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I chose to explore network analysis and archive for this assignment and found two sources that I found to be very interesting. Essentially, one is an “Old Weather” log used for the purpose of analyzing past weather. The second source, selfiecity, is used to provide information on the dynamics of “selfie taking.” The primary DH focus of the website https://www.oldweather.org, categorized under the archive section, is to help readers understand ship and weather logs from the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is important because it provides information that could assist in the understanding of future climate change by exploring past weather patterns. The primary DH focus of the second website http://selfiecity.net/#, categorized under the network analysis section, is to explore the art of “taking selfies” using quantitative methods. It takes into account peoples poses and expressions and arranges them in a method that identifies patterns from the data collected.

http://selfiecity.net/selfiexploratory/

The secondary approach addressed for the first project is preservation. This method fits with the scholarly subject matter because it could be used to help develop methods that assist in the preservation for our planet and environment. We can look at what this means for the future based on the past. In comparison to that, the secondary approach addressed for the second project is visualization. This fits with the scholarly subject matter because it provides a visual of the information that was gathered. There are images of selfies containing different subjects with different poses and facial expressions. They are then separated based on demographics, pose, features, and mood. The data collected was then formed into numerous graphs and when clicked on, selfies would pop up. Both of these sources use a medium of the subject matter that is both engaging and relevant for digital representation. The Old Weather uses ships to show ship logs to show data in the form of digital representation, where as selfiecity uses selfies to show this.

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The first project that I chose to use is a tool called Poemage, which was created by a team of four scholars at the University of Utah in 2016. Nina McCurdy, Julie Lein, Katharine Coles, and Miriah Meyer created this visualization system in order to explore the sonic topology of a poem. The primary DH focus of this project is visualization, with a secondary focus on textual analysis. The program Poemage has the capability of recognizing all of the different complex structures and patterns of words in any given poem. It also has the ability to recognize every other poem in the database that contains similar word structures and patterns to the poem, in order to group a large number of poems together to compare and contrast them. The textual analysis that is done through Poemage helps give readers a more clear and concise visualization of the poems they want to see.

The second project that I chose to write about is Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts Digital Edition. I chose this one in particular because of how it relates to what we are going to be doing in this class. The primary DH focus of this project is preservation and archiving, with a secondary focus on digital edition. Many of these original manuscripts are frail and very delicate, which has made it nearly impossible for a long time to locate and conserve these manuscripts. This digital reunification however, has made it possible to access and read these newly digitized versions of the original manuscripts, as well as view high quality images of the actual original manuscripts of Jane Austen. This digital edition of Jane Austen’s personal manuscripts, is a perfect demonstration of how these papers which are frail and shouldn’t be handled unless necessary, can be virtually reunified and conserved in history.

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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