Course Description
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Rationale
This course focuses on the specialized field of digital preservation, crucial for safeguarding historical documents and artifacts. It instructs students on the importance of digitization standards, metadata, and access strategies, ensuring that digital archives are managed, preserved, and made accessible for future generations.
Course Assignment
Textbook readings and lecture presentations
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Course Requirements Checklist
After reading the Course Syllabus and Student Expectations, the student will complete the related checklist found in the Course Overview.
Discussions (3)
Discussions are collaborative learning experiences. Therefore, the student will expand his/her historical research methods by researching and discussing the provided prompt. The student will submit an initial discussion thread that must be at least 500 words. Then, the student will reply to at least 2 of their classmates’ posts. Each reply must be at least 200 words. Any references to sources, quotations, or texts must be cited in current Turabian format.
Essay: Digital Preservation Approaches Assignment
After reading through assigned reading for the module and considering the watch item, the student will write a reflection essay that responds to appropriate sections of the two components of the prompt. The paper will be 500-600 words. Any cited sources follow Turabian formatting.
Omeka: Getting Started Assignment
The student will complete a provided template, including the link to his or her Omeka site. the student will then write a short paragraph (200-250 words) briefly summarizing the types of materials he or she will be working with, their provenance, and why it is important to preserve these items in a preservation project.
Finding Aid Assignment
The finding aid is an essential document that plays a vital role in the description of the scope, type, and use of an archival collection. The Finding Aid Assignment will fully describe the collection of 25 to 30 items the student selected. There will be 2-3 paragraphs (200-250 words) for the Historical Note section and 1-2 paragraphs for the Arrangement note (100-150 words). The final project should be a minimum 3-5 pages.
Journal Entry Assignments (4)
The annotated bibliography will allow the student to list, summarize, and analyze primary and secondary sources pertaining to his/her chosen research topic.
Metadata Standards Assignment
In this essay, the student will compare and contrast the two metadata standards, DublinCore and MARC21, based on the summarizing websites included in the Resources section of the assignment as well as the others readings in the module. This paper will be 700-800 words, and sources will be cited in current Turabian formatting.
Reflection Essay Assignment
The student will write a reflective essay identifying three key outcomes he or she is taking from this course. This essay will be 550-700 words, and any sources must be cited in current Turabian format.
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