Project 4: Hurricane Digital Memory Bank
The final project I found (after many hours of searching) is the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, organized by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University and the University of New Orleans. This web site collects, preserves and presents digital stories from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. “We hope to foster some positive legacies by allowing the people affected by these storms to tell their stories in their own words, which as part of the historical record will remain accessible to a wide audience for generations to come.”
According to the creators of this site, they have received more than 25,000 digital objects, with more than 1,300 being personal reflections. This digital memory bank was created by the same team who created the September 11 Digital Archive.
This project is another great example of DH meeting DS. The DH scholars who created this site also publish scholarly research on creating open participation and collaboration digital projects. This web site is much more like The Digital Archive of Japan's 2011 Disasters than CEISMIC, due to the detached nature of the scholars who created it, but it still fits the bill as far as encouraging every day storytelling in a scholarly project. By calling the archive of submissions a “Memory Bank,” it creates the feeling that one of the main aims of the project
is as much scholarly as it is to build community among groups of people.
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According to the creators of this site, they have received more than 25,000 digital objects, with more than 1,300 being personal reflections. This digital memory bank was created by the same team who created the September 11 Digital Archive.
This project is another great example of DH meeting DS. The DH scholars who created this site also publish scholarly research on creating open participation and collaboration digital projects. This web site is much more like The Digital Archive of Japan's 2011 Disasters than CEISMIC, due to the detached nature of the scholars who created it, but it still fits the bill as far as encouraging every day storytelling in a scholarly project. By calling the archive of submissions a “Memory Bank,” it creates the feeling that one of the main aims of the project
is as much scholarly as it is to build community among groups of people.
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