Thanks to the power of Google I found the blog Day of Digital Archives (http://dayofdigitalarchives.blogspot.com/). We just missed this year’s day–October 12, 2012, but the blog still seems like an […]
Archive | October, 2012
Archive-It! Tool Review
At the end of yesterday’s class, I gave a PowerPoint presentation on the DH tool Archive-It!. This particular tool is of prime importance to the field of digital humanities because […]
Digital Archives–more is better
The usefulness of digital archives has become very clear to me over the past couple of years, and even more clear after this week’s readings and our session with Steve […]
The Digital Archive as Process
In exploring the archives related to this week’s readings, I was struck less by the experience of using them, than by the materials they captured. Certainly, I don’t mean to […]
Very First Thoughts on Digitial Archiving: The Sonic Memorial Project, Democratizing History, & Everything & the Kitchen Sink
When I hear “digital archives” the very first thing that pops in my mind is The Sonic Memorial Project. Before moving to New York, I led an Urban Studies study […]
Archives and Access
Ben Vershbow talks about “subverted hierarchy” when explaining how comments for a book writing project were along side text instead of following the structure most blogs use in which primary […]
DH and Archiving: A Killing Combination
For the past few days, I have taken time out of my busy schedule to inform myself on the role archiving is currently playing in the fresh new field of […]
Opening: Narrative Theory and Reading Machines
As the featured speaker at the first Narrating Change seminar several weeks ago, Jerome Brunner talked about narrative. At one point he explained that when he teaches narrative to his […]
Grad School Reform
First of all, let me state quite unequivocally that I think it is a shame and it is wrong that tenure-track positions are evaporating. I also decry other signs of […]
Short List of New York Literary Maps & Trees (Links)
“A Literary Map of Manhattan” from The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2005/06/05/books/20050605_BOOKMAP_GRAPHIC.html By Randy Cohen and Nigel Holmes “Here’s where imaginary New Yorkers lived, worked, played, drank, walked an looked at […]
