For scholars, the archive gives much more information than just the material inside of it. When looking at an archive, the scholars must look at the framework that lies outside of the archive in order to understand the purpose of creating the archive itself. With this, there are different factors that go into creating an archive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As I’ve come to realize, anything that lies within the digital humanities is biassed. And this means that whatever information that is put into an archive is biassed as well. Archivists must determine what goes into an archive based on its functionality and its usefulness to the archive, but how does one decide what is actually worthy of putting into an archive and what is merely discarded? For each archivist it might be different based on their own environmental factors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another important thing to notice about digital archives is their operating systems. “The Artifactual Elements of Born-Digital Records, Part 2<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span>” gave a wonderful example of the importance of the framework of the archive. Bill Lefurgy explains that the Library of Congress recreated Thomas Jefferson’s book collection and they included the actual shelving and organization that Jefferson used. This is because the framework illustrates that Jefferson had reasoning behind his organization and unique, curved shelving units. Likewise, archivists must look at the original modeling of the item, especially if it is obsolete <\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span>. Due to the archives being biassed, it is difficult to discern if the general public is getting all of the correct information that they need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As for the Federal Theater Project, I believe that by looking through the materials for class, that I have a better understanding of why the FTP was so important for Americans. I knew that the FTP gave Americans jobs and offered some economic relief for those who were out of jobs, but it also helped stimulate American culture by using real people who had a passion for the arts. For example, many plays usually omitted large groups of minorities from being in the large scale productions, so when the all African American cast of “Macbeth” came to stage<\/span>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span>, it was a huge deal. Minorities were being represented and passionate actors and actresses were able to showcase their talent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Federal Theater Project brought back authenticity. Instead of showcasing the same songs on the radio or showing the same large scale (yet probably half-hearted) productions of plays, people from the FTP were able to bring back authentic music and theater. The Federal Theater project revived the culture in America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For scholars, the archive gives much more information than just the material inside of it. When looking at an archive, the scholars must look at the framework that lies outside of the archive in order to understand the purpose of creating the archive itself. With this, there are different factors that go into creating an … Continue reading “Blog Post #8”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-special"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1667,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions\/1667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}