Tag: digital humanities

  • 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…

  • Brother Grube’s Travels

    Looking back to the beginning of the year, I cannot begin to tell you what my thoughts were about Digital Humanities (DH). That is justified by the fact that I had no idea what DH was. During our first practice blog post, when we were directed to look different examples of DH web pages and…

  • 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.…

  • Arc Gis: Discover the hidden information on the Map

    Doing a digital humanity project is basically a process to find the information hiding in the back of other information. In the most basic transcription work, we are extracting text from the image. Then, we extract statistics from text using voyage tools. Now we are trying to extract the interactions between places and people using…

  • 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,…

  • 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.…