Introduction to Digital Humanities: A-State

Week 7

Digital Preservation:  Archives and Scholarly Editions*

As you read and collaboratively annotate this week's resources, consider how digitization has affected the nature of archives, libraries and scholarly editions.  

1. Marilyn Deegan and Simon Tanner, “Conversion of Primary Sources,” in Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth eds., Companion to Digital Humanities (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Professional, 2004), http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/.

2. Andrew Stauffer "My Old Sweethearts: On Digitization and the Future of the Print Record" in Mathew Gold and Lauren Klein eds., Debates in Digital Humanities 2016. Open access edition, http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/. Hypothes.is link.

3.  Martha Nell Smith, "Electronic Scholarly Editing," in Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth eds., Companion to Digital Humanities (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Professional, 2004), http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/.

4. Noah Heringman and Catherine Paine Middlebush's scholarly edition of Vestuta Monumenta (Hypothes.is link) and the Newberry Library archive Transcribing Faith  (Hypothes.is link), both of which were built in Scalar. 

Assignment

Drawing on the insights you have gained about electronic scholarly editing, use Scalar to annotate a piece of media from our group Zotero library or shared Evernote notebook. If you would like to select a new piece of media related to our research, add it to one or both of our shared collections. For directions on how to annotate images, audio/video and plain text with Scalar go here. Title your annotation "Student's Name + Media Annotation," and follow the instructions on the "Assignment" page of our workbook to make sure that it shows up in the contents of your "Portfolio" and the "Media Annotation" page.

*Today's class will be held in Archives and Special Collections

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