Comments on: Digital Archives

By: gretchenpanzer

gretchenpanzer — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 21:53:39 +0000

Notes from session:

• platforms for digital archives—suggestions:
o Omeka omeka.org/
o Be Press www.bepress.com/
o Connexions (open source publishing outlet) cnx.org/
• how to improve North Wind digital archive? (www.snc.edu/english/nwarchive.html)
o database format rather than pdfs
o change platforms—see above
• archives available but low profile on the web—make friends with archivists to find uncatalogued sources
• how to make digital archives count?—computational, public/usage momentum
o digitalarchivesthatcount.wordpress.com/
• TEI www.tei-c.org/index.xml
o tapasproject.org/—still in development
o republicofletters.stanford.edu/ project from Stanford
• NITLE www.nitle.org/
o view case studies for descriptions
• clearinghouses for DH projects? LACs are working on it

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By: John Pennington

John Pennington — Thu, 26 May 2011 20:48:54 +0000

Hi, Dick–We’d be interested in both ideas. Our North Wind archive is “complete,” so we probably need to figure out ways to use that information better. Our At the Back of the North Wind archive is at the beginning stages, so we’d definitively want to explore the numerous ways to make the site more creative and interactive. We’re hoping that if we can figure the second archive out, then we can reconsider redesigning the North Wind journal archive.

John

By: Dick Brown

Dick Brown — Sat, 21 May 2011 00:01:46 +0000

John, I’m wondering if you envision a better way to access predefined components of your archive, or if you seek technologies that would enable a user to access that archive in creative ways? The first of these requires a better user interface and/or a better retrieval system connected to that user interface. The latter would go further to explore new methods of retrieval. I ask because I have interest in exploring the latter.

Sally, I too am interested in learning about digitizing written materials, beyond just capturing images.

By: Sally Stamper

Sally Stamper — Sun, 15 May 2011 15:41:32 +0000

John, I’m interested in this topic from the perspective of the user. I suspect there are ways of drawing on digital archives that I’m not picking up on – the advantages they provide over image-only sources. Your work is also interesting to me because I work with children’s literature and would like to focus a project on the early texts for children, some of which are relatively difficult to find in hard copy – I wonder if I might begin building a digital archive.

By: Ryan Hoover

Ryan Hoover — Mon, 09 May 2011 15:56:39 +0000

This would be a fantastic panel for me. A couple of us are going to be creating an e-portfolio system for our University this summer, and we’ll be running into some of the same issues. The interactive archive thing would make a really interesting e-portfolio (they’re basically archives themselves).