![]() ![]() This time around, I would like to focus on a potential solution for the latter task. One of my regular scholarly chores is to experiment with different ways to sort, tag, manipulate, and combine these files. ![]() A common issue is a folder with 200 JPEGs from some archival box or a folder with 1,000 PDFs from a microfilm scanner. My esteemed colleague and fellow digital historian Caleb McDaniel is running a neat experiment in which he and his student assistants publish all of their research notes, primary documents, drafts, presentations, and other material online in a wiki.Īlthough I think there is a great deal of potential in projects like these, most of us remain hopelessly mired in virtual reams of data files spread across multiple directories and devices. One solution to this dilemma is to do our work collaboratively on the open web. As I mentioned last year, managing and preserving all of this data can be somewhat unwieldy. The folder for my dissertation alone contains almost 100,000 discrete files. ![]() Like most digital historians, my personal computer is packed to the gills with thousands upon thousands of documents in myriad formats and containers: JPEG, PDF, PNG, GIF, TIFF, DOC, DOCX, TXT, RTF, EPUB, MOBI, AVI, MP3, MP4, XLSX, CSV, HTML, XML, PHP, DMG, TAR, BIN, ZIP, OGG. ![]()
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