justincolson.bsky.social
(Digital) historian of fifteenth and sixteenth century cities, communities, trade, guilds, maps
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Glad I'm not the only one thinking this ...
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So jealous of this trip! (and love the SBB Panoramawagen!)
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You can check out this new batch of sixteenth-century wills 📃on our Zooniverse site now 2/2: www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs...
@leverhulme.bsky.social @universityofexeter.bsky.social
#history #skystorians #citizenscience #Tudors
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This chimes so hard with my experience in the UK! Both the lack of true literacy of ideas, and the fear and shame at that adding to the poor attendance and behavior. Felt like a product of 2010s schools policies - attitude of "this what you need to know to pass" totally embedded as what learning is
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But now I'm wondering about personal email - considering using a personal domain with either FastMail (Australian) or ProtonMail (Swiss). Photo albums seem to be the missing piece from Google alternatives though. Any recommendations?
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Thanks Charles! We're hoping that the toolkit we build will be reusable and adaptable to (semi) automatically mark-up and query a wide range of published editions of semi-structured sources
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Parquet, bar, lights ... perfection!
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And Eliot's articles of tracking particular commodities, and particular people, through the Customs Accounts: blog.history.ac.uk/2024/03/glim...
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@docuracy.co.uk and @ebenbow.bsky.social worked with us on a pilot project produced some amazing preliminary results, which you can find in these blog articles blog.history.ac.uk/2024/01/unlo...
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We're going to be working with Stuart Jenk's amazing PDF editions of the London Particular Customs Accounts, published by the Hansischer Geschichtsverein and using the concept of 'upcycling' this historical data into a marked-up dataset ( doi.org/10.1108/JD-1... )
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Printing these in two colours has been a bit of a challenge, but we got there. Watching the three lions of the VCH shield emerge is endlessly fascinating!
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We're mulling some plans to get them out a little more widely :)
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Surrey Archaeological Society have a great project identifying these kinds of features from LiDAR and checking them out on the ground surreylidar.org.uk/wp_sur/wp/
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The multi-colour 3D printing is very slow and fails a bit too often to do that many of these, alas!
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Thanks John! Waiting for our media colleagues to put a page together to announce it properly ... Will post more soon!
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Great project Rachel! Hadn't actually seen you were working on this. How far might you be able to collaborate/integrate with Viabundus? www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...
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The archive download as a little navigable set of static web pages is interesting though - including the list of people I'd blocked (fewer than I'd imagined it was)
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Listening to student feedback! "It's boring" "not what we signed up for!". A few years ago I had feedback on 2nd year history assignment that involved building an online map to the effect of "I didn't sign up for a History degree to do complicated computer stuff"
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Precisely because it has become so ubiquitous, no one thinks to teach it anymore? Compulsory Office courses for undergrads died out c.2005? Therefore pretty high proportion of current school teachers themselves probably never taught how to use Word or Excel properly (i.e. paragraph styles, formulae)