Adam Crymble - Digital History seminar 15 October 2013

Adam Crymble

Jeremy Boggs, Fred Gibbs, Miriam Posner, William J. Turkel, et al.

Just My Ideas

Programming Historian (2008)

William J. Turkel & Alan MacEachern

1. Working with Files and Web Pages 2. From HTML to a List of Words 3. Computing Frequencies 4. Wrapping Output in HTML 5. Keywords in Context (KWIC) 6. Tag Clouds 7. Harvesting Links and Downloading Pages 8. Indexing a Document Collection

Different Expectations

Different Expectations

Readers

Lessons Available

Lessons Available

Learn a Tool

Topic Modeling OpenRefine Omeka.net Zotero API

WGET

Learn a Skill or Solve an Issue

Online Exhibit Building Data Manipulation

Topic Modeling Web Scraping

APIs

Learn a Language

Intro to Python

Who are they?

Who are they?

Who are they?

Who are they?

Who are they?

When are they?

Are they using it?

Lesson Time spent on page

Topic Modeling & Mallet 19:57

From HTML to a List of Words 13:14

Understanding Regular Expressions 9:37

Applied Archival Downloading 8:21

Automated Downloading with WGET 6:08

Site Average 2:53

Who is it useful for?

• Undergraduates?

• Researchers?

• Libraries / Archives?

• Non-Academics?

How do they find us?

Content in front of eyes. Not eyes to content.

Writers

Sharing and Learning

A little something extra

A little something extra

• Querying not Speculating

• Experienced Technical Writers

• Peer Review

• Commitment to Follow Through

My Goals Moving Forward

1. More European and British Contributors

2. Beginner and Intermediate

3. Proper Credit for Contributors

Adam Crymble

adam.crymble@gmail.com

@adam_crymble