The Digital-traditional (DT) Creation

Week 2: The Man behind the Research! Learning About the Man!           This week I continued to delve into the boxes. Jose Guerra Alemán was a collector of anything that dealt with Cuba’s history, literature, and other subject matters. He had a tremendous amount of his own notes from books, playwrights, and other people’s works. From box 1 to 5, I basically went through each paper written mostly in Spanish and I organized them according to their rightful category that I created-  Folder 1: Civic life where it will contain series of geography, music, literature, and history; Folder 2: Contributing works will contain series of his texts (published and unpublished), his notes, and his manuscripts of his books; Folder 3: Influences will contain series of authors, poets, and scientists that he used and inspired; Folder 3: Photos, memorabilia, letters will contain series of his professional materials (research) and personal (family-related).  I learn...

Week 1: Discovery  Landed to a New Place! Hello to all!    I have finally found an internship where I can work at. I am excited for this opportunity at the University of Central Florida Special Collections. First of, you all may be wondering who am I. Well, I am Samuel Ortiz, a graduate student from the University of Central Florida. I am in the traditional History track. In addition, I want to be able to see another perspective of what a historian can do. I mean seeing history at different perspectives from a historian angle is what scholars are supposed to do in their research. I wanted to apply and gain new skills other than an academic professor. In that case, I have always been drawn to archivist work, especially digital. My first hope was to be able to explore in that area. In reality, the staff told me that there are not many projects that follow under the title of digital, but they were willing to provide me an idea of what they already ha...