Digital Book History
on fields of digital history: https://inclusivehistorian.com/digital-history/
list of resources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f5Pgp-4kWX5lycmQRkj9w7gWcMlINqmjId1VuQjxXeY/edit
http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/shakespeareandthebook/studyenv/pub00.html
Jon Lamb, "Digital Resources for Early Modern Studies," SEL 2018
Early Print: https://earlyprint.org/
Sonia Massai and Heidi Craig, Paratexts
Liza Blake, http://digitalcavendish.org/original-research/locating-margaret-cavendish/ -- locating Margaret CAvendish; her books are all over because they were cheap
Jim Mussell, The Nineteenth-Century Press in the Digital Age
Stephen Pumfrey et al., "Experiments in 17th century English: manual versus automatic conceptual history," Literary and Linguistic Computing -- pairs with Shore 2019
Kathryn Rudy, "Dirty Books"
Visualizing a library: https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/ff/#modus=distribution?level=0?filter=null?auswahl=Q20
Networks
how do material texts intersect with this work?
Jenna Townend, “Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to Early Modern Networks: The Case of George Herbert and his Imitators,” Literature Compass (2016)
Michael Gavin, “Historical Text Networks: The Sociology of Early English Criticism,” Eighteenth-Century Studies (2016)
Ruth Ahnert, “Protestant Letter Networks in the Reign of Mary I: A Quantitative Approach,” ELH (2015)
Evan Bourke, “Female Involvement, Membership, and Centrality: A Social Network Analysis of the Hartlib Circle,” Literature Compass (2017)
Galloway 2012 for a critique of social network visualizations
Exploring Big Historical Data -- http://www.themacroscope.org/2.0/ -- includes companion website with visualizations
News Networks in Early Modern Europe
Early Modern Digital Studies book out in 2016
Blaine Greteman, Shakosphere: https://shakeosphere.lib.uiowa.edu/index.jsp
Sherman, "The Social Life of a Book"
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/11/2/000289/000289.html
SNAC: https://snaccooperative.org/?redirected=1
Jason Scott Warren, "reconstructing manuscript networks"
Big Data
Priya Joshi, "Quantitative Method, Literary History"
Simon Eliot, "Very Necessary but Not Quite Sufficient"
Historians Macroscope http://www.themacroscope.org/2.0/
Robots Reading Vogue: http://dh.library.yale.edu/projects/vogue/
Cliometrics; see Humphrey Moseley and the section on Gants' paper -- footnote 2 summarizes use of quantitative data to study book trade to that time
Topic Modelling, http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.84.7371&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Natalie Houston: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/victorianstudies.56.3.498#metadata_info_tab_contents
Storytelling
Robert Darnton website: http://www.robertdarnton.org/
Locked chest of 17c letters: http://brienne.org/
Facsimiles
see Facsimiles page
https://twitter.com/SocAntiquaries/status/1183774797844623360 "Charles Stothard was commissioned to draw the Bayeux Tapestry for the Society in 1816. During his 3 visits to Bayeux he also made small plaster casts - by taking wax impressions of the linen - to capture the detail of the embroidery. Of course, this would never be allowed today!"
Lazarus Project: https://www.lazarusprojectimaging.com/
Early Manuscripts Electronic Library: http://emel-library.org/
early article on shifting print to digital books: https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ571723
- "States that the transition from book to screen requires analytical comparison, and that the structure of the book cannot be translated to the screen without consideration of new spatial practices afforded by hypermedia "architexture." Discusses similarities between digital and printed documents and the implications for the digital document as a textscape. (PA)"
Science
- XRF testing of pigments on a manuscript initial; seems suspicious, not in the style of the period, testing showed they weren't
x-ray scans of scrolls: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/oct/03/ancient-scrolls-charred-by-vesuvius-could-be-read-once-again