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Articles 1 - 15 of 15
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Review: Engagement In The Digital Era, Charlie Gibbons
Review: Engagement In The Digital Era, Charlie Gibbons
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
Book Review: Engagement in the Digital Era. Edited by Nicole J. Milano and Christopher J. Prom (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2020. ix +175 pp.). Reviewed by Charlie Gibbons.
Review: Digital Memory Studies: Media Pasts In Transition, Donnie S. Summerlin
Review: Digital Memory Studies: Media Pasts In Transition, Donnie S. Summerlin
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
Book review of Digital Memory Studies: Media Pasts in Transition. Edited by Andrew Hoskins (New York: Routledge, 2018. 313 pp.). Review by Donnie Summerlin.
Review: Libraries, Archives And Museums: An Introduction To Cultural Heritage Institutions Through The Ages, Reagan Grimsley
Review: Libraries, Archives And Museums: An Introduction To Cultural Heritage Institutions Through The Ages, Reagan Grimsley
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
Book Review of Libraries, Archives and Museums: An Introduction to Cultural Heritage Institutions Through the Ages. Edited by Suzanne Stauffer (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2021. 273 pp.). Review by Reagan L. Grimsley.
Review: The Anarchivist: History, Memory, And Archives, Greg Mcnamara
Review: The Anarchivist: History, Memory, And Archives, Greg Mcnamara
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
Book Review: The Anarchivist: History, Memory, and Archives. By Geof Huth (New York: AC Books, 2020. 145 pp.). Reviewed by Greg McNamara.
Review: Developing And Maintaining Practical Archives, Pam Hackbart-Dean
Review: Developing And Maintaining Practical Archives, Pam Hackbart-Dean
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
Book Review: Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives. 3rd edition. By Gregory S. Hunter (Chicago: ALA Neal-Schuman, 2020. xvi +302 pp.). Reviewed by Pam Hackbart-Dean.
Review: Defining A Discipline: Archival Research And Practice In The Twenty-First Century, Jessamyn Swan
Review: Defining A Discipline: Archival Research And Practice In The Twenty-First Century, Jessamyn Swan
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
Book Review: Defining a Discipline: Archival Research and Practice in the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Jeanette A. Bastian and Elizabeth Yakel (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2020. 322 pp.). Reviewed by Jessamyn Swan.
Fadgi On A Budget: Improving Digital Images For Library Staff And Faculty, Matthew J. Martin
Fadgi On A Budget: Improving Digital Images For Library Staff And Faculty, Matthew J. Martin
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
This case study describes the photography equipment and setup of San Francisco State University’s Digital Scholarship Center, and the testing and manipulation of these elements to reach the 4-star tier of the Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) technical guidelines. It describes how, with a few tools like a color target and image analysis software, cultural heritage digitization units with limited photography skills can markedly increase the quality of their digital images with experimentation, creativity, and the photography equipment they already have.
Scaling Up Video Digitization At The University Of Maryland Libraries: A Case Study, Elizabeth M. Caringola, Pamela A. Mcclanahan, Robin C. Pike
Scaling Up Video Digitization At The University Of Maryland Libraries: A Case Study, Elizabeth M. Caringola, Pamela A. Mcclanahan, Robin C. Pike
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
In 2015, a team at the University of Maryland Libraries collaborated on a pilot project to digitize 100 VHS tapes from the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange collection and, in doing so, established organizational workflows for video digitization and access. After completing the pilot phase of the project, staff who worked on the project published a case study in this journal that articulated a question echoed throughout that process: “Is this enough?” Enough descriptive metadata? Enough technical metadata? Enough storage space? This article will reflect on the pilot project, detail how the digitization specifications and workflows established during the pilot project …
The Pandemic At Home: Learning From Community-Engaged Covid-19 Documentation Efforts In The Southeastern Us, Colin Post, Kassidy Hof-Mahoney
The Pandemic At Home: Learning From Community-Engaged Covid-19 Documentation Efforts In The Southeastern Us, Colin Post, Kassidy Hof-Mahoney
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
Cultural heritage institutions of all kinds around the world responded to the Covid-19 pandemic by launching community-engaged collecting efforts that solicited the submission of documents capturing the daily experience of an historically significant phenomenon. While the pandemic is global in scale, these collecting efforts document the impact of Covid-19 at local or regional levels. This article reports on research to better understand how cultural heritage institutions in the Southeastern United States have developed community-engaged collecting projects. Analyzing data collected from the public websites of 30 institutions, as well as semi-structured interviews with 10 cultural heritage professionals active in the Covid-19 …
What Do You Meme? Preserving Emojis, Memes, And Gifs As Archival Folklore Objects, Elizabeth Meads
What Do You Meme? Preserving Emojis, Memes, And Gifs As Archival Folklore Objects, Elizabeth Meads
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
Digital objects, such as emojis, memes, and reaction GIFs, have become common tools of communication between people, clever advertising for companies, and iconic means of identification and association for political figures. The evolution of their appearance and increasing use of these digital objects demonstrates the need to preserve these items as a means to document critical communication methods in the 21st century.