I was traveling last week and forgot to add the UNCA group’s project site to our list of RSS feeds to re-syndicate, so I missed grabbing this week’s updates from Kinsey and Dakota. Those are here and here. (I trust it will work as expected next week.)
Author: bpauley
Social Network Mapping, Part III: Importing data to Kumu
In Part I, we scraped data about books and their borrowers from Dissenting Academies Online; in Part II, we wrangled that data into shape using Google Sheets. Now it’s time to download that wrangled data so we can upload it to Kumu to visualize the connections between books and borrowers (and, by extension, the connections between people that those books might have forged). Continue reading “Social Network Mapping, Part III: Importing data to Kumu”
Social Network Mapping, Part II: Massaging Data in Google Sheets
In Part I, we used the Scraper extension for Chrome to get data out of Dissenting Academies Online and into Google Sheets. In this section, we’ll use Google Sheets to get our data into the format we need to import into Kumu. Continue reading “Social Network Mapping, Part II: Massaging Data in Google Sheets”
Assignment #5: Social Network Mapping, Part I: Scraping Data from Dissenting Academies Online
For our exercise in social network mapping, we’ll use the cloud service Kumu (if you haven’t set up an account yet, do so now). Kumu is a good tool to use for exploring and showing connections among people, concepts, etc.
Assignment #4: From Zotero to a Map
Note: In this exercise, we’re taking a problem (“How do I put a bunch of library catalog records on a map?”) and breaking it down into several smaller steps. We’re going to end up moving back and forth among a couple of different tools, and using each one to complete one particular part of the larger problem. This can end up being a little confusing, but I’ve tried to describe each of these steps deliberately. Take it one step at a time…
Step 0: Installation
Before you begin: I’m assuming you’ve installed Zotero and the English Short Title Catalogue site translators, that you’ve installed Open Refine, and that you have a Google Drive account.
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Prof. Pauley’s mood upon reading the posts for tomorrow
Um. Very, very well done, everyone.
Assignment #2: Blog Post for Thursday, January 26
For Thursday, we’d like you to spend some time examining an old book from your university’s collection—preferably a book from the “hand-press era” (i.e., before about 1820)—with an eye towards perceiving the kinds of details that can give us some insight into the book’s manufacture. You might revisit the oldest book in the collection that you identified last week, or turn to a different one that catches your fancy. Continue reading “Assignment #2: Blog Post for Thursday, January 26”
Web annotation with hypothes.is
Just wanted to provide a quick link to the hypothes.is annotation extension I showed briefly during Thursday’s class. If you’ll install it in Chrome, we’ll have a go at using it for commenting on blogs. It may also come in handy when it comes time to put together your project site in the second half of the semester: you can use it to keep notes on site design, etc.
A few videos on book production
Gaskell’s A New Introduction to Bibliography is a standard text—you can learn a lot from that book—but it can sometimes be a little hard to imagine how the various processes he describes would have worked in practice. Fortunately, intrepid biblionerds have taken to YouTube to show us how it’s done. If you watch only one video, start here, as this one gives you an overview of traditional typesetting, presswork, folding and binding in under four minutes:
For a more detailed look at the various stages of book production, keep reading after the jump.
Professor buys her own copy of a book used on Amazon
Last week, one of my Facebook friends reported her improbable experience of buying a replacement for a book of literary criticism that had gone missing from her shelves about five years ago. When the package arrived and she got it back to her office, she opened the book to find her own name and the date she had bought the book: the replacement copy turned out to be the very copy that she had been seeking to replace. Continue reading “Professor buys her own copy of a book used on Amazon”