Tag: Oxygen
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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…
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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…
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A Deeper Understanding through Marking Up
The process of marking up has introduced a whole new realm of close reading that I was unaware of. When analyzing almost every word and deciphering them into categories, you can gain a new and deeper understanding of the text rather than simply reading it in print, which is what Pierazzo talked about in her…
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The Powell Diary Takes on Oxygen
After transcribing our Powell Diary pages, we then went through and color-coded specific meaningful words in order to then easily markup our transcriptions in the program Oxygen. Before we as a class were able to transfer our marked up transcriptions into Oxygen however, we had to create a Google doc where decisions could be made…