by Katharina Biermann | Apr 27, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
I was reorganizing the spreadsheet the other night when I realized that there are far more people involved in even the one source from which I am pulling hard data points (as opposed to auxiliary information) than it seems. The source with which I began this...
by Katharina Biermann | Apr 27, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
The embedded map above shows the current state of this cartographic experiment. A couple of things have changed since I began this project; first, there are now two data sets. I started out with simply the information from William Francis Allen et al.’s Slave...
by baumga1 | Apr 23, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
Throughout the process of digital mapmaking, there are many roadblocks that can simultaneously frustrate and challenge. After having spent hours upon hours of cataloguing the appendix on Programs of Modern-Music Societies in New York from 1920-1931 in Carol...
by Stella Li | Apr 18, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
Since my last blog post, I have started visualizing my research data by transcribing them from catalogue entries to mapping points. A major source for my research, Jennifer Doctor’s monograph The BBC and Ultra-Modern Music, 1922-1936: Shaping a Nation’s...
by Carolyn Nuelle | Apr 4, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
Throughout the past couple of weeks of reading, discussion, and conversation, we’ve explored several different reasons why students and scholars choose to make and use digital maps. Recently we’ve been able to articulate some of these potential “goal...
