The Six Degree of Francis Bacon project was founded by professors at Carnegie Mellon. It creates a network map for Francis Bacon, these people he knew or worked with. Through these networks, we are able to not only see how they are connected to Bacon, but also see their own networks. It allows us to see the shared network between people as well as a personal network of people such as King James I. The primary digital humanities focus of this project is visualization as it allows us to see the network and select different people and things. This project does use crowdsourcing as well as a statical analysis to find these connections. People can contribute information and connections to the project to make a more dense map of the connections. The perfect choice to display relationships between a large group of people is a network map. The connections represent the relationship between Bacon and others in an understandable manner.
The Jane Austen Fiction Manuscript is a project that preserve and archive Jane Austen’s fiction writing. It allows readers to see the writing in her own handwriting as well as a digital version. This project preserves and digitalizes the writings, making it easier for readers to access the writings. It brings all of the scattered collections to one place. It collects rare readings that are in libraries and private collection and allows anyone to read them. This way of archiving and digitalization works perfectly with the writings as it allows for more readers to have access to it.
Bhagawat Acharya is a Computer Science major at Bucknell University. He is interested in working at a cyber security firm after graduating from Bucknell University in 2020. Currently, he is a junior fellow for the Discovery Residential college.
