While researching, I find myself visualizing my research and wondering how it will look like in a digital platform. Today, I was researching academics during the 1950s and 1940s. While copying multiple courses and major lists, I tried to stop and think about how I was going to display this information to my audience. It would be boring to just put up a list of majors and courses offered or even a picture of the source. I am sure the reader could have read the book in which I found the information just the same. How can I display this information in an interactive and visually pleasing way? I guess I will have to experiment with new digital tools and use my imagination.
Sometimes dealing with large amounts of text is problematic, and there’s no easy way to get around it. If you’re linking out to things, you can either limit the choices people see, thus limiting the scope of your project, or you can try dropdowns or other ways to kind of “hide” their options. Or, you can try using a word/tag cloud, or something similar, if there are a lot of repeated concepts.