Category: Blog #1
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On Material and Digital Archives
Digital artifacts from archival documents really benefit scholars a lot. By making digital artifacts, tremendous data are carefully categorized, which enables people to find the data they need by simply searching the key word instead of picking up the data from libraries that contain tons of data. For example, in Lincoln at 200, facts about…
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On Material and Digital Archives: Old Info, New Medium.
Digitizing archival material comes with advantages and disadvantages; creating a large responsibility for the archivist. Digitally cataloging historical information makes the material accessible. For example prior to the travel journals being published online, the only way one could read them would be by reading the actual journal. Now the contents are available online, so the information can be…
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On Material and Digital Archives
Digital artifacts created from archival documents provide advantages such as preservability, portability, and easy organization and accessibility. Digital artifacts won’t wear down from being analyzed by people because it is just digital image. The physical artifact may get damaged from being handled by many people. Digital artifacts do not take a long time to find. In online…
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Digital or not, Making your own choice
The cultural heritage is now taking digital form, whether born digital or born-again by conversion to digital from other media. The projects in the DH sample books website are categorized according to the DH methods used. From the left to right, there are seven categories: Archive, Visualization, Mapping, Digital edition, Network Analysis, Textual analysis and…
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Digital Artifact is a great invention? It depends.
Following the prompt on the WordPress, I went to the DH Sample Book website, where Archive, Visualization, Mapping, Digital edition, Network analysis, Textual analysis, and Audio analysis are seven different categories the archives fall under. Under Archive, I browsed the 3 projects, the OldWeather, Lincoln at 200 and Database of Indigenous Peoples in North America.…
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Blog Post # 1
Blog #1: “On Material and Digital Archives” Prompt: This week you have visited several websites that are based on archival materials. Go to the DH project Sample book and look at the projects that are categorized under Archive. What are some of the advantages to creating a digital artifact from archival documents? What are some…