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“How I Built This: DH Methods in 18th-century Scholarship” was a roundtable session held at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies annual meeting in St. Louis, MO (2023). The panel was sponsored by the ASECS Digital Humanities Caucus.
Chair: Alice McGrath, Bryn Mawr College
Part I: Mattie Burkert, Jennifer Golightly, and Steve Newman
Thursday, March 9
Mattie BURKERT, University of Oregon, “‘You Are Literally Here’: Where Your DH Project Lives, and Why It Matters”
- Link to paper
- Projects:
- Tools:
Steve NEWMAN, Temple University, “Building A Digital Edition of The Beggar’s Opera for Scholars, Students, and Performers: Lessons from Version 1.0
- Link to pdf of presentation (in ASECS app)
- Tools
- Music Encoding Initiative (MEI)
- Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
- Oxygen (proprietary text editor designed for xml)
- CETEIcean: Javascript library for TEI
- Sibelius: music notation software
Jennifer GOLIGHTLY, Colorado College, “Qualitative Databases, Nodegoat, and Data Extraction: Designing, Implementing, and Iterating an 18th-century Data Mining Project”
- Project site: Policing Homosexuality in c18 Paris
- Tool: nodegoat
Part II: Nicholas Paige, Beth Young, Scott Sanders
Saturday, March 11
Nicholas PAIGE, UC Berkeley, “The Virtues of Counting”
Beth R. YOUNG, University of Central Florida, “Using ElasticSearch, Applied Graph Theory, and the EEBO and ECCO Corpora to Identify the Sources of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary Quotations”
- Link to paper NB: please do not circulate or quote without permission
- Project site: Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary Online
- Tool: ElasticSearch
Scott M. SANDERS, Dartmouth College, “Newspapers as an Untapped DH Resource”
- Project site: French Atlantic Theater
- GitHub Repository: jladams/french-atlantic-theater
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