Updated Florida Digital Atlas for The New Map of Empire released
Today I completed and published an updated digital atlas for chapter six, “Defining East Florida.” Like all atlases for the book, they can be found at the New Map of Empire atlas page. The atlas...
View ArticleSpaces of Violence: Charlottesville, August 11-12, 2017
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View ArticleHistory Database Project: Reviewing Resources
As I get started developing a FileMaker Pro database for history research, I’m going through the “Learning FileMaker 16” tutorial on Lynda.com, a subscription service offered through my university...
View ArticleHistory Database Project: Snap Judgment on “Heurist”
Heurist’s “research-driven data management system allows any confident researcher or data manager to design, create, manage, analyse and publish their own richly-structured database(s) within hours,...
View ArticleHistory Database Project: Creating an “Entity Relationship Diagram”
To build the History Research Database in FileMaker, we need to define our “entities”–that is, the core sorts of data that will make up the database. Entities are also known as “tables.” We might...
View ArticleHistory Database Project (C-base): Thinking through Sources
Our Filemaker Pro template is taking shape in preparation for an initial presentation on January 30. I’m going to call it “C-base” (short for Corcoran Department of History Research Database). This...
View ArticleHistory Database Project/C-base: ERD redux!
OK. This is my third try to create a table structure for C-base. Yesterday, I met with UVA Library database specialist Mary Ellen MacNeil, who manages a sophisticated FilemakerPro database for the...
View ArticleHistory Database Project May 22. 2018
Hello Everyone! My name is Nicole Schroeder – I’m a PhD Candidate here at the University of Virginia. This summer Dr. Max Edelson and I are taking up a new project: to create a database system for...
View ArticleHistory Database Project June 9
Hello Everyone, I hope you’ve had the chance to look over the websites that are running using Heurist structures. It’s pretty amazing what these databases can do! After adding roughly a hundred records...
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