Teaching in the Archives: Engaging Students and Inverting Historical Methods Classes at The Historic New Orleans Collection
The authors of this piece aim to introduce the use of primary documents in the classroom to better engage students with the history they are learning. The article offers insight into inverted course models: those that emphasize hands-on learning in classrooms and content delivery outside of them. Furthermore, they apply this method to museums and archives, displaying how introducing additional primary sources can spur a more enriching learning experience.
Manley, Elizabeth S.; Fertel, Rien; Schwartzberg, Jenny; Ticknor, Robert
Personal digital archiving for journalists: a “private” solution to a public problem
Within her article “Personal digital archiving for journalists: a “private” solution to a public problem” Sarah King aims to inform journalists on the benefits of digital preservation. Although librarians and archivists are all aware of the importance of preservation, many journalists are not. King explains how much of today’s journalism is published directly online which means libraries cannot archive these items as they only have short-term access through subscriptions. King makes it clear that personal preservation of articles and documents by journalists is the next step forward in the realm of digital archiving for the 21st century.
Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives
This book looks at the fundamental differences between traditional and electronic texts and the issues of studying each exclusively. It outlines how teaching students using both varieties of text in tandem can be beneficial in understanding the material. To do so, it examines a variety of different texts, both digital and physical, from between 1473 and 1700. It also uses the study of music, atlases, and other forms of media to further the students’ learning of early American literature.
Brayman Hackel, Heidi; Moulton, Ian Frederick
Proceed With Caution: How Digital Archives Have Been Left In The Dark
In “Proceed With Caution: How Digital Archives Have Been Left In The Dark,” Alyssa N. Knutson covers issues of legality on the subject of copyright within digital preservation. Described by Knutson as a “legal limbo,” digital archives teeter on the edge of fair use. Knutson uses the case of Internet Archive v. Suzanne Shell from the mid-2000s to inform readers of the many legal issues of digital archiving. Knutson is adamant on the need for a change in policies by Congress to give more freedom to archivists as they attribute to a storage of the history.
Contracts, Intellectual Property, and Privacy
Briston’s entry in The Digital Archives Handbook concerns the legal ramifications of archiving and the difficulties that occur when trying to ascribe proper credit to the owner of an archive entry or piece of intellectual property. She details how the transfer of archival material between parties can be incredibly brief or include negotiations that span multiple years. While usually not difficult, archivists must take great care in following all copyright laws and maintaining privacy for parties involved.
Digital Curation/Digital Archiving: A View from the National Archives of Australia
Within his article “Digital Curation/Digital Archiving: A View from the National Archives of Australia,” Adrian Cunningham tackles the true definition of the term digital archive. Bringing in a perspective from the National Archives of Australia (NAA), Cunningham shares his hands-on experience of working as an archivist. There are three main messages Cunningham aims to get across, which are: the difference between curation and archiving, the difference between digital archives and digital libraries/museum, and the need for archival intervention.
Long term preservation of digital documents
“The Long term preservation of digital documents” is a book published in the year 2015. It was originally written in German but was eventually translated to English to reach a wider array of audiences. It is categorized as a digital preservation of electronic information resources. It includes sixty-two figures and thirty-two tablets with a list of informational bibliography references used within the book. The purpose of the novel is to understand and explain the importance of preserving digitized information and what are the best resources and methods to efficiently do so correctly. The book is set up in a textbook format divided by prefaces of specific subject headings followed by chapters that break down the individual information. This is a valuable addition to the archiving website because the importance of archiving digital documents is getting less and less relevant over time as generations are becoming less informed on the proper way to reserve documents and media. The textbook does have a lot of information and therefore has to be divided into concise paragraphs using small fonts. Thankfully, it is available for download in different formats helping readers to individually decide in what type of format would be most comfortable for them to read the given information.
Uwe M. Borghoff, Peter Rodig, Jan Scheffzyk, Lothar Schmitz.
Clara Pulido, Jacquelyn Curtin, Truc Duong
Going Digital: Electronic Images in the Library Catalog and Beyond
“Going digital: electronic images in the library catalog and beyond” is a book published all the way in 1995. In this year was when practical consumers began using the internet and saving their own data into their personal hard drives. It was written by archiving consultants Ronald R Abbott and Mimi King. It is not available in a printing format, but it can be accessed virtually as a digitized novel. It is 81 pages and originally written and solely released in English. The fact that the book is no longer allowed in paper back is very important because if it had not been digitized and archived it would no longer be able to read and would be an immense waste of such valuable information. Considering that the book was released in the late 90’s before many websites were updating digitized information, it shows how much the efficiency of digital archiving has changed much over time. The book explains the importance of beginning to archive not only written data, but visual data as well. This book would be an important addition to the website because it goes back to the basics and foundations of digital archiving through images. The text was extremely popular to teach students in the early 90’s at the University of Toronto in Canada.
Ronald R. Abbott, Howard Besser, Richard W. Boss, H. Thomas Hickerson, Marilyn Lutz, Pameia R. Mason, Willam E. Neale.
Delivering digital images: cultural heritage resources for education
“Delivering digital images: cultural heritage resources for education” by Patricia McClung and Christie Stephenson. The book was originally published in the year 1998. The book focuses on the importance of digitizing images that reflect cultural heritage in order to preserve as much as possible from cultural days and events of significance. The purpose of the novel is to inform readers on the correct way to preserve moments of cultural history with respect and efficiency. This is a very important aspect in terms of digitization because many moments of historical importance are lost and forgotten, but carry years of history and valuable information. The preservation of these moments and their availability to the public has always been an issue in question and the respect of cultures is often disregarded when archiving such important images in history. This would be an extremely important addition to the archiving website because it is important to keep in mind different cultures and heritages when digitizing their information in a respectful manner. There have been many instances in which historical moments of inidgenious history have been digitized in a disrespectful manner and available to many readers who are not using the images for their intended use. This book highlights this issue amongst many others in order to ensure the utmost respect and correctness when uploading digitized photos that reflect different cultural moments in history.
Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: Third European Conference
“Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries” is one out of many in a elongated series. This exact version is titled as the Third European Conference Proceedings, published in 1999. The purpose of this text is to enhance the skills of the readers by breaking down the individual means of archinging separated by every chapter. The text first breaks down the “text-book” approaches of digitizing and categorizing images for digital downloading and archiving. The text then goes into the various methods of doing this, but in what they believe to be in more efficient manners. There are many tools and methods explained in the text for “first time users” of archiving and digitization. This is an essential addition to the archiving website because it has various instructions that can be help to a first time user to these new programs for archiving. In addition, it offers a lot of design guidelines and assistance in regard to aesthetics to make it easier for the reader to present their information for a wider audience. This is an extremely relevant addition because many instructions for archiving assume that every reader knows the basics. This text offers information in a way that a beginner or an expert can gain valuable knowledge from.
ECDL ‘99 (1999: Paris, France); Abiteboul, S. (Serge); Vercoustre, Anne-Marie.