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1media/thedoorslongmans291.jpg2017-09-26T09:22:32-07:00Kate Holterhoff513b9262967b4b9d16cdfa1703eddd86c29620561944631A Collection of Data Visualizations Created to Describe the Illustrations Collected on VisualHaggard.orgvisconnections2018-05-30T17:20:27-07:00Kate Holterhoff513b9262967b4b9d16cdfa1703eddd86c2962056Welcome to Visualizing Visual Haggard, a collection of data visualizations created by undergraduates at the Georgia Institute of Technology to describe the illustrations collected on VisualHaggard.org.
Visual Haggard is a digital archive intended to preserve, centralize, and improve access to the illustrations of popular Victorian novelist H. Rider Haggard (1856 - 1925). The majority of Haggard’s approximately fifty novels were lushly illustrated, many of them repeatedly in different editions and by different illustrators. Illustration was always an essential part of reading Haggard’s romances during the nineteenth-century. Visual Haggard seeks to revalue and reintegrate the illustrations of Haggard's novels as unique artworks and texts for contemporary audiences.
The student teams responsible for creating the data visualizations on Visualizing Visual Haggard composed data sets about the illustrations affiliated with one Haggard novel. Descriptive tags concerning setting, character names, and style of art, among other topics, served as a form of close reading and provided material for debate about contentious labels. In the process of writing tags, students noticed patterns across their assigned novel’s illustrations, which their visualizations express. To read a full explanation of the pedagogical motivations for this assignment please see my post "Using Digital Archives to Teach Data Set Creation and Visualization Design" for the Chronicle of Higher Education's ProfHackerblog.
Visitors unacquainted with Haggard's romance fictions are encouraged to review the Haggard Bibliography and Timeline before exploring the data visualizations, which can be accessed from the dynamic Connections chart above or else by novel using the Table of Contents below.
Contents of this path:
12017-09-27T16:58:12-07:00Kate Holterhoff513b9262967b4b9d16cdfa1703eddd86c2962056Allan and the Holy Flower1plain2017-09-27T16:58:12-07:00Kate Holterhoff513b9262967b4b9d16cdfa1703eddd86c2962056
12017-09-28T07:29:33-07:00Kate Holterhoff513b9262967b4b9d16cdfa1703eddd86c2962056Black Heart and White Heart1plain2017-09-28T07:29:34-07:00Kate Holterhoff513b9262967b4b9d16cdfa1703eddd86c2962056
12017-09-27T17:10:04-07:00Kate Holterhoff513b9262967b4b9d16cdfa1703eddd86c2962056The People of the Mist1plain2017-09-27T17:10:04-07:00Kate Holterhoff513b9262967b4b9d16cdfa1703eddd86c2962056