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Itinera's Displacements: A Roundtable Main Menu Itinera's Displacements Framing #1: Itinera as renvoi Christopher Drew Armstrong Displacement #1: Itinera as Methodology Jennifer Donnelly Displacement #2: Itinera as Site Lily Brewer and Meredith North Displacement #3: Itinera as Code Vibeka McGyver Framing #2: Itinera as Classroom Alison Langmead
Published in Journal18: a journal of eighteenth-century art and culture
Issue 5: Coordinates: Digital Mapping and 18th-Century Visual, Material, and Built Cultures (Spring 2018)
Edited by Carrie Anderson and Nancy Um

Structured Data

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As opposed to unstructured data such as letters or travel narratives, structured data explicitly expresses not only its content but also its form and structure. Project managers and other users of Itinera’s back end [link to Back End] extract information from historical records and sources and reformat them into the structure of Itinera’s database, which then allows for a standardized communication and display of this content on the front end.

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Workflow A workflow is a detailed how-to guide for working with Itinera, centered on the complex process of turning primary source material into structured data. It details every step necessary to complete the data entry forms properly for an agent, an object, tour, life event, source, or location. A tool for standardization and consistency, the workflow ensures a consistent code for completion and preservation of quality historical information.