Category Archives: Archives

Digital Curation: Adding Value to Digital Collections

Posted on April 16, 2014 by Suzan Alteri

Facilitated by Suzan Alteri and Dan Reboussin Digital curation is the “active management of digital resources over the life-cycle of scholarly and scientific interest.” We will discuss several activities that can be undertaken once a collection is online in order … Continue reading →

Categories: Archives, Collaboration, Digital Literacy, Libraries, Metadata, Social Media | 6 Comments

Visualizing Time & Place with GoogleEarth

Posted on April 15, 2014 by Marcy Galbreath

How can GoogleEarth maps be used to the best effect in digital archive projects? Amy Giroux and I would like to continue the discussion on the use of digital mapping as a conversational feature in interactive digital archives. We have … Continue reading →

Categories: Archives, Mapping, Session: Talk, Visualization | 1 Comment

Applying Digital Archive Skills: The Birth Control Review as Case Study

Posted on April 12, 2014 by Aimee Armande Wilson

Gainesville THATCampers have proposed sessions on creating digital archives, making exhibitions for those archives, and learning TEI editing for documents within said archives. These promise to be excellent sessions and I hope they all make the cut. With that said, … Continue reading →

Categories: Archives, Session: Make, Session: Play | 3 Comments

Constructing the Transcontinental Railroad: The Digital Photographic Archive

Posted on March 26, 2014 by Richard Freeman

Glenn Willumson, School of Art & Art History;  Richard Freeman, Smathers Libraries Supported by a library mini-grant, this project is a collaborative venture between the library and the School of Arts and Art History to make the photographs of the … Continue reading →

Categories: Archives, Collaboration, Crowdsourcing, Libraries | 2 Comments

Creating, Managing, and Preserving Digital Archives

Posted on March 20, 2014 by Patricia Carlton

This session aims to explore what Laura Millar calls the challenge of creating, managing, and preserving digital archives in a dynamic digital environment. In an effort to think about approaches to preservation and access, especially of primary or material source projects, … Continue reading →

Categories: Archives, General | Tags: , , , | 2 Comments

What is TEI and what can you do with it?

Posted on March 18, 2014 by markkamrath

What is TEI? What can you do with it? How can one get started with TEI editing? What avenues exist for publishing online with TEI encoded projects? TEI (or the Text Encoding Initiative) is a way to prepare archival documents … Continue reading →

Categories: Archives, Coding, Collaboration, Metadata, Project Management, Session: Talk | 3 Comments

Exhibitions

Posted on February 26, 2014 by Lourdes Santamaria-Wheeler

Participants will learn basic processes of creating exhibits, including content selection, best practices, design and presentation considerations, and guidelines for writing labels. Original content created by presenter will be shared, including label writing tips and templates, sample timelines, and exhibition … Continue reading →

Categories: Archives, Collaboration, Copyright, Libraries, Museums | 1 Comment