by broske1 | Jan 24, 2019 | DUR January 2019
I have had amazing results from online Newspaper collections where data streams into my spreadsheets at over 20 entries per hour. Other sources have not been so fruitful. Textbooks and periodical collections include more steps to transcribe data and are often less...
by Annika Van Farowe | Jan 23, 2019 | DUR January 2019
When we began this project, one of our first readings was parts of Mark Monmonier’s How to Lie with Maps1. Now that Jacob and I are working on our editing specialization, I’m reminded that his lessons apply to words as well. That might seem like a little bit of a...
by Jessie Camp | Jan 23, 2019 | DUR January 2019
We’ve now moved into specializations for our Burleigh projects, which means as peers slave over normalizing and checking over data, organize extensive bibliographies, and design maps, I am doing the same thing I have been all month: researching! As a certified...
by Eric Holdhusen | Jan 22, 2019 | DUR January 2019
As our research project on H.T. Burleigh is beginning to come to a close, we’ve been assigned specialization tasks to divvy up the final work that has to be done in order to get the maps finished. Alongside Ian, I’ve been given the role of a data...
by Benjamin Van Wienen | Jan 22, 2019 | DUR January 2019
As we move on to the final stages of our Musical Geographies class, I have assumed the specialist role of “bibliographer.” This means that I survey all of our data entries and compile a comprehensive bibliography of every source we have used in our...
