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Bibliography
The William Colenso bibliography being compiled using Zotero is a work in progress. Currently it contains around 1900 records, including letters to and from Colenso, journals, almanacs, pamphlets, articles, ephemera, collections, biographies and other writings about Colenso. To access and use the bibliography, you can -
Visit The Colenso Project Library in Zotero, to:
Download interactive LaTeX PDF files organised by decade, at the Wai-te-Ata Press website. These files enable you to click hyperlinked urls to view original item records online.
Experiment! Explore the world of William Colenso using new digital tools for data mining and data visualization like QueryPic and Magic Squares
Letters
The letters of William Colenso, as transcribed by Ian St George in 2011, presented here by kind permission.
Bibliography
The William Colenso bibliography being compiled using Zotero is a work in progress. Currently it contains around 1900 records, including letters to and from Colenso, journals, almanacs, pamphlets, articles, ephemera, collections, biographies and other writings about Colenso. To access and use the bibliography, you can -
Visit The Colenso Project Library in Zotero, to:
- Search or browse by categories (folders) and keywords (tags).
- Customise how the records are displayed using Library Settings.
- View the latest records added to the bibliography.
Download interactive LaTeX PDF files organised by decade, at the Wai-te-Ata Press website. These files enable you to click hyperlinked urls to view original item records online.
Experiment! Explore the world of William Colenso using new digital tools for data mining and data visualization like QueryPic and Magic Squares
Letters
The letters of William Colenso, as transcribed by Ian St George in 2011, presented here by kind permission.
personal_letters_of_william_colenso_transcribed_by_ian_st_george_part_1_to_21_april_1878_4.8.15.doc | |
File Size: | 6823 kb |
File Type: | doc |
personal_letters_of_william_colenso_transcribed_by_ian_st_george_part_2_4.8.15.docx | |
File Size: | 1896 kb |
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Other primary texts
Further writings of William Colenso, as transcribed by Ian St George, presented here by kind permission from Ian St George and the New Zealand Native Orchid Group.
Further writings of William Colenso, as transcribed by Ian St George, presented here by kind permission from Ian St George and the New Zealand Native Orchid Group.
early_journals_of_william_colenso_transcribed_by_ian_st_george_1833_to_1852_4.8.15.doc | |
File Size: | 4577 kb |
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late_journals_of_william_colenso_transcribed_by_ian_st_george_1889_to_1897_4.8.15.doc | |
File Size: | 2430 kb |
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publications_of_william_colenso_transcribed_by_ian_st_george_part_1_4.8.15.doc | |
File Size: | 5989 kb |
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publications_of_william_colenso_transcribed_by_ian_st_george_part_2_4.8.15.doc | |
File Size: | 9249 kb |
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colensos_collections_compiled_by_ian_st_george_2009_reissued_2014_by_the_colenso_society.doc | |
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For background context, we recommend these biographies of William Colenso:
- William Colenso: His life and journeys - by A.C. Bagnall and G.C. Petersen, 1948; new edition edited by Ian St George and published by Otago University Press in 2012.
- William Colenso's biography in Te Ara, the Encyclopedia of New Zealand.
- William Colenso: His life and journeys - by A.C. Bagnall and G.C. Petersen, 1948; new edition edited by Ian St George and published by Otago University Press in 2012.
- William Colenso's biography in Te Ara, the Encyclopedia of New Zealand.
Topic modelling
Fusion file prepared by Thomas Koentges, using R and its tm/topicmodels package. This process determined 22 major topics used in Colenso's letters, by comparising the log-likelihood of various topic models.
personal_letters_of_william_colenso_-_topic_modelling_by_thomas_koentges.xlsx | |
File Size: | 2005 kb |
File Type: | xlsx |
Most common terms used in each topic can be viewed here, and all the letters, along with the likelihood that each letter refers to each topic, are here.
These charts shows how often Colenso wrote about the topic of collecting or classifying specimens over the years, and to whom he was writing when he did so.
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Map layers
Map coordinates, and other mappable data, for the locations of Colenso's outbound correspondence. This shapefile was prepared by Flora Feltham, and can be uploaded into geographic information systems software such as ArcGIS or QGIS for exploration and analysis. Flora is currently preparing geospatial visualisations, combining this software with historic maps.
Map coordinates, and other mappable data, for the locations of Colenso's outbound correspondence. This shapefile was prepared by Flora Feltham, and can be uploaded into geographic information systems software such as ArcGIS or QGIS for exploration and analysis. Flora is currently preparing geospatial visualisations, combining this software with historic maps.
outgoing_correspondence_of_william_colenso_-_shapefile_by_flora_feltham.zip | |
File Size: | 10 kb |
File Type: | zip |