Tag: Moravians
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Changes in Moravians’ Life and Their Implications
In our lightning talk, Jerry presented our new systematic project design. Different from the traditional project design, which starts from a question and is followed by data collection and data analysis, our own design begins with data collection. At first, we marked up the person’s names and place’s names in the Shamokin Diaries written by…
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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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Is Powell an eligible Moravian? On Distant Reading
Distant Reading is basically a “machine reading”. Using effective algorithms, we can “read” documents in a smart and statistical way. The easiest two methods of distant reading are 1. finding the most frequent words 2. finding the connections between most frequent used words. By doing those research processes, we can “read” documents from different angles.…
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Is it a “S” or a “F”?
The transcription of an archival document is not possible without contextual knowledge that the artefact is submerged in. Essentially, the only individual that knows exactly what is written, is the individual who wrote it. Technology today enables us to read a typed document and have no difficulty recognising every letter that is written. Archival documents…