in the archive when you find a document that catches your eye. It’s interesting, it sheds new light on an issue in history, and it’s the only copy in the world!! You have to decide what to do with that document. Nowadays…