MMILL Team Planning
I am in the Oral histories and materials group for the MMILL project. Last class we decided that everyone would each take five people and for each person do the audio configuration, transcript blurb writing, photo editing and audio file conversion. We also decided the specific people we'd each be in charge of for this project. We need to figure out how to convert the CD's and cassette tapes to audio mp3. Hopefully we will be discussing our next steps for this in the next class period. We also need to discuss what we will be naming the files (we explored the idea of last name and date). The goal right now is to make a more organised system where viewers of the website can easily access these peoples stories and understand what/who they are learning about. Our knowledge of digital humanities that we've learned so far can help us with this project. Specifically, chapter 5 on database design. One of the main goals of this website is to make it more accessible to the public a...
After reading all the assigned excerpts it is clear that digital humanities does not have one clear definition. Everyone has their own interpretation of it and the topic embraces these meanings, as said in The Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0 "digital Humanities is not a unified field but an array of convergent practices that explore a universe" proving that it doesn't belong to one solid definition. I was not all that aware of what digital humanities was before reading these texts, my assumptions were based on the words themselves; digital, meaning the up-and-coming technology combined with humanities, meaning the study of human behavior. At all odds, my description wasn't too far off from Johanna Druckers who said, "digital humanities work is done at the intersection of computational methods and humanities materials." There are so many components to digital humanities it would be almost unfair to simplify it under one meaning. You have the process of creating it, the number of techniques to express it, and the meanings behind each part of it. The abundance of digital humanities is what makes it so compelling to our future, it expands human capability through efficiency and experience. To me, Digital humanities is the expansion of human knowledge in consequence of technology.
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