dh collaboration
For this week’s assignment to participate in a dh project or platform, I went broad rather than deep. I did three things (or more, depending on how you co...
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#MinecraftED Twitter Party
For our post this week, I wanted to participate in the community of educators using Minecraft as a pedagogical tool. Minecraft is, at its core, about placing an...
Volunteering for the Smithsonian Transcription Center
The Smithsonian (https://transcription.si.edu/) is currently crowdsourcing an impressive number of transcription projects, and I was curious to se...
Response, Week 2
When products “go digital”, when resources or knowledge become part of the digital space, they’re supposed to undergo a process of democratization (at least acc...
Digital Immediacy
In his response to Ed Folsom’s “Database as Genre,” Jerome McGann notes the importance of considering interface and user interaction as influe...
genre and databases -Caroline 1/28
This week’s readings illuminated the problematic nature of generic categorization that is inherently involved with digitizing an archive of texts. Though the ki...
Visibility and Innovation in DH Archival Projects
While reading these texts, I was struck by the tension between the ubiquitous rhetoric of technological progress and the “actual” progressiveness of the databas...
Reassessing Representation in the Post-Archival Moment
Representation stood out as a thread throughout the readings for me, and particularly how scholars can reassess representation during the turn to digital archiv...
Post-Digital Dasein
The question of what is “lost” or “gained” in the age of digital archives is a multifaceted one. At first glance, the most intuitive ite...
Authorship Behind the Screens
While reading the essays for this week, I kept returning to the idea of authorship. When I use a group of digitized artifacts, I am not usually aware of the “au...
