Schedule
Week 1: What does it mean to be born digital?
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
- Welcome, intros, framing
- Getting to know you survey
- Slides
- Labs 1 + 2
Read for Thursday:
- Lepore, Jill. “What the Web Said Yesterday.” The New Yorker 19 Jan. 2015. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/26/cobweb
- Rumsey, chap 1
- Owens, chap 1-2
Thursday, January 11, 2018
- Discussion charter
- Discussion
- Hypothes.is group
- Slides
Read for Tuesday:
Weingart, Scott. “Why We’re All Digital Now.” The Historian’s Macroscope: Big Digital History, Imperial College Press, 2014, http://www.themacroscope.org/?page_id=617.
Theimer, Kate. “Gaps in the Past and Gaps in the Future: Archival Silences and Social Media – #acaubc2016 Talk.” ArchivesNext, http://archivesnext.com/?p=4018.
- Rumsey, chap 2
Look at:
- Notopoulos, Katie. “Photobucket Is Holding People’s Photos For ‘Ransom.’” BuzzFeed, https://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/photobucket-just-killed-a-chunk-of-internet-history. Accessed 22 Sept. 2017.
- Sauter, Molly. “Instant Recall.” Real Life, http://reallifemag.com/instant-recall/.
- Haskins, Ekaterina. “Between Archive and Participation: Public Memory in a Digital Age.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 4, 2007, pp. 401–422.
Week 2: Record keeping and collective memory
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
- Discussion
- Slides
Read for Thursday:
- Introduction to the Windows Command Line (Windows people)
- Introduction to the Bash Command Line (Mac people)
- Windows people: download Git Bash aka Git for Windows.
Thursday, January 18, 2018
- Lab: Command line
- Slides
Read for Tuesday. As you read, make a list of what the authors identify as "principles."
- Cook, Terry. “Evidence, Memory, Identity, and Community: Four Shifting Archival Paradigms.” Archival Science, vol. 13, no. 2–3, June 2013, pp. 95–120.
Paper 1: Personal Archive due Tuesday!
Week 3: Basics of archival theory & practice
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
- Assignment: Paper 1 Personal Archive paper due by class time in your Box folder.
- Discussion
- Slides
Thursday, January 25, 2018
- Lab: Metadata!
- Slides
Read for Tuesday:
- Using Archives: A Guide to Effective Research
- Check out Rumsey, chaps 3-5
Week 4: Visiting Special Collections & Archives
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Visit to Special Collections and Archives (Leyburn, Lower Level 1). Presentation by Tom Camden, Head of Special Collections and Archives.
Thursday, February 1, 2018
Lab: work in Special Collections on collection encounter assignment.
Read for Tuesday:
Owens, chap 3. (prioritize this one)
Kirschenbaum, Matthew. Digital Forensics and Born-Digital Content in Cultural Heritage Collections. 149, Council on Library and Information Resources, 2010, https://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/reports/pub149/pub149.pdf, Chap. 2. Look through to get a sense of the challenges of working with digital files.
Student choice: http://www.e-flux.com/journal/78/82706/digital-objects-and-metadata-schemes/ > check out "What is a Digital Object?" for context.
Assignment 2 due Thursday, February 8th at class time
Week 5: Digital objects
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
- Debrief on Special Collections
- Discussion (student led)
Read for Thursday:
Thursday, February 8, 2018
Assignment: Paper 2: Collection Encounter due
Lab: File formats
Read for Tuesday:
- Owens, chap 4
- Rumsey, chap 9
- Brügger, chap 7 (as example of analysis of web archives)
- Student choice: https://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/activities/hiddencollections/borndigital.pdf
Week 6: What makes a born digital collection?
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
- Discussion (student led)
Read for Thursday:
- Rumsey, chap 5
Thursday, February 15, 2018
- Lab: Library research and resource evaluation session
- Project overview
- Slides
- Library Research FAQ slides
Read for Tuesday after break:
- DM, Alexandra. “Opportunities for Making Appraisal Transparent When Documenting the Now.” Documenting DocNow, 14 June 2017, https://news.docnow.io/opportunities-for-making-appraisal-transparent-when-documenting-the-now-10b807606d39.
- Owens, chap 6.
- We're All Bona Fide: https://medium.com/on-archivy/were-all-bona-fide-f502bdaea029
- Library of Congress White Paper: https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/files/2017/12/2017dec_twitter_white-paper.pdf
Washington Break
Week 7: Appraisal, acquisition, and ethics
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
- Lab: Twitter scraping; guest lecture from Alyssa Collins, UVa graduate student.
Read for Thursday:
- Cook, Terry. “Remembering the Future: Appraisal of Records and the Role of Archives in Constructing Social Memory.” Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory: Essays from the Sawyer Seminar, University of Michigan Press, 2006, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015063318805;view=1up;seq=179;size=125.
- Owens, chap 6.
- Student choice: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/10650750310508108
Thursday, March 1, 2018
- Assignment: Annotated bibliography due.
- Discussion, student led
Read for Tuesday:
- Jules, Bergis. “Some Thoughts on Ethics and DocNow.” Documenting DocNow, 3 June 2016, https://news.docnow.io/some-thoughts-on-ethics-and-docnow-d19cfec427f2.
- Kirschenbaum, Matthew. Digital Forensics and Born-Digital Content in Cultural Heritage Collections. 149, Council on Library and Information Resources, 2010, https://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/reports/pub149/pub149.pdf. (Chap. 3)
- Bailey, Jefferson. “Disrespect Des Fonds: Rethinking Arrangement and Description in Born-Digital Archives - Archive Journal.” Archive Journal, June 2013, http://www.archivejournal.net/?p=4722.
- https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/28/589411543/google-received-650-000-right-to-be-forgotten-requests-since-2014
- https://www.blog.google/topics/google-europe/updating-our-right-be-forgotten-transparency-report/
Week 8: Respect des fonds, provenance, original order (ethics cont.)
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
- Discussion, student led
Thursday, March 8, 2018
- Assignment: project proposal due
- Lab: Archive-it training
Read for Tuesday:
Required
Student choices: https://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/archives-resources/principles-of-arrangement.html and https://www.poynter.org/news/how-use-tweetdeck-and-advanced-search-make-twitter-useful-again
Owens, chap 8.
Drake, Jarrett M. “RadTech Meets RadArch: Towards A New Principle for Archives and Archival Description.” Medium, 6 Apr. 2016, https://medium.com/on-archivy/radtech-meets-radarch-towards-a-new-principle-for-archives-and-archival-description-568f133e4325#.8a5icd8uw. (Concentrate on second half)
Optional
Klein, Lauren F. “The Image of Absence: Archival Silence, Data Visualization, and James Hemings.” American Literature, vol. 85, no. 4, Dec. 2013, pp. 661–688.
Light, Michelle, and Tom Hyry. “Colophons and Annotations: New Directions for the Finding Aid.” The American Archivist, vol. 65, no. 2, 2002, pp. 216–230.
Week 9: Arrangement & description
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
- Discussion
Thursday, March 15, 2018
Lab: project work
Read for Tuesday:
McGill, Andrew. “Can Twitter Fit Inside the Library of Congress?” The Atlantic, Aug. 2016. The Atlantic, https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/08/can-twitter-fit-inside-the-library-of-congress/494339/.
Owens, chap 9.
Pinsent, Ed. Conference on Web-Archiving, Part 2: Ian Milligan and His Derived Datasets. https://blog.cosector.com/conference-on-web-archiving-part-2-ian-milligan-and-his-derived-datasets.
Student choice:
Week 10: Access
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
- Discussion, student led
- Slides
Thursday, March 22, 2018
- Monia Blair (UVA) visits
- Lab: project work
Read for Tuesday:
- Brügger, chap 12.
- Rumsey, chap 10.
- Owens, chap 10.
- Student choice:
Week 11: Outreach & the future of born digital archives
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
- Discussion, student led
- Slides
Thursday, March 29, 2018
Lab: metadata + project work
Week 12: Conclusion
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
Presentations (last name A-J)
Thursday, April 5, 2018
Presentations (last name K-Z)
Project due 4/6 at 5pm
Reflection due 4/13 at 5pm