July 2013 – Rachael King

Academia

From manuscript to digital

Posted on July 15, 2013 by rachaelsking

I've just come back from the second of my two weeks of skills-building workshops this summer, and the connections between the two—the Digital Humanities Summer Institute and the Rare Book School—demonstrated again how past and present moments of media change continue to overlap. As I described below, during my week at DHSI in June, I learned how to use the TEI guidelines for digitizing manuscript documents. Last week...

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Postscript

Posted on July 3, 2013 by rachaelsking

Well, it looks like the government reading our letters isn't only a historical analogy: in the wake of the NSA leaks, the Times reveals that the government records metadata for all paper mail, too. It should remind us once again that what we think of the quintessentially private form of communication—the sealed letter—in fact travels through many hands and many levels of government bureaucracy before reaching a recipient. This...