Demonstration Essay

Professor Schmidt

A demonstration for students of how this works.

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Lomax

Enhua Zhu

A collection of questionnaire answered by famous folk musicians in Lomax's study

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YMCA Punch Cards

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Baseball Scorecards

Jin Kim

The evolution of baseball through a collection of scorecards

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Marriage Certificate

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Operation Neptune Manifest

Milo Servin

The development of more advanced data management systems analyzed through a WW2 Jump Manifest.

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Prison Labor Records

Exploring how thousands of prisoners were rented by the state to a private corporation

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Banks and Steamships

Prajjwal Bhattarai

The unique position of immigrant banks in early twentieth century immigrant communities reflected through steamship ticket purchase ledgers

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USS Vermont Logs

An analysis of Naval logs from the USS Vermont as an exploration of the shortcomings of digitization

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Carnegie Hall Ledgers

Exploring coordination of information gathering and efficacy of collecting information on paper through Carnegie Hall's booking ledgers.

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James Madison's Meteorological Journal

How the current digitization process leads to a loss of crucial historical information.

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Examining Data Loss in Digitization Through Early Data Databases

Daija Dewberry

The effects of digitization examined through the U.S. government's early efforts in database creation.

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Tribal Census Rolls

Census roll for the Three Affiliated Tribes located on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in central North Dakota between 1877 and 1902, and collected by the Record of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior.

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Baseball Scorecards

Jaz Quaranta

An examination of a timeline of a set of baseball scorecards, and how their rule changes allow for a better understanding of the episteme

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World War II Draft Registration Cards

The examination of WWII draft cards through digitized datasets and the effect digitization can have on these artifacts.

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Navy Logs

A collection of deck logs from US Navy ships during WWII

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NY Philharmonic Attendance

Cameron Schaffer

Forms of organizing the attendance ledger for the New York Philharmonic through the 1870's

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Kansas Alien Enemy Affidavits

Mimi Chen

A collection of registrations completed by German-Americans residing in Kansas during World War I

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Discovery Vessel Logbook

Paula Seraphim

A year-long collection of daily entries of the Felix Discovery Vessel from 1850

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