Wheaton College Digital History Project
June 25, 2012 § 2 Comments
Page spread from Laban Morey Wheaton’s day book.
The Wheaton College Digital History Project led by Dr. Kathryn Tomasek, Associate Professor of History at Wheaton College, offers an excellent example of how to integrate a digital humanities project into the undergraduate curriculum. Students help transcribe and markup documents from the college’s archives. Project goals include:
- Teaching historical methods through transcription and markup of primary sources with TEI*-conformable XML**
- Making hidden collections accessible
- Encouraging collaborative research and pedagogy
- Exploring the intersections of history and digital media
Find out more about the project from these sources:
- Tomasek, Kathryn, Scott Hamlin, Zephorene Stickney, and Kathleen Ebert-Sawasky. “Encoding Text, Revealing Meaning: Implications of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) for Small Liberal Arts Colleges.” International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society. 1, no. 3 (2006): 157–164.
- Project Website: http://wheatoncollege.edu/digital-history-project/
- Teaching Associated with the Project: http://wheatoncollege.edu/digital-history-project/teaching/
- Collaborative Research Assignment: http://wheatoncollege.edu/digital-history-project/teaching/collaborative-research-assignment/
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