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  • Mack Diary Database Creation and Data based analysis

      Intro: Our group is provided with Mack Diary as our resource. We decide to analysis the Diary and compare it with Powell Diary. We made this decision because those two diary wrote stories about the same group of people and both of the authors lived in Shamokin. But they were wrote in different time.…

  • 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…

  • If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a GIS map is worth a million. 

    Throughout this course we have looked at several ways to organise information and present it in such a way that it is more meaningful than before. The creation of our very own GIS maps are a prime example of this. Bodenhammer emphasises the meaningfulness of maps by stating that “all spaces contain embedded stories based on…

  • A New Look at History: ArcGIS

    For the past couple of weeks, our class has been collaborating on our sections of the Powell Diary in order to get enough information to build a GIS data dictionary. With the information that our class was able to collect through collaboration, we were able to determine the names and nicknames of the people and…

  • Close Reading – Powell Diary XML Markup

    At first, the Powell Diary was not a very meaningful text to me. I felt distanced from the content and did not quite fully understand what was going on or what the significance was. However, through the process of constantly marking the text up, at first in the google doc and eventually in Oxygen, I…

  • A New Perspective

    The past two weeks have greatly enhanced my appreciation for the work that goes in to marking up a text, which in our case was our Powell Diary transcriptions. I had no idea how much detail is behind a marked up text. I think that the most fascinating thing is that the average person is…

  • 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…

  • The Process of Editing Texts

    “The process of selection is inevitably an interpretative act: what we choose to represent and what we do not depends either on the particular vision that we have of a particular manuscript or on practical constraints.” (Elena Pierazzo 2.1) Through collaborative work on the transcription of the Powell Diary along with applying TEI-compliant XML markup…

  • 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

  • Distant reading or missed-it reading?

    The concept of distant reading is seen as the “improper way” to read a text, according to many scholars of literature. Essentially, distant ready is a way to encompass and learn from many texts without closely reading them. Of course there is the practical reason for distant reading; it takes considerably less time and can…