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Digitization and Decontextualization
The conversations and readings of the past week, while revealing the ways in which the digitization of textual data and text analysis can be extremely helpful to historical research, nonetheless show the many limitations of text analysis and, as Lara Putnam noted in Leon Sharon’s “The Peril and Promise of Historians as Data Creators: Perspective, […]
Moderation in the Age of Global Pandemics
Content moderation, while posing a possible threat to the freedom of information and expression, nonetheless plays an important role in regulating what is posted on internet platforms. While the internet was initially perceived as a potentially free community for the sharing of information and ideas, some measure of moderation must exist to ensure that such […]
What of all these would stay with us in the future?
Hi everyone, it was difficult for me to focus during this past week, so I only managed to write my reflection on the readings and discussion in a series of not very well-connected paragraphs. I apologize and thank you for your understanding. In the first session of the seminar, we discussed how content on the […]
Places as City, What About Villages?
While engaging with the World Historical Gazetteer project and the Recogito project, I tried to experiment with different places and various versions of the places. Few of the words that I tried was Delhi, the capital city of India, Allahabad, a city in the Northern Part of India and Jim Corbett National Park. Much to […]
Not a place, but an event
Just like others, I was also unsuccessful in uploading the same data to the WHG. Instead, I spent more time looking up places. My first exploration was my hometown in Mexico, Chihuahua, which before my search I associated with both the name of a city and of a state. The variants names for Chihuahua were […]
Time and Place in Colonial North America
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 […]
Citation Analysis and Historical Journals
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 […]
Why have certain articles not been cited so many times?
(1) Linda Nochlin, “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” ARTnews, January 1971, 194–204. What is the total number of citations? 30 What can you learn about the number of citations to this article per year since it was published? From what I can understand, the number of citations started to increase in 2015 […]
The Limitations of Citation Analysis
John Tipton Jonathan M. Weiner, “Radical Historians and the Crisis in American History, 1959-1980,” Journal of American History 76 (1989). What is the total number of citations? 1. What can you learn about the number of citations to this article per year since it was published? This article may have been perceived to be more […]