With my still limited experience with Omeka and digitization, I think that creating a digital archive primarily means creating the best digital representation possible of an item for researchers to use. These items can include letters, photographs, images of objects, and more. As someone who uses digital archives regularly for my own research, I am …
An (Ideal) School Day Through Sound First thing in the morning, I’m awoken by two separate alarms going off at once. My partner Maeve and I are both deep sleepers, so we both set alarms on our phones. This tends to result in … Go to this Sway
My chosen project: The AIDs Memorial Quilt URL: www.aidsmemorial.org/interactive-aids-quilt This source is a digitized version of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, as well as the stories of many people represented on it. As a brief overview, the AIDs Memorial Quilt is a 50,000-panel quilt with the names of over 100,000 people who passed away from AIDs, …
Image of killer whale charm, made of carved whale bone. Belonged to a Tlingit [Hoonah (Huna)] Shaman. Artifact housed in the National Museum of the American Indian. Image taken from Huna Heritage Foundation.
Hello! Just a brief re-cap of some of what I shared in class about myself: My name is Riley Houston, and I’m currently a second-year MA/MLIS student! My research interests include the history of the American South from the mid-19th century to the early 20th, with a focus on how the intersections of race, class, …