For my first practice blog post, I chose to write about textual analysis. I always knew that textual analysis had to do with the examination of others and the way they interact in the world, but I was interested in learning how it had to do with digital humanities. There are a bunch of different projects with the textual analysis tag. The relation to digital humanities that each project had, was that they included transcribing and records, such as historical. These historical projects need to be passed down through generations in order to stay alive, so that involves a lot of transcribing. One of them was from 140 years ago, so that had to include a lot of rooting through cultures. It also included maps which have to do with taking down what is shown. This media below was from a diary written by David Livingstone and I picked it because it reminded me of the diary you mentioned in class that was very hard to read but they somehow found a way to transcribe it.
The second DH project I chose to write about was network analysis. Pretty much all of the projects had visualization which is a major aspect of digital humanities. One project was also on the textual analysis page, which I think makes sense because they obviously both involve analysis, and this project is a collection that holds a lot of information that is made to be easily found for historians. This page also includes another map and it allows people to easily read it and easily analyze it. This media below is called “The Six Degrees of Francis Bacon” and it shows things about his life. I believe it tracks where he lived or traveled during a certain period of time on the map, so it shows that it is easy to see those different places.
Caroline Walsh is a sophomore at Bucknell University and is from Needham, Massachusetts. She has two sisters, including an identical twin, who also attend Bucknell. Caroline is a member of the women’s lacrosse team on campus and enjoys hanging out with her friends.
