Tackled Zotero today. I had a bit of trouble with it at first. I couldn’t download it in class because it is not yet available for the iPad. Somewhat understandable, I suppose. Back home, I first attempted to download it on Chrome, which is what I usually use. It did give me the little icon […]
Archive for February, 2014
Sources
This week we began exploring online primary source material on our regiments. Marvin Bolton served in the 1st Michigan Cavalry. One particularly useful site for this regiment was published by the University of Michigan’s Bentley Historical Society. The site can be found here and offers links to regimental histories and personal accounts published during […]
Fun with OCR
This morning I tackled my first attempt at using OCR technology. Pretty handy technology, took about two seconds to upload and transcribe a full page of text. However, despite being mostly accurate, there were a few glaring errors. Minor spelling problems here and there, but it also skipped a full line of text and increased […]
Meeting Marvin
This week we received the names and documents for our soldiers. I am still in the process of indexing all my papers, but have compiled a short list of some important statistics about my soldier and am excited by the bit I have learned. I was surprised by how exciting it was to see […]