What are scholars looking for from archives and museum collections? How can digital content staff at these institutions help? The Henry Ford has been digitizing its collections for several years, and recently started a project to rethink its entire digital presence, including the presentation of its collections online. Brian Wilson (Digital Access and Preservation […]
Continue readingHow does the perception of technological collections as social objects affect the way in which we approach our work? Assign value? Determine significance? How does this differ when the social object is related to the arts instead of industry? Using the Henry Ford’s current IMLS funded project to locate, conserve, research, and digitize the communications […]
Continue readingI’m interested in discussing tools and methods that could be used for research, teaching, and publishing in the history of computing. This would presumably include general web development, but also primary sources that might be amenable to distant reading, open data sources related to economics / tech components of GDP etc, likely sources for web […]
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