sandbox
The “Sandbox” space makes available a number of resources that utilize and explore the data underlying "Secrets of Craft and Nature in Renaissance France. A Digital Critical Edition and English Translation of BnF Ms. Fr. 640" created by the Making and Knowing Project at Columbia University.
2020 Chaillard Final Project
See Applying Machine Learning to the Manuscript: Semantic Trees, Word Clouds, and Sentence Embedding for the full report.
Word Clouds
The first project was to create word clouds from the categories in the thesaurus. This was done in the file word_clouds.py using a specific Python package. For each semantic tag, there is a word cloud in the word cloud file.
Animals
Body Parts
Currencies
Environments
Materials
Measurements
Medical
Music
Personal Names
Places
Plants
Professions
Sensory
Temporal
Tools
Weapons (Arms & Armor)
