Copyright and attribution has already been a discussion point for the Farmer project, especially with regards to the use of video material. As we’ve discussed with Special Collections, not all of the Farmer-relevant video material they have is one that they have clear copyrights on to ensure the display of these materials. When choosing which …
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Farmer update: Week Four
Our group finished the initial draft of our contract on Thursday, and it’ll be interesting to see how we’ll come to revise it in the week to come. We’ve settled on three major areas of focus: captioning yet-unpublicized Farmer video materials, digitizing the awards and honors of his stored on the UMW campus, and creating …
A James Farmer project video
Five thoughts on the experience of making this video. I can’t blame myself too much, because admittedly I did assemble this over the course of two days, but videos, even casual ones, take a lot more planning than I gave them credit for. In this case, for instance, I should have matched location and discussion …
Digital Archives!
Some thoughts: I really liked the way Famous Trials was organized. Maybe that home page is a little bit less useful if you’re looking for something specific in an academic context, but I think the arrangement of names and faces in combination with a capacity to filter is a very effective way to draw in …
Map: A Walk Through Saint Petersburg
Timeline: 50 years of Star Trek
Works Consulted: Gross, Edward, and Mark A. Altman. The Fifty-Year Mission: the Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek. Thomas Dunne Books, 2019. Pascale, Anthony. “Netflix Update: All Star Trek TV Series To Begin Streaming In July.” TrekMovie.com, SciFantastic Network, 6 Apr. 2011, trekmovie.com/2011/04/06/netflix-update-all-star-trek-series-to-begin-streaming-in-july/. Teitelbaum, Sheldon. “How Gene Roddenberry and His Brain Trust Have …
Project reviews
The Missouri-Kansas Conflict Out of the list of Rosenzweig Prize Recipients, I looked at the Civil War on the Western Border website. Overall, I really liked the appearance of the site. One specific aspect of it that I really appreciated was the map; it’s a very intuitive way, of course, to convey this particular subject, …
Omeka Site Reviews
The first Omeka site I looked at was the Isaiah Thomas Broadside Ballads Project, an archive of broadside ballads created by the American Antiquarian Society. It collects both scans of the original ballads and the assorted criticism and commentary essays written as a response to them. The archive features helpful resources for managing the large …
Digital History Week 1: Introduction
On a more specific level than its fulfillment of course requirements, I think I took this class because it fulfills an aspiration I have to engage in the application of knowledge over the course my college education, rather than limiting myself to its acquisition. When I started the Digital Studies minor at UMW, I was …
