A. Introduction As an academic librarian, I always caution patrons about properly using different types of sources (popular vs. scholarly, peer-reviewed, grey literature, and news sources). With regards to Wikipedia, I don’t discourage them from going there, as I use it all the time. Wikipedia, as a successful crowdsourcing project, has been surrounded by controversy…
Review of Palladio
Palladio Review Palladio is a digital web tool that creates multidimensional visualizations of data. This tool helps users reveal complex hidden patterns and structures based on textual sources. Users can extract data related to individuals, locations, topics, among other types. In this case, I was able to visualize the different relationships one can establish with…
Voyant, kepler.gl, and Palladio: A Tale of Three Visualization Tools
Introduction There are web-based digital platforms that empower users to upload data and explore it with the generation of visualizations. These are free of charge and fairly easy to use. Tools like Voyant, kepler.gl, and Palladio help examine digital sources in very distinct fashions. Voyant, for instance, focuses on corpus analysis, kepler.gl will do mapping…
Reflective Piece on kepler.gl
Wow! I always wanted to learn how to play with kepler.gl, and thanks top my DH course, I can say that I am getting more comfortable with the capabilities of this platform. As a very robust mapping tool, Kepler.gl facilitates analysis of large data sets by generating a variety maps (points, clusters, categories, networks, and heatmaps)…
Reflections on the Process of Working with Voyant and User Guide
My Reflection of Voyant Voyant is a text visualization project that facilitated me the analysis of content appearing in the WPA Slave Narratives Project that took place in the late 30s. It is a virtual environment that allowed me to engage in the reading and analysis of digital texts collected and edited during the WPA…
WPA Word Clouds Comparisons: Corpus, Georgia, Kansas, and Mississippi
The Corpus word cloud: The word cloud generated for the corpus reflects the use of dialectical language among interviewees’ transcripts. Orality seems to play an integral role of the speaker, and there is a heavy of localisms such as “dey”, “dat”, “dem”, “em”, “wuz”, and “wid” among others in the word cloud. This visualization displays…
Exploring Voyant Export Features
Part I. The two most common words in Slave Narrative Corpus: “old” and “come” A. Cirrus Word Cloud of Most Common Words Across Corpus B. Relative Frequencies of the words “old” and “come” in All Documents Part II. Word #1: “old” A. Trend Graph of word “old” Across Corpus B. Trend Graph of word “old”…
Why Metadata Matters? A Review of Metadata Used in DPLA
Here is a brief review of the metadata used in the DPLA online platform. you used in the last module. Digital Object Searched: step stool Using the search box provided on the DPLA platform, I typed step stool. I must disclaim the fact that I’m approaching this term as a librarian would normally do, by…
Database Review: Humanities International Complete™
Humanities International Complete™ Overview Humanities International Complete™ (EBSCOhost) is a comprehensive database with over 3,000 abstracts and some full text articles in subject disciplines of the Humanities, including: HIC is multidisciplinary in nature with a focus on academic, literary, and creative works. The source types range from scholarly journals, books, and book chapters, to magazines,…
Digitizing My Kitchen: Taking the First Steps to Understanding the Digitization Process
A Guide to Digitization: My Modern Kitchen This activity, which entailed creating a thematically-focused collection of images, was my first attempt in getting acquainted with the step-by-step process of digitization through an exercise involving personal kitchen items. Manoff (2006) points to this need to explore the nature of digital materiality in order to understand how…
