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168 70938 569 a coded letter awaiting deciphering no the volumes i managed to look at while at the british library i spent a few days at both the bodleian oxford and several cambridge libraries but most of my month was spent at the british library for those who ve never been and might go or who like me were only familiar with the old manuscripts reading room when it was in the british museum i ll let you check out their website for the basics but here are a few tidbits on bl research mechanics that were reinforced for me over my 2 5 weeks there in the manuscripts room i always like to know as much in advance as possible and so here s what i wish i d known on day 1 hour 1 read more may 24 2012 in methodology research uncategorized 1 comment emob omd kmfdm omg early modern online bibliography has had a few recent posts discussing new avenues in digital humanities things like annotating old maps and textual analysis check it out keep digitizing those sources therein lies the bottleneck may 22 2012 in research 8 comments how do you take notes in the archives report from the front line over the past 1 5 weeks here at the bl i ve surreptitiously spied on my fellow archive rats to see how they take notes no surprise that most use a laptop though of course there are still several old schoolers using pencil and paper haven t seen any 3 5 notecards oddly enough and one guy that keeps shining a bright light through the paper looking for who knows what the bl doesn t allow any photography the bastards the vast majority of those using laptops are using some type of word processor software only a few including myself use some kind of database program the only one i could identify was evernote i did just notice an interesting variation however someone using an ipad for notetaking i brought one for the trip but haven t been bringing it to the archives because of my tiny portfolio case note to self bring a bigger bookbag i was particularly intrigued however by how he used his detachable wireless keyboard i have one for the ipad but chose not to take it on the trip for space reasons and because my laptop has an even better keyboard but this means that i have two objects with large footprints that i have to fit within 1 2 feet of the edge of the desk to reach the keyboard and to easily read the ms thus both the book stand and keyboard are angled at a 120 degree or so angle to each other this means having your body facing the laptop and craning your neck off to the side to read the book as it is after transcribing for several hours my back neck shoulders get sore and i need to switch the laptop from one side to another and the angle of the chair as well ironically i had thought i d have more soreness in the first part of the trip from bending over mss to photograph them ah the occupational hazards of the life of the mind what i didn t appreciate and he has is that with a small portable detachable keyboard you decrease the footprint by separating the keyboard from the screen i e ipad which means you can put the small short keyboard right in front of the book stand have the screen off to one side sit straight and have the book lined up with the keyboard and close enough to see easily just a foot or so away did i mention the bl mss room has horrible lighting and most of the mss handwriting is tiny and i probably need bifocals this would seem to provide a much better sitting posture since your shoulders and head neck are in proper alignment plus it encourages you to stop looking at the screen which makes for faster touch typing even if there may be a few more typos of course one other way to mitigate this would be to not transcribe so many sources but personally i find it more time consuming or at least mentally taxing to read through a source and then paraphrase summarize it than just transcribe it and transcription provides you with the ability to refer back to their exact language in a way that summarizing doesn t of course it also helps to use various abbreviations qq for quelque is one of my faves since my fingers always trip up on that word for some reason and don t even get me started on aujourd hui maybe even use autocorrect for common ones thoughts may 21 2012 in miscellaneous 2 comments nerds can be so cruel graffiti found in the men s room 2nd floor of the british library malcolm quinn is a saucy ruffian with a screw loose and no prospects malcolm you ve been served may 15 2012 in miscellaneous leave a comment cannon i have known or phallic symbols on parade i ll start off this random collection of cannon i ve photographed over the years by combining it with the quality control issue raised in a previous post first up an austrian mortar burst while besieging lille france in 1792 it s located in lille s musée des cannoniers which also has they say one of the only gribeauval guns with carriage and limber still in existence austrian burst mortar c 1792 i suppose they should have pissed on it all photographs under creative commons license may 11 2012 in research leave a comment why quality control is a good idea from royal commission on historical manuscripts calendar of the manuscripts of the marquess of ormonde preserved at kilkenny castle new series vol viii london 1920 162 abstract of a letter from john cutts to the duke of ormonde concerning the test of the firearms of the troops at the camp the major of the artillery began with the writer s regiment of dragoons supposed to be the best armed out of the first 130 that were proved 53 burst upon which they stopped then they proceeded with lord orrery s regiment in which 195 burst major general langston then put a stop and sent the writer an express to know if he would have them go any farther he replied that to do so would be to expose the weakness of the army and make half the troops go to quarters without arms in their hands tells his grace in plain english that here majesty s forces there are in effect unarmed since arms that will not bear firing are worse than none proposes steps to be taken in order that the soldiers may have good arms john stapleton soon to be a book notes that the weapons sent with english forces to flanders in 1689 were sub par and required replacement with more reliable dutch models shoddy english manufacturing may 9 2012 in research 2 comments archival research is like a box of chocolates you never know what you re gonna get i just finished up the non london portion of my trip digitally pillaging the archives and libraries of oxford bodleian and cambridge university library wren library trinity college churchill archives centre churchill college fortunately all those online digital copies of published sources and increasingly manuscripts have made this a trip of surgical strikes spend 5 hours at the bod looking at 5 ms collections 3 hours at the cambridge university library photographing four books 5 minutes snapping one shot of a one page pamphlet at trinity an hour once you add in transportation finding the library registration so much like diving in to a box of chocolates here are my semi random thoughts on the process that is short term archival research coordinating with my wife to schedule tourist y events in between such archive visits is as the title of the post implies impossible we probably scheduled one day too many in oxford which means one less day in london but compared to the travails of pre digital archival research i really shouldn t complain perhaps it s the efficiency expert in me but i like to plan things out in advance and you can t do that with archival research beyond plus minus a day how long will it take to finish up at cac i have no idea maybe 2 hours maybe all day having two cellphones that work in a different country would be useful but that s for expert travelers almost all archives have catalogs of some kind but even for inventoried collections you rarely know exactly what content will be included in any given volume like a box of chocolates without the lid you can often guess about the likely content based off the offices held by the author and recipient as well as their relationship much like the shape and texture of the candy hey this archive as box of chocolates metaphor actually works part of effective archival research is mastering the emotional flights of fancy that make you imagine all sorts of tasty tidbits within a vaguely cataloged volume ooh maybe this volume is scrumptious milk chocolate with a creamy caramel center more often than not however you will be disappointed by the mundane trivia you find within the yellowed papers once you stare at them in the reading room bleech it s just plain chocolate this seems to be particularly true for secondary characters that s probably why they re only secondary characters in the first place the catalog may say that this guy s correspondence ranges from 1705 to 1710 but in reality 85 of the letters cover that single 1708 event in which he commanded which is good if you re interested in that 1708 event but if you don t like crunchy frog like a box of chocolates most papers in most archives are just plain chocolate 90 of the time the simple question did you find anything good in the archives today is a surprisingly difficult one to answer you can usually identify a quote worthy line but other details only gain significance when combined with other documents often drawn from completely different archives in short i ll get back to you with an answer in two years once i ve combined all my sources together and figured out what i have too much of and what i have in only a single source much less can you guess how many documents might be found in that volume with the helpful description of 1 box heck even a box of chocolates will tell you the number of pieces and without that information you have no idea how long it ll take you to finish off the whole box or whether you even want to there might be 200 documents or 3 documents in a volume but each one requires the same amount of time to fill out the order slip await delivery untie the bundle and then be either elated or disappointed with what you find within and then you usually need to keep an eye out for how many requests you submit each day since many archives limit the number of daily requests unlike chocolatiers archives actually care how many pieces you eat at one sitting so i ve adopted the following commonsensical strategies in both chocolate and the archives if you re limited to a set number of items per day and you want to look at or eat far more than what you ll have time for order one or two large seeming items along with several short items each day so that if your short items are really short e g only a couple documents each then you can spend more time on the bigger volumes rather than go home early if the bigger volumes are too big you can always hold it over until the next day when pressed for time it usually makes sense to shoot first and then later on you can check to see if you already have those documents if you d been willing to lug around your larger laptop you could have searched your database to verify before the first shutter click but sometimes you ve only got 1 hour until you get kicked out of the archive so you use the better safe than sorry rule of thumb and madly let that shutter fly kind of like how you stuff your face with chocolates because you don t know if they ll run out life is short eat dessert first things get even more complicated if you re short on time but have some money then you need to prioritize usually on the spot whether something is so good that you don t want to waste any more archive time but instead just get it copied or eaten which then requires you to know exactly what the archive s copying rules and price structure are so you can ballpark how much it will cost to copy not an easy thing i assure you assuming you need to stick within a budget one of my biggest regrets from my archive stint in the netherlands is that i waited till the last day to order documents microfilmed that morning i went to the atm machine and was rudely informed that i could only withdraw x guilders per day perhaps a fourth of what i had intended several years later when i tried to order the rest of the documents i was told that some were now too fragile to reproduce and others had quadrupled in price carpe diem and word to the wise check to see if the archive will reproduce individual items within a volume before you meticulously read through and bookmark 59 documents spread throughout a 250 document volume don t ask the chocolatier to sell you only the chocolate coconut candies another thing i didn t experiment with till recently is to streamline photographing using two copyright notices one at the bottom of the recto side and another for the verso side as you flip pages over so you don t have to reposition your copyright notice slip for each shot rotating your documents rather than your camera 90 degrees so you won t need to crop the images later on photographing two pages at a time if possible the internet is full of such advice blogs particularly but these are a few i ve found most useful on this my first significant research trip with a digital camera so spend a few minutes thinking about very short research trips which are a very different type of chocolate from the giant snickers bar of long term research any other useful suggestions for archive research older posts search for recent posts world of the siege for sale august 15 2019 cleaning text with python may 27 2019 sabbatical in the rear view mirror may 27 2019 you might be millner january 11 2019 what exactly python does december 6 2018 recent comments pradana p m on world of the siege for sale jostwald on world of the siege for sale wayne e lee on world of the siege for sale world of the siege for sale skulking in holes and corners on the world of the modern conference jostwald on what exactly python does categories categories select category 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