With Recogito, I uploaded a text document pertaining to the removal of cherry blossom trees to make way for the Thomas Jefferson memorial in Washington D.C. I wanted to mark on the Gazeteer where the shipments of cherry blossoms were originally planted, the location for the site of the Jefferson memorial, and where many of […]
The World Historical Gazetteer and Recogito, while being formidable research tools in development, are nonetheless, at the moment, relatively limited depending on the analysis that is being conducted. In my experience with the World Historical Gazetteer, I was unfortunately unable to upload the data provided by the World Historical Gazetteer. However, upon typing names into […]
World Historical Gazetteer For this portion of the assignment, I chose to look at Saint Petersburg, as I know it refers to a place in both Florida and Russia. When I searched this term, I was not surprised to see dots appear in these two places on the map, but it was interesting to see […]
I feel a little bit out of my depth with these weeks since I have very little background working with maps or gazetteers and the work I do in general isn’t super interested in the idea of place or space in the way maps and gazetteers are. However, our discussion of information systems and how […]
1. World Historical Gazetteer For this task, I chose to search for “London,” because I thought that this place name would generate results drawn from several of the World Historical Gazetteer’s datasets and results that refer to physical spaces other than London, England. “London” generated 90 search results, with the first result, “London (inhabited places) […]
The term I analyzed was Latinx, a gender-neutral neologism from the 21st century to refer to people of Latin American cultural or ethnic identity in the United States. 338 records with this term in the title were found in the Web of Knowledge. With this dataset, I created a couple of Networks. The first one […]
When I first approached this problem, I wanted to look at the field of Dental Anthropology, a sub-specialization of the many iterations of biological anthropology. I decided to look first at the common terms used in the abstracts and titles of the papers in dental anthropology to see if I could find any patterns. Looking […]
I chose to examine just one article and it’s citation’s network: Bynum, Carolyn Walker. “WHY ALL THE FUSS ABOUT THE BODY, A MEDIEVALIST’S PERSPECTIVE.” Critical Inquiry 22, no. 1 (Fall 1995): 1-33. It pulled up 130 citing articles with a total of 683 times cited. H-index is 16. It’s number of citations has steadily grown […]
The first network I used was “Urban agricultural history.” This network brought back 529 documents. Of the 17,076 terms found, 308 occurred over 10 times. The terms that were deemed most relevant were quite surprising to me. Species richness, metal, species composition, lead, and stream were all stratified as most relevant with a score in […]
For my citation analysis exercise, I downloaded 500 editions of the American Historical Review, and applied them to both text and citation analysis. The American Historical Review articles that I employed were drawn from Web of Science, and I did not set any time frame for them. The text analysis that I employed showed a […]