Another resource/volunteer opportunity that I hope is not a retread: the Smithsonian Digital Volunteers Transcription Center. I’m a little late to the party, but I’ve gotten into the whole crowdsourced transcription thing due to the topic I chose for my final project, the encoding of marginalia, which is obviously very much linked to the issue […]

As I discussed during my presentation, I chose to do a paper for the final project in which I took a look at two digital projects. Specifically, I analyzed various encoding-related features of two marginalia-heavy digital archives/editions. The two projects I focused on are the May Bragdon Diaries and the Shelley-Godwin Archive. They’re both amazing […]

For the work on my final project, I am revisiting our early readings on digital history—its uses, origins, and cautionary tales. I am obviously compelled by the exciting opportunities digital spaces invite for historians. These are well articulated by Rosenzweig and Cohen (n.d.). I found interesting some of the challenges they cite to their view, […]

The NY Historical Society has decided that the Post It Notes from the Union Square subway station collected as “therapy” during and after the recent election should be preserved as historical documents.  More information on this at DNAinfo.  The article does not mention any plan to digitize these, but I do think there’s an opportunity […]

I did my best to keep up with the readings and come prepared to class to discuss them, but I will admit that there were weeks some of the readings were technically over my head and there were other weeks that I was not able to get to all the readings (thanks to a full […]

I honestly do not have much to add to everyone’s observations of guest editing, but I did enjoy the dedicated hour/day that I spent nominating content.  It gave me a week of daily-dedicated time to review news, projects, and other musings in the world of DH. As previously noted, the time I was editing (Nov. […]

After hitting the send key on my final project proposal a few short hours ago, I can already think of ways to improve it.  I am proposing a digital archive called: Kamishibai Digital Archive – The Art of Japanese Storytelling.  In summary, the archive would attempt to:  “preserve the existing legacy of gaito (street-style) Kamishibai, a Japanese […]

For my final project I decided to write a reflexive paper that investigates the current state of DH in Spain and how it can help deal with historical memory. To begin with, I intended to tackle some of the issues relevant to the field of digital history from a contemporary perspective, and go over some […]