Morgan Graning’s Practice Post 8\28

I chose visualization and textual analysis as my two sample projects of DH. As Micki Kaufman described her project, “…it is an application of ‘big data’ computational text analysis to research the Digital National Security Archive.” Specifically, Professor Faull’s project was based on metaphorical thought and expression in the history of English. Another project by Professor Faull involving textual analysis is “The Great Parchment Book”. It was a major survey done in 1639. The purpose of textual analysis is to “decode” and gather information about the text given. Specifically, to “The Great Parchment Book” project, it was a manuscript that served as the City of London but unfortunately went through a fire. It is currently in London’s collections at the Metropolitan Archives. With text analysis, researchers can discover what the actual text might say. The method fits with this project because it serves the city as an important artifact containing a lot of information. For visualization, I usually think of pictures and photographs and what they represent. One of the projects that coinsides for textual analysis and visualization is Poemage. This project mainly focuses on poems. “Sonic toponology is the complex structures formed via the interaction of sonic patterns-words connected through some sonic or linguistic resemblance-across the space of the poem.” It was developed at the University of Utah and is a collaboration between visualization experts and poets. Another similar project having to do with visualization is the “Belfast Group Poetry” project. The main purpose of the visualization aspect of Digital Humanities is connecting pictures such as the various charts and graphs given to word and textual references. I decided to focus on these two methods because I felt that they went hand in hand. The visualization method fits well with these two projects because the projects have both photographs and text (poems) which later can be translated into textual analysis.