Tag: Shamokin
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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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Transcribing the Mack Diaries, and Hopefully More
John and I knew fairly early on in the semester what we were going to do for our final project. We were informed that the Mack Diaries documents were available on the class website, and what really intrigued us was that they had never before been transcribed. All semester long, Professor Faull has been telling…
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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…
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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…
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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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Advanced Mapping with GIS
Throughout the week we’ve been learning about the various features of GIS and how we can take mapping and visual spatial thinking to the next level. Mapping has changed a lot over the years, and the “subject matter once organized largely by periods increasingly embraces themes of region, disapora, colonial territory, and contact zones and…
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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