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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Percila Richardson

Percila Richardson

Rough Start for Digital Preservation - 1 views

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    This article discusses and provides a few tips for preserving today's digital records for generations to come. This seemingly easy task has provided some difficulties to the September 11 Digital Archive Project. The main goal of this joint project is to collect and preserve everything from photos to voicemails that relate to the events of September 11. Dan Cohen provides four main points that may be able to solve some of this issues in this preservation along with tips on how to better this process.
Percila Richardson

No Computer Left Behind - 1 views

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    In his blog, Dan Cohen decided to revisit a topic that was cover in the Chronicle of Higher Education. This data-mining related article discusses the issues with educational testing and growing technology in the humanities field. Devices that can browse an entire database of knowledge pin pointing specific facts. This device is then compared to the relationship between the calculator and math to this device and history. Just as the calculator has made memorizing certain mathematical principles pointless in testing, this device is said to make multiple choice test irrelevant for history. Similarly, cell phones, pdas, and tablets have been able to fill this gap already.
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What Do NextGen Digital Humanist Think? - 1 views

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    This video talks to students who have been invited to participate in the only Digital Humanities conference for and by undergraduate researchers. Short segments follow students who discuss the meaning of digital humanities, why there are passionate about the field, and different projects they are involved in. For example, a student expresses the difference in publishing for an audience who will be online and the responsibility of the researcher to approach the project in the best way to present it to a larger audience. Collaboration among researchers in the field is noted to be one of the most important aspects in Digital Humanities.
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Digital Memory Box - 0 views

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    This Digital Memory Box is just what it appears to be. An archive filled with electronic multimedia and digital records of the students who participated in the Uprisings of 1976 in South Africa. The purpose is to preserve to records of the Black townships and promote positivity surrounding the incident. Former students are allowed to return and tell their first hand story of the events that took place including pictures.
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Giving Literature Virtual Life - 0 views

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    Professor Katherine Rowe teaches a Shakespeare class online and discusses with us the benefits of being able to digitize this course. She says that she has previously taught this exact same course in a lecture hall as well as a theater but believes that it was less effective. Students participate in assignments that allow them to recreate popular Shakespearean scenes digitally for deeper understanding. This article also highlights other projects assigned by various other professors. This includes a digital visualization of the University of Virginia's first library collection and editing of the transcribed online versions of Household Words and All the Year Round.
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