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Data Curation Needed To Avoid A Digital Dark Age, Desiree Butterfield-Nagy
Data Curation Needed To Avoid A Digital Dark Age, Desiree Butterfield-Nagy
Maine Policy Review
An increasingly recognized need for digital curation, or the active selection of digital files and taking steps toward preserving them, has been a natural evolution in an environment where vast amounts of intellectual and cultural content is born digital and may not be represented in tangible form. Desirée Butterfield-Nagy explores the measures that individuals and organizations need to take to ensure we avoid a Digital Dark Age.
Digital Humanities And The Common Good, Pamela Fletcher, Crystal Hall
Digital Humanities And The Common Good, Pamela Fletcher, Crystal Hall
Maine Policy Review
Digital humanities is an emerging field of scholarship, teaching, and outreach, in which digital and computational methods are brought to bear on the traditional materials and questions of the humanities. Some claim this new field will save the humanities; others worry that it will crowd out traditional methods of reading, looking, writing, and teaching. It is our belief that neither of these outcomes is likely. Instead, the authors believe that bringing computational tools to the study of the humanities and humanistic inquiry’s focus on questions of historical perspective and context, ethics, and value to the study of technology will benefit …
The Digital Humanities Imperative: An Archival Response, Pauleena Macdougall, Katrina Wynn
The Digital Humanities Imperative: An Archival Response, Pauleena Macdougall, Katrina Wynn
Maine Policy Review
The authors offer a look at how as archivists at the Maine Folklife Center they are using new digital tools to both preserve historical resources and improve public access to them.
The Maine Memory Network: Re-Imagining The Dynamics And Potential Of Local History, Stephen Bromage
The Maine Memory Network: Re-Imagining The Dynamics And Potential Of Local History, Stephen Bromage
Maine Policy Review
Stephen Bromage explores the Maine Historical Society’s experience creating, nurturing, and sustaining the Maine Memory Network (www.mainememory.net), a nationally recognized statewide digital museum. In particular, the article focuses on the opportunities that the digital humanities create to foster collaboration, to engage communities in the practice of history, and to collapse traditional geographic and institutional boundaries.