Mapping Neighborhoods

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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 […]

Recogito and Gazeteer

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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 […]

Time and Place in Colonial North America

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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 […]

Maps and Gazeteers

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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 […]

World Historical Gazetteer and Recogito

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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) […]

Latinx and color

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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 […]

Latinx and color

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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 […]

Co-Authorship and Dental Anthropology

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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 […]