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LEAF: changing ways to produce digital scholarly editions

In 2018 Diane Jakacki and Bucknell received an NHPRC-Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Digital Edition Publishing Cooperatives Planning Grant to develop REED London Online, a collection of archival materials related to London theatre, performance, and music throughout the medieval and early modern periods (1200-1650). The grant supported creation of a prototype digital edition using the CWRC platform developed by the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory. Working with collaborators at other universities in the US as well as Canada and the UK, the project team established protocols for turning these archival materials (account books, legal documents, correspondence) into structured TEI-XML, and then ingested the files into the CWRC-Writer […]

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Latinx Twitter

In the summer and fall of 2017, DP&S worked with Professor Elena Machado and Tucker Leighty-Phillips (English ’18) on a project that compared the social media use of 43 Latinx writers and artists. In the late spring, Machado and Leighty-Phillips used TAGS–a free Twitter archiving tool–to generate Twitter archives for the identified writers. In mid-June they opted to focus their analysis on the top 18 Twitter users. Later, the archives were downloaded, cleaned, and brought into Voyant as a corpus for analysis. Leighty-Phillips focused his analysis on the use of the word Love across 6 writers. Machado focused her work […]

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Documenting Offshore Oil Development

(Post by Ashley Vecchio) The Global Oil Crisis in 1973, along with desires for energy self-sufficiency, led the federal government of Canada to grant Dome Petroleum Limited in 1976 the first drilling authority in the offshore regions of Arctic North America. This decision followed a three-year study of the potential environmental effects of offshore oil and gas development, sponsored jointly by the Canadian Cabinet and oil companies. Our study provides the first empirical examination of how the Cabinet came to their decision to allow offshore drilling, with specific attention to the definition and evaluation of risks and rewards, both economic […]

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