Project 3: Timeslips
I thought I had finally hit a gold-mine when I found the 4Humanities: Advocating for the Humanities web site. From the tone of the web site, it seems that the showcase presents many DH projects in several categories including digital storytelling. In reality, after about five minutes of clicking around it turned out the site only showcases three different projects under various links.
The only project I found that is kind of related to DS is called Timeslips. This project is based out of the University of Milwaukee's Center on Age and Community. Timeslips is specifically devoted to training and collecting digital stories in order for people with memory loss to connect with others and express themselves. Although the submission of stories is free, they do have a very strict formula for what the story will look/sound like. The web site also emphasizes the training aspect, which does cost money and has what sounds like a pretty Joe Lambert-esque formula for storytelling.
This web site gave the impression that the stories were either audio or audio over pictures, but I soon realized the stories were transcribed from oral stories, the pictures were mostly stock photos and there were not as many as they alluded to in the information sections of the site.
Although this site seemed very promising, and it was touted as a digital humanities project with public aims, it doesn't truly fit the DH meets DS model I'd hoped for. The site is free and encourages participation, however the scholarly presence seems minimal, the submissions are heavily regulated and the site has a corporate stink on it.
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The only project I found that is kind of related to DS is called Timeslips. This project is based out of the University of Milwaukee's Center on Age and Community. Timeslips is specifically devoted to training and collecting digital stories in order for people with memory loss to connect with others and express themselves. Although the submission of stories is free, they do have a very strict formula for what the story will look/sound like. The web site also emphasizes the training aspect, which does cost money and has what sounds like a pretty Joe Lambert-esque formula for storytelling.
This web site gave the impression that the stories were either audio or audio over pictures, but I soon realized the stories were transcribed from oral stories, the pictures were mostly stock photos and there were not as many as they alluded to in the information sections of the site.
Although this site seemed very promising, and it was touted as a digital humanities project with public aims, it doesn't truly fit the DH meets DS model I'd hoped for. The site is free and encourages participation, however the scholarly presence seems minimal, the submissions are heavily regulated and the site has a corporate stink on it.
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