This article discusses the fact that prior to the digital revolution, only scholars could study primary sources. K-12 students and teachers were relegated to the little they could get to locally because they did not have the money needed to…
In order to see where we are going sometimes it becomes necessary to look back and review the steps we took to get to the place that we have landed today. The same thing goes for digital preservation. Charles Bailey notes and narrates previous…
Cunningham avers that digital archiving, digital curation, digital libraries, and digital museums are distinctly different functions despite the common conflation of the terms by the public. In this article, he argues that digital archiving should…
Sarah Higgins explores the world of digital curation from its beginnings to now in her article “Digital Curation: The Emergence of a New Discipline.” With the world becoming more digital by the day, Higgins brings to light the importance of curation.…
Daniel Cohen, professor of history at George Mason University and director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media and the late Roy Rosenzweig, professor of history and innovator in digital scholarship at George Mason University…
In this digital landscape, the archival-oriented media theories of Wolfgang Ernst are particularly relevant. Digital Memory and the Archive, the first English-language collection of the German media theorist’s work, brings together essays that…
Doris Hamburg, Director of Preservation Programs, takes viewers to the state of the art digital processing lab at the National Archives at College Park. Inside the lab, Jennifer Seitz, Digital Imaging Specialist, and Norris White, Digital Imaging…
As our heritage deteriorates through erosion, human error or natural disasters, it has become more important than ever to preserve our past ' even if it is in digital form only. This highly relevant work describes thorough research and methods for…
Burdick centers her book on what is digital humanities? Digital humanities is a vague term. As an emerging field, Burdick takes on the challenge in uncovering a more specific definition of what it is. But she also mentions how people use this field…
The Early Americas Digital Archive by Ralph Bauer is a collection of works that provides access to various forms of literature such as: poems, prose, histories, diaries, journals, and letters written in or about the Americas from 1492 to…