Before the first week of class, I was a little anxious as to what this History\/IT class would entail, but upon taking it i\u2019ve become excited for the course and the things we will be learning in the future. One of the main things that I found interesting during the first week was the fact that all technology now isn\u2019t necessarily new, but rather an evolved version of previous technology. The concept of technology being ever evolving is interesting on it\u2019s own, but realizing the level at which history has a part in the evolution of it just makes me want to delve deeper into the subject. For example, the fact that the little folder icon on your laptop exists because of the creation of the filing cabinet and manila envelopes during a time that record keeping became important just demonstrates all the working parts that go into the creation and evolution of things; time period, need, etc. So I’m excited to explore different data sets and resources that rely on historical records and see how people have decided to use and share these things to make them more easily accessible to people of today’s age.\u00a0
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The project I was assigned to review was the Mapping Occupation Project, published by the University of Georgia. The project is considered an exploratory map (following the DH Field Guide), that details U.S. Army posts during the time of Reconstruction. It also provides descriptions for the data that\u2019s being shown, such as historical background, the purpose of the army posts, and their movement throughout the period of reconstruction. The publishers of this project say that the date shared on this map can be used \u201c as a guideline through a complex period, a massive data source, and a first step in capturing the federal government\u2019s new reach into the countryside.\u201d The Mapping Occupation Project was created through the gathering of information from manuscript sources in the national archives as well as repositories. It\u2019s also downloadable which makes it\u2019s accessibility all that much greater. The digital tools and transformations included within this project do add to the scholarship considering the creators could have just created the map to give a visual idea of where Army posts were and left it at that, but instead they dove in further by providing information, context, and \u201cspatial narrative\u201d to the data. It\u2019s interactive in that you can zoom in and out of the data and the way in which it\u2019s displayed is visually appealing and simple. It transforms the data from the archives into something that people of today\u2019s age can use and explore for their own research purposes.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Gregory P. Downs and Scott Nesbit, Mapping Occupation: Force, Freedom, and the Army in Reconstruction, http:\/\/mappingoccupation.org, published March 2015, accessed (9\/3\/19).
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