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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]