I’ve always liked to think of myself as a reasonably technologically capable person. I know the very basics of html, and have managed to poke at some pre-written page codes when I didn’t quite like them and come out with a result that pleased me. Data scraping, unfortunately, did not give that same experience. When… Continue reading battling technology: data scraping and kumu

This week we’ve done some fun website trickery, with lots of gizmos and gadgets that I’ve never heard of before, let alone knew how to use. After some trouble with getting my numbers displayed, I finally wrangled the electronic beast and managed to put some coordinates on a map. As for the book I used,… Continue reading the bouncing baby book

When fellow student and researcher Savannah Willard and I went back to the archives to begin this week’s project, we had initially set our sights on a particular copy of Don Quixote that Carey (the school’s archivist) had shown us during one of our earlier visits. The little book was full of marginalia that came with… Continue reading a book’s lineage