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ant finally committing to gis followed by lots of textual analysis tools and brushing up on my database skills but i ve even started learning python and a bit more applescript if you can believe it so in future posts i ll talk a little less about devonthink and a bit more about other tools that will allow me to explore early modern european military history in a whole new way stay tuned june 25 2017 in methodology resources leave a comment voyant to web also a success in case you need proof here s a link collocate graph from voyant tools based off the text from the second volume of the english translation of the french duke of berwick s memoirs published in 1779 http jostwald com voyant voyantlinks berwick1 html curious which words berwick used most frequently and which other words they tended to be used with near or his translator in any case click the link above and hopefully you ll see something like this but interactive after you upload your text corpus in the web version of voyant you can then export any of the tools and embed it in your own website using an iframe inline frame note that you can also click on any of the terms in the embedded web version and it will open up the full web version of voyant with the corpus pre loaded something like this but oh so much more interactive apparently the voyant server keeps a copy of the text you upload no idea how long the voyant servers keep the text but i guess we ll find out there s also a voyantserver option which you install on your own computer for faster processing and greater privacy never heard of voyant then you d best get yourself some early modern sources in full text format and head on over to http voyant tools org june 25 2017 in resources teaching leave a comment testing testing my export test from aeon 2 timeline software to the web preparing to teach a new introduction to digital history course in the fall while overseeing the creation of a modest digital history lab will make you dust off all sorts of old half baked projects so we just reacquainted ourselves with my old website started in 1998 1999 a period which coincided with me procrastinating after returning from my dissertation research in the french english and dutch archives i had allowed the website to go fallow but running since 2006 or so funny how a full time job will do that so today we reconnected remembered the right password downloaded local copies to sync on a new computer using dreamweaver and now we re up and running again hopefully i ll be able to put up a bunch of timelines for my various courses on the site so i can give the urls to students as well as pull up the timelines in the classroom rather than lug in my laptop and hook it up to the projector manually creating timelines in illustrator has been fun for example but it takes a long time to make each one and the data isn t exportable searchable or manipulable like csv files are which might be useful say if you were getting back into databases once i get gis under my belt i might possibly put up some maps as well to replace those old autocad map files from 1997 oh yeah i should probably replace that circa 1999 homepage too it seemed cool 18 years ago to me at least but i m told styles have changed since then and i d totally forgotten about my attempt to create a website for ememhers circa 2002 turns out i even posted a few items like the data from erik lund s austrian generals and a pdf of john lynn george satterfield s guide to early modern military sources in midwestern research libraries back when the proximity of rare book rooms was critical most amusing is my page where i include a list of books that it d be great to have digital copies of good times of course it s also kinda depressing to realize that i m now a part of history jumping back to the present my first experiment merging the early 21st century with the late 20th century seems successful a timeline of various events and individuals from the crusades a course which fwiw i ll be teaching again this fall so if you re interested in seeing how the aeon timeline software translates to the internet take a peek at http www jostwald com timelines crusadestimeline aeontimeline html the timeline is dynamic scrolling zooming searching collapsing arcs and clicking on arrows for further details i haven t updated the data to take advantage of aeon version 2 yet nor have i connected all the people and events or included many notes but feel free to send any corrections my way next up figuring out the simile widget which will allow a bit more customization an interesting example of combining an interactive timeline and map is here throw in embedded widgets for family trees maps google or otherwise argument maps and voyant text analysis now you ve got yourself a historical toolkit worthy of the 21st century looking back over my own experience with twenty years of internet history i m reminded of that old virginia slims cigarette ad we ve come a long way baby june 20 2017 in research resources leave a comment the google giveth and the google taketh away in other words hopefully you ve already downloaded all those tasty ememh works from google books like i ve warned because some of them are disappearing from full view as publishing companies i m guessing pay google some money to sell print copies on amazon and elsewhere see i knew my hoarding instincts and general obsessive compulsiveness would come in handy but all hope is not lost for if you can still find interest ememh pdfs google books has recently decided to include the ocred text layer with the pdf download as well which means they are searchable just don t look too closely at the results july 8 2016 in resources leave a comment as i was saying somebody should let people know when there are museum exhibits on early modern military subjects i ve been writing up personal summaries of our recent trip to vienna salzburg munich and sprinkling them with photos off the web which are usually far better than what we can manage lest the memories fade from view too quickly pursuant to this task i started looking up a bunch of early modern artists works in google image search concurrently my rss feed alerted me to amy herman s visual intelligence which i acquired and have been reading with interest in a suitably artistic state of mind i thought i d look up the frick collection where herman worked just to see what kind of museum it was turns out it s in new york city a few hours from me and has some early modern works so on a further whim keenly aware of the fortuitous timing that allowed us to see the ephemeral feste feiern and kaiser karl v erobert tunis exhibits in vienna i checked to see what special exhibits the frick had coming up and lo and behold i find this exhibit starting july 12 and running through october 2 watteau s soldiers scenes of military life in eighteenth century france the description of the exhibit it would be difficult to think of an artist further removed from the muck and misery of war than jean antoine watteau 1684 1721 who is known as a painter of amorous aristocrats and melancholy actors and yet early in his career watteau painted a number of scenes of military life they were produced during one of the darkest chapters of france s history the war of the spanish succession 1701 14 but the martial glory on which most military painters trained their gaze held no interest for watteau instead he focused on the most prosaic aspects of war marches halts and encampments the resulting works show the quiet moments between the fighting when soldiers could rest and daydream smoke pipes and play cards watteau s soldiers chilling at a valenciennes gate presented exclusively at the frick collection in the summer of 2016 watteau s soldiers is the first exhibition devoted solely to these captivating pictures introducing the artist s engagement with military life to a larger audience while exploring his unusual working methods among the paintings drawings and prints will be four of the seven known military scenes with the frick s own portal of valenciennes as the centerpiece as well as the recently rediscovered supply train which has never before been exhibited publicly in a museum also featured will be thirteen studies of soldiers in red chalk many directly related to the paintings on view as well as a selection of works by watteau s predecessors and followers the frick s calvary camp by philips wouwerman among them an accompanying book by anne l poulet curatorial fellow aaron wile published by the frick collection in association with d giles ltd london will be the first illustrated catalogue of all watteau works related to military subjects so if you ll be in the region this summer make some time to check it out i know i will and if you can t at least consider checking out the catalog hopefully it ll explain why watteau s short career should be divided into early and late works more posts on the military art to come june 27 2016 in resources 1 comment short post on vienna trip just got back from a two week excursion to central europe with a quick turnaround for other familial obligations but lest you think i was merely reading georg scherer s sermons at a viennese café while drinking my wiener melange more like eating apfelstruedel mit schlagobers and reading reports of yet another act of hate terrorism gun violence in the u s i was actually hard at work traipsing across the historical flotsam and jetsam of what once was the crown jewel of the austro hungarian empire but that s for another time to tide you over in case you re in vienna over the next couple of months and are interested in all things karl v the kunsthistorisches museum has a top floor exhibit on charles v s capture of tunis in 1535 there are apparently some tapestries of his successful north african campaign in the prado but vienna has the cartoons the paintings which were the basis of the tapestries currently on display detail from vermeyen cartoon of tunis 1535 campaign for a brief english language overview of the exhibit you can look here the khm also has a german language catalog of the exhibit which makes me think there really should be some art museum listserv to alert interested parties to military history themed exhibits though something like this might be a start may 2 2015 in methodology research resources 2 comments what should historical research look like in an age of digital collaboration historical research as most of us know has traditionally been a solitary practice even in this postmodern age of killa collabs and remixes with co authors named feat historians by and large are still a lonely bunch of recluses admittedly one s choice of subject has a lot to do with how crowded your subfield is unfortunately or not i ve rarely been in a position where i knew somebody else who was actively researching the same war as me war of the spanish succession and might want to look at the same sources john stapleton is the closest example from my grad school days and he focuses on the war before mine so we ve given each other feedback and pointed each other to various sources from our respective wars over the years in general though it s been kinda lonely out here on the plains but the times they are a changin and the prairie turf is being transformed into suburban subdivisions the question is whether all these houses will follow a similar aesthetic whether their architecture will reference each other or whether the only communication between neighbors will consist of vague nods at the grocery store and heated arguments over how far their property line extends thus far subdivisions are still segregated into ethnic neighborhoods if we look beyond the discipline of history we re told that it s an age of collaboration ceos say they want their new employees to work effectively in teams as well as the age of information overload i believe that my main devonthink database has grown to 104 000 documents and 95 million words of text even the other kind of doctors are having a rethink now this whole internet thing allows like minded individuals to communicate and commiserate across the planet and not just with their neighbor next door global village and all that as a result even historians have figured out that we can now find out if we re alone in the universe or not i assume everybody has google alerts set for their name and publication titles this academic version of google street view certainly has certainly expanded my worldview my one semi regret is that thanks to online dissertations conference proceedings and even blogs i now find out i was in the archives 10 15 years too early and there are currently a bunch of people both american and euro looking into the period and by bunch i mean maybe 6 12 even more reasons for making connections hmmm someone should create a blog that allows ememh scholars to communicate with each other so how should historical research work in this interconnected digital age in this global digital village in an age when the moderately well heeled scholar can accumulate scans of thousands of rare books and hundreds of archival volumes the combination of collaboration and digitization has opened up a spectrum of possibilities and it s up to us to decide which are worth exploring here are some possibilities i see stretching along a spectrum from sharing general ideas to swapping concrete primary sources roy rosenzweig undoubtedly predicted all this twenty years ago topic sharing the way it s traditionally been done in grad school or if people meet up in the archives or at a conference or on fellowship you let people know the specific topics you re working on and let it progress from there oh you re working on x do you know about have you checked out y you should really look at z this has two advantages first it allows participants to keep the details of their research close to the vest and more fruitfully it allows the historiography to develop into a conversation rather than separate ships passing each other in the night it s such a waste when something gets published that really should have looked at x y or z but nobody suggested it or perhaps peers studying the same period place offered comment but other potential peers studying the same theme didn t or vice versa sharing subjects also forces people to acknowledge that they might not be the only person writing on topic x and encourage them to consider whether they might want to divvy up topics rather than writing in ignorance of what others will be publishing or already have written say hypothetically when one thinks they want to write a chapter about how the french viewed battle in the war of the spanish succession and then discover that another scholar has already written about a thousand pages on the subject so letting others know what you re working on would be a start type of history subject sieges battles operations logistics type of study 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