May 24, 2012
George Crile diaries- Summer projects
Over the summer, we will be scanning a three volume set of diaries from the founder of the Cleveland Clinic, George Crile Sr. These diaries chronicle part of his time served at U.S. Army Medical Corps hospitals in France during World War I. They are filled with notes, letters and photographs. Check back for more details later this summer when they will be live on Digital Case. A small preview below:
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May 03, 2012
Additions to existing collections
There are a number of exisiting collections that we continually add new content in Digital Case. Here are some of these recent additions:
*Cleveland medical theses: We have the years 1844-1851 currently live in Digital Case. We will eventually have the entire run through 1883 by the end of the year, so please check back for frequent updates. This collection is being scanned from the collection of the Dittrick Medical History Center. For more information on the material or collection, please contact the museum at 216-368-3648
*Western Reserve Historical Society Manuscript Collections: We have loaded most of the collection of the Manuscripts Relating to the Early History of the Western Reserve, 1795-1869. This was the first collection of manuscripts to be assembled by the Western Reserve Historical Society, and its provenance is closely intertwined with the circumstances of the institution's founding. Chiefly responsible for the acquisition of the materials comprising the collection was Charles W. Whittlesey, the Society's first president. According to the Society's second annual report (1869), Whittlesey assembled the collection from a variety of different sources and by several means: he purchased the papers of the Connecticut Land Company under the authority of the Cuyahoga County commissioners, solicited accounts and original manuscripts from early settlers and their descendents, and added documents that he and some earlier enthusiasts had gathered as their own personal collections. Prominent among these latter additions were the materials collected by John Barr and Leonard Case for an earlier, failed historical society. Some of these will eventually be text encoded with transcriptions of each page.
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April 30, 2012
Hidden History of Cleveland: Signing and Discussion
Local librarian and history preservationist, Christopher Busta-Peck will be discussing his recent book 'Hidden History of Cleveland' and talking about local history. He will also be signing copies of the book after the presentation and discussion.
Barnes and Noble CWRU bookstore, 11451 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, OH {new location}
Date: May 15, 2012
Time: 07:00 PM-08:00 PM
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New website features
We have a number of new features on the Digital Case website this spring. We have a consolidated the lefthand side menu and redesigned the homepage. There is also a scrolling feature on both the browse pages and the search results to ease navigation through the digital library. Once you hit the bottom of the results, the page will automatically refresh and pull up more results without having to click through to another webpage. We have also updated our advanced search feature as an icon along the furtherest right side of the search box (the magnifying glass with the plus sign in the middle of the icon). Please explore these new features and do let us know about any questions or concerns.
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April 03, 2012
Digital Storytelling: Bryan Alexander
People have been creating digital stories since before the web began but only recently have so many powerful media for sharing these stories become available to the general population. Today's digital storytelling is not just for tech-savvy individuals; anyone with a desire to express their creativity can learn to use modern technology to share their stories.
Bryan Alexander will discuss the modern expression of the ancient art of storytelling, weaving images, text, audio, video, and music together. He will draw upon the latest technologies, insights from the latest scholarship, and his own extensive experience to describe the narrative creation process with personal video, blogs, podcasts, digital imagery, multimedia games, social media, and augmented reality -- all platforms that offer new pathways for creativity, interactivity, and self-expression.
Bryan Alexander is senior fellow at the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) and author of The New Digital Storytelling: Creating Narratives with New Media (Praeger, 2011). He researches, writes, and speaks about emerging trends in the integration of inquiry, pedagogy, and technology and their potential application to liberal arts contexts. His current research interests include emerging pedagogical forms enabled by mobile technologies, learning processes and outcomes associated with gaming and augmented reality, the rise of digital humanities, the transformation of scholarly communication, digital storytelling, and futurist methodologies.
Date: 04-09-2012
Time: 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Location: Clark Hall, Room 309
Registration: Free and open to the public, registration recommended
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February 24, 2012
The Digital Muse: Technology & The Classics
The Digital Muse: Technology & The Class
Andrea De Giorgi and Paul Iverson
Andrea De Giorgi will discuss how Classical archaeology, as with most sciences that have an interest in the spreading of human phenomena over space, has developed a way to harness GIS (Geographic Information Systems). Theoretically and methodologically confined to the observation of single sites and their settlement history, archaeology through GIS lenses has begun to articulate more refined questions about regions and districts in antiquity and how these were experienced and shaped by human agencies. A landscape in southwestern Anatolia is the case-study that this presentation brings into focus.
Paul Iversen will talk about recent technologies he has used in to study the inscriptions on the Antikythera Mechanism, a bronze geared device from the 2nd or 1st century BCE that is the world’s oldest known analogue computer and one of the most important artifacts ever discovered for understanding ancient astronomy and engineering. The inscriptions are studied via images created using a method called Polynomial Textured Mapping (PTMs), as well as CT-scans taken by means of a technology called Micro-Focus X-rays, the latter of which produces 2-D images that are then reconstructed into 3-D images with astounding clarity by a vector graphics program.
Paul Iversen, Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics, regularly teaches upper level Greek and Latin, both lecture and SAGES courses dealing with Myth and Heroes, a course on Alexander the Great, and Greek and Latin palaeography and epgiraphy. His research interests and publications are in the areas of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, Hellenistic Culture & Society, and Greco-Roman New Comedy, especially Menander. He is the Director of Epigraphical finds for the Isparta Archaeological Survey.
Andrea De Giorgi, Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics, is a Classical Archaeologist specializing in the Roman Empire. He teaches courses ranging from visual culture to the history of Republican and Imperial Rome. He has excavated or surveyed in Syria, UAE, and Cyprus, and his ongoing archaeological projects are based in Turkey and Italy. His scholarly interests include Roman urbanism in the East, Roman material culture, as well as museum studies.
Date: March 1st, 2012
Time: 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Location: Clark Hall, Room 206, Case Western Reserve University
Registration: Free and open to the public, registration recommended
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February 03, 2012
A New Future for the Past: The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
With the publication of its first hardcopy edition in 1987, The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History opened a new era in the presentation of urban history. When it moved to the World Wide Web in 1998, it pioneered the concept of an on-line, vetted, urban history resource. Today the on-line ECH stands as one of the university’s most visible digital humanities projects. However, in the midst of the growing number of on-line wikis, blogs, and social networks, it is changing again to remain competitive as a popular, attractive, scholarly historical source. Editor John J. Grabowski will discuss the past, present, and future of the ECH at this Baker-Nord digital humanities program. The ECH is also archived on Digital Case.
Date: 02-09-2012
Time: 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Location: Clark Hall, Room 206 - 11130 Bellflower Road
Registration: Free and open to the public, registration recommended
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January 26, 2012
New faculty papers collection
A new collection has been loaded of Dr. Rolfe Petschek collected papers, from 1970-2010. This collection contains various publication authored or co-authored by Dr. Petschek. New publications will be added on an annual basis.
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October 27, 2011
New collection --- World War 1 Photographs
There is a new collection in Digital Case of fifty WWI-era photographs taken between 1914 - 1918. These photographs include: action scenes, battleships, victims, airships, and personalities such as Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and politicians.
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October 05, 2011
Cleveland Medical Theses
A new collection of medical theses are now available on Digital Case here. Twenty theses from the first volume (1844) are now live and searchable, and we will continue to add theses on a regular basis. These theses were completed for the School of Medicine of Western Reserve University. This collection was scanned from the collection of the Dittrick Medical History Center. For more information on the material or collection, please contact the museum at 216-368-3648
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August 15, 2011
Great Lake expo film reels highlighted in Plain Dealer
Recently, the Plain Dealer used some clips from film reels from the Digital Case's collection of the 1936/1937 Great Lakes Exposition. Here are the links:
Great Lakes Expo: An Introduction with John Vacha
Great Lakes Expo: Historical video
Great Lakes Expo: The Streets of the World
Be sure to check out the collection in Digital Case for more information as well as photographs, postcards and other printed material. Here is the link.
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