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Month: June 2023

Student project showcase: visualization citations over time

Student project showcase: visualization citations over time

We are very excited to share a class project, developed by Emily Gringorten, Sofie Cook, and Grace Brown for the class DS4200, Information Presentation and Visualization. In this project, the students worked with data from the Intertextual Networks project to explore chronological patterns in citations of well-represented authors and genres in the WWO collection. The team also explored references to women writers over time. For example, the plot below shows reference to Shakespeare between the seventeenth and nineteenth centures: See the project writeup…

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Antiracist Markup Practices Symposium

Antiracist Markup Practices Symposium

By Grace O’Mara, Research and Encoding Specialist On May 15th, 2023, the Women Writers Project hosted a virtual symposium on Antiracist Markup Practices. The event gave participants the opportunity to hear from a variety of digital projects that are working to develop antiracist editing and encoding practices, and to think through the potential and challenges of representing marginalized and racialized identities through markup. Additionally, the symposium investigated the implications of social justice frameworks for text encoding theory and practice. We…

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