Intro
This content was presented as a workshop to the Monroe Library Teaching & Learning Team on August 1, 2018. Slides from that workshop are available in Wolf-LOR, the learning objects repository.
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Publication and Preservation
Voyant Tutorials
Digital Editions and Editing
Examples in Scholarship and Teaching
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America's Public Bibletext mining and data visualization
Working with Text
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My Very Own VoyantIncludes sources for finding and cleaning text
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SameDiffCompares two or more text files and tells you how similar or different they are
Finding Text:
Data Sources
Loyola users can download text corpora from Drive. Corpora have also been pre-loaded into Voyant with default view for quick access and are linked below.
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1970s Earth, Wind & Fire LyricsLyrics from Earth, Wind & Fire's 1970s album, copied from AZLyrics into text files and saved according to year first released and song title. Click here for the same corpus, but arranged by album instead of song title.
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Charity Hospital ReportsEnglish language reports from New Orleans' Charity Hospital, 1842-1974, downloaded from the Internet Archive as text only files.
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Fangoria Magazine346 issues of Fangoria, the horror film fan magazine, spanning from 1979 to today. Downloaded as text only files from the Internet Archive.
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Jesuit Educational Quarterly (1938-1970)130 issues of the Jesuit Education Quarterly, downloaded as text only files from the Internet Archive.
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Phillis Wheatley's "Poems on various subjects, religious and moral"Three editions (1773, 1887, 1909) of Phillis Wheatley's "Poems on various subjects, religious and moral," downloaded from the Internet Archive as text only files.
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Sekhmet Issues 4-13Sekhmet was the magazine of the Anarcha-Feminist Federation of Aotearoa, established at an anarchist conference in 1991. Throughout the decade, anarcho-feminism was one of the main tendencies in the anarchist movement. Sekhmet was an important publication alongside the likes of The State Adversary. Includes all issues available from the Internet Archive, downloaded as text only files.
Designing Instruction for Accessibility
- Provide handouts in print and electronically prior to the class
- Make sure electronically provided handouts and files are accessible using the Accessibility Quick Guide
- Caption/transcript all multimedia content
- Provide instructions for keyboard or speech use only
- Describe in detail any visual cues you say in the course; for example, say "click the red 'publish' button on the right side of the screen" instead of "then click 'publish' over here"
- Provide students with info about browser extensions to aid in color perception, such as Chrome's Color Enhancer or Firefox's Colorblind Design
- Allow students to complete assignments outside of class
