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December 19, 2017  |  By Erin A. McCarthy  |  In data, data visualization, Digital Humanities, Early Modern, emotions, quantitative approaches, Shakespeare

Plotting Emotions in Shakespeare’s Plays at the “Collections as Data” Hackathon

Bronagh and I recently participated in the Moore Institute’s “Collections as Data Hackathon,” organized by David Kelly. The event brought together nineteen humanities researchers, software developers, and designers. We had two days to create innovative, collaborative projects using digital archives and datasets, and every team took a different, exciting approach. I believe David will also […]

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July 11, 2017  |  By Marie-Louise Coolahan  |  In Conference, Digital Humanities, digital representation, digital resources, dissemination, Women

Women’s History in the Digital World

The third biennial Women’s History in the Digital World conference was held at Maynooth University last week, organized by Jennifer Redmond and Jackie Crowley. First initiated in 2013 at the Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women’s Education at Bryn Mawr College, Redmond (former Director of the Greenfield Center) moved it to Ireland […]

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June 9, 2017  |  By Erin A. McCarthy  |  In circulation, data, data visualization, Digital Humanities, dissemination, Manuscript miscellanies, Manuscripts, quantitative approaches, Reception

Exploring data visualizations and putting the “digital” in “digital humanities”

If you follow me on Twitter, you may have noticed that there’s been a shift in the kinds of things I’ve been posting lately. Suddenly, photos of rare books and manuscripts have given way to goofy JavaScript animations and screenshots. That’s because, after nearly three years of data gathering, the RECIRC team is now turning […]

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Jan Van Eyck, Arnolfini Portrait, 1434.  National Gallery, London.
May 26, 2017  |  By Marie-Louise Coolahan  |  In circulation, data structure, Digital Humanities, digital representation, Female authors, History of reading, Nuns, Reception

Layers of reception and tiers of transmission

How do we capture evidence about the reception of women’s writing and how do we structure it for comparative purposes? In the process of data cleaning, myself and Bronagh McShane, working with original research by Emilie Murphy, have been parsing a juicy example. In 1707, the Benedictine monk Ralph Weldon, then based at St Edmund’s […]

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Example of early modern manuscript annotation: copy of the 5th edition (the ‘Bordeaux Copy’) of Montaigne’s Essais (1588) with his annotations in the margins. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
July 29, 2016  |  By Marie-Louise Coolahan  |  In Book history, Digital Humanities, Early Modern, History of reading, Manuscript annotation, Readers

Manuscript Annotation and the digital humanities: The Archaeology of Reading

Up to this point, the RECIRC team have been gathering data; recording evidence of the reception of female authors and their works, whether books listed in early modern library catalogues, translation and commentary  in convent archives, compilation in manuscript miscellanies, or circulation within correspondence networks. We’ve been storing this data in an online database, a […]

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