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 …
Going on a Nature Hike “For me the door to the woods is the door to the temple.” — Mary Oliver, Upstream Go to this Sway
When I think upon the meaning of embodiment, I envision an immersion into an experience that can be lived through one or a combination of the five senses, which include sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. While the senses are a building block for the experience, it is the actual connectiveness that has the power …
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Interactive serves as an online repository for almost a century of performance history. As America’s longest-running dance festival, Jacob’s Pillow has been a foundation of modern and cultural dance since its beginnings in the 1930s. This digital archive not only preserves dance performances but also strives to make these videos accessible to …
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
When contemplating the question of data in humanities research, I begin to think about the size or scale. Since the humanities deals with what makes us uniquely human, I begin on a personal basis. As an individual, if I have a problem or perhaps on the more positive swing, try to determine a point of …
Featured in articles, webinars, and presentations, Native Land Digital is an indigenous-led nonprofit that focuses on multi-tiered interactive digital mapping of indigenous lands around the world as well as providing links to online visitors to information on corresponding languages, treaties and websites. This NLD website, largely funded through grants and donations, provides layers of maps, …
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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, …
Reflecting on the readings and our class discussion from last week, I have come to reexamine some of my prior beliefs about access and openness in relation to cultural heritage materials in digital contexts. A key question that now stands out is: for whom does this access serve? Does the ideal of openness align with …
When asked to reflect on the readings and technical activities from last week, I think that just as physical access has both pros and cons, the same can be said for digital contexts. Who owns the materials? Were they gained through ethical means? Is there sensitive matter that could cause undue harm but is freely …