Tag: Preble’s Boys
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DigiWriMo Wrap-Up
Today’s the last day of November. Advent starts in two days; classes end in four days (for me, anyhow); and today DigiWriMo is ending. So, what was DigiWriMo like for me? Maybe I should start with how I did on my goals. Goal #1: Completed. All officer bios on Preble’s Boys are completed. Goal #2:…
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Lessons from a Google Fusion Table Graph
Armed with new and improved service record data, last night I set out to create a new network graph in Gephi, to see whether just new data would help to mitigate some of last time’s problems. To be frank, Gephi beat me. My graph is so small, and my screen is so small, and the…
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The Lessons of a Bad Network Graph
Spurred by our DH reading group at Northeastern, as well as my general tendency to jump into things before really knowing what I’m doing, I decided a few weeks ago to download Gephi and see what sort of rudimentary networks I could create. I’d been cataloging the service record of each of my Preble’s Boys…
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Omeka Development Plan
In their book Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web, Dan Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig advocate that digital historians should have a well-defined plan for their websites before they start. So I thought I’d share my ideas about Preble’s Boys here, and perhaps get some feedback from others about the plan. …