Session 3

Cohen and Rosenzweig, chapters 2, 3, and 4

Kelly, chapter 2

Ø  DC&RR open chapter 2 by pointing out the existence of subtle clues in the physical makeup of books that tell us about the history of the project, clues that animate how we think about them as we read them. Let’s enumerate them for:

Ø  Traditional books and articles

Ø  Digital history projects

Ø  53: are DC & RR really opposed to “planning ahead” for DH projects?

Ø  What did you learn from the discussion of “getting started” about particular approaches to solving technical problems? Does this part of the book stand the test of time?

Ø  How does the availability of primary sources on the internet affect the way you conduct research?

Ø  What are the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches to digitization of primary sources that you have encountered?

Ø  How does the technology allow new and different historical questions to be asked and answered?

Ø  OCR: example of Joe Austin and ProQuest

Ø  Terms: metadata

Ø  Is it worthwhile trying to distinguish a digital history project and a digital archival project?

Ø  What did you learn about design from DC&RR’s discussion?

Kelly

Ø  What is “real historical research”?

Ø  What strategies do you use for search? Do you start history paper research differently than daily curiosity research?

Ø  How do you handle the problem of search abundance?

Ø  Terms: Dublin Core

Ø  How do the skills Kelly advocates for teaching search literacy gibe with and diverge from what you know about basic historical literacy?

Ø  Do you agree with Kelly about the sustained value of going to chat with the history liaison librarian?