510: Digital Humanities

The processing for my team, the Maine Mill curation team, has been going well. I am specifically on the print team, so I have been sourcing articles from CNN. Our team decided that it would be easier if we all selected one news source per person. I have uploaded around 6 articles so far, with more to come. So far, the print team has found a significant increase in articles lately, as it is the anniversary of the tragedy. One of the challenges our team has faced has been combing through which articles are more relevant to what is being asked of us, as opposed to articles that are detailing rehashes and recaps of what has occurred. While there are more articles than video footage, it can be difficult to discern whether or not we can actually use certain articles for the digital curation.  While compiling my portion of the articles, I figured I would have a much more difficult time finding CNN-specifc articles, but there have been more than expected, which  is helpful, but may be...

     While engaging in the Maine MILL project, I have taken the responsibility of being on the video team. We were instructed to search for videos surrounding the Lewiston Maine shooting, more specifically press conferences and late night show clips. We are all aiming to accumulate as much video footage that we could surrounding those specifics as well as additional news clips that stood out as important to include. This year is the first year that the team is requesting for video clips as a part of the curation so we have found it to be important to communicate and collaborate our ideas, questions, concerns as much as possible.       Comparing the amount of content between articles and images, there is much less video footage available which is one of the challenges that we have faced, especially trying to pull videos that pertain to their specific inquiries. The main thing that has changed for our group is that once we get all of our videos, we will ...

  This week, our team made a lot of progress on creating an expansive timeline of events at the University of New Hampshire (UNH). My individual contributions were based on researching and processing events such as former president, Barack Obama's visit to campus, the history of our wildcat mascot, the influenza epidemic, and the impact of September 11, 2001, on the university community. We planned to evenly divide the workload and collaborate and communicate to make sure our findings and our presentation was consistent and not all over the place. This plan ended up working out as we communicated and went through the university's library archives, however our timeline is not a complete history of the school, we focused on specific events and deep-dived our assigned events. One unexpected change was the amount of archival material available for some events compared to others. For example, the amount of information on 9/11's effect allowed for a better account of the event, w...

Alex Forbes For this project, we digitized Japanese prints and cataloged them in JSTOR, under the University of New Hampshire. We collaborated with the Art & Art History department to access the prints, take photos, and photoshop them to make them accurate in color and size for uploading. We posted and cataloged the prints in JSTOR, making sure to give credit to the photographer, artist, the time period it was created, what the art depicts, what type of art it is, and what culture/country it comes from. To create these prints, the artists used a unique process of carving a negative image into a block of wood and then painting it. Each part of the design is carved onto a separate block, and then those blocks are stamped onto a page, thus creating a distinctive painting. Each of us chose an artist to photograph and catalog their art. I chose Utagawa Tokoyuni. Tokoyuni's work is celebrated for its intricate detail, vibrant colors, and unique compositions. He was part of the Utagaw...

 My team's project is collecting data for the Maine Mill memorial of the Lewiston Maine mass shooting that took place one year ago. For the memorial, they are compiling an array of media, both print and digital, to archive and preserve the articles, photographs, and videos that were captured that followed the shooting. Our group is contributing to their project by assisting them compile forms of media into an excel spreadsheet. Each piece of data, whether an article, image, or video, must be accompanied by metadata. As noted in the textbook, metadata data is essentially data about data. The metadata we are using is qualitative, as we are putting in the article/ video name, the source, keywords that describe the media, and a description of what the article or video includes. We have split our team up into two groups: a video team and an article team. I am part of the video team.  So far, the process has been very smooth as the meetings with our clients has provided us with less...

I think that the process for my curation team is going well. We are doing the UNH timeline using the archives from UNH’s diamond library. The past two weeks we were able to go to the library and look through various artifacts from their archives and digital collections. Each of us has been collecting and scanning the artifacts we want to showcase for our timeline events. My events consist of the 100th year celebration of UNH in Durham, the first NCAA championship at UNH, the formation of the undergraduate research opportunity program, and the formation of the first student senate. I have found various artifacts from The New Hampshire news paper, the UNH magazine, and various archive collections as a courtesy from Kai. We are all finding three artifacts for each event. I have been outlining all my artifacts with the date and place I found it. From here, I started to write a summary on each event/artifact to be able to put it in the timeline. I have been running into trouble finding arti...

       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 model...