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Curriculum Driven:

A Liberal Arts College Archives Path to Digital Humanities

Jan Blodgett, Davidson College

Caitlin Christian-Lamb, Davidson College

Craig Milberg, Davidson College

Digital Studies & the Archives

Davidson College

Digitally-Inflected Initiatives

"DS" instead of "DH"

campus makerspace

DavidsonX

  • Broader, more interdiscplinary umbrella term
  • "Critical analysis of the contemporary technologies that shape how we work, play, communicate, love, learn, and even sleep."
  • Combines theory and practice

Davidson College

Davidson Encyclopedia

Archives & Special Collections Digital Studies materials

entrepreneurship initiative

computer science minor

Archival Collections

  • 1,850 undergraduate students
  • 170 full-time faculty
  • 24 library staff (12 librarians)
  • 25 majors
  • 17 concentrations

Increased Collection Exposure

Student Digital Projects

Online Finding Aids – Databases

DS & the Archives

DS Courses

Student Awareness – New Student Organization Records

Under Lake Norman

Always Part of the Fabric

Beyond Books: NC ECHO Grant

Sustainability

Definition

Definition: "In ecology, sustainability is how biological systems remain diverse and productive.

Long-lived and healthy wetlands and forests are examples of sustainable biological systems. In more general terms, sustainability refers to the endurance of systems and processes." (Wikipedia)

Challenges

Need more...

Questions?

Ecosystem of

DS Projects

Creation

http://goo.gl/AUHO1Q

Requires:

  • Projects
  • Partners
  • Technology

Solutions

@davidsonarchive

@ajbarchivist

@christianlamb

@crmilberg

Enhancement

http://goo.gl/GML7uE

In between courses:

  • Add Content
  • Update Content
  • Maintain and Update Technology

Preservation/Curation

  • Preservation of the Information/Knowledge
  • Preservation of the Wrapper/Presentation

http://goo.gl/k2RkUo

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