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  • The Process to Save Martin Mack’s Legacy

    The Powell Diary did a great job in showing how all the different parts of a transcription process worked and how to get a modern english edit from old english writing published digitally. In Digital Humanities, there are many different ideas that can be applied to this type of work. All these different topics could…

  • 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.

  • Geographic Visualization Map and It’s Relevance

    This GIS, Geospatial Information System, is used to be able to describe the Moravian missions made by Powell and his friends during the year 1748. The GIS has already been used for similar ideas, shown in Bodenhammer’s article, The Spacial Humanities,  “archeologists have used GIS and computer animations to reconstruct the Roman Forum, for example, creating a…

  • Closer than Just Regular Reading

    When it comes to reading just any material, close reading isn’t the first thing that jumps into your head.  Reading a body of work usually consists of starting at the top of the page and reading the at least most of the words.  Close Reading is a completely different story. Using Oxygen to make a…

  • TimeGlider vs. TimeMapper: Battle to the Death

    There are many different options for where to put a list of chronological events.  It makes more sense to use a time line than anything else.  TimeGlider works unbelievably well when there are many dates and times to include per post. With TimeGlider, one can edit the posts to highlight themes to differentiate them from…

  • How Do You Characterize DH Projects?

    The projects in the Digital Humanities project Sample Book are organized through tabs that form certain archives into the specific categories that our Humanities 100-01 class has been researching. There are seven (7) different options to locate an archive: Archive, Visualization, Mapping, Digital Edition, Network Analysis, Textual Analysis and Audio Analysis. Once in one of…

  • The pros and cons of digital archives

    In the DH sample books website, the DH projects are categorized by the major DH approaches that used by the projects. There are seven categories, including archive, visualization, mapping, digital edition, network analysis, textual analysis, and audio analysis. A student or a researcher can easily find a DH project that is appealing to him/her by looking…

  • A Fork in the Road; Digital or Archival?

    The wondrous abilities of DH tools generate projects that are present day fascinations. In order to identify the varying types of DH projects, it is possible to categorise them according to DH methods used. A  clear distinction of two DH methods is between mapping and audio analysis. The Virtual Paul’s Cross Project is a prime example of audio…

  • Make a choice on demonstrating the data.

    A DH project is basically categorized by its way to demonstrate information. Projects in humanities fields usually have a broader vision than those in literature and science. Researchers need to collect data either from the scientific record (Weather map etc.) or from old literature (old archives etc.). The information density during the process will be significantly…

  • 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…