659 research outputs found
Calculating All That Jazz: Linking Technical Specifications to the Management of Digitization Projects
No full textThe purpose of this session is to educate librarians and archivists about the technical aspects of the digitization process and demonstrate how deeper understanding of those aspects can be used to evaluate the appropriateness of digitization standards, project scope, quality of digitization equipment and storage needs for digitization projects involving photographs and documents. Most scholarship on archival-quality digitization has focused on either elements of digital library project management or on technical specifications and how to digitize materials. "Calculating All That Jazz" focuses on presenting a formula for calculating digital storage space based on analog still images and documents, demonstrating how deeper understanding of the technical elements of digitization in the formula applies directly to crucial project management considerations
Figures Don't Lie: Spatial Humanities and Technology as Critical Thinking Tools
No full textThis presentation demonstrates the potential use of spatial humanities as both a critical thinking exercise and a computational tool in digital humanities pedagogy. “Figures Don’t Lie” presents a map of the United States that labels each state as a foreign nation according to the correlation between the GDPs of each state and their assigned countries. The map may spark classroom discussions about a range of humanities topics. Revealing the map’s underlying data shows how facts can be spun and helps students understand how the “facts” presented in the media may not be what they appear.Presented at Rutgers University's "Digital Humanities Showcase: New Methods and New Media" on January 29, 2014 (New Brunswick, N.J.)
Espousing Ezili: Images of a Lwa, Reflections of the Haitian Woman
No full textThis article examines the iconography of the two main female divinities in Haitian Vodou, Ezili Danto and Ezili Freda, using common chromolithographs of each personality. Images of the Ezilis are analyzed in the context of visual culture to discern how iconography informs viewers about the political position of Haitian women of the past and present. To realize this goal, the author addresses some of the complex dynamics that shaped the lives of colonial Haitian women as well as the contemporary factors affecting women's lives today.This article was originally published in Journal of Haitian Studies, http://www.research.ucsb.edu/cbs/publications/johs/Peer reviewe
Jim Wallis, Author of God's Politics, to speak at UMC
No full textLemos, Krista. (2005). Jim Wallis, Author of God's Politics, to speak at UMC. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/220557
Calculating All that Jazz: Accurately Predicting Digital Storage Needs Utilizing Digitization Parameters for Analog Audio and Still Image Files
No full textLibrary professionals and library assistants who lack computer science or audiovisual training are often tasked with writing digital project proposals, grant applications or rationale to fund digitization projects for their institutions. Much has been written about digitization projects over the last two decades; digital storage has been highlighted as a central feature of any digitization project, especially the need to purchase additional storage mechanisms to house digitized collections. What is missing from the library science literature is a method for reliably calculating digital storage needs on the basis of parameters for digitizing analog materials such as documents, photographs, and sound recordings in older formats.Peer reviewe
An autoethnography of working-class education
No full textUniversity of Minnesota M.A. thesis. April 2013. Advisor: Timothy J. Lensmire. 1 computer file (PDF); iii, 74 pages. Major: Education, Curriculum and Instruction.This thesis tells the story of the author's elementary and secondary education in public school in southwestern Pennsylvania, through anecdotes and first-person narration. In analytical chapters, the author examines the events through the lens of critical literacy education theories, including those of Paolo Freire, Valerie Walkerdine, Timothy Lensmire, and others. With a particular emphasis on the ways in which social class influenced her education, she also examines the effect of the label "gifted" on her educational outcomes, including her participation in the Pennsylvania Governor's School program for intellectually gifted students. She concludes by considering the importance of education in the lives of working-class students who will not pursue intellectual career paths and offers advice to teachers for reaching these students.Moyer, Krista E.. (2013). An autoethnography of working-class education. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/152327
Legacies and Lifecycles: Digitizing Oral History Collections at Rutgers University
No full textBoth the Institute of Jazz Studies (IJS) and Special Collections and University Archives (SC/UA) have undertaken projects to digitize legacy oral history collections in collaboration with Technical and Automated Services. Although the goals of the projects were the same, the teams working on them faced different issues and challenges regarding formats, rights, and delivery as they moved through the digital project life cycle. The solutions to these required different approaches.Poster presented at Data Driven: Digital Humanities in in the Libraries conference June 22, 2014, Charleston, SC.Peer reviewe
Didactic play to stimulate speech development in children between the ages of five and six
No full textDarba nosaukums: Didaktiskās rotaļas piecus līdz sešus gadus vecu bērnu runas attīstības sekmēšanai. Darba autore: Krista Ašurova Darba zinātniskā vadītāja: doc. Līga Āboltiņa Darba saturs: 44 lpp., izmantoti 25 avoti, 17 attēls Pētījuma mērķis: Pētīt piecus līdz sešus gadus vecu bērnu runas sekmēšanu, izmantojot didaktiskās rotaļasTitle of the research: Didactic games in development of 5 to 6 year old children’s speech abilities. Research author: Krista Ašurova Research supervisor: doc. Līga Āboltiņa The research consists of 44 pages, 25 analyzed sources, 17 pictures Goal of the research: Analyze 5 to 6 year old children’s speech development with the use of didactic games
Digital Imaging Specification and the Management of Digital Storage Needs
No full textA handout based on "Calculating All That Jazz: Linking Technical Specifications to the Management of Digitization Projects."Peer reviewe
Writers Talk featuring Michael Hofherr and Hanna Rosin
No full textOSU Senior Director of Learning Technology Michael Hofherr talks to Lantern reporter Emily Tara about the Digital First Initiative and OSU student (Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) Krista Benson learns about The End of Men: And the Rise of Women from author Hanna Rosin.The media can be accessed here: http://streaming.osu.edu/knowledgebank/WritersTalk-Audio/WT_2012-11-19_Hofherr_Rosin.mp3Ohio State University. Center for the Study and Teaching of Writin
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