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DHNow is on Winter Break!
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Digital Humanities Now will be on break until the end of January 2021. The DHNow staff would like to thank our readers and contributors for another great semester. To our editors-at-large, thank you for dedicating your time and knowledge. Your participation makes DHNow possible. This semester’s editors-at-large included: Emily Esten, Je-an Cedric Cruz, Kate Lu Sedor, Skye Margiotta, Nikoleta…
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Editors' Choice: Tudor Networks | Data Visualization | History
By: Ruth Ahnert, Sebastian Ahnert, and Kim Albrecht
Metadata, Surveillance and the Tudor State. The Tudor government maintained a communication network that criss-crossed the globe. This visualisation brings together 123,850 letters connecting 20,424 people from the United Kingdom’s State Papers archive, dating from the accession of Henry VIII to the death of Elizabeth I (1509-1603). On this page we can see all people…
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Editors' Choice: Epistemic Violence and Resistance through Mapping Kinds
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From the very beginning of the fellowship I was extremely eager to participate in the spatial mapping workshops. The reading I remember most from the only philosophy course I ever took defined map making as the process of using generalizations via simplification, symbolization, induction, and classification to construct a physical ontology [1]. This articulated an…
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Editors' Choice: Visualizing North China Under Japanese Occupation
By: DaigengnaDuoer
The North China Railway Archive (華北交通アーカイブ) is an online database of digitized stock photographs illustrating life under Japanese occupation in interwar North China. It contains more than 39,000 photographs taken in various parts of North China between 1939 and 1945 commissioned by the North China Transportation Company (J. Kahoku Kōtsū Kabushiki Gaisha 華北交通株式会社) for promotional…
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