Comments on: Virtual Material Culture http://newengland2011.thatcamp.org/10/17/virtual-material-culture/ The Humanities and Technology Camp Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:14:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 By: Elli Mylonas http://newengland2011.thatcamp.org/10/17/virtual-material-culture/#comment-173 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 20:47:31 +0000 http://newengland2011.thatcamp.org/?p=230#comment-173 Great topic – also interested in Nicola’s observation in her comment above about creating objects that are better able to serve a scholarly audience. What is necessary, and what are other material objects lacking?

How do you use these in pedagogical contexts?

I’ve been working with Brown faculty on two epigraphical corpora. They have different approaches, but share similar technology. It could make a good case study.

]]> By: Nicola http://newengland2011.thatcamp.org/10/17/virtual-material-culture/#comment-159 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:01:42 +0000 http://newengland2011.thatcamp.org/?p=230#comment-159 I think this is a great session topic. As someone with a personal interest in material culture, I try to incorporate it into my teaching. I think digital archives of artifacts can help students to visualize time periods they are unfamiliar with. I’ve also noticed, from browsing many museum collections online, that they are limited in many ways.

Maybe this discussion could also expand to include manuscripts as well. I think libraries have better realized the educational value of digitizing manuscripts than museums have with their collections. Also, many digital manuscripts seem to have been created with the needs of scholars in mind. I see less evidence of this with digitized objects.

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