Moreton, E., O’Leary, N., & O’Sullivan, P. (2014).
Visualising the Emigrant Letter. Revue Européenne Des Migrations
Internationales, 30(3), 49–69.
This article is now freely available on line...
Specialists will recognise that there is, as it were, a 'ghost
article' in there, waiting to be written - the more firmly Irish version of our
work on Emigrant Letters, looking at our historiographic tradition, Arnold
Schrier, Kerby Miller, David Fitzpatrick and so on. This would also now look at more recent
developments, which I still track - for myself and on behalf of Emma Moreton
and her networks. Yes, looking at our tradition,
and specific Irish problems - always that issue of looking at only Irish
material, in isolation. So, also
connecting with the wider literature, and with other interests of mine, like
literacy/orality, writing as an exploration of the self, writing as a creation
of the self, identities, language choices.
But it is nice to see that Revue Européenne Des Migrations
Internationales (REMI) article online - and see how they have displayed the
visual material. Note all the work that
goes into the creation of Digital Humanities visualisations. One question for me, as we explored
that Digital Humanities approach to Irish material, was: Does all that work pay dividends, does it open
up new approaches to existing research questions, and open up routes to new
research questions? The answer is, Yes.
Patrick O'Sullivan
Visualising the Emigrant Letter
Propositions pour une visualisation graphique de
correspondances de migrants
Propuestas para una visualización gráfica de las
correspondencias de emigrantes
Emma Moreton, Niall O’Leary et Patrick O’Sullivan
Emigrant letters are a rich resource for teaching and
learning, transcending disciplinary and methodological boundaries. They are
expressive and indicative of correspondents’ identities, values, preoccupations
and beliefs, providing a powerful source of information about migration issues
and shedding light on processes of language change and variation. Although many
emigrant letter collections have now been digitised, not all are properly
archived; some are reduplicated and others are in danger of being lost. The
documentation and preservation of such letters is, therefore, a particularly
pressing need. In 2013, an AHRC research network was established to look at
ways of improving interconnectivity between digital collections of migrant
correspondence. This paper reports on work carried out so far, focusing on how
emigrant letter projects might move beyond the digitisation stage to exploit
text content and enhance usability and searchability through the use of
visualisation tools.
Index terms
Keywords :correspondance, lettres de migrants, TEI
markup, outils de visualisation graphique, TEI, visualisation graphique de
données, geotagging
Keywords :correspondence, emigrant letters, TEI markup,
visualisation tools, TEI, data visualisation, geotagging
Further information, about policy - to make the contents
of the journal available to a wide range of readers (researchers, teachers,
students, etc.), and to promote the accessibility of the journal to the
Anglophone public through the International Cairn platform...
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