Museums, libraries, archives, and cultural institutions house collections that tell stories about our past, but many of these collections were created through exploitation and colonization. Because of this history, it is essential for institutions today to center empathy, community partnerships, and ethics when working with cultural heritage materials. Digitization offers new opportunities to reconnect with …
According to our reading for this week, text analysis has its roots in literary history and criticism. Whereas close reading involves the careful study of a single text, distant reading refers to the large-scale analysis of many texts or collected works. The goal of distant reading is to uncover overarching trends, patterns, and concepts that …
Historically, maps have never been neutral. Cartographers, often employed by colonizing nations, steeped ethnocentric views into their work. These maps frequently claimed land for the empire, erased Indigenous territories, and replaced local names with those preferred by European nations. When studying these historical maps today, it is important to consider the larger influences and history …
As someone who’s really interested in social history, I feel like it’s the way in which we use quantitative data that determines whether or not our arguments are reductive. There are, of course, plenty of limitations to raw data, as pointed out in the article “Against Cleaning” when Rawson and Munez discuss the limitations of …
I know we already discussed this in class, but I’m still just blown away by the article “Digitization: Just Because You Can, Doesn’t Mean You Should.” I can’t imagine being in the subject of the video’s position, having consented to a very niche audience seeing the material and then having it digitized for people across …
I recently had the chance to experiment with Matterport, and the experience was enjoyable and surprisingly intuitive. For my assignment, I chose to scan the Medicine Wheel Garden. Inspired by attending the garden’s twentieth-anniversary celebration just a few weeks ago, I thought it would be interesting to produce a virtual tour of the space. Nestled …
blob:https://twinery.org/d4f5235e-3775-4da6-9d30-69f57f91bd8e I had a LOT of fun making this (as y’all could probably tell)! It was such a fun challenge to figure out how to weave different choices together to reach the same ending, or loop back around to a good point to restart from, or how to end a thread in a satisfying way. …
It was really interesting to experiment with Matterport to create a virtual tour of part of the LAB. To be able to capture the images within the room and hallway that then allowed for the projection of walking through the hallway was an interesting concept. I had tried virtual experiences before with other programs, which …
Experimenting with Twine was an interesting exercise both as a tool and a concept. To allow the reader to be able to make selections of where they choose for the story to go next adds an interactive dynamic that draws the reader in with a form of self-controlled engagement. Even with the option for the …
Please find the attached oral interview with Katelyn O’Quinn conducted on 11/16/15 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The topic surrounds her interest in books, preferences, and future aspirations. The interview is recorded utilizing Audicity software, Windows PC, and snowball microphone.