HASTAC Commons | Sharon Leon | Activity https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/sleon/activity/ Activity feed for Sharon Leon. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:08:57 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 e85cbf1f106a0d66b1ec342785f8fd31 Sharon Leon posted a new activity comment https://rainyportfolio.msu.hcommons.org/2021/11/02/portfolio-4-text-analysis/#comment-2 Wed, 10 Nov 2021 20:28:19 +0000 This post starts off in the right direction, but quickly veers off into issues of using digital technologies to present historical materials. Stay with the question of historical analysis, and engage the work that we’ve read. What kinds of lessons does Mining the Dispatch offer?

In reply to - Rainy Jain wrote a new post, portfolio 4:- text analysis, on the site Digital History Computational text analysis has its own significance in a historical research. It is the task of analysing and visualizing h […] ]]> 2575d133e3168dd958740de8c671e9a8 Sharon Leon posted a new activity comment https://rainyportfolio.msu.hcommons.org/2021/10/28/portfolio-3-website-review/#comment-3 Wed, 10 Nov 2021 20:27:09 +0000 I would like to see more here about the argument of the site. What is its primary underlying rationale? What did you learn from it? What historical literature on slavery is it in conversation with? How does the organization help or hinder the effort? What is the audience? How well are they served? What would you do differently if you’d built the site?

In reply to - Rainy Jain wrote a new post, Portfolio 3:- Website REview, on the site Digital History I decided to review the site which attracted my attention the […] ]]> 9aa27de4c47acba967fb5320f279bf04 Sharon Leon posted a new activity comment https://rlewellen.msu.hcommons.org/2021/10/09/portfolio-assignment-i/#comment-2 Sat, 23 Oct 2021 16:19:41 +0000 This assignment asked you to actually form a research question based on the introduction and first chapter of the Schermerhorn book, and then to try to find primary sources to answer that question. What is your inquiry? What repositories did you consult? What did you find? How did you revise your inquiry?

In reply to - Rebecca Lewellen wrote a new post, Portfolio Assignment I, on the site Rebecca Lewellen's Portfolio When developing a research question and searching for primary sources I think it is important to get an idea of […] ]]> 36ce03de74d24d3bb374e826cb6df4b5 Sharon Leon's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1677120/ Sat, 01 Feb 2020 12:16:41 +0000 0 47e7d8e8e6fbbabc1861a7c06fe448d5 Sharon Leon started the topic Scripto for Omeka S in the discussion Crowdsourcing https://hcommons.org/groups/crowdsourcing/forum/topic/scripto-for-omeka-s/ Thu, 16 Jan 2020 13:47:03 +0000 Crowdsourcing Friends,

I’m happy to share the release of Scripto for Omeka S 1.0. Many of you will be familiar with Scripto for Omeka Classic, which launched in 2011 to bring transcription capabilities to those using Omeka Classic to host their collections materials.

Scripto for Omeka S offers the ability to host many transcription or…[Read more]

]]> 0 ce61b2eebd51d6d2e06a3fd2bed4d7f2 Sharon Leon deposited How Shall We Represent Their Lives? The Enslaved Community Owned and Sold by the Maryland Province Jesuits in the group Linked Open Data https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623228/ Thu, 08 Nov 2018 16:26:31 +0000 In 1838 Thomas Mulledy, S.J. signed his name to an agreement selling the 275 enslaved persons who resided on Jesuit-owned estates in Southern Maryland to Louisiana. The sale served as the culmination of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus’s fraught experience with slaveholding in the colonial and early national period. While much h…[Read more]

]]> 0 fbd54f486331568a4ba9f46618b6a3e8 Sharon Leon deposited How Shall We Represent Their Lives? The Enslaved Community Owned and Sold by the Maryland Province Jesuits https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623045/ Tue, 06 Nov 2018 17:52:03 +0000 In 1838 Thomas Mulledy, S.J. signed his name to an agreement selling the 275 enslaved persons who resided on Jesuit-owned estates in Southern Maryland to Louisiana. The sale served as the culmination of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus’s fraught experience with slaveholding in the colonial and early national period. While much h…[Read more]

]]> 0 ff7d9768943264ce979d149660534ac1 Sharon Leon's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1622662/ Thu, 01 Nov 2018 13:41:41 +0000 0 ec1468296ec916dd85f60f718930042c Sharon Leon started the topic CFHR Zotero Library in the discussion Classroom and the Future of the Historical Record https://hcommons.org/groups/classroom-and-the-future-of-the-historical-record/forum/topic/cfhr-zotero-library/ Tue, 29 May 2018 14:42:41 +0000 https://www.zotero.org/groups/2168859/cfhr/items

]]> 0 51c49b767516ed61c927f10118834d42 Sharon Leon uploaded the file: Classroom and the Future of the Historical Record Symposium Flyer to The Classroom and the Future of the Historical Record https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1609398/ Tue, 29 May 2018 14:38:46 +0000 0 2b66c213d1b09dffefedf3dc685a0180 Sharon Leon's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1600696/ Tue, 13 Feb 2018 21:04:36 +0000 0 03fa44e7ca15e50e25685c5b9d647214 Sharon Leon's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1555206/ Fri, 09 Dec 2016 16:47:31 +0000 0 19b1a3f13e72ca62ac342297bac392d0 Sharon Leon's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1554038/ Fri, 02 Dec 2016 15:49:34 +0000 0