Sonification and the Datini Letter Meta-data

Written by Adam Franklin-Lyons (History professor at Marlboro College) and Logan Davis (Research and Development Engineer at Pairity Greater Boston Area Computer Software) Which means what exactly?  It’s like a visualization, but instead of something you see, it’s something you hear.  Let me start with a little background… A couple … Continue…

A New GitHub Data-Set

Written by Adam Franklin-Lyons In earlier articles on this blogroll, we have written a couple of times about extracting, analyzing and organizing medieval itineraries as a source of data for doing geographic studies of medieval movement and travel (see: “Itineraries, Gazetteers, and Roads” and “Notes on the Margins“). Currently we … Continue…

Itineraries, Gazetteers, and Roads – a newsletter article

At the end of last year, I wrote a short article for the Newsletter of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies.  The article talks about our ongoing itinerary project, focusing both on some of the itineraries I have been working on in Spain, but also talks about the … Continue…

Mapping the Communication Network of the Datini Company

[This project had significant technical assistance from Pavel Oleinikov at Wesleyan University and Logan Davis, Marlboro class of 2017.] I have been working with the Datini metadata and letter collection for about a year, but have had more ideas and questions rather than actual analyses and observations.  Just this semester, … Continue…