Data
The data used in this project consists of textual, spatial, and digital media sources related to Paris Noir. this project relies on humanities-based data, including a primary text (Lamars book) and its digital adaptations.
The Data
The Data is broken up into three sections
The Text
- the book rendezvous Eighteen, is the primary basis of the project, giving us the context needed to understand.
- the project also takes the book and digitizes it in various ways, in graphics, videos, as well as audio recording that allow users to have a multimedia interface.
Spatial/ Location
- the project also goes along to take specific locations mentioned within the book and incorporates them within the project such as Barbès, this allows us to situate ourselves and familiarize ourself with places not well covered. allowing these themes of race to really hit home.
- by linking the narrative to physical places, it allows the project to highlight these important relationships between literature and geography, a common approach within digital humanities.
Digital and Audio
- taking both the text and excerpts from speeches turning them into audio formats expands how the material can both be accessed but as well as experienced/interpreted.
- this supports accessibility and varied learning styles.
Data Format and Access/Use
The data exists in multiple formats:
- Text, Rendezvous Eighteen
- Digital Files, the online or digitized versions of the text
- Audio Files, both the text turned into audio alongside the recording of speeches
- spatial references, the location in Paris connected to the narrative, important to understanding the context of this project.
The Data can be accessed and used:
- Scalar, being the publishing site allows the users to be able to interact with whatever material they would find in preferences in order to understand the material.
- this project emphasizes curated access, allowing users to use this data in a way useful to them not only to understand the material, but allow them to user it for academic reason as well!
Best Practices in Digital Humanities?
This approach directly aligns with best practices in Digital Humanities, as it follows documentation, it explicitly identifies the type of data used, but more importantly it states the sources of these materials and how it was accessed, but also who did what in order to establish not just documentation, but transparency aligning with the values analyzed. as showed in the link below, it shows the thank you page of the project and states who did what in a span of three pages.