Blog Post 8: Curation Team Processing

     Our team project is the UNH library timeline, our task is to create a timeline using the UNH archives. We each chose four significant UNH events and had to find three pieces of evidence for the event using the UNH archives. We traveled to the UNH archives section in the Library on the bottom floor during the two class periods. Our professional Kai Uchida, who works at the archives, selected one piece of evidence for each of our events as a starting point for our research. During both class periods, we looked through the archives to find more evidence to use for the timeline. This task proved to be much more difficult than expected and time-consuming. For some, it was difficult to find a few pieces of evidence for an event and others, including myself, had trouble choosing only three pieces of evidence because of how much information the event had.

    The DH concepts that we have used up to this point in our project are digitization, data modeling as well as the functionality of the timeline. We are using digitization by taking information from the UNH archives that are in a paper or nonpaper format, scanning them, and adding them to our digital timeline. Our data modeling will be how we structure the timeline which will be in chronological order using the application Knightlabs. Lastly, the functionality of our timeline is still in progress as we have yet to finish the timeline, but it will be a vital part of the timeline's accessibility. 

    Our final product will be presented as two separate timelines using Knightlabs and its format. We had to create two separate timelines due to the amount of information in the timelines being too large for Knightlabs. However the first timeline will start in the year 1910 and run to 1960, the second timeline will start in 1961 and run to the present day. Our project will contribute to the UNH historical timeline by providing students will a timeline of interesting events that their peers have selected. This timeline will be easily accessible and contains well-sourced information that can be used in any atmosphere.


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