The Religion in North Carolina Digital Collection is currently making use of an LSTA planning grant to identify and secure permission for digitizing the publications of religious bodies in North Carolina. While focused on the digitization effort, I’ve very interested in having conversations around advanced search and visualization tools that can help scholars, researchers, and genealogists mine this corpus of materials. Or in other words, once we have this digital collection created through digitization, what do we do with it? how do we present it?
I’ll bring one example of a visualization that very quickly tells an important story about one North Carolina congregation.
#1 by gypsyelib on February 25, 2011 - 12:43 pm
I have done some work in this area with the defined audience of undergraduates for the purpose of introducing primary sources. Have a few examples of different presentations and some ideas about folding in audience comments and tags that I would happily share!
#2 by Ben on February 28, 2011 - 10:09 am
I am coming to TC in part to learn about sources like this. So this is just to say that I am interested in learning more, particularly about how to access and search such collections.
#3 by Brian Croxall on March 1, 2011 - 9:20 pm
It sounds like this session could pair well with the one that Katie McCormick is wanting to run: southeast2011.thatcamp.org/session-idea-collaborating-on-digital-content-creation-etc.