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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
1. WHG a) I searched for a few different places in WHG and found the results to be pretty much what I expected, but there were a couple of interesting things which emerged for me. First, I searched for my home town, “Beaver Dam, WI” and no results were returned. When I searched for just […]
Hello All, I was unable to figure out the process for uploading data (even the sample data) to the World Historical Gazetteer site. This is due to human error and ignorance on my part, and I look forward to learning more about how to successfully do it. Because of the error messages I received I […]
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) […]