Fran's HI6018 Digital History Blog

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franbuckley — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:32:36 +0000

With the thesis submitted and awaiting the November Boards, with results to follow in mid-may, I myself, am concentrating on the marathon which takes place next Monday ….

How do you feel after hours working on your thesis?

franbuckley — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:58:36 +0000

They say a picture paints a thousand words … this is how I end up looking!!

Bible searches ..

franbuckley — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:40:48 +0000

Having to do a bit of Bible searching at the moment re aspects relating to my thesis and came across this website which is located at the University of Nottingham: http://www.bibledex.com/

Tagged: Bible searches

Roth Challenge 2009 …

franbuckley — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:07:47 +0000

"I'm home, I don't have to run any more if I dont want to"

Challenges are good for us. They keep us motivated, stimulated, interested in continuing what we are doing. Refining, improving, getting better!

I’m trying to use those mantras I learnt for my Ironman training within the context of putting the masters together. Its a bit of a frustrating process. But its a process nontheless.

Maps ..Medieval Maps.

franbuckley — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:26:23 +0000

I came across this site whilst searching on google for pictures of the Hereford Mappa Mundi. I wanted to break down the map into sections to possibly demonstrate along side some text within my thesis. Not sure if it will work. There are other maps here too on the Isidore World Map, the Ebstorf mappamundi, the Vesconte Mappamundi, the Hidgen World Map, the Beatus World Map, and a World Map of Al Idrisi. http://turkeyinmap.com/Medieval.html

Tagged: Marvels, Medieval Christian Geographic Imagination, Medieval Geographic Imagination, Monsters, wonders

OCR – Optical Character Recognition ..

franbuckley — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:55:20 +0000

This is a Demo from Readiris 12 .. couple of different little demos .. worth having a look at … other than to look at the first one, I havent looked at any of the others. Is a great resource to have, whereby if you have a lot of handwritten text, its all scanned in i.e. multiple hand written surveys, through the magic of OCR the software deciphers the handwriting in the set area of the answer sheets, each survey has a unique bar code – unique for each individual survey answer sheet and for each specific survey. Presto, end result is a lovely report summary! THus redeeming some poor unfortunate copy typist i.e me, from hours of mind numbingly boring repitition. Happiness all round!!

http://www.irislink.com/c2-1553-225/Content.aspx?LangID=2&PageID=1553&CountryID=225

Tagged: freeware, OCR

Mind Map …

franbuckley — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:51:53 +0000

Document formatting ..

franbuckley — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:22:50 +0000

This isn’t terribly exciting but I got to go on a Word Level 2 course recently primarily (work of course) to assist with the formatting of large volumes of text i.e. say a thesis! By the way, the computer centre will do training courses (excel, word etc) for any students – particularly if there is say a small group looking to cover certain aspects. The attached is a document with SAMPLE text but it shows an index which is created by using headings 1, 2, 3, etc .. Mike did go over this way back but its not harm to refresh those skills, Footnote, page numbering etc and importing my bibliography from Zotero. Still having a few format problems with the import of the Bibliographies so I do find I must proof read carefully.

Formatting document

Tagged: bibliographies, footnotes, formatting, index

ENID – European Network on the Instruments of Devotion

franbuckley — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:03:37 +0000

This is another interesting website: http://www.enid.uib.no/

Tagged: devotional images, icons, medieval art

Virtual Manuscript Library

franbuckley — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:03:56 +0000

This is a fabulous resource, courtesy of Dr. Bracken this am. Collection of Manuscripts on-line. See Adomnan’s “Life of Columba” in Shaffhausen, Staatbibliothek at http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en

Tagged: Manuscripts on line