Text searching has changed the way\nI engage with information online because it has made me very cautious of the\nresults I receive. For example, the formatting of a search, the choice of words\nor even the order in which the information is entered can impact what kind of\nresults are given. In addition to academia, text searching impacts things as\nsimple as a google search to find food nearby. But more importantly, text searching\nhas also made me aware that not everything is as it seems and it\u2019s necessary to\nbe critical of the results that are given. Just working on this blog post has made\nme curious about the relationship between the collection of personal data, text\nsearching, and the given results that are catered to each individual search and\nperson. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The democratization of access is something that is gained by using digital media, but there are also a few things that are lost. One aspect of Tony Guidone\u2019s argument was that by using digital media the meanings conveyed by touch and the original reading experience can often be lost. This is essentially what Ian Milligan is arguing when they said that optical character recognition (OCR) struggles with medium transformations, printing noise, and non-standard fonts. More specifically, medium transformations make it hard for the sustainability of an original documents information and meaning. <\/p>\n\n\n<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span>\n\n\n\n Regardless, I do think that digital\nprojects can create significant social change because the democratization of\nthe access of information is definitely progression, but I would be cautious to\nlink the increase in digital projects to the democratization of data. I think the\nprivatization to the access of knowledge is something that historians need to\navoid as digital history expands and becomes more popular. For example, databases\nthat are offered to university students that are normally not open access is\nlimiting the audience to boundaries of employment and age. On the other hand, the\nEnslaved Children of George Mason on the Mason\u2019s\nlegacies<\/a> repository is a good example of the impact a digital history project\ncan make in democratizing access. The information on George\nMason and Gunston<\/a> Hall is now readily accessible and allows for more people\nto become aware of the situation at hand. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Text searching has changed the way I engage with information online because it has made me very cautious of the results I receive. For example, the formatting of a search, the choice of words or even the order in which the information is entered can impact what kind of results are given. In addition to … Continue reading “Digital historians and the knowledge accessibility Revolution”<\/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":[3],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-searching","tag-fall-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","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=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}