Projects
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Catholic Almanacs Database
Created by Yuchen Xiong Catholic Almanacs Database project serves as part of a larger, multi-year project BC’s Digital Scholarship Group has been working on. The overall goal is to digitize American Catholic almanacs in the mid-and late-nineteenth century by extracting data them, refining the data, and building a site that allows users to access it.…
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The Jerusalem Temple in the First Century C.E.
Created by Natalie Hill The Jerusalem Temple in the First Century C.E. is a 3D recreation of the Herodian Temple and Temple Mount, based on three scholars’ hypothesized floor plans and measurements for the Temple and its location on the Temple Mount. These three reconstructions allow for the analysis of differing hypotheses and demonstrate how…
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Charting First Encounters
Created by Christian Egan Charting First Encounters maps twenty-three points where George Vancouver’s expedition encountered Indigenous peoples, communities, and constructions over two weeks in early May, 1792. Given the archival absence of textual Indigenous sources, Vancouver’s writings provide the first recorded account of Puget Sound’s native cultures. The project uses data extracted from chapters IV and…
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Seeing China Through Catholic American Eyes
Created by Greta Rauch Seeing China Through Catholic Eyes is a text analysis project exploring how one Catholic newspaper, the National Catholic Welfare Conference, depicted the massive changes China underwent from the 1920s to the 1950s. This project gathered, processed, and analyzed hundreds of articles over decades using Natural Language Processing and Topic Modeling to…
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Dr. Knox and the Penny Blood: Dissecting the Dissector
Created by Marry Ann Orfanos Dr. Knox and the Penny Blood: Dissecting the Dissector is a TEI based project that focuses on three contemporaneous primary sources: two joint documents published in a historical newspaper, the third a series of correspondence published in an esteemed medical and surgical journal. The aim of the project is to,…
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East India Company Trade Data Visualization (1660-1834)
Created by Munirmahedi Paviwala The East India Company Trade (EIC) Visualization (1660-1834) highlights the flow of different commodities across Asia by the EIC. It also showcases the changes in trading patterns as EIC becomes a colonial force in South Asia. By interacting with the visualisation, one can understand the changes in trading patterns of…