Data in the Humanities
Information scientists define _______ as the absence of uniformity.
What is data?
To make this material, one must skin an animal, scrape the hair from the pelt, and stretch it to dry.
What is vellum?
This is the name of the location where manuscripts were copied.
What is a scriptorium / monastery?
These are the names of the three ladies who visit Christine in her study
Who are Reason, Rectitude, and Justice?
This tool in Voyant Tools depicts the frequency of words depicted in a text through varying sizes
What is a word cloud?
The author shows how the term 'data' is inadequate in a humanities context. Instead, this term, which means "that which has been captured or gathered," shows that capturing data is an active construction and not a passive acceptance.
What is "capta"?
The images in a manuscript, usually painted in gold-leaf, and made to complement the written text.
What are illuminations?
Writing instruments were made out of this material.
What is a quill (goose feathers are best)?
Who is Matheolus?
This is the process of converting a physical, material object or into a digital one
What is digitization?
This kind of data is structured or semi-structured; it is enriched and contains markups, annotations, and metadata.
What is "smart data?"
The red lettering found inside a manuscript to signal important information.
What is rubrication?
This tool was used to erase one's work when they made a mistake.
What is a knife?
This is the symbolic object held by Justice in Pizan's text
What is a gold measuring cup?
This is the kind of analysis that Voyant Tools allows us to accomplish.
*Hint: it starts with a c
What is computational analysis?
This kind of data involves raw, plain, and messy volumes.
What is "big data?"
This process is the act of making holes in the page for the binder to be able to gather and sew the quires / gatherings together.
What is pricking?
When we practice reading in class, this is the language we are speaking out loud.
What is Middle English?
This is the site where Pizan is called to build her city AND this is the tool she will use to start digging.
What are the Field of Letters and the spade of intelligence?
Name one specific step in the digitization process. This response need not be phrased in the form of a question.
answers will vary
This is an example of "smart data" that the author discussed in the article.
What is / are a scholarly digital edition?
This element is found at the bottom or top of a page, and signals to the scribe where to start copying from.
What is a catchword?
This hairstyle, worn by monks, was a sign of one's devotion to God.
What is a tonsure?
Christine says God made women to talk, to weep and to _________.
What is to spin?
Name one drawback to the process of digitization. This response need not be phrased in the form of a question.
responses will vary!