Francesca Giannetti
April 2, 2024
“…somebody telling somebody else on some occasion and for some purposes that something happened”
Phelan, James. 2015. ‘The Chicago School,’ in Theoretical Schools and Circles in the Twentieth-Century Humanities, p. 146.“…the shape of the [transmission] pipe affects the kind of information that can be transmitted, alters the conditions of reception, and often leads to the creation of works tailor-made for the medium”
Ryan, Marie-Laure. 2014. “Narration in Various Media.” In Handbook of Narratology, p. 468."Interface is always an argument, and combines presentation (form/format), representation (contents), navigation (wayfinding), orientation (location/breadcrumbs), and connections to the network (links and social media)."
Drucker, "Interface." In The Digital Humanities Coursebook: An Introduction to Digital Methods for Research and Scholarship, p. 181.Digital repositories or collections often avoid a prescribed path. That doesn’t mean they are without argument.
Booth, Alison, “Collective Biographies of Women,” http://cbw.iath.virginia.edu/index.php."For colonial elites, if black women could not be used or possessed as laboring, sordid, or lecherous subjects, they received little or no mention—but black women did not disappear... Instead of pausing at empirical silence or accepting it at face value, surfacing silence in the empirical, imperial archive as having a value—a null value—imbues absence with disruption and possibility."
Johnson, Jessica Marie. Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.Researching locations from war letters, including censored ones, and representing them on a map
Giannetti, F., Personal correspondence from the Rutgers College War Service Bureau, https://rutgersdh.github.io/warservicebureau.Narrative maps as implemented by ArcGIS StoryMaps have the potential to include data maps as a slide in your story. This is an option if you wish to show an overview of multiple locations (10+) at once.
Description | City | Country |
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Mozart family starts tour | Salzburg | Austria |
They arrive in Munich | Munich | Germany |
Then they go to Mannheim | Mannheim | Germany |
Use a header row to describe your data; avoid special characters, spaces and numbers here. Place individual locations on rows underneath the header; 1 row = 1 location. Store each address element in its own cell.
Street | City | State | Zip | Time |
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35 W Fifth St | Cincinnati | OH | 45202 | 2016-03-05T13:40:00z |
Store address elements and dates as text fields so that your spreadsheet application does not autoformat them and introduce errors. Use a machine readable format for dates and times, i.e. ISO 8601.
old_city | old_country | new_city | new_country |
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Königsberg | Prussia | Kaliningrad | Russia |
Geocoding services need contemporary geopolitical information to work well. If you’re working with historical data, add some columns to record where the location is currently.
There are lots of options for geocoding your addresses. If you use Google Sheets, Geocode by Awesome Table is an option. For 10 or fewer locations, look them up manually using https://www.latlong.net/.