Digital humanities + design records

Hello everyone! I’m interested in getting together with some like-minded scholars and practitioners to talk about how architecture and design records in archives can be incorporated into the digital humanities. This is just a simple blurb. I’m excited to see where the conversation might take us. Some ideas for discussion:

  • How do DH folks use architectural and design records?
  • What keeps them from using architectural and design records?
  • What prevents archivists and other cultural heritage professionals from making these records accessible?
  • What can we do about these barriers?
  • What would our ideal future look like? Would it have emulation environments for CAD drawings? 3D printing? Virtual reality viewers?

We produced a Google Doc to capture the salient points of our discussion. Check it out here:

docs.google.com/document/d/1-T869zvjb0MiYimb-R-EZ4BQxyEQi5dfqgS1XcdgJgA/pub