I ran into a particularly challenging problem recently. It had to do with one of my forays with the Chronicling America API. I needed to create images of newspaper clippings from a subset of Chronicling America’s digitized pages. I needed to produce tens of thousands of them for an interactive display. I’d already identified the…
If you’re following along from my last post, you’ll know that I’ve been creating a local backup of Chronicling America’s OCR text. My reasons for tackling this project are described in that post, too. If you’re replicating my process, though, you’ll quickly realize what I’ve realized: having all the OCR text in one place is…
Newspaper Clipping of the Star Spangled Banner
Aug. 30, 1917 – Vashon Island Record
This past week, I submitted a draft of my field exam portfolio (the narrative statement and reading list). It’s helped me articulate my position in relation to larger scholarly fields. That’s worthy of wider discussion and further input, so I’m posting these materials here. Other PhD students gearing up for the field exam may find…
Introduction About two months ago, I created the Rare Books feed on BlueSky. Ever since, I’ve been thinking that I need to release the specifics of the feed (to publish my algorithm)–but then, I didn’t have an outlet for those sorts of side projects, curiosities, or longform updates. Hence this post, my first blog. I’m…