[open-humanities] Using Weaving History for digital bibliography

Thu Jul 14 14:16:16 UTC 2011

***Apologies for cross-postings***

Hi!

I've been trying out Weaving History to potentially use alongside my
digital bibliography:

Price One Penny: Cheap literature from the 1840s and 1850s
http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/pop/

You can see my test at:

http://www.weavinghistory.org/thread/read/e0e9a0a1-3803-458d-a443-1dc6abcdf1c7

I have a few questions and comments:

- Great job! I loooooove the automatic page generator from Wikipedia!

- But it won't add the longitude and latitude properly...
they appear when I save the factlet, but the moment I try the
Geochrono View, they disappear...

- I would want to create different types of factlets:
authors/publishers, jobs/locations (the time span during which a
particular author is editor of a particular periodical, the time span
during which a publisher has his office at a particular location),
works.

- Is Weaving History the right place to be doing something like this?
Or should I
reuse the code on my own website?

- If Weaving History is the right place, how should I group these into
(a) thread(s)? A single "Penny bloods" thread? and/or the multiple
"Penny blood authors", "Penny blood publishers", "Penny blood
serials"?

- How should I consider the "thread" in cases which are non-linear,
like a bunch of authors?

Thanks a lot and keep up the good work!

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Marie
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Ph.D. candidate, English
Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge

Graduate Representative:
English Faculty | School of Arts and Humanities