Too Close For Comfort: Close Reading and TEI Markup of Tarlton’s Jests

How has the process of marking up your transcription affected your understanding of the text? I personally think I gained more understanding of the text in general from our distant reading. The only way the close reading affected my understanding was in researching words I didn’t understand. Learning the definitions of these words did help […]

Reminder: TWO Assignments due Sunday 9/13

By 11pm on Sunday night you should: Submit to me by email (dkj004@bucknell.edu) the Modern Spelling Revisions of your pages from Tarlton’s Jests (see Transcription Assignment overview for specific instructions). Publish Reflection Post #2 “On Transcription” on the website.

What Can Digital Humanities Do? Old Weather

What is this project? Old Weather is a project that enables users to transcribe naval ship logs from archives around the world. The project’s team includes scientists, digital project managers, engineers, research managers, historians, and archivists. Partners to the project include a long list of archive, science, and university supported organizations. Old Weather is part […]

Reflection Prompt #1

Reflection Post #1: “On Material and Digital Archives” – REVISED Due: 8/30 by 11pm Prompt: This week you were introduced to the field of digital humanities. We talked in general terms about DH research and looked at the Great Parchment Book project as an example of how DH methods can make the unaccessible accessible through […]