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www.lotfortynine.org www.lotfortynine.org
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As Director 0f University of Michigan Press I’m afraid to say that everything you say in this post, Sheila, is true. We’ve struggled over the last few years to bring innovative digital projects into the mainstream press workflow, and you’ve been caught in the middle.
This was probably one of the more interesting parts of this article. This was a total admission of negligence on behalf of the university. It's great to see a faculty member step up and shoulder the load when someone voices their displeasure of being stuck 'between the cracks' of digital projects into mainstream press workflow.
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kfitz.info kfitz.info
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Why is it, we might reasonably ask, that no one feels any qualms about suggesting that literary studies be conducted in an easily comprehensible, jargon-free, friendly and appreciable fashion, but no one suggests this about high-energy physics?
These kinds of questions are the same as those brought up by McDaniel when he asks about the reliance on nuance about methodological conversations. Why would these conversations need to be so jargon laden? It's the purpose of the historian to be able to have these conversations at a higher level to hash out the minutia of detail in good history.
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what is to be gained from supporting a field that seems intent on self-dismantling.
This is an interesting meta point about how an outsider to the humanities would view the craft. I too struggle with this in-fighting lifestyle to see the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel when producing any sort of work.
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ianmilligan.ca ianmilligan.ca
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Yes, there’s problems around copyright and reproducing archival documents, but I think historians have a more fundamental opposition:
This fundamental opposition comes at the expense of having a second set of eyes see the value of what you hold in your hand as expressed in the McDaniel article.
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wcm1.web.rice.edu wcm1.web.rice.edu
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What new flashes in the pan might we find if we sifted through our sources in the company of others?
These kinds of group sessions in class like this really are the example of what this first section preaches. As a late comer to class I've been able to find the value of this data by reading others' annotations and building my own learning.
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www.trevorowens.org www.trevorowens.org
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But when checking sources becomes as simple as clicking a link what do we think will turn up everyone else’s footnotes?
This kind of ease of access and low bars to entry becomes the essence of why openness is more of a philosophical choice. To give everyone (with a device) the capability to take over your work is the fear and bane of a lot of historians existence. As bethany points out in the replies toward our OP (Sarah) points out the opportunity to find more scholarship happening. I think this can create a fallacy of completeness in the historical construction of a topic. Where everyone shares their work but the same narrative gets built; and the topic becomes bored.
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cradledincaricature.com cradledincaricature.com
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space was constantly on my mind when writing about the context within which printed images were made and sold.
This is an interesting commentary about how historical space is set up using descriptive orientating words. This helps paint a picture in the reader's mind about the environment; essentially recreating a historical reality. I got this idea from stuartconverse's comment (above) about how this was 'a nice place'.
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site.craftingdigitalhistory.ca site.craftingdigitalhistory.ca
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Implementation; Aims and Methods; Research Sources; Documentation; Sustainability; and Access
Important info for later on in the course.
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You should also keep a narrative of your research that connects the dots and explains the thinking behind what you were trying to do (and what you documented in your fail log)
A sneaky important point...going to remember this.
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site.craftingdigitalhistory.ca site.craftingdigitalhistory.ca
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You will be frustrated
Great..
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we will learn how to scrape data, how to find meaningful patterns within it, and how to visualize
This sounds pretty interesting but also very challenging...
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site.craftingdigitalhistory.ca site.craftingdigitalhistory.ca
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What happens when digital memory is under assault?
This is the most exciting question for me. I'm interested to find out more about where this assault is occurring?
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