Introduction: Visible Prices Prototype
Welcome to the latest prototype of my ongoing digital humanities project, Visible Prices (VP). This demo was created for display at MLA 2014, as part of the DH From the Ground Up panel; and focuses on one 10-year period in the 19th century, 1845-54. I chose this span because I indexed prices in Charles Dickens' novel The Personal History of David Copperfield, which was published during 1849 and 1850.
I've been working on VP since 2009 when I first came up with the idea when I went to a THATCamp. You can learn more about its background by visiting my primary website for the project, at http://www.visibleprices.org.
This introduction is the start of a path that will take you through the collection in its current state. I've also included a statement on the technical side of building VP and on the next steps I'll be taking as the project continues.