The Traveler’s Lab hosted its own panel — “Mapping Communication in Late Medieval Europe” — as part of the Historical Geography and GIS strand at the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association conference (held this year in Montreal). Our papers (below) featured (and credited!) student work done in … Continue…
On October 26, 2017 the Traveler’s Lab met on Wesleyan Campus to walk through the initial stages of converting and migrating our data sharing and storage activities to Github. Led virtually by our own Prof. Adam Franklin-Lyons (Marlboro College), students and professors walked through the various organizational models, and decided … Continue…
On October 17, 2017 the Traveler’s Lab gathered to hear presentations from Elliot Williams (’18) and Elizaveta Kravchenko (’19) on their proposal for the lab to move from and eclectic and individual approach to data storage and shared working files on Google Drive and Dropbox to a single site model … Continue…
The Traveler’s Lab met on Wesleyan Campus, September 28 2017 to welcome our new student members, and begin working on defining and transmitting one of the core skill sets we employ: turning a variety of historical sources into databases that represent networks of travel and communication. Prof. Pavel Oleinikov gave … Continue…
By Ethan Yaro Note: This is the fifth in a series devoted to the project “Narrative and Geography in the Chronicle of Theophanes the Confessor”. First post here; second here; third here; fourth here. The chronicle is geographically dense. After completely coding only half of the text, we have reached … Continue…
Join us for an informational meeting on TUESDAY, September 12 2017, 12-1pm in Allbritton 304 to find out about projects planned for Fall 2017 semester, and how you can join.
The Traveler’s Lab hosted an international workshop conference, From Theory to Practice: Digital Methods in Research and Teaching at Wesleyan University, from Thursday 9/7 through Friday 9/8. Wesleyan University’s Olivia Drake attended a portion of the proceedings and produced a write-up of the conference and the Traveler’s Lab. (Please click … Continue…
Traveler’s Lab collective gatherings and workshops, held between February & May 2017 Feb 6 (Monday) – Informational and Planning Meeting Feb 20 (Monday) – Brainstorming Meeting: goals and ideas for the semester Mar 3 (Friday) – Basic Text Analysis using R (by Matthew Jockers) Mar 6 (Monday) – Using MaxQDA … Continue…
Parsing the Past: Data Extraction in Medieval Text by Daniel Gordon There are many questions we have that can be answered through looking at letter collections. They can give valuable information about the speed letters move at, time taken between towns, and if they are effective and timely … Continue…
By Jesse W. Torgerson and Ethan Yaro Note: This is the fourth in a series devoted to the project “Narrative and Geography in the Chronicle of Theophanes the Confessor“. First post here; second here; third here. The approach we are describing in detail here allows us to artificially reconstruct, in … Continue…
