To Do

Notes

  • Who is and is not in the LDS
  • Need to do closeness centrality on the AQ charts (specifically on the largest component)

Meeting with BYU on Jun 23

To Do

Notes

  • There is momentum in the church history department (LDS)
    • BYU has a lot of students who want to work on this
      • Could be data entry and transcription
    • LDS has grants if we can sell it to them
  • Integrated ancestors project
    • Immigration records
    • PDF records from 1854-188x, plus another group from 1849-
  • Brandon: Early Saints
    • Using ArcMap
    • High priorities:
      • Get small databases to be sharable
      • Luther is creating a match table (identity matching between–and within–databases)
        • Basically, what IATH is hiring me to do
    • Sample
    • He is trying to import Layton’s information from her research, and Luther is working on hosting her database
    • Main people lived in the core of downtown (center of town)
    • The LDS church owns most of the central land of Nauvoo. But they have 6 blocks missing (owned by private people)
    • Brandon is using his class to fill out the parcel data and matching historical and current records.
  • Kathleen
    • Interested in aritficial kinship structure (the construction with sealings and adoptions)
    • Suggestion: tree for marriages rather than chord diagrams
    • She thinks they are family-constructing activities
    • She wants the neighborhood connections figured out (people who JS trusted)
    • Fascinated to see who is adopted to John Taylor
    • Marriage is a metaphor for what they’re doing (these are different kind of sealings, they are not marriages or adoptions)
    • Numbers on the chord diagrams of adoption, biological, sealings, etc.

To Do

  • Extend the outline of the proposal
    • Look up and include the following:
      • Graph Grammars (John Pfaltz)
      • Subgraphs that are collapsed into nodes
        • Heirarchical graphs, where nodes can represent an entire subgraph
        • Quad trees (useful in images for multiple resolution levels, could be useful for graphs)
    • Fill out specifically the following:
      • Contributions
        • Summary of the contributions of this dissertation. They should be seen in the detailed research plan in more detail.
        • Add to the outline phrases of which motivating example might provide fodder for that metric/claim/work
          • Can include some abstractly specified domains (graphs defined in abstract domains)
          • There can be generated graphs that we can operate with (contrived examples)
      • Detailed Research Plan
        • This should be the meat of the document!
        • Includes details of how the contributions will be done
  • Publication venues for summer work:
    • Digital Humanities and Computer Science: dhcs.northwestern.edu
  • Possibly for 2016, dh2016 (austrailia: the world-wide digital humanities conference)
  • Contact Committee
    • Reconnect with confirmed professors
    • Connect with Jeff Holt about joining
  • Can I get cocitation data from Google Scholar? That might be more complete than ArXiv.
  • Looking at identity across evolving nodes. So, varying definition of identity and varying time

To Do

  1. Highlight adoption edges in the graphs. Try to have Gephi highlight or color those separately.
  2. Do a closeness centrality measure, which will show how the generations flow into connectedness along with the connected components. (maybe only using the largest connected component)
  3. Remove civil marriages from the graphs
    • See eternity sealings separately, see time sealings separately
  4. Use relatively prime numbers for the weights of the edges so that when they get combined, it’s easy to see how they break apart / what they stand for
  5. Try sizing nodes in graph by degree
  6. Double check that the AQ list is still up-to-date with the new entries? May need to update the IDs in the list to reflect any new AQ members chosen (like Zina has been changed, then changed back and NK Whitney has two IDs).

Discussion

  • What do the adoptions do? It doesn’t seem to make a difference on our connected components.
  • What’s the weight of ecclesiastical office for a tribe?
    • Kathleen wants multiple offices for a person at any given point in time
    • Distribution graph of offices held per clan/tribe per date
    • Stacked distribution of offices held per clan per date, showing multiple clans on the distribution.
  • How power operates in the system. An eternity view (marriages only for eternity) vs how it looks in time (in our time)
    • Lineage flow of the marriages where you can choose either to use Adoptions as from-line vs Birth Parents as from-line
      • Only use the first adoption in this case
  • Could we shade parts of the graph for tribes, or something?
  • What she is searching for:
    • Criteria for the mating(s)?
      • How did they choose all these wives?
      • Did they choose immigrants specifically for safety?
      • Are there patterns in the choices of wives?
    • Affects of the mating(s)?
      • What does a sealing do to affect the tribe? Do her brothers come in because of it?
      • Do we see when the patriarch of that node adds a wife, what kinds of families are being added to him? What other clans are being joined?
      • How does that affect the organization of the overland trails and what companies are formed?
      • Ex: If a Young marries a Hendrix, so Young joins with Hendrix, and we see one of the Hendrix’s clan become a leader in a company of 100? (I missed what she said completely)
  • If looking at offices, include time and eternity sealings to build clans. Would need to see them separately and together, just to see if they show different things.

TO DO

  • create a php file that, when given a list of IDs, will merge them (as I did with Zina)
    • Suck up the notes and merge them

Notes

  • Can we suck up the brown data entries into the database?
    • Auto import the columns, with the footnotes as private notes fields attached to them.
  • Brown is more important than BYU data

Select count(*), husband_id group by husband_id and only choose those with multiple wives before 18xx see plural_before_mar1846.php then go back through and collect all their wives to display