Tag: Powell
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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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The Benefits of Using GIS
GIS stands for geospatial information system, a very useful system in which one can visualize, interpret and analyze a large sum of information. GIS can be used in many different ways, one way being a map in which one can layer information in an understandable and visually appealing way. The GIS map that displays the…
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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…
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#tagging
The close reading of a text can in some cases reveal much more substance than other methods. In the case of the Powell diary, close reading has enabled us to learn about the lives of Shamokin residents, both native and Moravian, in great depth. According to Pierazzo, we conducted a diplomatic edition; a transcription that is…
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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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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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Distant Reading: Understanding and Comprehending
Distant reading is a tool that is becoming more popular, as well as more fascinating and more advanced. As Edward Whitley says, “…the virtue of information visualization is that it can make complex data sets more accessible than they might otherwise be…” (188). Distant readings allow us to draw comparisons between different words and events…
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Distant Reading Can Give the Reader an Overview of the Subject Matter
Distant reading is not reading from far away, but rather reading the themes of a work. The difference between reading an article and getting the distant reading of an article is similar to looking through a microscope versus a telescope. A microscope gets the details and exact information of a document, while a telescope gives…
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Is it a “S” or a “F”?
The transcription of an archival document is not possible without contextual knowledge that the artefact is submerged in. Essentially, the only individual that knows exactly what is written, is the individual who wrote it. Technology today enables us to read a typed document and have no difficulty recognising every letter that is written. Archival documents…