Experimenting Digital Humanities

Oral History Hello all, how have you guys been since my last post? I hope you’re all doing ok. Today we will be going into another aspect under Digital Humanities which will be Oral History. Oral history is “ the collection and study of historical information using sound recordings of interviews with people having personal knowledge of past events” (Google Dictionary). Some examples of these are podcasts and interviews.   I know you must be wondering, how is oral history any different from a photograph or written history? Well, I can say from a viewer’s perspective and from a participant’s perspective the experience is very different. When we listen to oral history there’s more context to the story or event, meaning that you will get a better understanding of what the person has to say by the way they react to different things and the tone of voice they use, the emotions that they express through their language, etc. Oral history can be very personal so whenever you listen to it...

    More on Archives                        Hello readers, how have you been? I am here again with another blog post on Archives and I know that last time when I initially introduced the Archives as a topic to you, I didn’t go too much into detail about it. Well luckily for you today I will be addressing Archives in more detail to bring you a better understanding of what Archives are and what they are about. Now, for you to know what archives are, you should understand that archives can be defined in more than one way because they can consist of almost anything from things like financial records to historical records to other tangible and intangible (digital) documents and objects that are preserved for memories. Archives are collected and group together for many other different purposed such as legal purposes, for learning and research purposes, to organize and analyze the archive and much more. However, ...