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import csv
import json

INPUTFILE = "History_Journal_Articles_KW.csv"

OUTPUTFILE = INPUTFILE[:-4] + "_numbered.csv"

in_file = open(INPUTFILE, "r")  # "r" == Open file for reading
out_file = open(OUTPUTFILE, "w") # "w" for writing

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Crymble

Not a pitch. Share perspective.

Series of tutorials which guide someone through Python
 > high level code, which means you can do a lot with little code.
Designed to get you up to speed to the point where you can experiment.
Iterative learning process.
Aimed at a specific audience, unlike - for example - the O'Reilly textbooks which are aimed at everyone.

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McCarthy

[main points rather than full notes on talk]

Purpose to rescue anxiety about the digital. Show how knowing it better can help DH understand itself.
Grab onto and embrace the otherness of computing, understand it, explore it.
We need resonance with the intellectual traditions of the arts and humanities
BUT we also need to help our humanist colleagues understand the value of experimentation of the scientific kind. We need to use the bridge of history of science.
We should not emerge from our encounter with computing unscathed.
Point not to save labour but to do something new, and find out what that is.

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<<<<<Thursday>>>>>>

https://etherpad.mozilla.org/greenwich


**Unix Shell**

- whoami
- pwd 'print working directory'
[programmers love acronyms...]

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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# <nbformat>3.0</nbformat>

# <headingcell level=1>

# Greenwich Boot Camp

# <codecell>

print 'hello, London'

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Rob Nelson, Ideology and algorithms: the uses of nationalism in the American Civil War and topic modelling in historical research, IHR Digital History (29/10/13)
Nelson, Ideology and algorithms

http://www.slideshare.net/historyspot/ihr?from=ss_embed
Richmond Daily Dispatch, poems clustered around patriotism.
Civil war enlistment poetry political - instrumentality

Topic modelling > patriotic language, nationalist language.
Can help us think about the instrumentality of poems that might now otherwise be revealed.

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Interactive Narratives

Burn - Intro...
Lineage of interactive narratives.
Technology makes it easy for us to forget that narratives have been interactive for some time.

Pears - Arcadia
Turning the page. 
Trouble with the idea of allowing readers to choose what happens next. "My King Lear problem".
Interactivity more about giving readers an option to choose the order or perspective

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**19th Century Periodicals Research Day, Liverpool John Moores, 8 November 2013**
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*Introduction (Brian Maidment, Clare Horrocks, Val Stevenson)*
Primary materials the focus of the day.
Making primary material available, accessible - how do you get people and stuff together.
Teaching with digital primary materials.
Where do periodicals scholars sit without HE structures? [NP and periodicals in Media department at BL]
How significantly different is working with the digital as with the physical?
Is the digital 'openness' just creating a new canon?

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**Transforming Research Through Digital Scholarship, British Library, 11 November 2013**
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*Andrew Prescott, How Arts and Humanities is Being Transformed through Digital Scholarship*
Some of transformation unclear ... offer some hints on what is going on.
Collaboration with institutions at the heart of the digitrans theme's development.
BL site of transformative moments: text, sounds recording, post, biblical concordances.
The latter were revolutionary, considered heretical
> in essence cut up the bible and rearranged it into a different order.
> is it a tool? act of philosophy? intellectual engagement?

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Print as a social form, medium to form the basis of a democratic culture.
LCS first secretary, Thomas Hardy.
In historiography, seems to fit the model of the english cobbler.
This paper as Hardy the more complex man, even after 1794 treason trials and his acquittal.
 > historian and archvist of the LCS, supporter of Burdett, facilitated return of exiles, circulated Thelwall poems/papers.
 > network of former colleagues, even when 1800-15 there was no society as such.
Memoir of Thomas Hardy started as an instiutional history rather than an autobiography
 > but it failed, so transformed into an AB.
Radicals presented themselves as airs to a pantheon of liberties.
Thelwall made is way into politics via the explosion of debating societies, 1780s.