The primary digital humanities focus of the project, Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts, is digital edition. The author speaks directly of digitalization and provides photos of Jane Austen’s prints as well as the transcribed versions. There is a tie for the secondary digital humanities focus of Diane Jakacki’s project between archive and preservation. In order to analyze an archive years after being created, historians need to preserve it. Without different forms of preservation, the frail scripts would not be decipherable. The historians need to put forth ample amounts of time in order to clearly understand these scripts and transcribe them for readers. The digital representation used in the article is helpful in showing the readers the frailness of the scripts but also giving them the ability to analyze them on their own with the addition of the transcribed prints.
https://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2010/01/01/a-womans-wit-jane-austens-letters/
The primary digital humanities focus of the project, Six Degrees of Francis Bacon, is network analysis. The creator provides researchers with a detailed diagram of Francis Bacon and his several connections. The link provides the researcher with direct connections as well as indirect ones. The second digital humanities focus of this project is visualization. The creator provides researchers with a visual network making it easier to analyze the relationships. By clicking on the dots, one is able to determine the person, their title, and the time they were alive. One also has the ability to click the visualize tab which orients the network around a specific person. The reader then sees the connections to this specific person. Users can also click on the lines and determine the confidence rate at which these two people knew each other as well as when their time alive overlapped. The different dots in the network represent direct and indirect connections. Historians put ample amounts of time into research and sorting in order to create this detailed network so readers can easily understand and analyze the connections. The digital representation used is vital in giving the readers a clear diagram of the numerous connections of Francis Bacon as well as many others.
https://www.biography.com/people/francis-bacon-9194632
Megan Koczur is a sophomore student at Bucknell University. She is a member of the Bucknell Swim and Dive team and intends on majoring in Computer Science and Engineering. She resides in West Chester, Pennsylvania with her her father, mother, sister, Erin, and two black labs, Brandy and Max.
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Good work, Erin!