Overview This portfolio post contains two sections: the first examines definitions of audience and public history. In many ways, it is best to start with these definitions/discussion so that we can adequately discuss the second section which is to examine the relationship between the two. In the end, this posting does not offer a end-all-be-all…
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Doing A Digital Humanities Project
Overview This post will consist of a discussion of my final project for History 680: Digital Humanities. I have attached a URL like to the project here: https://chesterpelsang.org/ExhibitDisplayofLouisianaMaps/ This is a project focused around working with digitized collections from the Library of Congress (LOC) website. There are two main aspects to this project: the first…
Digital Humanities and Social Media
Overview: This project will look at how social media can be used to promote, educate, and recruit people into and to the digital humanities. For this example, we will be discussing my current semester project: this is a project on online exhibit curation by adding historical maps of the state of Louisiana to an interactive…
Crowdsourcing Digital Humanities
Overview: This posting has three main sections contain within it: the first relates to the tasks that members of the public can do in a crowdsourced project. This section will have two subsections, transcribing and correction. The second section will talk about how to attract contributors to the project, and the last section will talk…
Digital Humanities on Wikipedia: How to Understand and Use Open-Source Content
Overview of Posting: This posting will be centered around the discussion of Wikipedia and its elements as a crowdsourcing tool. Specifically, we will be dissecting when the article was crated, how it was created, and the questions one ought to be asking when using or examining a Wikipedia article. For the purposes of this project…
Tool Comparison: Voyant, Kepler, and Palladio
Overview: This posting will be the conclusion of the data visualization section. The three postings within this section are: Voyant, Kepler, and Palladio; all three are use computer algorithms to present data visually to the researcher or user. This post will have three parts: The first part compares the tools, and offers discussion of any…
Palladio: Network Analysis and New User Guide
Overview: This post will continue our discussion of data visualization, moving us on to network analysis and the networking tool Palladio. Like previous postings, this entry contains two sections: the first is a general overview of the network mapping tool Palladio – what the tool allows one to do and any special visualizations tools it…
Kepler: Data Mapping and New User Guide
*The above mapping project was created using the slave narratives from the Federal Writers Project (FWP) under the New Deal reform. The complete set of data and information can be found here on the Library of Congress website. Overview: This posting has two main parts; the first is a brief reflection on Kepler as a…
Voyant: Text Visualization and New User Guide
Introductory Thoughts The content of this post relates to the digital collection “Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936 to 1938”. The information about this collection can be found here from the Library of Congress. In essence, this was an oral history project produced by the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) of…
A Review of Metadata: ProQuest, Historical Newspapers
Overview: This is a brief review of ProQuest’s Historical Newspapers database. The following questions related to a general search titled “shopping AND marketplace”. This search originated from the previous module relating to database analysis and metadata introduction. Here is a link to the search page. It displays the raw results presented without any metadata specifics…