ISC 405 Assignment One – Due 2/28/2020

This assignment focuses on classification. First, read selection twenty-six in the New Companion to the Digital Humanities. Then, try the following tasks:

1) Open a web browser, and go to maps.google.com.

A) In the "Search Google Maps" window enter the following address:

149 East Seventh St. Oswego NY

B) Sketch two outlines of the building you see at that address. One should be at the "street view"; the other should be from above the building using the "Google Earth" option.

C) THIS IS IMPORTANT: While making the outlines with your hand, think about what can be inferred about the building from producing these visual outlines. Write these responses down. Do your responses contribute to our understanding of the historical context of the building? If so, please explain.

2) Go to the following website:

http://historicfortontario.com/life-on-a-military-post-entertainment/

Then, provide a classification of the types of entertainment found at Fort Ontario.

In addition, please give reasons for why you chose the classification that you did.

3) Go to the following website:

http://visitoswegocounty.com/wp-content/uploads/HistoricalGuideFNL_web.pdf

Provide an alternate way of classifying the information in this document.

In addition, please give reasons for why you chose the classification that you did.

4) This is an exercise taken from J. Drucker, et al Introduction to the Digital Humanities:

Here are two well-known but very different approaches to understanding classification and/or exemplifying its principles. Try to understand and then discuss (in writing) the underlying principles and assumptions that were used to develop each of these classification schemes. For what kinds of materials are these suited? For what are they ill-suited?

Shiyali Ranganathan, Indian mathematician and librarian

1 unity, God, world, first in evolution or time, one-dimension, line, solid state, …

2 two dimensions, plane, cones, form, structure, anatomy, morphology, sources of knowledge, physiography, constitution, physical anthropology, …

3 three dimensions, space, cubics, analysis, function, physiology, syntax, method, social anthropology, …

4 heat, pathology, disease, transport, interlinking, synthesis, hybrid, salt, …

5 energy, light, radiation, organic, liquid, water, ocean, foreign land, alien, external, environment, ecology, public controlled plan, emotion, foliage, aesthetics, woman, sex, crime, …

6 dimensions, subtle, mysticism, money, finance, abnormal, phylogeny, evolution, …

7 personality, ontogeny, integrated, holism, value, public finance, …

8 travel, organization, fitness.

Brown and the Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen (LOB) corpora, used to describe/sort texts

•  A Press: reportage

•  B Press: editorial

•  C Press: reviews

•  D Religion

•  E Skills, trades, and hobbiesz

•  F Popular lore

•  G Belles lettres, biography, essays

•  H Miscellaneous (government documents, foundation reports, industry reports, college catalogue, industry house organ)

•  J Learned and scientific writings

•  K General fiction

•  L Mystery and detective fiction

•  M Science fiction

•  N Adventure and western fiction

•  P Romance and love story

•  R Humor