Update to Project

Here is the link to my updated project for tomorrow:

http://www.diggingdc.com/index.html

Life Photo Archive Goes Live On Google

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/18/AR2008111802399.html

Washington State names new digital archivist

http://www.tacomadailyindex.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=88&cat=23&id=1419715&more=0

Nov 18 2008

Kerry Barbour is taking the reins of the state’s Digital Archives office in Cheney, bringing with her nearly 20 years of information technology experience.

“I am excited that Kerry Barbour has agreed to join our Digital Archives team,” said Washington State Archivist Jerry Handfield. “Kerry has managed many successful technology projects in state government. She will take us to the next level in our mission to preserve Washington’s legal and historical records and make our documents of democracy accessible to our citizens.”

In her role as digital archivist, Barbour will manage the operations of the state Digital Archives, located at Eastern Washington University in Cheney. Digital Archives is a branch of the Olympia-based Washington State Archives. Regional branches are found in Bellevue, Bellingham, Cheney and Ellensburg.

“I’m thrilled and excited to become the digital archivist,” Barbour said. “My initial goal is to educate state agencies about digital archives and our infrastructure. I want to let them know we are here and what we can do for them.”

Before starting her new job, Barbour was the information services director for the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission in Olympia the past three years. Before that, she was an information technology manager with the Department of Social and Health Services for about 12 years.
 
The mission of Digital Archives is to collect, index, store and make accessible electronic records created by state and local government agencies of Washington State.

Since launching in October 2004 as the first of its kind in the nation, Washington’s Digital Archives is the lead partner in a multi-state project funded by the Library of Congress to demonstrate the requirements of building a digital archive system in states around the country.

More than 74 million items can be accessed online at the Digital Archives. Visit http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov for more details.

Webpage Update

So I spent the week researching into Filipino immigration and have updated my webpage a little.

http://www.diggingdc.com/index.html

On Readings

(Sorry my antivirus program picked up two, two!, viruses on my computer yesterday so spent the day scanning and thus did not get this written.)

Okay, obviously the readings were highly technical and in the case of Moretti, somewhat confusing. I know what all of the authors were trying to get at but I believe most of the readings were directed to techies. All of it relates to data mining but I believe that the software that was discussed is not available to most of us and thus not applicable to our projects. Possibly the readings were trying to tell us how to formulate our projects so that the mining software could pick them up. That would make sense.

In the case of Moretti, I believe he discussed how certain historical events could influence novel writing. I know that this is true in the Fine Arts field. How important a factor this is I’m not sure. And it may be a more important factor in the fine arts realm than in the field of literature. But it wasn’t made clear to me what caused the extinction of one genre and the growth of another. Although I believe that he did say that most genres lasted for about 30-35 years, a generation. That could be a large factor in the analysis.

His Marxism shows in his map circle. It reminds me of the Wittgenstein Marxian chart (if I remember the name correctly). I tried to find one on the Net but apparently this is a more obscure chart than I thought. Basically, it’s the same type of circle, only using the Marxian theory of production.