Tag: archives
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Transcription Process: Difficulities To Learn a “New” Language
↑ Press to play(Mission Impossible Theme) Transcription Process is really important while researching old archives. It can be described as a “strange learning experience”. Original text is quite tricky and difficult for me to understand. Challenges can be summed up to 3 parts : mysterious hand writing, intricate grammar and wrong pronunciation. For example, on this…
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The Significance of Digital Artifacts
Digital humanities projects, such as the ones on the Digital Humanities Sample Book website use methods such as 3D mapping and literary analysis to display many different archives regarding numerous fields of research. These projects exhibit new types of information regarding humanities research that would not be easily accessible through other means of media. These…
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The Thing About Digital Artifacts…
Upon accessing the Sample Book website, I noticed all of the categories of Digital Humanities that we discussed in class organized at the top of the page. From left to right, the categories are: Archive, Visualization, Mapping, Digital edition, Network Analysis, Textual Analysis and Audio Analysis. These different categories of Digital Humanities research allow the…
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The pros and cons of digital archives
In the DH sample books website, the DH projects are categorized by the major DH approaches that used by the projects. There are seven categories, including archive, visualization, mapping, digital edition, network analysis, textual analysis, and audio analysis. A student or a researcher can easily find a DH project that is appealing to him/her by looking…
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Make a choice on demonstrating the data.
A DH project is basically categorized by its way to demonstrate information. Projects in humanities fields usually have a broader vision than those in literature and science. Researchers need to collect data either from the scientific record (Weather map etc.) or from old literature (old archives etc.). The information density during the process will be significantly…
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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…