Category: Preservation & Archiving
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Using Lightroom to Make Your Images Work for You
My name is Mariah Postlewait and I am an art historian, a photographer, and a photography scholar. In short, I work on photography. One thing that keeps coming up (during class lectures, with student presentations, at conferences) is poor image quality. Oftentimes the kinds of imagery a scholar may need simply do not exist and […]
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How can heritage institutions work with their communities to build broader, more inclusive and culturally relevant collections?
24/2/2017 For immediate release Facet Publishing have announced the release of Participatory Heritage, edited by Henriette Roued-Cunliffe and Andrea Copeland The internet as a platform for facilitating human organization without the need for organizations has, through social media, created new challenges for cultural heritage institutions. Challenges include but are not limited to: how […]
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Spring 2017 Digital Project Review No.1: Marco Basile’s review of “The Liberated Africans”
The Liberated Africans Project Created and maintained by Henry B. Lovejoy, Richard P. Anderson, Daniela Cavalheiro, David Eltis, Suzanne Schwarz, and Daryle Williams. http://www.liberatedafricans.org/overview.html. Reviewed Jan. 2017. Marco Basile, JD/PhD Harvard University From 1807 to the 1860s, Britain led an international legal effort to suppress the Atlantic slave trade, largely by securing treaties that […]
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Performing Archive: Curtis + “the vanishing race”
Given its title, one might suppose that the goal of Performing Archive: Edward S. Curtis + “the vanishing race” is to preserve the cultural legacy of Native American tribes. But upon closer examination, it becomes clear that this is but one of the project’s secondary goals. The project is a digital collection of materials from […]
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Five years on and fully revised – new edition of the comprehensive handbook for special collections
Facet Publishing have announced the release of the second edition of The Special Collections Handbook This new edition from Alison Cullingford, Special Collections Librarian at the University of Bradford, is a practical day-to-day companion covering all aspects of special collections work. Working with special collections can vary dramatically from preserving a single rare book to […]
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Archives and Databases
First and foremost, I find Kate Theimer’s view that the definition of archives has become muddled and confused very convincing, if not for my disbelief that I have gone this long without truly understanding what the word means and how it differs from a database. Theimer posits that what defines an archivist’s work is […]
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TEI Header XML tags
The file Header provides the critical metadata needed to identify and cite the file. It is composed of five major components. The fileDesc provides all the necessary information needed to write a conventional bibliography. It in many ways acts a bridge from the old, analog, paper world to the digital. The following four tags are […]
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Transcribing on the Other Side
Over the weekend I had an assignment to transcribe one of the non-fiction writings from a currently incarcerated American. AKA, read a journal entry written by someone in prison. I’ve seen movies about people in jail, I’ve heard about it from people who had a short stint behind bars, I’ve read about it, and I’ve […]
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What to save from the fire: prioritizing texts
The library is burning to the ground, and you have time to save one thing: a book on a shelf, a digital photo of the book and its pages, or or the book or manuscript digitally transcribed (that is, typed into a computer file or files). Which one would you save and why? In imaging […]
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What Would Digital Humanists Save?
I believe the choices presented in this scenario have parallels in our ongoing discussion of what constitutes the humanities, the digital, and the digital humanities. In other words, I would generally expect someone who greatly appreciates or is a student of the humanities to opt to save the book on the shelf. Similarly, I […]