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The Downfall of Shamokin?
In the beginning of the semester, Professor Faull assigned each student in our Digital Humanities class a page from the Powell Diary to transcribe and convert into an online English transcription. Although the close reading and transcribing of the Powell Diary into an online English edition helped me to understand the literal meaning of the…
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Martha Powell’s Memoir: She did exist!
Throughout the semester, we have learned how to digitally document and explore Moravian artifacts and more specifically, the Powell Diary, through different digital humanities projects. These Digital Humanities projects make certain information easy to share with users and promote new research findings. Throughout the course of the semester, we have learned how to create and analyze seven…
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Moravian Missions from January 25th to February 3rd
This is the complete map that John Edler created to show the missions represented in his section of the Powell Diary. It has about 9 complete slides all detailing the important components of the daily posts by Powell himself.
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Is it possible to standardize the evaluating process in digital humanity?
I visited the poster session at Saturday and found a really interesting project, which is ‘already failed’. It is a project initiated by Middlebury College. They are willing to standardize the evaluating process in digital humanity. In traditional academic research field, scholars present their work by writing research papers. An effective evaluation is to do…
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A Deeper Understanding through Marking Up
The process of marking up has introduced a whole new realm of close reading that I was unaware of. When analyzing almost every word and deciphering them into categories, you can gain a new and deeper understanding of the text rather than simply reading it in print, which is what Pierazzo talked about in her…
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History without chronology…. Good luck………
If one were to think about it in the most lamest of illustrations, history without chronology would resemble a pot-luck stew. There would be no way of telling what was in there, nor in what order the individual components should be eaten to avoid, quite bluntly, food poisoning. This is why chronology is so important; it gives…
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The Benefits of Distant Reading
Distant Reading is a process where digital documents are broken down and used to make visual images and graphs of patterns of the text that are found in these documents. According to Whitley with the use of digital technology scholars have been able to “search for patterns and trace broad outlines, in a single text…
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Big and Small Words
The point of distant reading is to give the reader a summary of the chosen text using bigger and smaller sized words to demonstrate the frequency of those words. By looking at the words on display, the reader can get a basic idea of what the text is about and what the keys are when reading.…
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This weekend’s assignment!
So the practice blog post for this weekend has been slightly modified from the one you found on your paper syllabus. Please follow this rubric! Assignment #1: Trial post to website. Choose one of the sample DH projects on this site. Given the six categories of DH approaches we have outlined e.g. distant reading, visualization,…
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Welcome to Digital Humanities!
Welcome to one of two new courses being taught in the Comparative Humanities program this semester on Digital Humanities! Over the course of the semester we will be working with manuscript materials from the pre-Revolutionary period of North America that reveal some of the complex and unexpected relationships, activities and modes of awareness that Native…