Collecting the easily missed stories: digital participatory microhistory and the South Asian American Digital Archive

PLOG: Easily Create Digital Picture Stories Through Cell Phone Cameras

With a cell phone camera a person can take pictures and immediately transmit them to larger repositories using telecommunication channels. This provides the potential for anywhere, anytime picture sharing and story telling. It can also increase awareness among peers within a social network. But while we enjoy telling stories around this informal content, the necessary act of downloading, organi...

Digital Archive Policies and Trusted Digital Repositories

The MIT Libraries, the San Diego Supercomputer Center, and the University of California San Diego Libraries are conducting the PLEDGE Project to determine the set of policies that affect operational digital preservation archives and to develop standardized means of recording and enforcing them using rules engines. This has the potential to allow for automated assessment of “trustworthiness” of ...

Archive and Digital Asset Repository

Digital Archive Systems

OVERVIEW: With the spread of digital satellite broadcasting and Internetbased electronic-information services, digital content (information in digital form) is expanding rapidly in society and individual households in the form of text, still pictures, motion pictures, sound, etc. In such a digital-multimedia era, the archiving of this huge volume of data has become a major issue. Against this b...

The Effect of Digital Stories on Enhancing Iranian Pre-intermediate EFL Learners' Listening Comprehension

Learning a foreign language is a challenging process in which learners need motivation and encouragement through the use of modern techniques. The present paper investigates the effects digital stories may have on Iranian pre-intermediate EFL learners’ listening comprehension. To this end, the researchers carried out a quasi-experimental research in a language institution in Tabriz (Iran). In t...