Here\u2019s the deal. The thing that makes archival materials so captivating is also what makes them challenging to work with in a computational way. By their very nature, archival sources are unique. Tremendous amounts of time and labor are necessary to properly organize, describe, digitize, and make accessible these materials. Libraries, archives, and museums have been working to make their collections available online for many years, but they\u2019re not done yet. And only recently have they started thinking about making those collections available in computationally tractable ways. Most of you will not be working with perfect data sets. They will require cleaning \u2013 or tidying \u2013 to get them in a state that can be used by digital tools like Voyant or Google Maps. Sometimes you need to add data (like coordinates) or remove data (like personal information). This project component asks you to fully document the sources you\u2019ll be using. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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