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The time has come for me to reckon with EAD. EAD, or Encoded Archival Description, has been in my life for a couple of years now. During grad school, I did a lot of experimenting with converting the hierarchical, tag-based XML data of EAD into tabular data. One of the outputs of this was a paper in which I visualized …
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“Wow, that book was great!” said Grace as she wrapped up another installment in the Nancy Drew Files series. “Nancy’s life is so exciting, but it seems like she’s always getting herself into trouble.” Grace didn’t remember there being this much mortal peril in the original Nancy Drew Mystery Stories! If you can’t …
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I don't generally consider myself to be stubborn. I am very open to trying new things -- in fact, I love trying new things! I have no problem going off on my own to see a new place, I'll ask questions even if it feels like I should already know the answer, I'm very open to being taught or corrected. Figure 1: Just last …
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This is a project I worked on in a course I just finished, called Archives, Data, and Analysis. It explores the early donations to the Maine State Seminary, the precursor institution to Bates College. Introduction When thinking about the financial history of Bates College, there is one name that immediately comes to …
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