{"id":1019,"date":"2013-04-21T03:24:19","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T03:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2013-05-07T00:40:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T00:40:57","slug":"digital-humanities-project-crowdsources-a-civil-war-chaplains-diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/digital-humanities-project-crowdsources-a-civil-war-chaplains-diary\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Humanities Project Crowdsources a Civil War Chaplains Diary"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1024\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1024\" style=\"width: 296px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/civil-war-045.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1024     \" alt=\"Civil War Chaplain's Diary\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/civil-war-045.jpg?resize=296%2C286&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"296\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/civil-war-045.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/civil-war-045.jpg?resize=300%2C289&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/civil-war-045.jpg?resize=1024%2C988&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/civil-war-045.jpg?resize=800%2C772&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/civil-war-045.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1024\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Civil War Chaplain&#8217;s Diary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I have had an interesting experience working on a digital humanities\u00a0initiative, a crowdsourcing project with the University of Delaware Museum Studies Program and History Media Center.\u00a0 It involves a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cecilhistory.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/07\/civil-war-diaries-enter-cyberspace\/\">Civil War chaplain\u2019s diary <\/a>that has been gathering dust for 150-years and\u00a0was periodically brought out\u00a0for some research.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The University\u00a0digitized the diary and\u00a0students, faculty and staff\u00a0are pouring over\u00a0fading\u00a0pages from another age,\u00a0scrutinizing\u00a0those aging\u00a0entries line by line.\u00a0\u00a0With\u00a0students\u00a0working from many remote locations since\u00a0the scans are on the Net they\u00a0review the hand written\u00a0words and\u00a0transcribe the entries.\u00a0 The emerging scholars\u00a0then submit their contributions which are reviewed and put up on line.\u00a0 Eventually, the entire\u00a0diary will be available for anyone to access and read and that will broaden engagement, investigation, and research with this valuable source.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s a\u00a0collaboration with the University of Delaware that\u00a0I hope\u00a0to strengthen because it makes largely unused cultural heritage\u00a0resources available to a wider audience.\u00a0 The University\u2019s focus is in the area of the digital humanities, which allows us to take largely\u00a0un-accessed collections and get the material out to a broader audience for study. It is also a preservation method in that it reduces the handling and makes interpretation much easier.<\/p>\n<p>It has been fascinating to watch this new media project unfold.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/cecilcounty.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/salisbury-036.jpg?resize=508%2C381\" width=\"508\" height=\"381\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crowedsourcing the Civil War chaplain&#8217;s diary.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have had an interesting experience working on a digital humanities\u00a0initiative, a crowdsourcing project with the University of Delaware Museum Studies Program and History Media Center.\u00a0 It involves a\u00a0Civil War chaplain\u2019s diary that has been gathering dust for 150-years and\u00a0was periodically brought out\u00a0for some research. The University\u00a0digitized the diary and\u00a0students, faculty and staff\u00a0are pouring over\u00a0fading\u00a0pages&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collections","category-research-resources"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Digital Humanities Project Crowdsources a Civil War Chaplains Diary - Mike&#039;s History Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I use this blog as a place to share my experiences while practicing the history craft. 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