Category: Archive
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Transcription (a beginning)
How do you move from archive to digital artifact? Traditionally the process starts in the archive when you find a document that catches your eye. It’s interesting, it sheds new light on an issue in history, and it’s the only copy in the world!! You have to decide what to do with that document. Nowadays…
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Blog Post #1
Blog #1: “On Material and Digital Archives” Due: 9/5 Prompt: This week you have visited several websites that are based on archival materials. Go to the DH project Sample book that Dr. Jakacki assembled and look at the projects again. How are the projects categorized? Look especially at the ones that are categorized under Archive.…
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Getting to know the Archives!
Tomorrow during class we will be visiting the Moravian Archives in Bethlehem (virtually, alas!) to learn a bit about where the documents are housed that we will be working with semester. The Archivist, Dr. Paul Peucker, has kindly agreed to show us the Archives, talk about the kinds of materials that are kept there, and…