Elisa Beshero-Bondar PRO
Professor of Digital Humanities and Chair of the Digital Media, Arts, and Technology Program at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.
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DIGIT PC @ PS-Erie | Co-Director, #DigBlk @ PS-UP | |
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Link to these slides: bit.ly/ajc-defcon
Presentation for DEFCON 2022 Speaker Series
March 30, 2022, 3:30PM Eastern/12:30PM Pacific
Editing Anna Julia Cooper
Photograph identified by Vivian May; Cover Art by Keebs Laurent; C.M. Bell, photographer. Mrs. A.J. Cooper. [between February and December 1903], Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2016702852/>.
Anna Julia Cooper Digital Collection
Makini Johnson, Lopez Matthews, Shirley Moody-Turner, Adrena Ifill
Goals:
https://dh.howard.edu/ajcooper/
Dr. Lopez Matthews organizes "Undisputed Dignity" symposium to launch the Anna Julia Cooper Digital Collection at Howard University
Student Work with the Digital Collection
https://bwoaproject.org/collections/cooper-reviews/
Research locating extant reviews of A Voice from the South conducted by Katie Warczak
Student Work with the Digital Collection: How to Address Complexities of Material Text?
Scrapbook reader was created by Jonathan Kosegi
https://bwoaproject.org/interactive/cooper-scrapbook-reader/
It is most unfortunate that this craze for speeding and top-notching should strike our educational programs. Youth is the time for growth—and growth, to be healthy, should be normal and without artificial forcing.
A machine age with its top-notch goal on mass production necessarily overrides the individual, sacrificing spiritual values as it throws open the throttle to “let her go” for all she’s worth!...Never mind about the scenery—just get there! a few hundredths of a second quicker, a few millimeters faster, a few feet higher…
Transcribe Cooper - Zooniverse Workshop, August 2019
Top Row Left: D'Angelo Bridges, Kevin Winstead, Jim Casey, Cliff Johnson, Justin Smith, Courtney Murray, Adrena Ifill, Shirley Moody-Turner, Kristin Moriah, Brandi Locke, Heather Froehlich, Eunice Toh, Sabrina Evans (not pictured: Sam Blinkhan)
Transcribe Cooper - Manifest
Created by the Penn State Douglass Day Zooniverse Student Team with Jim Casey
Transcribe Cooper - Zooniverse
Created by the Penn State Douglass Day Zooniverse Student Team with Jim Casey
From Digital Image ⟶ Transcription ⟶ Reconciled Text
Credits: Douglass Day 2020 - Transcribe Cooper Zooniverse Project, Transcriptions and Reconciled text by Jim Casey, Justin Smith
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Consultation between SM-T and EB-B in summer 2020. . .
AJC's response to a survey of Negro College Graduates in 1930
Some challenges of this document!
Class as a whole:
TEI Guidelines: “specify encoding methods for machine-readable texts, chiefly in the humanities, social sciences and linguistics"
EB-B selects chapters of the Guidelines for students to review, introduce elements in class.
Notice:
<div1 type="section" n="I">
...
<div2 type="question" n="13">
<ab> 13. Do you own your home? <add hand="#AJC">Yes</add> Value of home <add
hand="#AJC">18000</add> Other property owned <add hand="#AJC">Cottage in
<placeName>Raleigh N.C.</placeName> 2 lots in
<placeName>upper mallboro Md.</placeName></add> Value
<add hand="#AJC">Uncertain, two or three thousand perhaps.</add>
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<div2 type="question" n="14">
<ab> 14. <del hand="#AJC" rend="strikethrough">Wife or</del>
<del hand="#AJC" rend="overwrite">h</del>Husband: Birthplace
<add hand="#AJC"><placeName>Nassau British W.I.</placeName></add>
Present occupation <add hand="#AJC">deceased</add>
Education: (Draw circle around last grade completed)
<add hand="#AJC">Educated for
Priest in the <orgName>Episcopal Church</orgName>.</add>
<lb/>Grammar school---1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8; High school---1-2-3-4;
College---1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8
<lb rend="1-L"/>Of what college or professional school a
graduate <add hand="#AJC"><orgName>St. Augustine's Divinity
School</orgName></add> Degree <add hand="#AJC" rend="2-L">Ordained Deacon
& passed examinations for the priesthood under
<persName>Bishop Lyman Bp</persName> of <placeName>N.C.</placeName></add>
</ab>
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...
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Questions 36-38 and a bit from 22:
Two instances of overflow and unreadable portions
<div2 type="question" n="36">
<ab rend="1-L"> 36. How well did you do in college? <add hand="#AJC">Hardly a fair
question for personal answer. I did my best & <metamark
rend="short-connecting-line"/><lb/><note resp="#ebb">Here AJC’s text flows
upside-down along the top of the form</note> 4 Professors including
<persName>Prest. Fairchild</persName> gave me letters rating me first in the
class.</add>
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<div2 type="question" n="37">
<ab rend="1-L"> 37. To what extent were you influenced by religious training,
personalities or the religious atmosphere of your school? <add hand="#AJC">
<lb/>I entered <orgName>Oberlin</orgName> a bigoted "Churchman". I left
not the slightest attempt at <unclear><supplied>proselyting</supplied>
</unclear>. & yet<gap reason="image cut off on right margin"/>
<lb/>altho I continued to attend the little Episcopal Church religiously the
breadth & real catholicity of the
<lb/><orgName>Oberlin</orgName> spirit the friendly contacts
& wider study had the inevitable
result which I consider humanizing of one's
<lb/><gap reason="image cut off on left margin"/><supplied>"ch</supplied>
<unclear><supplied>urchianity</supplied></unclear>." </add>
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<ab rend="3-L"> 38. What is your attitude toward educational methods of instruction
in college? (Mention the strongest and weakest features? <add hand="#AJC">
<lb/> Too broad to be answered in 2 lines. If the post was machine method of
"tests & measurements" to <lb/>Sting out the unfit prevails we never can
tell what is to be done for the untalented plodder who <lb/>continues to want
more. You may have your Loebs & Leopolds & reject Lindbergs. </add>
</ab>
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<ab rend="3-L"> 22. As you think of it now, do you regard your preparatory training,
before college, as adequate or defective? i.e., What deficiencies or omissions in
that period do you feel would be of value to you? Please comment briefly <add
hand="#AJC"><lb/>Under <persName>Dr. J. <surname>Brinton
Smith</surname></persName>, founder, I was made pupil teacher at the age of
8, first for board & tuition<gap reason="image cut off on right margin"/>
<lb/>Teaching & studying, married & widowed in this <q>world</q> of a
church school I think the preparation for c<supplied><note>words continue onto the
next page of the survey</note>ollege</supplied> <lb/>may pass as <q>good</q> for
the time in that I was admitted on examination with some praise to the
Sophomore c<supplied><note>words continue onto the next page of the survey</note>lass
of Oberlin</supplied> <lb/>Entrance exams, in the Anabasis, the Iliad <abbr>Caes</abbr>
<abbr>Cic</abbr><!--ebb: I think these are abbreviations for Caesar and Cicero, which
used to be taught a lot in a classics (ancient Greek/Roman literature) curriculum in
the late 19th-century.-->, Plane & Solid Geometry <supplied><note>words continue
onto the next page of the survey</note> Passed.</supplied>
<lb/>Conditioned in Trig. Mechanics, Physics, Hist. of Civilization <metamark
rend="short-connecting-line"/><add place="below">& Science of
Government</add>, the Odyssey made up
<unclear><supplied>in</supplied></unclear> one yea<supplied
reason="image cut off on right margin">r <note>words continue onto the next page of
the survey</note> <unclear>to entrance conditions in</unclear>.</supplied></add>
</ab>
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So much prosopography data...!
<div2 type="question" n="23">
<ab> 23. College and Professional Training:</ab>
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<cell><hi rend="italic">Period (give dates)</hi></cell>
<cell><hi rend="italic">Diploma or degree</hi></cell>
</row>
<row n="1">
<cell>1 <add hand="#AJC">
<orgName>St. Aug. Normal & Collegiate</orgName></add></cell>
<cell><add hand="#AJC">from early youth to 1881</add></cell>
<cell><add hand="#AJC">None</add></cell>
</row>
<row n="2">
<cell>2 <add hand="#AJC">
<orgName>Oberlin</orgName></add></cell>
<cell><add hand="#AJC">Sept. '81 -- June '84</add></cell>
<cell><add hand="#AJC">A.B.</add></cell>
</row>
<row n="3">
<cell>3 <add hand="#AJC">
<orgName>Oberlin</orgName> on 3 yrs. College Teaching</add></cell>
<cell><add hand="#AJC">'84 --- '87</add></cell>
<cell><add hand="#AJC">M.A</add></cell>
</row>
<row n="4">
<cell>4 <add hand="#AJC"><orgName>Columbia</orgName> on 4 yrs graduate courses
in S.S.</add></cell>
<cell><add hand="#AJC">1914, 15, 16, 17</add></cell>
<cell><add hand="#AJC" rend="2-L">Guilde Internationale Paris
S.S</add></cell>
</row>
<row rend="none">
<!-- added by AJC, not originally part of surey -->
<cell><add hand="#AJC">5 <orgName>Universite de Paris</orgName>, La
Sorbonne</add></cell>
<cell><add hand="#AJC">1924 - '25. Residence & thesis</add></cell>
<cell><add hand="#AJC"><metamark rend="verticalLine"/> PHD.</add></cell>
</row>
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Who was she? What's memorable about her from prepping this digital edition?
”feisty, snarky, strong-willed, with an immense passion for education”
Alice Rong, lead editor and recent graduate, sees Cooper as
Remarkable passages of the survey, selected by Alice Rong:
C.M. Bell, photographer. Mrs. A.J. Cooper. [between February and December 1903] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <https://www.loc.gov/item/2016702852/>.
By Elisa Beshero-Bondar
presentation for the 2021 Association for Computers and Humanities (ACH) Conference, also for the 2021 Keystone DH Conference.
Professor of Digital Humanities and Chair of the Digital Media, Arts, and Technology Program at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.