This is the designthat we used in the experiment — the only differencebeing that in the actual experiment, the timelinescontained 12 data points each
This design irks me. Its a much better visual than the previous spiral but each of the days being uneven and the 4pm meeting appearing like its before the 2pm meeting and somehow incredibly close to 8am is a kind of surreal I don't like. Bring me back to calendars!!
The trouble is, unlike this gorgeous old print timeline, on the web horizontal often means not much room. Actually, anything on a computer screen means not much room.
This feels like it shouldn't be an issue due to the flexability of technology, but here we are
In some cases,filling in an ideal timeline with more and better data only pushed it toward theabsurd.
This reminds me of that one cautionary tale of the king who wanted to make a dictionary that covered everything in the world, but became as big as a palace and completely unusable. (Or so I remember it.) There has to be moderation in the information you share or you will get lost in it.
“inwhich things happen to people rather than one in which people do things.”
It really does paint a picture of what was important at the time. It only mentions death, fights, and crop yields.
Charles
Charles is Carrying against invaders. also I wonder which Saturday.
715.716.717.
I really wonder what happened in these years. Nothing politically notable, as it seems, but there must have been more to it. Priorities, priorities.
While history dealt in stories, chronology dealt in facts.
I find this interesting, now a days these two are bascially the same thing and from what I know, they both deal in facts.
When video-game fans insist on drawing hard lines around fluid definitions in ways that tend to align with cultural prejudices, perhaps it’s time for them to start questioning whether what they’re protecting is really more important than what they’re keeping out.
Theres no reason to argue something like this. Video games are a new story telling medium, they are stories. Thats it
she said, trying to smooth the wild ends of her hair as the wind off a nearby lake kept bringing them to life.
These descriptions feel very odd to me. What was the author trying to accomplish by adding it? It sounds like dialogue in a romance novel
n Howling Dogs,
Like talked about earlier in the semester, this is now a dead link.
Google-based happiness around love, physicalhealth, language learning, and, of course, finding information. 2
Judging by most peoples perception of google and other companies like it I don't think its working
that will motivate even general viewers to want toknow more of those details that thrill you. T
Thats one of the biggest things I've heard artists friends struggle with. at some point you have to find a balance between stuff you want to see/relate to, and stuff other people want to see/relate to. Every artist has to go through it eventually unless they get lucky and those things intersect.
Every culture tells stories.
Storyies arn't as flimsy as people think they are, either, and not all of them are pure whimsy. The Aboriginal Gunditjmara people may, if scientists are correct, have a story depicting a geological event from 37,000 years ago. Telling stories is a key part in our humanity
He holds him with his glittering eye—The Wedding-Guest stood still,And listens like a three years’ child:The Mariner hath his will.
This is probably just a throw away line but I think it's interesting that they use an example from Rime of the ancient Mariner, a horrific cautionary tale here. also, Wordsworth had nothing to do with making of the poem. It was just published in a book with some of his work.
You get the idea.
I do, and now I like it less
And we did it without factoring in anything about how the foods taste or what they’re made of.
I don't know why but this is deeply unsettling to me. The reason why these dishes are paired the way they are is because of their data! Taking that out takes away what makes them them! Now they're only being paired superficially, and sure it may work but it seems meaningless
Here’s another way to think about what we just did. Imagine we wanted to graph all dishes on this chart:
I was doing well with the meal thing and this Immediately lost me
We’re not going to do this by providing it with qualitative details about the meal, like what it tastes like or what it fits with. That’s the old type of machine learning—too limiting and error-prone.
I immediately have questions. Why is this worse? Shouldn't applying logic and details make it more accurate? What do people do if the machine starts spitting out random meal combinations that they then can't make sense of? It seems risk prone
We could then use a Topic Modeling Tool to perform a statistical analysis that scans a set of documents to detect linguistic patterns and then to cluster the words or “topics” together as groups.
This is wild. I wonder how specific these tools need to get. Like could you reuse a model made for presidential speeches for a normal conversation? Do all presedents have similar enough speech patterns that Obama and Washington would have the same results? This is fascinating.
(e scannedbooks have been sent to an abandoned limestone mine in Kentucky, as a hedgeagainst some kind of digital or even physical apocalypse.)
Imagine you go urban exploring and stumble upon a massive underground library. That would be awesome
ee digital asthe primary vehicle for access, and paper copies are deprecated
funding entities are starting to see physical copies (even what was originally physical) as non essential
Harvard LawReview, and judicial opinions of the Supreme Court. We found that 50 percent of thelinks embedded in Court opinions since 1996, when the rst hyperlink was used, nolonger worked. And 75 percent of the links in the Harvard Law Review no longerworked
as someone who has had basically all of his classes pound the importance of correct citations into his head for a year and a half this is making me feel very weary of what kind of stuff im going to have to do for citations in the future.
“We’re trying to connect communities with communities,” says Ms. Hernández-Read. “If you have a relationship with this community in Burns Lake, then solidify that. Create that MOU with them, so in a time of need, you can call them, too.”
This is amazing work, especially for such a small archive. I wonder how far other archival connections spread
“Having survivors in the room able to walk through what the digitization is going to look like on screen and for folks around the world is really important,” Ms. McCracken says. “Having these conversations over the phone just doesn’t work the same way.”
This is another facet of the digital vs. in person issue. As convenient as digital communication is you don't get the full understanding unless you're there in person.
How does this interaction change when you have a digitized copy of a letter?
This is actually an issue I've started running into recently. Not necessarily the understanding of how other people would read things, but my level of understanding decreases when I try to read things on a screen rather than on a physical page. I don't understand why, but theres something important lost when I'm not physically holding an item.
Global Digital Projects
all of these projects are amazing in their own rights and I'd like to add one I know to the pot: https://www.jqtvancouver.ca/jqt-oral-history-bc
It's an oral history archive of Jewish Queer and Trans people from BC. Incredibly interesting stuff
Handwriting Recognition
I don't know if anyone here has used the service ancestry, but this is used pretty frequently on there. It scans things like old records (that would be near illegible, at least to me) and is able to transcribe it near perfectly
optical Character Recognitio
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that what this document is?
Text Conversion and Encoding
This is incredibly interesting to me. Tags are something so familiar to us, its used on basically every social media platform, but (to me at least) thats where the association ends. Its interesting that they're apparently so prevalent
Tweeting has rapidly become an integral part of the conference scene, with a subset of attendees on Twitter providing real-time running commentary through a common “tag” (#mla09, for example),
This is very interesting to look at after the recent downfall of twitter. It makes me wonder if these people are still using twitter or if they've moved to another platform
tech skills, that’s not a bad thing.
I agree compleatly, these kinds of skills should be taught passively all throughout your education. If you're going to need them in your degree, it should at least be mentioned and explored on the backburner.
And that is one thing that Digital History and Digital Humanities has notable successes at, is broadening, getting people engaged, and sharing humanistic historical resources with not just students. For sure, you get these things used in both K-12 and undergraduate classrooms, but among community organizers and activists and just people who are interested in the history of their own neighborhoods and cities and nation. That seems to me like where, as a form, Digital History has been most successful in reaching that audience.
This is one of the things that ended up drawing me into humanities in the first place. although social media platforms do a lot of harm, it makes these resources incredibly easy to stumble upon and dive into.
scholarship
What does this mean in this context? I can't figure it out
how to code
I wonder how long ago this was- there are many ways to create digitally now that don't require that skill. That or he's just being a gatekeeper.
decades of foundational work by scholars and technologists
I guess I'm proving their point, I had no idea this kind of stuff was going on before the 80's