The website that I chose to explore was the UC Berkeley Library Digital Collection. As I mentioned in a previous post, the collection offers digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, newspapers, and more. Its interface is easy to use and I found it simple to look through the archives. As a UC Berkeley student, I was fascinated to discover that we had a digital collection — I was previously unaware of this fact. Thus, I wanted to spend some time distinguishing between how our digital collection may differ from our physical one. I also hoped to learn more about our school’s culture and history. Consequently, I delved into The Bancroft Library archive, where I found 2 specific projects I want to focus on: “The Daily Californian, May 19, 1954”, and the “Free Speech Movement, 1964-65”. These two projects stood out to me, highlighting the diversity of digital archives through history, culture, and social movements. Nonetheless, they were both important to me, as they cover different aspects of archival work, including cultural documentation and political activism. Continue reading What is “Archive”? →

Digital humanities is an interesting interdisciplinary field that merges humanities with digital tools and methods, such as data analysis. This then allows researchers to explore humanities data in more innovative ways!