I have chosen to review a digital project that we are all familiar with, City Lore’s “City of Memory.” The reason I have decided to evaluate this project is that it was the inspiration for my group’s final project, “360° of Memory.” The City of Memory [COM] project is essentially an interactive map of New […]
There are many ways one could evaluate a digital project. What I decide is important is the actual creation of a new object based within the public inter-webs on educational knowledge. Criteria – New Creation – Engages & Open to the Public – Educational I arrived at this conclusion with the help of re-reading Diana Taylor’s Save […]
City of Memory is a site that I had originally heard of while reading the Letting Go: Sharing Historical Authority in a User-Generated World. I had thought that the idea sounded interesting, but never actually checked out the site until I needed to evaluate a digital humanities project. Upon going to the site I found […]
The Texas Manuscript Cultures page recently won second runner up in the 2014 international Digital Humanities Awards in the category Best DH Project for Public Audiences. The site is summed up as a place “dedicated to preserving and promoting the culturally diverse hand-written social history of the peoples of Texas through digital access (txmscultures.writingstore.com – […]
Considering we have been interacting with the House of Leaves/A Million Blue Pages page a lot this semester, I have decided to use it as my exhibit of evaluation for this assignment. Using the criteria listed on the Museums and the Web 2012 (MW2012): Best of the Web: Review Criteria, I have I decided to […]
Because of the amount of interaction I’ve had with the site over the past few weeks, and because of how heavily we’ve focused on digital exhibits this semester, I thought that A Million Blue Pages would be an appropriate site for me to evaluate based on some of the criteria suggested by Museums and the […]
The Berenson & Harvard Exhibit contains three main sections detailing Bernard Berenson’s and Mary Whitall Smith’s time at Harvard University. The two later went on to be the founders of the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. The exhibit was made to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the center. The exhibit is extremely user […]