Today is project work day, so we’ll checkin and do hands on work. But for inspiration check out the DH Awards 2017 Nominees These are annual community awards (with a prize of nothing but bragging rights). Voting just closed, sadly, but there should be good inspiration as we work towards
Continue readingHost a Static Website for Free with Github
There is a common perception of a large set of barriers of entry into making and hosting a website, this tutorial will counter prove that. Github is website to share code empowered by Git, version control technology. This is helpful for anyone interested in making a website, and not wanting
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The advent of the internet, and especially of its more socially connected Web 2.0 variant, has ushered in a golden age for the concept of the network. The interconnected world we now live in has changed not only the way we study computers and the internet, but the very way
Continue readingFootball Group’s Progress
So far, we have contacted the archivist for any news stories related to football, particularly in the ’40s to the 2000s, especially the 70′ to late 2000s. And we have found the win/loss records. One issue is that our premise was about the downfall of the Carleton Knights football team,
Continue readingUpdates on Wartime Enrollment project
Helen Keithahn and Emma Wasend Progress We have been observing and gathering pieces of data, such as old Carletonians, from Carleton’s online digital archives and historical resources found on the Carleton website. We have also visited an archivist in the Library’s archives and received some data on increases
Continue readingUpdate to Carletonian Project
Progress So far, we received a whole lot of PDFs from the digital archivist, one for every page of every issue of the Carletonian, on a thumb drive.We are in the process of converting these into text files. However, when we realized that VoyantTools has a limit on how many
Continue readingUpdate to Carletonian project
Progress So far, we received a whole lot of PDFs from the digital archivist, one for every page of every issue of the Carletonian, on a thumb drive. We’ve converted all of these into text files. However, when we realized that VoyantTools has a limit on how many files you
Continue readingAcademic Catalog Update
Academic Catalog Analysis: Max and Cole Progress We talked to both Nat Wilson and Hsianghui Liu-Spencer from the Carleton archives to try and learn more about the documents. We learned how they were OCR’ed and what content is available. The information they had available to them was not helpful for
Continue readingUpdate on our LGBT Timeline Project
Members: Saahithi Rao and Alief Moulana Progress We talked to Sarah Calhoun with the Digital Archives about resources that might be useful for our project, how to access the physical archives, and proper ways to both use and cite the digital sources we will be using. We also reached out
Continue readingFinal Project Progress Report: The Details
Progress We have finished cleaning and sorting the data for our twelve Zoobooks [that is a LOT of text, ~5,400 students worth], imported the csv files for each year into an ArcGIS map, and are currently working on accessibility, streamlining, and beautification. We have also reached out to the Admissions
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