Creating a voice and a place with digital tools

The following post written by Beatriz Maldonado draws on her experiences in the “Creating Archives” course at Scripps College. Unfamiliar Territory When I began this course, I was pretty unfamiliar with online resources for archives, museums, or academic sites. In some ways I felt that I wasn’t “allowed” to go into that sphere, that I was not academically prepared to find, challenge, or really even use a broad variety of […]

A Digital Archive Webography

This is a draft of a resource for the Scripps Digital Archives course – I’d be happy to add your favorite digital archive to the list! Core III: Creating Archives Digital Webography (+) Glossary of archival terms About the Human Genome Project Aggregated 18th century resources Archimedes Palimpsest (history of math and digital imaging technology) Archive Grid: Explore the World’s Archives Archives Next blog: “The problem with the scholar as […]