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Photo courtesy of Scott French/UCF John and Mary Daniel discuss architectural renderings of the Hungerford School site in Eatonville, Florida, at the Hungerford History Harvest, held at the Hannibal Square Heritage Center in Winter Park, Florida on November 18, 2023. November 20, 2023 The history of history harvests seems constrained by the same factors at…
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Wordcloud showing word usage in 30 short stories by A.Chekhov By Orlovma – Own work, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=104697657 November 13, 2023 I’ve decided to explore the development and use of text mining in digital history, tracing back the observations, descriptions, warnings, and guidance of scholars like Jo Guldi in The Dangerous Art of Text…
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—Tara McPherson, from Why Are the Digital Humanities So White? or Thinking the Histories of Race and Computation, 2012 By ArnoldReinhold – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=82500222 November 6, 2023 It would take me weeks to examine and thoroughly explore all of the texts referred to by the authors of these four papers; accordingly,…
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By Florence Nightingale – https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s/h6xid2, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1474443 “Distillation is a two-phase process in which the constituent events are condensed into a set of simpler propositions, called the gist of things. The gist contains all the important data needed to tell the story.” Ferster and Shneiderman, Interactive Visualization: Insight through Inquiry, p. 175. October 30,…
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Illustration of the epistemologic changes of the ‘digital humanities’: archives organized with network visualization and analysis. League of Nations Archives (UN Geneva). By Calvinius – Own work : http://www.martingrandjean.ch/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/HumanitesNumeriques.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=29275453 October 23, 2023 It might be true that whenever you attend a conference presentation, you are plagued by the questions you didn’t ask.…
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Home page of Enslaved.org. “Plantation Settlement, Surinam, ca. 1860” Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed September 28, 2020, http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/1396 October 16, 2023 Enslaved.org: Peoples of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. https://enslaved.org/projectHistory/. Created and maintained by Matrix: Center for Digital Humanities & Social Sciences,…
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A beautifully-formed low-pressure system swirls off the southwestern coast of Iceland, illustrating the maxim that “nature abhors a vacuum.” The vacuum in this case would be a region of low atmospheric pressure. In order to fill this void, air from a nearby high-pressure system moves in, in this case bringing clouds along for the ride.…
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AI-generated female cyborg inspired by Donna Haraway’s “A Cyborg Manifesto” By Doctorxgc – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=125703526 “Traditionally, the study of history has been considered a part of the humanities. In modern academia, whether or not history remains a humanities-based subject is contested. In the United States the National Endowment for the Humanities includes history in its…
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Postmodern version of Aristotle’s rhetorical triangle, the rhetorical tetrahedron. The Greek terms pathos, logos, and ethos compose the original three-part model. ChloeGui, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons September 25, 2023 As a librarian who’s just been eagerly reading a job ad for a Humanities and Social Science Librarian, I’ve been quite interested in the vantage point this…
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“A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness..”— Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity, 1933 By QGIS Development Team – QGIS Application 3.16 Hannover Version, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=124141398 September 18, 2023 I read with considerable relief the contention of Robertson in…
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