Networks

Edward Whitley, Lehigh University

slides available on twitter @edwardwhitley

"The problem with history is that there are too many people

involved." –Nick Hornby

Questions of Scale: Big Data

NEH Digging into Data challenge:“What do you do with a million

books? A million pages of newspaper? A million photographs? How does the notion of scale affect humanities and social science research? Now that scholars have access to huge repositories of digitized data—more than they could ever read—what does that mean for research?”  

Mapping the Republic of Letters

Mapping the Republic of Letters

Early Modern Network of Networks

Yaddo Circles

Network Themes in Americanist Scholarship

Regina Schober, “Transcending Boundaries: The Network Concept in Nineteenth-Century American Philosophy and Literature,” American Literature 86 (September 2014).

“Networking Dickinson,” special issue of The Emily Dickinson Journal 23.1 (2014).

Matt Cohen, The Networked Wilderness: Communicating in Early New England (Minnesota, 2009).

Wai-Chee Dimock, “Early American Literature as a Networked Field,” Early American Literature 50.1 (2015).

Ryan Cordell, “Reprinting, Circulation, and the Network Author in Antebellum Newspapers, ALH 27.3 (2015).

The Vault at Pfaff’s

The Vault at Pfaff’s

Friendster—poor, unloved Friendster

The Crowded Page

New York Illustrated News, 1864

Introductions to Network Analysis

Elijah Meeks, “More Networks in the Humanities” https://dhs.stanford.edu/visualization/more-networks/

Scott B. Weingart, “Demystifying Networks” http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-1/demystifying-networks-by-scott-weingart/

Marten Düring, “Cheat Sheet: Social Network Analysis for Humanists” http://cvcedhlab.hypotheses.org/106

“Introduction to Social Network Analysis” http://www.sagepub.com/upm-data/35208_Chapter1.pdf

Lada Adamic, “Social Network Anaysis” (online course) https://www.coursera.org/course/sna

The Vault at Pfaff’s

Pfaff’s Social Network

The Vault at Pfaff’s

Research Storytelling

Pfaff’s Social Network Prototype

Linked Data

Linked Data LOD-LAM: Linked Open Data in

Libraries, Archives, and Museums SNAC: Social Networks and

Archival Contexts NINES and 18th Connect American Antiquarian Society’s

General Catalog