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    An Electronic Database Tool for Charting the Recorders of the Salem Witch Trials

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    2012-04-03
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    Grund, Peter J.
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    Abstract
    In this presentation, Grund will report on his ongoing collaborative project (with Margo Burns and Matti Peikola) on the recorders that took down the some 1,000 documents from the Salem witch trials. Their goal is to produce an online tool that identifies as many of the approximately 250 recorders as possible, and provides bibliographical data as well as data on their scribal practices. At the same time, the plan is to make the tool available to other researchers to use in the charting of handwriting and scribes in other historical contexts. The talk outlines the principles of the work, demonstrates the preliminary setup of the tool, and discusses some of the future avenues for the project. Among other things, Grund will show how collaborative research is crucial in a project of this kind, and how the electronic format of this scribal tool allows us to approach age-old questions not only about the Salem trials but also about writing practices, scribal copying, and literacy.
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    Digital Humanities Seminar, University of Kansas—Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities & Hall Center for the Humanities, April 3, 2012: http://idrh.ku.edu

    Peter J. Grund is an Assistant Professor of English Language Studies at the University of Kansas.
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