Mapping travel writing: a digital humanities project to visualise change in nineteenth-century published travel texts
Mapping travel writing: a digital humanities project to visualise change in nineteenth-century published travel texts
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绘制旅行写作地图：一个数字人文项目，旨在可视化十九世纪出版的旅行文本的变化
作者：
Kirsten Belgum;Keith Handley;R. Bott
本文介绍了一个项目，该项目使用数据映射和数字可视化来获得对19世纪旅行写作的新见解。它侧重于对1800年至1900年间在英国出版的3000种旅游作品书目的案例研究，并概述了对该数据集应用数字分析的过程。本文提出，学术参与旅游写作可以受益于“远程阅读”的使用在两个方面。首先，通过可视化以前只能以文本格式和字母顺序提供的数据，该项目可以在时间和旅游目的地方面建立明显的模式。其次，该项目试图在旅行写作参考书目中自动“阅读”标题，作为一个测试案例，在不同的国家出版实践中添加比较成分来检查19世纪的旅行写作。通过让学者们直观地看到趋势和差异，这个测绘项目补充了文学分析模式和对旅行写作的文本解释。
ABSTRACT This essay introduces a project that uses data mapping and digital visualisation to gain new insights into nineteenth-century travel writing. It focuses on the case study of a bibliography of 3000 titles of travel works published in Britain between 1800 and 1900 and outlines the process of applying digital analysis to that dataset. The essay proposes that scholarly engagement with travel writing can benefit from the use of “distant reading” in two regards. First, by visualising data that has previously only been available in textual formats and in alphabetical order, the project could make apparent patterns across time and with regard to travel destinations. Second, the project is an attempt to automate the “reading” of titles in a bibliography of travel writing as a test case for adding a comparative component to examining nineteenth-century travel writing across diverse national publishing practices. By allowing scholars to see trends and differences visually, this mapping project complements literary modes of analysis and textual interpretation of travel writing.