Month: September 2026

I had some experience creating digital mapping projects with ARCGIS in various projects for my Master’s degree. I really enjoyed working with the software as a visual interpretive compliment to historical-based exhibits. The last time I worked with those tools was over three years ago, so I was really looking forward to the prospect of… Continue reading Week 5: Historical GIS

Clio Blog Week 4 Digital Exhibits and Copyright  As I’ve referenced in numerous blogs this semester, I have a strong public history background working on both physical and digital public history exhibits. Many of the ideas we discussed in our readings, particularly copyright, are relevant not just for working within digital exhibits, but also for… Continue reading Week 4: Digital Exhibits

Over the course of my academic and professional career, I developed a lot of practical project management skills. Breaking down big projects into manageable tasks allowed me to accomplish an inventory of hundreds of paintings, crafting exhibit labels for a public history exhibit, and turning my master’s thesis into a published article. More importantly, none… Continue reading Week 3: Project and Data Management

Digitizing historic collections has been a core throughline of my professional career. In my first internship, I spent a summer in the archives at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania transcribing nineteenth century files of Philadelphia’s earliest orphanage. For two years, I worked at the James A. Michener Art Museum and coordinated object photography and cleaned… Continue reading Module 2: Data, Digitization, and Ethics