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The first thing I learned in this class was that it is going\nto be a lot more interesting than I thought it would be. I never gave much\nthought to how we got to modern day computers, and how information processing\nand presentation have played such an impactful role in that journey. In addition,\nthe first week of this class also shed light on the historical relationship\nthat governmental institutions have on impacting the democratization of\ntechnology. More specifically, I\u2019m wondering how much of a role technology had\nin nurturing the modern-day American surveillance state. Hopefully throughout\nthe semester I can learn more about this topic, but also, I hope I can become\nmore technologically adept at creating historical scholarship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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I got assigned project #21, the Cleveland Historical. The Cleveland\nHistorical is a project that has digitized Cleveland\u2019s history, people and places.\nAt first glance it looks like an online news edition, but it actually has\nmap-based, multimedia presentations and a \u201ctour\u201d of Cleveland. This scholarship\nnot only fits into the digital edition type in Miriam Posner\u2019s framework, but\nit also involves the mapping type in Posner\u2019s framework. The digital project\nmakes use of various sources, but most often it uses photographs. Photographs\ncan be seen in almost all of the stories and in the tour section. For example, in\nthe story about \u201cThe Cleveland Buckeyes\u201d there are photographs of the players\nand their jerseys.[1]<\/a> And\nin the article about the Riverside Cemetery there are multiple photographs of\nthe cemetery, the land, headstones, and photographs of maps.[2]<\/a>\nThe project processes the sources by digitizing the information and photographs\nand making it accessible to the public. Lastly, the presentation of the website\nis fairly interesting. The creators used a platform called \u201cOmeka\u201d and divided\nthe website into one section on stories and one section on a \u201ctour\u201d of Cleveland.\nBy using Omeka, the website is accessible to the public and made interactive.\nThis digital project adds to the scholarship because it organizes the primary\nsources in ways that have not been done before. Specifically, the project makes\nuse of oral history in a digital manner, and at least in my eyes, that is very\nunique and uncommon. Oral history has been neglected for centuries, so it\u2019s\ninteresting to see this website make use of it. [1]<\/a> Cory\nRoss and James Blockett, \u201cThe Cleveland Buckeyes,\u201d Cleveland Historical<\/em>,\naccessed September 4, 2019, https:\/\/clevelandhistorical.org\/items\/show\/867.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [2]<\/a> Toni Berry, \u201cRiverside Cemetery,\u201d Cleveland\nHistorical<\/em>, accessed September 4, 2019, https:\/\/clevelandhistorical.org\/items\/show\/866.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Part 1: The first thing I learned in this class was that it is going to be a lot more interesting than I thought it would be. I never gave much thought to how we got to modern day computers, and how information processing and presentation have played such an impactful role in that journey. … Continue reading “Blog Post #1”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dighist","tag-fall-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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