The Archival Interface
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The slides for a presentation at CCCC 2014. For more information:http://lancecummings.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-archival-interface-exploring.html
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The Archival Interface
- 1. The Archival Interface Exploring Usability in Public Archives CCCC 2014
- 3. –Rebecca Dingo, Networking Arguments “A transnational feminist analysis does not simply recover lost voices nor does it ask who suffers more and how two (or more) groups are similar; instead, transnational feminism illustrates a matrix of connections between people, nations, economies, and textual practices present in, for example, public policies and popular culture” (12). Triangle Trade, Wikimedia Commons
- 4. Hokciu YMCA, Wikimedia Commons Buxton, IA YMCA, Wikimedia Commons joelsp, Flickr
- 5. –Roxanne Mountford, “On Gender and Rhetorical Space” “The effect of physical spaces on communicative event[s].”
- 6. “... designers are not simply responding to user needs but are in fact producing particular kinds of users via products.” (Schneider 2005)
- 8. –Derrida, Archive Fever “Archival meaning is also and in advance codetermined by the structure that archives.”
- 10. YMCA Interface
- 26. Industrial Work (Immigration) “Colored Work Dept.” International Work (China, India, Japan, etc.) Periodicals Conventions Etc. Digital and Local Archives
- 28. –Kimberly Crenshaw, Mapping the Margins “My focus on the intersections of race and gender only highlights the need to account for multiple grounds of identity when considering how the social world is constructed.”
- 29. –John R. Mott, Association Men January 1916 Handicapped men called it into being. . . . when the Association loses this, its primary interest in and passion of fractional men, incomplete men, underdeveloped, unfortunate men, unsaved men and men unadjusted and unrelated to life's tasks and life's opportunities, then it may well perish from the earth and give way to some other movement which will be true to this unique purpose of its Lord and of all who bear His name. [emphasis added] (179)
- 34. Devonthink
- 46. –Robert Johnson, User-Centered Technology “We take for granted that which we do and unwittingly surrender knowledge and power due to our lack of reflection on our mundane interactions with technology.” cumminle@miamioh.edu Any questions or comments: www.lancecummings.blogspot.com For slides and bibliography:
Editor's Notes
- -Kautz Family Archives -Reflection -Background
- -Language ideologies developed in predisciplinary discourses -Turn of the century YMCA
- Traveled Transnational analysis
- -So I don’t want to just trace these sedimentations through time, but see how they function differently in different contexts, in order to help identify the performative aspects that can eventually be unsedimented. http://www.flickr.com/photos/joelsp/4399976708/
- -There is a relationship between space and interface -In other words, the materiality of space influences how communicate, or the “available means of persuasion.”
- -piloted online courses -spaces restricted what kinds of interaction we could have -archives are not both a physical place and a digital interface -closely related
- -How and I interacting with archives -Also, materiality can influence how a space is used . . . in this case, how an archive can be used. Spaces have heuristic power.
- 5:00
- -Childern’s literature -Manuscripts -Northwest Architectural Arhcives -Sherlock Holmes Collections -Charles Babbage Institute
- -“Cavern”
- -Not necessarily by subject
- -Physical Interface
- -You can lay out materials, but only from your cart of boxes -Usually from one area, though you can intentionally mix it up
- -Compartmentalize
- For Mott, this sense of unfulfilled potential defines every aspect of YMCA work, because no “man” is fully “man”—“be he the son of the rich or the poor, college man or illiterate cotton-mill boy struggling for a livelihood, in training camp or prisoners-of-war camp, in the most Christian home of the Occident or the most favored circles of the ruling classes of the Orient” (179). The association is there to “fill him up” to one hundred percent of his “physical, intellectual or moral efficiency” (179). Though Christian doctrines of sin are foregrounded here, these discourses slip easily into rhetorics of comparison and language acquisition. Throughout the issue this theme of disability is reworked in several different ways. For example, in the article, “‘Wop,’ ‘Dago,’ ‘Hunkey,’ ‘Polak,’ ‘Greaser’,” the title of article, comprised of several derogatory terms for immigrants “cuttingly” express “the most serious handicap the immigrant labors under” (211). The solution to this handicap is to learn English and to “study and learn more about this great country” to become a “real citizen” or fully American man (212).
- -Simulate randomness
- -Other ways
- -Briefly describe the Roberts Method
- -Peter Roberts and ethnology -Digital Archives filled in these spaces