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Enabling Access to the Federal Writers' Project Slave Narratives: A Case Study in Digital Archive Design
DownloadFall 2020
In the 1930s, over 2 300 former enslaved people were interviewed, taped, and photographed as part of the American Federal Writers’ Project (FWP). No other initiative recorded to such a great extent the voices of the formerly enslaved. Although this collection has great utility for scholarly...
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Fall 2014
This thesis addresses the suitability of current museum websites for supporting the research activities of academic scholars. Over the past few decades, cultural heritage institutions have increasingly made their collections available online, but longstanding issues with the completeness and...