Category Archives: Archives

Posts about archives, archivists, and archiving.

Making Difficult Transitions

Posted on April 22, 2015 by Haven Hawley

This session looks at how we make transitions work for us rather than becoming moments of failure in archival and digital history work. Donors and communities rarely share the same expectations of a relationship with an institutional partner as an archivist, … Continue reading →

Categories: Archives, Collaboration, Diversity, Libraries, Project Management, Session Proposals, Session: Talk | 1 Comment

Virtual Virtues: What works and does not work for presenting manuscript material online

Posted on April 21, 2015 by James Cusick

This is an open discussion about what makes the contents of a digital archive (letters, papers, diaries, etc.), either easy to use or frustrating to use. I thought we might look at the Bexar Archives (UT-Austin), Free People of Color … Continue reading →

Categories: Archives, Research Methods, Session: Talk, Teaching, Text Mining | 2 Comments

Expanding access to historical content

Posted on April 15, 2015 by Melissa Jerome

In August of 2013, the UF George A Smathers Libraries received a $325,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to digitize 100,000 pages of historic newspapers. The UF libraries are working in conjunction with the library system … Continue reading →

Categories: Archives, Libraries, Open Access, Project Management | 2 Comments

Timeline Apps for Online Exhibits

Posted on April 15, 2015 by Barbara Lewis

Every time I work on an online exhibit, it seems that a timeline would enhance the content and sometimes could even cover the entire exhibit.  An interactive timeline would be even better.  In this session, we look at a variety of … Continue reading →

Categories: Archives, Collaboration, Libraries, Mapping, Open Access, Teaching, Visualizations | 2 Comments

TEI, Poetic Analysis, and Interchange

Posted on April 15, 2015 by William Dorner

Using my recently completed dissertation as a starting point, I’d like to explore how the approach I’ve adopted might be improved upon, extended, or simply serve as a discussion point for other projects. For my dissertation, I digitized and marked … Continue reading →

Categories: Archives, Coding, Collaboration, Project Management, Scholarly Editions, Visualizations | Tags: , , , , , | 3 Comments

Stories of Grant-seeking Adventures in the DH

Posted on April 15, 2015 by Bess de Farber

Have you wondered about how successful DH grant-seeking is achieved? It begins with conversations about what we have in terms of resources, what we have done in the past, and what we want to do in the future. “Sharing experiences … Continue reading →

Categories: Administrative, Archives, Collaboration, Funding, Libraries, Session: Talk | 1 Comment

Searching for Paratexts in the Digital World

Posted on April 14, 2015 by Suzan Alteri

According to French literary theorist, Gérard Genette, paratexts are the aspects of a published work that surround the main text of a narrative (i.e. introductions, prefaces, marginalia, inscriptions, illustrations, etc.). However, finding these specific and sometimes ancillary parts of a … Continue reading →

Categories: Archives, Collaboration, Crowdsourcing, Metadata, Session: Talk, Teaching | 3 Comments

Using the Omeka Platform

Posted on March 27, 2015 by markkamrath

Omeka continues to be a popular content management platform for scholars, libraries, and museums interested in displaying digital objects or content. Its flexibility and search features make it attractive to a range of users with various interests. This session aims to discuss Omeka as … Continue reading →

Categories: Archives, Libraries, Metadata, Museums, Open Access, Publishing, Session: Talk | 2 Comments