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Annotate Digital Imagery: Theory, Applied Practice, and Tools for Research

Hybrid: OARC Portal and Zoom

Information systems since the advent of the World Wide Web have offered increasingly sophisticated and reliable tools for inquiry and scholarship based upon centuries-old practices of annotation. What are the connections and tensions between visual and verbal media? How do idiosyncratic readerly practices of scribbling in margins of a book translate into W3C standards for...

Contextualizing Collections: Introduction to Immersive Annotated 360 Virtual Tours with Adobe Captivate

Hybrid: OARC Portal and Zoom

Most would agree that in terms of creating virtual experiences as part of research, more context is better. Contextual information allows for a bigger picture to be seen and can provide in situ understanding, despite being remote. With the proliferation of 360 cameras, creating immersive virtual tours has become more commonplace. Whether it is to...

Teaching & Research w/ Digital Collections (Part 3): Lessons and Learning Activity Design. Content to consider when drafting

IDRE Portal and Zoom

Within the scholarship of teaching and learning, it has been proven time and again that “Assembling and curating specimen collections is a valuable educational exercise that integrates subject-specific skills such as field collection, curation, identification, organization, and interpretation of relationships.” (Lucky et. al 2019) Digital collections increasingly avail students and scholars of primary source research...

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