General:May 2012 Ottawa mini-workshop

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Contents

Mini-workshop: Magazines, Travel & Middlebrow Culture

Ottawa, May 2012

Outline

Orlando Search

Six Degrees of Separation

Breadboard

Voyant tools

Time permitting: a glimpse of CWRCWriter



Orlando-Search

https://apps.cwrc.ca/orlando/development/protected/orlandosearch.jsp

Degrees of Separation

https://apps.cwrc.ca/orlando/development/prototype/DofS

(Degrees of Separation overview)

[If this URL fails, use the one provided in the overview.]

Breadboard

New URL: https://apps.cwrc.ca/orlando/development/protected/prototype/breadboard/

[If this URL fails, use the one provided in the overview.]

Breadboard overview

Voyant (formerly Voyeur) tools

Main voyant URL: http://voyant-tools.org/

Sample texts

Cirrus (Austen's Persuasion): http://voyant-tools.org/tool/Cirrus/?corpus=JaneAusten&docIndex=5&stopList=stop.en.taporware.txt&toolFlow=simple (backup)

Corpus of 33 novels on colonial girlhood: http://voyant-tools.org/?corpus=1332092942926.7672&stopList=stop.en.taporware.txt

Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, in chronological order: http://voyant-tools.org/?corpus=1337877357961.3839&stopList=stop.en.taporware.txt or with a different skin: http://voyant-tools.org/?corpus=1337877357961.3839&stopList=stop.en.taporware.txt&skin=default

Austen's major works chronologically:

http://voyant-tools.org/?corpus=JaneAusten&stopList=stop.en.taporware.txt&skin=default

Voyant overview

Brief guides are available for all of the Voyant tools at: http://hermeneuti.ca/voyeur/tools.

Put in your own text or texts:

Instructions for creating corpora for use with Voyant:

Corpus Creation Instructions

CWRCWriter In-Browser Text Editor

Pre-alpha version (=buggy and incomplete): http://apps.testing.cwrc.ca/editor/devbuild/

Documentation overview and links (should be readable despite the lock icon)

For after the workshop

A larger list of visualization tools

A PDF coursepack for the Digital Humanities Summer Institute consisting of tool summaries:

http://dhsi.org/content/2012Curriculum/16.LiteraryAnalysis.pdf