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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Kate HolterhoffKate Holterhoff, postdoctoral fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Literature, Media, and Communication, wrote the Chronicle, September 29, article, “Using Digital Archives to Teach Data Set Creation and Visualization Design.” The School of Literature, Media, and Communication, is part of the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
Excerpt:
Useful as digital archives have become for academics and historians, integrating these projects into college classrooms still poses significant challenges. Because electronic scholarship often concerns niche areas of study, its usefulness is usually reserved for those possessing a broad and not inconsiderable base of knowledge. Advanced undergraduate and graduate students alone tend to benefit from the growing number of projects archiving primary documents online. But digital archives providing access to rare images, correspondence, reviews, and manuscripts have the capacity to benefit a spectrum of undergraduates, including those majoring in STEM fields.
For the full article, visit the Chronicle’s ProfHacker section.
