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Welcome to the homepage for the October 2011 Toronto Workshop "Visualization for Literary History."  Here you will find instructions on how to create your own corpora for use with visualization tools, links to visualization tools and instructions on how to use them, as well as the workshop schedule.
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=Welcome to the homepage for the October 2011 Toronto Mini-CWRCshop before the Space/Place/Play conference at Ryerson University.=
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==Corpus Creation Instructions==
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===Location===
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Below are instructions for creating corpora for use with Voyeur and Mandala.
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Deck 27 on the 27th floor of Delta Chelsea Hotel, 33 Gerrard Street West.
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===[[General: Corpus Creation Instructions - Voyeur | Corpus Creation Instructions - Voyeur]]===
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===Schedule===
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===[[General: Corpus Creation Instructions - Mandala | Corpus Creation Instructions - Mandala]]===
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8:30        Coffee and continental breakfast
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==Tools==
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9:00-9:30  Introduction to CWRC, introduction of participants
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Below are a series of tools. Some of them will be used in the workshop, and some of them are here for general reference. Click on the tools to view descriptions of them and instructions about how to use them.  Please note that some of the descriptions of the tools have been derived from descriptions given in the DHSI coursepack, available below, and from the TAPoR tools page, available at http://entry.tapor.ca/.
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9:30-10:15 [http://hermeneuti.ca/workshops/cwrc2 Visualization Voyant tools] (Stéfan Sinclair); you can [http://cwrc.cs.ualberta.ca/index.php/General:Corpus_Creation_Instructions bring your own texts to play with!]
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===Workshop Tools===
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10:15-10:30 Break
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====[[General: Voyeur | Voyeur]]====
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10:30-12:30 Visualization tools (Susan Brown, Stan Ruecker): Mandala, Degrees of Separation, Breadboard, Ovis, continued play
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====[[General: Voyeur Word Trends| Voyeur Word Trends]]====
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12:30-1:30  Lunch (provided)
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====[[General: Voyeur Cirrus | Voyeur Cirrus]]====
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1:30-3:30  Introduction to Omeka collections platform + Neatline plugin for visualization and interpretation of collections on timelines and maps (Jeremy Boggs and Bethany Nowviskie)
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====[[General: Voyeur Links| Voyeur Links]]====
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4:30        [http://cwrc2.blog.ryerson.ca/ Space/Place/Play] begins
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====[[General: Voyeur Bubblelines| Voyeur Bubblelines]]====
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==Visualization==
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====[[General: Voyeur Scatterplot| Voyeur Scatterplot]]====
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Some of the visualization tools that we will be evaluating allow you to visualize texts or collections of texts of your own choosing. If you would like to play with materials that are relevant to your research, you will want to prepare them in advance so that you can import them into the tools. The instructions below are meant to be easy-to-follow directions that require only basic computer literacy. (If you have any suggestions for how the directions themselves could be made more user-friendly, please send them to cwrc [the at sign] ualberta [a dot] ca.
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====[[General: Mandala Browser | Mandala Browser]]====
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===Corpus Creation Instructions===
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====[[General: Orlando Mandala | Orlando Mandala]]====
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Instructions for creating corpora for use with Voyant and Mandala:
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====[[General: Degrees of Separation | Degrees of Separation]]====
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====[[General: Corpus Creation Instructions | Corpus Creation Instructions]]====
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====[[General: OVis | OVis]]====
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===Visualization Tools===
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====[[General: Breadboard | Breadboard]]====
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A list of visualization tools that may be used in the workshop:  
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====[[General: Old Bailey Database Interface | Old Bailey Database Interface]]====
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====[[General: Visualization Tools | List of visualization tools]]====
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===Other Tools===
 
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====[[General: TextArc | TextArc]]====
 
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====[[General: Orlando | Orlando]]====
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==Omeka and Neatline==
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====[[General: Wordle | Wordle]]====
 
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====[[Media:DHSI_Coursepack.pdf|Digital Humanities Summer Institute Coursepack]]====  
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====[http://omeka.org/ Omeka website]====
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This coursepack comes in PDF format, and provides descriptions of the following tools:
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<li>Chronology Visualization Applications</li>
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<li>Early English Books Online (EEBO)</li>
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<li>Hyperpo</li>
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<li>JiTR: Just in Time Research collections management and analysis environment</li>
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<li>Mandala Browser</li>
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<li>Many Eyes GIS</li>
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<li>Many Eyes Word Tree</li>
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<li>Metadata Offer New Knowledge (MONK)</li>
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<li>OJS Reading Tools</li>
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<li>Orlando: 6 Degrees of Connection</li>
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<li>Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present</li>
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<li>Pliny</li>
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<li>TextArc</li>
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<li>Voyeur</li>
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<li>Women Writers Online (WWO)/ Renaissance Women Online (RWO)</li>
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<li>Wordhoard</li>
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<li>Wordle</li>
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<li>Zotero</li>
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==Schedule==
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====[http://www.scholarslab.org/projects/omeka-plugins/ Omeka plugins page] at the University of Virginia Library's [http://www.scholarslab.org/ Scholar's Lab]====
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Current revision as of 11:25, 27 October 2011

Contents

Welcome to the homepage for the October 2011 Toronto Mini-CWRCshop before the Space/Place/Play conference at Ryerson University.

Location

Deck 27 on the 27th floor of Delta Chelsea Hotel, 33 Gerrard Street West.

Schedule

8:30 Coffee and continental breakfast

9:00-9:30 Introduction to CWRC, introduction of participants

9:30-10:15 Visualization Voyant tools (Stéfan Sinclair); you can bring your own texts to play with!

10:15-10:30 Break

10:30-12:30 Visualization tools (Susan Brown, Stan Ruecker): Mandala, Degrees of Separation, Breadboard, Ovis, continued play

12:30-1:30 Lunch (provided)

1:30-3:30 Introduction to Omeka collections platform + Neatline plugin for visualization and interpretation of collections on timelines and maps (Jeremy Boggs and Bethany Nowviskie)

4:30 Space/Place/Play begins

Visualization

Some of the visualization tools that we will be evaluating allow you to visualize texts or collections of texts of your own choosing. If you would like to play with materials that are relevant to your research, you will want to prepare them in advance so that you can import them into the tools. The instructions below are meant to be easy-to-follow directions that require only basic computer literacy. (If you have any suggestions for how the directions themselves could be made more user-friendly, please send them to cwrc [the at sign] ualberta [a dot] ca.

Corpus Creation Instructions

Instructions for creating corpora for use with Voyant and Mandala:

Corpus Creation Instructions

Visualization Tools

A list of visualization tools that may be used in the workshop:

List of visualization tools

Omeka and Neatline

Omeka website

Omeka plugins page at the University of Virginia Library's Scholar's Lab

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