February 26, 2010 at 11:49 am · Filed under Uncategorized
As a follow up on Mondays post on the introduction, I will explore the background a bit more.
We are still looking at the book “Writing the winning thesis or dissertation: a step-by-step guide” (Glatthorn & Joyner: 2005).
The book has a really helpful way of defining the background of the study from 4 different perspectives:
- Societal background
- Intellectual background
- Professional background
- Research background
I used this way of defining the background and made a mindmap. This has really helped me to define the influences that this thesis is built upon.
February 22, 2010 at 11:16 am · Filed under Thesis writing
So I have this new writing strategy, where my husband helps be get my thesis written. Each weekend we will sit down together and he will read what I have written the previous week and then we will plan what I am to write the next week. Small steps, as he says! It will bring me there faster that getting overwhelmed by too large steps.
It has worked so far and I now have a draft for an introduction. This is one of my favorite chapters and also I believe one of the most important chapters of any written work. It is like that vital first impression you give at a job interview. You introduction must be like a good solid handshake. Don’t present a limp, dead fish but don’t crush their bones either. (Do have a look at Oatmeal’s other crap handshakes though).
The book “Writing the winning thesis or dissertation: a step-by-step guide” (Glatthorn & Joyner: 2005) has been great help on how to structure my introduction (chapter 16; page 163). It suggests the following sections:
- Introduction to the chapter
- Background of the study
- Problem statement
- The professional significance of the study
- An overview of methodology
- The delimitations of the study
- Definition of key terms
November 28, 2009 at 4:42 pm · Filed under Web Services
eSAD – e-Science and Ancient Documents: http://esad.classics.ox.ac.uk
Vindolanda – http://www.vindolanda.com
VTO – Vindolanda Tablets Online: http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/
EpiDoc – Epigraphical Documents in TEI: http://epidoc.sourceforge.net
Contextual encoding
Hippisley, D. (2005) “Encoding the Vindolanda tablets: an investigation in contextual encoding using XML and the EpiDoc standards.” MA Dissertation submitted for the MA in Electronic Communication and Publishing, School of Library, Archive and Information Studies, UCL.
RESTful Web Services
Abeysinghe, S. 2008. RESTful PHP Web Services, Birmingham: PACKT Publishing
Fielding, R. T. 2000. Architecture Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures,
Richardson, L. and Ruby, S. 2007. RESTful Web Services, Cambridge: O’Reilly
Spies, B. 2008. Web Services, Part 1: SOAP vs. REST http://ajaxonomy.com/2008/xml/web-services-part-1-soap-vs-rest (25.11.09)
Some of these publications are available via the eSAD website
Roued-Cunliffe, H. 2010. Towards a Decision Support System for Reading Ancient Documents, Literary and Linguistics Computing – forthcoming,
Olsen, H. R. , Tarte, S. , Terras, M. , Brady, M. and Bowman, A. K. 2009. Towards an Interpretation Support System for Reading Ancient Documents, Digital Humanities Conference 2009
Tarte, S. 2010. Papyroligical Investigations: Transferring Perception and Interpretation into the Digital World, Literary and Linguistics Computing – forthcoming,
Tarte, S. , Brady, M. , Olsen, H. R. , Terras, M. and Bowman, A. K. 2008c. Image acquisition & analysis to enhance the legibility of ancient texts, E-Science All Hands Meeting 2008
Terras, M. 2006. Image to Interpretation. An Intelligent System to Aid Historians in Reading the Vindolanda Texts, Oxford University Press
Wordpress plugins
SimpleFlickr
AVH Amazon
November 26, 2009 at 12:22 pm · Filed under Web Services
This is a case study of how you can use Web Services to access information from another web application in your own blog.
Flickr have an application called the API Garden where you can put together a URL to call up the Web Service.
API garden interface
The API garden have a list of the available methods, which you can choose and then you can use the application to put together the correct URL.
This is the URL I put together to get a list of photos from a specific set:
http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photosets.getPhotos&api_key=2d537c691c158b91201d3469eedd07c6&photoset_id=72157621516651630&api_sig=3d1a2dffeac7c399c1989044d0979ef2
I have used this information to display these images on my own blog. In reality I could write some XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation) and display them any way I want but in this case I have cheated and used wordpress and the SimpleFlickr plugin to display the photos in a blog post.
