Category: Blog #3
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Blog Post #3
History is a vital part of our existence as human beings. Not only does it tell our story for future civilizations, but history serves as a reminder of what is possible, and impossible. The saying, “history repeats itself” has been true a countless number of times. For this reason and more, it is vital to…
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Timeglider and Timemapper: The Benefits and Differences
When learning history and trying to understand it, it tends to not make sense when dates are scrambled and out of order. The story that it tells becomes distorted between what is happening and what has already happened. Although different in several ways, Timemapper and Timeglider are similar in the fact that they put events…
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Representation of Chronology and Why It’s Important
Documentation and recordation is extremely vital to history. Thanks to scholars in the past, we have events in the past we can learn from that allow us to progress. Through chronology, we can see how past events have affected ones that have proceeded them and monitor what is occurring in the world around these events.…
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The TimeMapper Vs. TimeGlider Debate
When looking at historical events and texts, “graphical representation is among our most important tools for organizing information.” (Grafton) According to Grafton, people have used graphical representations for centuries. With applications such as TimeGlider and TimeMapper, viewers can not only get a better sense of when each event occurred, but can also get a better…
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Working with Time
Last week, we learned about the concept of contextual research and worked with two digital humanities tools, Time Mapper and Timeglider. I’m really interested in Time Mapper, which shows readers the locations, time, images and courses of events. As Grafton pointed out, “graphic history” is a remarkable idea. From the vivid reconstructive image of Yuan Ming…
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Time Visualization: Time Mapper and Time Glider
Time visualizaion is basically a way to chronologize history events. According to Grafton, people started to do these kinds of things from 500 A.D. (or earlier). This week, I experienced two ways to do time visualization, Time mapper and Time glider. Grafton introduces that the earilist way to do time visulization is to build a chart,…
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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 Time Maps
Chronology is very important when studying history, as events must be placed in historical context for us to fully grasp an understanding of what occurred. Chronology helps us to understand why historical events occur, for example what led up to the beginning of a war. Grafton first points out the early significance of chronology, stating…
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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…
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Contextual Research Assignment and Blog Post #3
Thinking about how we represent history has been a question that has occupied us for millennia. Why does chronology of events matter? What can it show? How can we represent history? In his Introduction, Grafton observes that “Teachers and theorists claimed, over and over again, that chronology and geography were the two eyes of history:…