Week Five: Planning the Brochure, Digital History
Week Five: Planning the Brochure, Digital History
This week: Outlining and Planning
This week I began my plans on outlining the brochure and dividing each section into pages. The process was more work than I thought, eventually realizing that I had so much content but so little space to put all of it in. I plan to make the brochure around 10-12 pages, meaning each section has around two pages to cover every topic of the section. This will definitely force me to condense each section and be careful with wording so each section is correctly articulated. More so, it enables me to creatively explore ways I can use digital components within the brochure, such as QR codes and web links. This past week I explored ways in which creative links will serve the brochure.
Creative links: Using QR codes to expand the concept
The History Harvest is becoming increasingly digital, as we have discussed in previous weeks. More so, the digital aspect of the History Harvest requires a level of digital literacy that many historians or student may not fully understand; Alongside pure knowledge of operating computers and scanners, artifacts require a unique delicacy that the untrained historian or student may not fully be able to understand without assistance. At UCF, our technology and scanners are specialized and require a level of training in order for scans and artifacts to be correctly archived and digitized before moving to the metadata process.
I believe the inclusions of video tutorials for set up, scanning, digital archiving and even metadata can educate the modern historian further. Especially understanding how limited this work is in a brochure form, video links and external links to other resources can prove extremely useful in a wider, historiographical setting. In the coming week, I plan to film content aimed to educate students, teachers, and fellow historians on digital archival techniques in light of the History Harvest concept. The techniques needed are unique to the History Harvest due to the level of required adaptability. Scanners. are moved to the location on the day of the event to scan smaller items, yet some materials may be required to be relocated to UCF's Main Campus to be scanned by the industrial machine; Viewers of the brochure and the content from these videos will understand not only the methodology of scanning, but also the level of responsibility in the handling of artifacts. More is to come in the following weeks as the brochure is begun and conceptualized.
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