Cartooning from the Margins: Digital Exhibits on Newspaper Cartoonists
Created by University of Richmond’s RHCS “Digital Humanities” students, Fall ’23.
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Blog Post – Tyrone Lee
Reflection on a Visit from Will Kent! The visit from Wikidata Education Specialist, Will Kent, was quite informative on the complex tool that is Wikidata. Will presented several different ways on how one can utilize Wikidata as well as craft it with code. I personally took away the different types of code that definitely assisted…
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Jamilah Ganyuma – Will Kent
Will Kent’s visit to our classroom was extremely helpful. His presentation was on the basics of Wikidata. He explained what the aim of the platform was, how the platform worked, and gave us the tools to be able to edit the platform. He also gave us an introduction to SPARQL. This reminded of chapter about…
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Will Kent
On September 27th, 2023 Will Kent, a Wikidata education specialist visited UR virtually to teach the class about the useful applications Wikidata. Kent started off with explaining the uses of Wikidata and went on to teach us about the search functions and its coding language SPARQL. A clear takeaway from Kents lecture is that Wikidata…
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Holden Habermacher – Will Kent Reflection Post
Will Kent was a welcome and wonderful presence in our class. He is bursting with knowledge about Wikidata and community-based databases and his enthusiasm brought dry readings about data collection to life. Kent encouraged our class to explore Wikidata on our own terms. Wikidata is created by and for its users, so we can put…
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Cori Nichols, Will Kent Blog Post
Will Kent presented how Wikidata works and why it is so important and useful tool for every search engine. He talked about how internet tools like Google and Bing get a lot of their information from Wikidata. He also informed us about the different symbols and identification numbers on Wikidata and what they mean and…
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Wikidata Visualization
The subject of this wikidata query visualization is showing all occupations of artists in wikidata. Then to narrow it down I filtered the artist’s field of work to show the results of people who work in comics. I then wanted to narrow it down to see the number of females in Wikidata who are both…
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Major Assignment #1
Major assignment #1 Wikidata Query Service For my wiki query project, I chose all of the “Golden Age Comics”. This wiki link brought up a digital visualization of all the comics from the Golden age with the year they came out. I thought that I could use the bubble connection to show the country…
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Wikidata Visualization
Wikidata Visualization The comic subject that I chose was ‘Comics that have been published around the world limit to 400’. The reason I chose this as I was interested to see the variety of comics that are published from all over the world as there is so much. All comics from all over the world…
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Jamilah Ganyuma – Critical Creation
Visualization link: https://w.wiki/7kCQ This is a table depicting illustrators who have won the Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics, according to Wikidata. I used the Wikidata Query Service and built my own SPARQL code. A table is typically one of the most common visualizations and one of the simplest. There is not much data…
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Martin Critical Creation
https://query.wikidata.org/#%23COMICS%0ASELECT%20%3FitemLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581072%3B%0A%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP106%20wd%3AQ1114448.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP27%20wd%3AQ30.%0A%7D The subject of my data table is female comic artists who have citizenship in the United States. I chose this topic because my comic artist is a female who lives in the United States, Hilda Terry. So, her name showed up on my table. I wanted to make a table that she was included…