Thinking like an Archivist
Academic Year:
2011 - 2012 (June 1, 2011 through May 31, 2012)
Funding Requested:
$2,500.00
Project Dates:
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Applicant(s):
Overview of the Project:
Technologies to support archival and preservation functions are becoming more prevalent; however, many are open source and have very rough interfaces. My colleagues and I have begun to introduce some of these applications into the classroom but the results have been mixed. Therefore, my Teaching with Technology Grant was designed to work through the issues of introducing technology in one class in the hope that lessons and techniques could be transferred to other courses. The target class for the TTI grant was Access Systems for Archival Materials, a core class in the Archives and Records Management specialization in the School of Information. The technologies to be used in the course were archival content management systems which can only be used to their fullest when one understands the archival practice. Therefore, the overarching goal was to integrate technology in a way to support the other learning objectives of exploring the issues of practice, process, standards, metadata transformation, and the presentation of information to diverse audiences.