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Digital History: Tools for Research and
Teaching
\Lisa Spiro
Digital Media Center, Rice UOctober 2009
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Doing Digital History: William Kindig’s Letters in Valley of the Shadow
http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/VoS/personalpapers/collections/franklin/bitner.html
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Valle
y: Dem
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Reco
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1860 Census
Military Records
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Valley: Animated Maps (107th Pennsylvania)
http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/VoS/MAPDEMO/Theater/TheTheater.html
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What is digital history?
“an approach to examining and representing the past that works with the new communication technologies of the computer, the internet network, and software systems” (Thomas & Seefeldt)
Two main aspects of digital history◦ Methodical approach, e.g.
GIS mapping Text mining Data visualization
◦ Mode of communication Blogs Hypermedia Wikis
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Outline of Presentation
Analyzing TextsVisualizing DataOrganizing InformationPresenting ResearchTeaching
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What Is Text Analysis?
Text analysis: using the computer to study patterns in texts
Examples of text analysis operations:◦ Concordances◦ Keyword in context◦ Word use frequency◦ Sentiment analysis (what is the mood of
this passage?)◦ Detecting plagiarism or intertextuality
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Example: Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud
http://chir.ag/projects/preztags/
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Tools for Text Analysis: Voyeur
Obama vs. Bush’s (2nd) inaugural addresses http://voyeur.hermeneuti.ca/
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Tools for Text Analysis
TAPORJuxtaManyEyesMONKPhiloLogic
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What Is Data Visualization?
Data into pictures“An external representation that makes it
easy to see certain patterns in data.” (Palo Alto Research Center)
“historical weather maps” illustrating dynamic changes (Ed Ayers at Educause 2006)◦ Social cold and warm fronts◦ Interplay of different forces◦ Simultaneity: different things happening at
different places at the same time◦ Social networks
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Seeing & Insight: John Snow’s Cholera Map (1854)
Cholera epidemic in 1854 London was attributed to miasma (air)
Snow mapped cholera cases & demonstrated that origin was a Soho water pump
See Steven Johnson’s TED Talk on the map
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Many Eyes Chart: Survival on the Titanic
http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/view/SWUK0IsOtha6R4k196G1I2~
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Spatial Visualization: The Emancipation Project
http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/emancipation/index.html
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Network Graphs: Stanford Spatial History Lab
http://www.stanford.edu/group/spatialhistory/cgi-bin/site/viz.php?id=129&project_id=997
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Common Tools for Creating Your Own VisualizationsMany EyesSwivelExcelGoogle MapsFor more sophisticated mapping,
consult with Fondren’s GIS Data Center, http://library.rice.edu/services/gdc
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Other Cool Geographic VisualizationsImago Urbis: Giuseppe Vasi’s Grand
Tour of Rome: http://vasi.uoregon.edu/index.htm
Gilded Age Plains City: The Great Sheedy Murder Trial and the Booster Ethos of Lincoln, Nebraska: http://gildedage.unl.edu/
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How Can Researchers Manage Information?
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Managing Research with Zotero• http://www.zotero.org/
• “a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work — in the web browser itself.”
• Developed at George Mason’s Center for History & New Media
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Collaborating Using Zotero
http://www.zotero.org/groups/digital_history
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Other Tools for Organizing InformationBibliographic tools:
◦ CiteULike◦ Connotea◦ Papers◦ Mendeley
Information portals◦ iGoogle◦ PageFlakes◦ EverNote
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How Can Scholars Communicate Information?Multimodal scholarship BlogsWikisOpen access archives
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Social Texts: Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s Planned Obsolescence in Comment Press
http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/plannedobsolescence/
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Hypertextual Scholarship: The Differences Slavery Made (Ayers & Thomas)
http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/AHR/
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Multimodal Scholarship: Southern Spaces
http://www.southernspaces.org/contents/2008/toton/1a.htm
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Other Multimedia Publications
Vectors: http://www.vectorsjournal.org/Gutenberg-e:
http://www.gutenberg-e.org/
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Why Blog?
Impetus to write and thinkReceive feedbackParticipate in a communityCreate a repository of your own writingRaise your visibility
See:Cameron Blevins,
http://historying.org/2009/08/04/reflections-on-blogging/
Dan Cohen, http://www.dancohen.org/blog/posts/professors_start_your_blogs
History blogs: http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/9665.html
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Blogging Historians at Rice
Rebecca Goetz
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Share Your Research via Digital Repositories
http://scholarship.rice.edu/
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How can we use digital technologies to improve learning?Access to primary source materialsUsing tools for analysis & visualizationObserving historians at workSharing their own historical research
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Students as Historians: History Engine
http://historyengine.richmond.edu/
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Discussion
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Discover Other Useful Tools via the Digital Research Tools (DiRT) Wiki
http://digitalresearchtools.pbwiki.com/
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Useful Resources
“The Promise of Digital History,” Journal of American History 95, no. 2 (September 2008), http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/issues/952/interchange/index.html.
Edward L. Ayers, “The Pasts and Futures of Digital History,” 1999, http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/PastsFutures.html.
William G. Thomas III and Douglas Seefeldt, “What is Digital History? A Look at Some Exemplar Projects,” Perspectives on History (May 2009), http://www.historians.org/Perspectives/issues/2009/0905/0905for8.cfm.
Lisa’s digital history bookmarks: http://www.diigo.com/user/lspiro/digitalhistory