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THE CAREWORK AND CODEWORK OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY NEWSPAPERS
American Antiquarian Society
Digital Antiquarian Conference
May 29, 2015
Lauren F. Klein
Georgia Institute of Technology
TOME: INTERACTIVE TOPIC MODEL AND METADATA VISUALIZATION
Project Directors
Lauren Klein, School of Literature, Media and Communication
Jacob Eisenstein, School of Interactive Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Student Research Assistants
Iris Sun (MS, Digital Media, 2014)
Catherine Roshelli (BS, Computational Media, 2015)
Ana Smith (BS, Computer Science, expected 2016)
Newspapers in dataset• Douglass Monthly• Frederick Douglass Paper• Freedom's Journal• The Christian Recorder• The Colored American• The National Era
• The North Star• The Provincial Freeman• The Weekly Advocate• National Anti-Slavery Standard • The Liberator
Courtesy of Accessible Archives
http://www.accessible-archives.com/
“For those of us who do the work of editing in large part because we envision ourselves as careworkers for the commons: how do we articulate this work?”
– Sarah Blackwood, “Editing as Carework: The Gendered Labor of Public Intellectuals” (Avidly, 2014)
“Codework: The computer stirring into the text, and the text stirring the computer.”
– Alan Sondheim, “Introduction: Codework”” (American Book Review, 2001)
Lydia Maria Child could “impart useful hints to the government as well as to the family circle.”
William Lloyd Garrison, on Child, in The Genius of Universal Emancipation (1829)
TOME: INTERACTIVE TOPIC MODEL AND METADATA VISUALIZATION
Project Directors
Lauren Klein, School of Literature, Media and Communication
Jacob Eisenstein, School of Interactive Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Student Research Assistants
Iris Sun (MS, Digital Media, 2014)
Catherine Roshelli (BS, Computational Media, 2015)
Ana Smith (BS, Computer Science, expected 2016)
National Anti-Slavery Standard (Child as editor)T65 (“cleaning”): soap acid soda gallons boiling lime juice vessel vinegar alcoholT05 (“sewing”): fig stitch beads silk inches stitches ribbon wire embroidery satinT50 (“nature”): plants trees insects vines buds blossoms vegetable flowers foliage birdsT90 (“baking”): boil eggs butter pepper bake ingredients flour teaspoonful sauce pint
National Anti-Slavery Standard (overall)T08 (“commodities”): assortment retail subscriber phila stationery prices cloths flour shawls silks T52 (“UK”): british parliament edinburgh glasgow commons palmerston liverpool earl colonies T25 (“public events”): applause cheers mob faneuil audience laughter chairman lecturerT11 (“abolition”): abolitionists abolitionist resistants abolitionism birney anti slaveholder resistant
All Abolitionist NewspapersT11 (“abolition”): abolitionists abolitionist resistants abolitionism birney anti slaveholder resistantT15 (“slaves”): slaves negroes slaveholder blacks slaveholders negro abolitionists planters slaveT53 (“bondage”): ye er oppressor bondman tyrants mourn weep jehovah anguish oppressorsT21 (“policy”): treaty jurisdiction treaties territory validity constitution territorial territories indemnityT77 (“enforcement”): jail pistol murder sheriff mob sentenced negroes coroner bail pistolsT96 (“ideology”): constitution inalienable framers democracy governments amendments federal
Black-Owned/Edited Abolitionist NewspapersT12 (“underground railroad”): toronto northampton refugees provincial commodious accommodations payment undersigned location fugitivesT91 (“colonization”): colonization liberia africa missionaries colonies africans emigration emigrants T21 (“policy”): treaty jurisdiction treaties territory validity constitution territorial territories indemnity T43 (“race/identity”): colored blacks negro whites negroes nigger mulatto citizenship amalgamation
TOME: Interactive Topic Model and Metadata Visualization (prototype IIb)
Lydia Maria ChildLetter to Ellis Gray LoringMarch 9, 1842NYPL Manuscripts & Archives
Lydia Maria ChildLetter to Ellis Gray LoringMarch 9, 1842NYPL Manuscripts & Archives
“I cannot manage the paper at all as I would. Public documents of one kind or another crowd upon me so, and since the union with the Freeman I am flooded with communications, mostly of an ordinary character. Entre nous, almost every communication I put in is re-written entirely by me, for the sake of condensation. I had rather write three editorials than one such job; and after I have done all, they are not worth much. But they are scarcely individuals and societies interested in the cause, and I fear to injure the interest of the cause and the paper by omission.”
Ted Warnell, “Lascaux.Symbol.ic” (2001)
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Prototype II (alpha): Multimodal Research in Temporal Space
Lauren F. Klein, “The Image of Absence: Archival Silence, Data Visualization, and James Hemings,” in American Literature 85.4 (December 2013)
Benjamin Schmidt, from “Shipping Maps and How States See”http://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2014/03/shipping-maps-and-how-states-see.html
Rebecca Solnit, from Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas (2010)
