“The neighborhood is an archive, the woman was an archive, this land is an archive.”
An archive records the context of time and particular experience
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www.uproot.space www.uproot.space
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- Feb 2026
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read.dukeupress.edu read.dukeupress.edu
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Users (people) continue to be the ones who make present and prescient the many layers
Viewing people and users as numbers may be problematic when creating designs as it detaches from the human - centric approach.
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here is nothing neutral
Technology isn't neutral, it has a history of containing bias, as technology and algorithms are based off of how society operates.
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- Jan 2026
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blog.josephscott.org blog.josephscott.org
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Ideally this means a simple series of lower case letters, possibly separated by a dash (-) or and underscore(_) that isn’t absurdly long
It is important to name files that are concise, but within those few words the must represent the contents of the file.
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Slash and Backslash : NTFS uses backslash as a directory separator and Unix uses forward slash. Neither of them have any business being used in a file name. You’ve been warned. Question Mark and Asterisk : Both of these characters are meant to be used as wild cards, not as characters in a file name.
For these I wish there was greater explanation rather than relying on the author's ethos and word.
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. Moving files from Unix to NTFS can be unpleasant if you have to rename several files because they only differ by case.
translation creates another step for the user that makes technology processes for tedious.
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companions.digitalhumanities.org companions.digitalhumanities.org
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Structural metadata are needed for users to perform the normal behaviors they might expect from a book. Users will expect to be able to view the table of contents, then jump to a particular chapter.
Structure on the internet is necessary as with the collection of more data offered, the more complex and difficult it is to navigate.
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Users don't want to learn several search syntaxes
Making something usable also include making things convienent for the user.
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Librarians traditionally see themselves as providing information to those who cannot afford to pay for that information on the open market
This is representative in the servie internet archives present.
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All but the smallest libraries tend to have a substantial "public service" unit.
This is a community informatic practice that could also be seen in museums.
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They have components (including service to a clientele, stewardship over a collection, sustainability, and the ability to find material that exists outside that collection) and they uphold ethical traditions (including free speech, privacy, and equal access).
Library are more than resources and books, it provides a community service and dynamic that brings a free, accessible center for people.
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Researchers who engage in lexical analysis now have the opportunity to count word/phrase occurrences or do syntactical analysis not just on a single wor
Researcher also gain the opportunity to investigate more work in their analysis of how technology/interest generates a social impact.
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conventional libraries, and discusses current and future digital library
intersection between traditional accessibility and modern accessibility.
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www-jstor-org.proxy2.library.illinois.edu www-jstor-org.proxy2.library.illinois.edu
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do we prese
even if we had all the data it will be difficult to manage it.
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free. He supported himself frombetter. People continued to go backget to his works, even thou
People willing to pay for Getty Images is interesting especially since the same media is available online. It like how today people pay for albums and movie theater tickets, even though these medias are typically accessible online.
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t $10 to digitize a long-playing record if you do them in bulk. That's not toobad. It costs quite a bit more if you're dealing with old tapes. But if you're deal-ing with relatively modern tapes and you can go through them without restora-tion, you can do it in bul
Older tapes cost more to digitize to account for the restoration process which may effect how accessible historical information/media is and how it's archive.
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gh optical character recognition
The OCR turns text into images
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goal will not be achie
This views technology and computer in a more inclusive idea. As most technological innovations and CS are primarily based in California with big tech hubs like Silicon Valley and those in the Bay Area.
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y make the
This brings up my concern for the big data, and it's extensive abundance of it.
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niversal
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www.theverge.com www.theverge.com
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You’re not gonna go back to the way things were. You have to accept it.
How does this concept relate to today's advances with AI generation and it's demand in the tech industry.
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“Those of us who have been around a while know what a file is, but I was at a bit of a loss to explain it,”
A representation how technology could be easily understood when progressively growing up with it, but harder to explain to those who never encountered it.
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“They use a computer one way, and we use a computer another way.
A cultural difference that effects the way information about technology and it's functionality is distributed.
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“They have a laundry basket full of laundry, and they have a robot who will fetch them every piece of clothing they want on demand.”
Using the same metaphor that builds about the original laundry basket one previously mentioned, makes us contextualize and visualize how in the 90s the absence of search engines, and how file fetching worked back then.
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mental models
mental model is a representation of how something works
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basket where you have everything kind of together, and you’re just kind of pulling out what you need at any given time,
I understand this representation, but it somewhat can be misunderstood as a collective mess within an interface and not for a core purpose.
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I open a drawer, and inside that drawer, I have another cabinet with more drawers,”
I believe this is a great way to explain how seemly complex technology works to individuals who never seen this function. Breaking things down into more familiar jargon allows for better understanding.
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they didn’t understand the question.
The collective confusion feels relatable, but within this context it's even more prevalent as there are various generations who weren't taught, or didn't have the accessibility to modern technology.
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