ILS599 - Dev. of Digital Memorials & Cultural Archives

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ILS599 Development of Digital Memorials and Cultural Archives
Prof. Kevin Glick
Intersession 2009

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Course Work

Getting Started with Digital History Writing
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Hurricane Digital Memory Bank Website Review
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Course Description / Objectives

  • This course will introduce students to the theoretical and practical issues confronting digital public historians, digital archivists, and digital curators of memorials and memory sites.
  • The course uses the Voices of September 11th digital archives as both inspiration and primary source material.
  • The class will include critical, methodological, and theoretical readings and discussion that provide the basis for a technical hands-on section of the course.
  • Students will develop knowledge of the development of digital memorial and cultural archives and websites.
  • Students will also assist with the technical development of the Voices of September 11th digital archives and gather historical information, documents, and artifacts to contribute to the archives.

Required Text

 Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web, by Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenweig, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. Partially available online at http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory.


Readings

  • Ronald J. Grele, "Whose Public? Whose History? What Is the Goal of a Public Historian?" The Public Historian, 3:1 (Winter 1981), 40-48.
  • "Introduction: Promises and Perils of Digital History," Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web, by Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenweig, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006, 1-17. Partially available online at http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory.
  • Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001) 18-26, 213-228.
  • Randall C. Jimerson, "The nature of archives and manuscripts," OCLC Systems & Services, 18:1 (2002), 21-23.
  • Kenneth E. Foote, "To Remember and Forget: Archives, Memory, and Culture," American Archivist, 53(1990), 378-392.
  • Trusted Digital Repositories: Attributes and Responsibilities, An RLG-OCLC Report, Mountain View, CA: RLG, 2002.
  • Brian Lavoie, "Meeting the challenges of digital preservation: the OAIS Reference Model," OCLC Newsletter, 243(January/February 2000), 26-30.
  • Rachel Heery and Sheila Anderson, Digital Repositories Review, 2005.
  • Sarah Higgins, "Using OAIS for Curation." DCC Briefing Paper (2006), http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resource/briefing-papers/using-oais-for-curation.
  • Najla Semple, Digital Repositories." DCC Briefing Paper (2006), http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resource/briefing-papers/digital-repositories/.